Russia’s image as Spam (And Other Bad Stuff) Central is beginning to hurt. CNET reports thats customers of high-speed Internet service provider Comcast were unable to email anyone in Russia for four days last week after the company’s spam filter blocked any emails to an address with the Russian suffix ‘ru’. Although CNET called the block … Read more
More evidence, if it were needed, that RSS is moving mainstream. eWeek reports that InfoSpace – who also own the dogpile, WebCrawler and metacrawler search sites — will add RSS feeds to the next release of its search toolbar. A setup feature called “Search Page” will scan an open Web page for RSS or Atom … Read more
The guys at X1, one of the best search programs I’ve seen, say the program is now official. Mark Goodstein, founder of X1, says the software is now officially out of beta and is available at a 50% discount for those in the know (i.e. people who read this blog, among a few others.) It’s looking in … Read more
This week’s Loose Wire column is about the future of email: E-MAIL IS GOOD. Very good: Of all the things that started out with the Internet it’s about the only survivor (ever heard of Gopher? Archie? Telnet?). E-mail works because it’s simple. You send e-mail, you receive it: Two standards, or protocols. People communicating with … Read more
Here’s a new service for those of you wanting to track websites that don’t have RSS feeds, or email subscription, or just updates a lot. Called Trackle, it will: Track (“trackle”) Web pages for content changes, up to 24 times a day; Excerpt, combine and email you changes in easy-to-read plain text format while preserving … Read more