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Google Buys Pyra Makers of Blogger

Google Buys Pyra Makers of Blogger 02/16/2003 04:51 AM
In a rather perplexing move away from its roots, Google is reported to have purchased Pyra - makers of the Blogger software.

Google Buys Pyra Labs and Blogger.com

Google Buys Pyra Labs and Blogger.com 02/21/2003 12:36 PM
Financial terms were not disclosed and Google will not discuss for a few more weeks its plans for incorporating blogging on the search site, but speculation ...

Google buys Blogger maker Pyra

Google buys Blogger maker Pyra 02/16/2003 12:45 AM
Via Dan Gillmor: Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals. And, later on: Developers...

Google Buys Blogger Maker Pyra Labs

Google Buys Blogger Maker Pyra Labs 02/17/2003 01:19 PM
February 17, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports released over the weekend, major search engine operator Google has purchased San ...

Blogger Help : Why do links on
bl0gger.com (and in comments) redirect
through google.com and bl0gger.com?

Blogger Help : Why do links on
bl0gger.com (and in comments) redirect
through google.com and bl0gger.com? 05/11/2004 04:57 AM
Why do links on blogger.com (and in comments) redirect through google.com and blogger.com? .. protect their hosted blogs against comment spam .. s'explique sur les redirections .. a little help doc

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pyra was incorporated 5 years ago

pyra was incorporated 5 years ago 01/22/2004 03:20 AM
hmm. that's been one busy half-decade.

Google, Pyra and Webl0gs

Google, Pyra and Webl0gs 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
As developers of another weblogging tool, we, of course, are following Google's acquisition of Pyra (and Blogger) rather closely.

three years ago, the trellix/pyra deal

three years ago, the trellix/pyra deal 04/15/2004 02:18 PM
i wonder whatever became of those earnest young kids?

Google buys Pyra Labs

Google buys Pyra Labs 02/16/2003 04:20 PM
'Argyle writes "SiliconValley.com reports that Google has bought Pyra Labs. Pyra Labs is the creator of the Blogger software and runs the blogger.com and blogspot.com services. In weblog fashion, founder Evan Williams reported the news on his weblog in the middle of the Live from the Blogosphere event.'This is one...

Google buys Pyra; bl0gging grows up

Google buys Pyra; bl0gging grows up 03/11/2003 09:43 AM
Google has bought Pyra Labs, the company behind the Blogger weblog publishing tool, it emerged last night. ...

Dan Gillmor: Google buys Pyra in big
boost for bl0gging

Dan Gillmor: Google buys Pyra in big
boost for bl0gging 02/16/2003 10:08 AM
For Williams and his five co-workers, who are now Google employees, the immediate impact will be to put their blog-hosting service, called BlogSpot, on the ...

Dear web diary: Google's deal for Pyra
has made us famous!

Dear web diary: Google's deal for Pyra
has made us famous! 02/23/2003 08:46 PM
ANYONE who’s ever spent more than an idle five minutes surfing the internet is likely to have come across a blog. For those still ...

Seven redux

Seven redux 04/07/2005 12:53 PM
The final scene of "Seven" performed by stuffed animals.

Badgers: Redux

Badgers: Redux 12/19/2003 11:36 AM
Flash Friday Badgers: Redux

VWB Flyboy Redux

VWB Flyboy Redux 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

There's more to this VWB Flyboy that we talked about yesterday than I thought. First of all, it looks to have been around as an OEM design for a while, as US Modular is selling a 20GB version of their own through the Army/Air Force Exchange for $369 and Buy.com is selling it for $289 after rebate. And while cheap doesn't always mean better, it certainly is a nice place to start.

DanceMob Redux

DanceMob Redux 12/19/2004 03:31 PM
Following our forays during the Republican National Convention, many in our DanceMob declared that dancing in the streets had been so much gosh-darned fun that it would be a good thing to do even without a targeted political motive. I agree. There is something mysteriously liberating about making a fool of yourself in public. Dancing anywhere is good. Dancing someplace unexpected is better. Dancing like we were in this video clip is sweet indeed. I wonder if it's ever apolitical though... I came away from our previous experience believing that in America at this time, all dancing is revolutionary. It really does feel to me that this election is more about culture than policy. There are two primary cultures presently at odds in America. One of them is inclined to dance, the other is not. During the Convention, I found us creating a kind of litmus test. It was very easy to see in peoples' reaction to us which side of that divide they were on. But it also seemed to make some converts. While, on some faces, the sour pucker only deepened as we drew closer, there were many others who smiled and drew encouragement from our good energy. So, like many of you, I think we ought to do it again. Indeed, I think we should start making a regular practice of it, sort of like the dancing equivalent of the Critical Mass bicyclists. I'm arbitrarily selecting the 3rd Friday of every month. (Which may have to be seasonal, but we'll see...) Thus, I hope you will join me this Friday evening for a new DanceMob action in New York City. Here's the deal: PLACE: Zocalo, on the Food Concourse of Grand Central Station DATE: Friday, October 22 TIME: 6:00 pm. (That is, we'll start to gather at 6 and probably head out at around 7:00, to be realistic.) Zocalo is a good but not great Mexican restaurant in the basement of Grand Central Station. Their main attraction, aside from being central to good dancing territory, is a pretty swell blood orange margarita. Suck down a few of those and you'll be willing to dance anywhere. It's hard to say about the weather, of course. I wanted to do it last Friday and was dissuaded by the forecast. (Fortunately, as it turns out. There was a bleak rain falling just as we would have ventured out.) The current forecast is more promising, but if it turns vile on us, we can always just dance in Grand Central Station, something I've always wanted to do. Those of you did this before know what a hoot it is and need little persuading. Those of you who haven't should come and experience it. I'm pretty sure you won't regret it. If you have any questions or suggestions, please give me a call on 917/863-2037. Or e-mail me at barlow@eff.org. You can also contact our incredibly dedicated Subcommandte Scott Piscitelli at 646/342-5077 or spmonkeyking@yahoo.com....

