Derek Scruggs

Re: Rim Bray’s essay about Counting Subscribers to an RSS feed, I like the idea of a unique hashcode, but I think many people will hate the idea of giving out their email address to generate it. One of the great advantages of RSS is that the subscriber never has to worry about […]

CNET News.com - Spam blockers may wreak e-mail havoc
News Flash: they already wreak havoc.

Ever wonder how Gator works? A guy at Harvard did, too, and now he’s doing some interesting research.
Or at least we was doing research. Gator blocked him yesterday.

Below is the
announcement I received from NewsGator developer Greg Reinacker’s Weblog. The cool
thing is, I’m posting this directly from Outlook using NewsGator 1.2 – pictures too!. It’s almost as easy as
forwarding an email. Great work, Greg!

NewsGator 1.2 has been released!  I won’t
duplicate the release announcements…here are the important links:

Announcement /
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NewsGator 1.2 is out. It rocks!

Joel on Software makes an interesting argument against prototyping (I don’t think I’ve heard anyone take this stance), but it seems to me he’s using the worst case scenario.
Prototyping is extremely valuable in the web design process because most customers only have a vague idea of what they want out of a site or […]

Are you ready for personalized PageRrank? Apparently some researches have found an algorithm that’sfive times faster than those currently in use and eventually may be used to personalize search results to your specific tendencies.

Note to self. Don’t drink coffee near computer keyboard. More specifically, don’t spill coffee on the keyboard. I just spent the whole morning trying to fix the darn thing before giving up and going to Best Buy.

Interesting discussion within the blog community: Google may change the way they index blogs

Busy busy busy… I’ve been consumed with RSS, doing nearly non-stop coding over the last week or so.
I hope to have something cool to show soon, but if you’re curious about RSS and what it means to marketing, read this article. Then download NewsGator.