To the incredibly beautiful 20-somethings that moved into the apartment next door, on the off chance that you're reading my blog tonight, welcome to the neighborhood.
You you may not have noticed this yet but I have. Two of the three largest windows in my apartment (kitchen and bedroom) happen to face the same windows of your apartment. I noticed that in a hurry. But you haven't opened your blinds much--yet. So you may be unaware of this little bit of trivia.
I guess there are times that apartment living isn't that bad.
I don't expect you to be like neighbors that lived there in most of 2001. They were quite loud when it came to, uh, bed time.
Dave says:
Isn't it obvious that either Google or Yahoo will buy Feedster so their search engine can understand RSS. Then the other guy is going to wonder why they missed the boat. After that, they can make their search engines understand OPML and throw out the antiquated centralized directories and let the amateurs compete to create the best directory for a given topic, the same way we compete for page rank.
What makes Dave think that Yahoo and Google's technology doesn't already "understand" RSS, I wonder? RSS is simple. Really simple. And structured. Hardly the mess that HTML is. It's not a really hard problem if you already have crawling infrastructure and the ability to query structured data.
Heck, I fully expect Microsoft's search engine to grok RSS and/or OPML.
I don't mean to detract from Scott's work on Feedster. It clearly fills hole that nobody else has.
(Reminder: I don't speak for my employer or any of my employer's technology providers. Not that will stop anyone from reading all sorts of stuff into what I say...)
Yeay!
Anyone know if AOL will have TrackBack support?
Update: Err. As Dave points out, it's Manila, not Radio. But it sounds like Radio is next, so yeay anyway.