Open How-tos redux

Open How-tos redux 07/28/2004 09:52 AM

One of the coolio things we've got built into 1UP is the notion of a game expert. Any kid can declare themselves an "expert" of any of our 11,000+ games in our database.

When someone lands on a Game overview page - 'some' of the experts for that game are displayed..... (can't show them ALL = too many!)

I myself used to be an expert of Joust, Defender and Prof. Pac-Man. Maybe it was because I knew the folks who programmed those games (and got expert advice from) or because I happened to be a programmer myself of ProfPac - but anyway......

Finding expertise and help from the open distributed net will be aBIG business moving forward. And haviong standards to help us find each other and perhaps even barter help, will also be key....

So now Ming the Mchanic (Flemming Funch) picks up a thread started by Kevin Kelly and Seb on Open How-tos. How-to tutorials are a deep, rich kind of micro-content with very clear structures, intentions and applications.

This is a PERFECT new kind of effort.

It would also dovetail nicely with some requests I've been getting from people for a 'OpenLists' effort. Though Lists don't really have a need for schemas, they're certainly something that people want - which (by definition) should be enough. I just tell folks "get it into OPML" for now....

He re's the post from Ming.....

From Seb Paquet:

Kevin Kelly asks:

"What are the best how-to books, videos, software, websites that you've ever seen? I don't care what the topic is, I am primarily interested in the execution."

Building a distributed body of how-tos would be another great application of structured blogging. Paging Marc Canter: must add Open How-Tos to your list of digital lifestyle standards.

Update: Jeremy picks up the digital lifestyle aggregator idea:

"Now imagine that profile as a sort of e-portfolio, containing most of the stuff you careed about, things you were thinking about, connecting you to everyone else who wanted to learn the same things, helping you find the information and resources that would help you learn... "

Yes, yes, yes. Of course we need all of that. A comprehensive open archive of the how-tos for ... most everything. And an easy way of finding everybody who want to do the same things. And we might actually get to work.

[Mi ng the Mechanic]

ReST vs RPC Redux

ReST vs RPC Redux 03/11/2003 11:53 AM

It looks like SOAP is destined to continue to be maligned and misunderstood.

Dave Winer is upset because not everybody limits themselves to his narrow RPC profile of SOAP usage.  Non-RPC usage of SOAP isn't new - it was always in the spec.  And things that fit Dave's narrow profile continue to interop.

Mark Baker is upset because SOAP permits usages which are not, in his and many people's opinion, well architected.  Usages such as RPC.  While many of Mark's arguments resonate with me, he tends to throw the baby out with the bathwater.  He might as well say that Python is not a good language for building REST systems because it can also be used for RPC.

Meanwhile, where Mark throws up his hands, others are making progress.

First Primary: A Bit of Redux

First Primary: A Bit of Redux 01/28/2004 12:08 AM
John Kerry has now done what none of his rivals for the Democratic nomination have yet come close to doing: He has won twice.

Hardware Redux

Hardware Redux 12/27/2003 01:38 PM

I’d be remiss not to pass on more of the helpful information people have sent in response to the recent whine about the iBook’s shortcomings:

• As posted before, uControl makes remapping troublesome analphabetic keys easy, e.g., putting fn keys back into usefulness and killing the caps lock, though it does require you to be utterly up to date, Panther-wise.
• Regarding FM transmitters, Jonathan Woolson recommends this C Crane device.
• Jonathan also mentions the importer of some industrial design porn from Japan: titanium/aluminium Powerbook and iBook stands that solve heat buildup problems and which echo the seemingly unkillable trend of vertically-oriented food in restaurants.
• The heat under the left handrest can be reduced by NOT unchecking, as I had done, the option to ‘put the hard disk to sleep whenever possible’ when the power adaptor is plugged in (thanks to Marshall Sokoloff for pointing out that the disk, not the processor, is in that spot).
• The glowing sleep light can of course be covered with white electrician’s tape, much in the same way that the television screen can be painted black whenever a Jude Law movie comes on.

