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May 19th, 2007
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Convert any RSS Feed to an image
May 18th, 2007
Finishing up the touches on a site I have been trying to get done for a while. RSS2Image.com is a site that takes an RSS feed and converts it to an image. Why, you might ask, which would be a pretty good question.
Shawn had an RSS feed on his myspace showing his latest blog posts, which I thought was cool. I wanted to put my blog posts on myspace, so he gave me the simple code he used to create the image, and I put up my posts on my myspace profile. whopeeeeeee.
So I wanted to create a profile for one of my new sites, WineScore.com, and have the latest wine reviews on the profile. I started to create a whole new script to do that, but then I just decided to build a tool to do it all, and now you have RSS2Image.com. I am too lazy right now to do the landing page, but when I am done you will be able to click on your feed image and get to a list of actually clickable titles and stuff. But for now you can select a number of items, colors and whatnot and put up your feeds. Enjoy. RSS2Image.com.
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Best SEO tracking tool
May 6th, 2007
My partner Jorge has made an awesome tool for tracking whats going on with your websites. SEORat is a free SEO tracking tool you can use to track and graph your backlinks, alexa ranking, and more. Very cool and very free.
Digg is Hosed
May 1st, 2007
Ok, I never thought I would say this but this is an example of user-generated content gone bad. Digg’s users are freaking out over Digg’s mandatory compliance with the DMCA by obeying takedown notices, and wow are they suffering the effects. Apparently the HD-DVD drm has been broken and the simple hex code that is the key to unlocking HD-DVD content is now all over the internet and all over Digg. The MPAA is trying to keep this a secret (hello??? cat out of the bag??), by sending out very hey-look-at-us-we’re-very-sneaky takedown notices. Digg has been physically deleting the posts, but people keep submitting new stories and comments containing the censored number.
This sucks because Digg has no choice here. They have to respect the laws of the land, and the users are just going to rail against them no matter what. Instead, maybe people should file counter-notification notices on behalf of Digg (since its their content being taken down) and get the content legally put back up. Take matters into your own hands people, you know what Digg has to do. What a PR nightmare for the MPAA, but more for Digg. And Jay looked so professional on cnn!!
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