Sunday, May 10th, 2009
PlayList.com is a website that allows anyone to put together a playlist of their music and then share it via their Facebook/Myspace/etc page via an embedded flash Playlist. A nifty hack allows you to play a PlayList.com as a podcast or even via a cell phone.
1. Transform PlayList.com's ASX playlist ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Bloglines, a web based reader, just came up with a proposal to restrict RSS feeds:
http://www.bloglines.com/about/specs/fac-1.0
The W3C has a similar (in spirit) proposal to use "?access-control?" instructions in XML standard itself. It restricts access by domain. This idea was also mentioned before by Greg Reinacker.
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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.
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
I am currently writing an follow-up full length article for OperaWatch on the Mozilla's RSS icon and its licensing. Unlike the previous OperaWatch story, this story is focused less on the Opera/Mozilla interaction and more on the actual RSS icon, its history, licensing issues and opinions of different communities involved. ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
My good friend Daniel Goldman posted an interesting story at OperaWatch regarding the fact that Mozilla required a singed agreement from Opera Software before allowing them to use their RSS icon. It appears that Mozilla filed for trademarks on this icon and is planning on enforcing a licensing policy. More ...
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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. ...
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
A new company called EdgeIO is developing a new type of classfieds services - items tagged with the tag "listing" in people's blog will be automatically picked up and indexed into something like Craiglist (more info here).
One very interesting question - how do they deal with tag spam?
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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)
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
Several small updates about this site:
1. The RSS feed for this blog doesn't refresh properly resulting in items being included which have not been really refreshed. I am working on tracking down the problem.
2. Tags is still not picked up by Technorati in a timely fashion.
3. The "Halachos of Modern ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
Since adding Amazon ads to my blog, I have been looking around the Net for a way to track the Amazon referal statistics via RSS. The closest thing I found was this piece of code which retreives the XML version of Amazon reports. I wrote my own version of ...
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