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New Company Site and Products in Alpha

Friday, October 26th, 2007

My company just redid our site - it is very minimalistic. Check it out at www.solidmatrix.com. We are also launching our product into alpha - Emerald CRM at www.emeraldcrm.com. It is a web based software system for managing small business, especially service businesses. It covers scheduling, billing and customer management. ...

Another Book Search Engine Experiment

Monday, July 30th, 2007

About two years ago I coded a small experimental search engine for books which used Ajax and Amazon web services. Recently, I went back to the same concept and put up a new experiment - a meta search engine for book information that aggregates book data from about 60 different ...

An Ajax Search Engine Without Servers (Almost)

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

For a while I have been working on a hobby project trying to make a meta-search engine that you can use to search multiple search engines by tag. The catch? No server side components. This search engine works client side only from the user's browser by using RSS feeds from ...

Social People Search on the Cheap

Friday, November 17th, 2006

After reading this gushing Techcrunch post on how good Wink's new people search feature is (it searchs all of three networks!), I decided to see if I can do the same via Google's new Custom Search Engine service. The result which can be tried below, is a new project: www.socialpeople.net ...

RSS Feed for Kashrus Alerts

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Following a comment on this post I hacked up an unofficial RSS feed for Kashrus Alerts. This is done via scraping this web page at Kashrut.com. The feed is here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KashrutDotComKosherAlerts It contains alerts from all major agencies around the world.

No Access to Sprint LBS API for Small Companies

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

(This is a followup on an earlier post about availability of GPS info on Sprint PCS's CDMA network) Recently I had a short email exchange with someone at Sprint about obtaining access to their LBS information for the use in my company's products. My company targets a small vertical niche market ...

Tracking security advisories for specific products via RSS

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

A recent problem that I have been having is the need to constantly monitor security advisories for the software I use on this site, my personal computers and the servers at work. So far I have been doing that by reading CERT's twice-a-month Security Bulletins and SANS's twice-a-week RISK newsletters. ...

Added more readers to SingleSub

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

I took a little time today to add support for the following to the SingleSub project: FeedBlitz Google Reader NewsIsFree Squeet (For those wondering, SingleSub is my little project that allows to use a single RSS subscribe button to subscribe to multiple readers)

TorahTexts.org Launched

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

I just put up a new website offering free searches and access to resources for those who study the traditional texts of Judaism. The site uses OPML and opml2search tool.

My Newest Hack: Searchable OPML directories

Friday, December 16th, 2005

For the last few days I have been trying to put together a list of resources on a specific topic all over the Internet AND make them all searchable (kind of like Google's special searches). What I came up instead is the following: 1. I put the list of resources in ...