Waterbox redux

Waterbox redux 03/06/2004 01:51 AM
The music of Waterbox, part of this site's Classics department, is back online for your listening pleasure. Tracks were cut in the 1980s, using a prototype Akai MG1212 integrated 12-track recorder/mixer.

Democracy Redux

Democracy Redux 03/31/2005 02:34 PM
What we may end up with as part of this push towards "democracy" in the Middle East is civil war.  Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine are all on the brink of it now.  Are we better off with this?

WebJay redux

WebJay redux 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
Free music that streams to your media player.

Free music that streams to your media player

Posted Apr 9, 2004, 7:46 AM ET by Alberto Escarlate

From Wired News: Webjay, is a website in which users build their own playlists of free music — like a mix tape — and share them with friends. It doesn’t store the files, but it pulls together the URLs for each track and puts them in a playlist format.

Webjay regular Brett Singer, a New York theater producer and computer consultant, builds playlists in his spare time. He’s created more than 50 collections with titles like Song-a-Day, a list made up of songs he has chosen each day for the past two months. On March 28, he had a seaweed treatment, so he chose a song by the group Seaweed Soup. He picked a song called “Party Party” on the occasion of his kid’s birthday party.

There isn’t only music playlists. You can find Lawrence Lessig’s “Free Culture” read aloud by miscellaneous people: Lessig/Free Culture audiobook project.[The Digital Music Weblog]

Congrats to Lucas Gonze. The meme spreads.

JahShaka redux

JahShaka redux 01/07/2004 05:06 PM
Jahshaka will set you free.

Open Source Video Editing system that works on Linux and OS-X and other platforms.

[Om Malik's Broadband Blog]

My buddy JahShaka is back at it. 4:4:4, open source, composting and animation.

Fat Club redux

Fat Club redux 08/27/2004 01:34 PM
Yesterday, Mutsumi in our office told me half a dozen times that I looked "bigger". I'd been thinking about how to lose some weight and I remembered Fa t Club because Jan e linked to a Fat Club entry on her blog. For some reason, I seem to be able to motivate myself to lose weight when I'm competing. I asked everyone in our office if they wanted to join Fat Club 2004. Kuri, Jim and Nob agreed to participate. The race is to see who can lose 10% of their body weight first and sustain it for one week. The last one in has to be a slave to the winner for a day. Slave rights can be sold or rented. We decided to set up a private wiki to organize this event.

Mizuka bought a fancy scale awhile ago hinting that I should probably lose some weight. I jumped on it this morning and it told me that I had the body of a 49 year old. (I'm 38.) The fancy scale uses Bioelectric Impedance to measure your body fat and calculates basal metabolism, body fat percentage, muscle percentage, internal body fat level, your body mass index and your body age equivalent. Let me just say it was very motivating. This new scale has 6 contacts, two for your hands and 4 for your feet and seems more accurate than some of the older models.

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Nukamiso redux

Nukamiso redux 06/22/2005 02:38 AM
Nukazuke is a type of Japanese traditional pickling that requires a special kind of mash that is made from rice husks and a number of other ingredients. This mash is called nukamiso. Some nukamiso is very old and it requires a special touch and constant mixing to maintain the special flavor. Vegetables are typically stuck in the nukamiso overnight or for the day.

I wrote a Nukamiso guide was which I last updated in April 1999. Since then, I have moved twice and in the process, killed my poor nukamiso. My original nukamiso seeded from three 50 year old nukamiso's and a 25 year old nukamiso, two from Kyoto and two from Tokyo. Killing it was an unforgivable sin. Since then, Mizuka and I have felt so guilty, that it took a lot of courage to decide to start up again. The trigger was receiving a batch of the best eggplant nukamiso that I've ever had. The container contained a healthy amount of the nukamiso in addition to the eggplant and the instructions suggested that you could seed your nukamiso with this. We tried some vegetables from our garden and it was excellent, so we went and got a cedar tub today.

In the past, we lived in western houses so one of the challenges was keeping the nukamiso as cold as possible in the summer. This was partially the cause of the demise of our last nukamiso. This time, we now live in a traditional Japanese house has an opening to the space under the kitchen. Japanese houses typically store pickles and other things that need to stay cool in this space. Unlike doing nukamiso from purchased vegetables, we will be able to feed our nuka-chan with fresh home grown veggies.

I just Flickr'd some of the pictures.

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OpenReviews - redux

OpenReviews - redux 03/14/2005 05:09 PM

So following up on years of work by Alf Eaton - the folks at PubSub have released - 'structured blogging' which takes Reviews to the next step - with a nice UI plug-in for WordPress.

Somebody nominate this man to be head of OpenReviews! And don't forget OpenRecipes! Meg Hourihan needs somewhere to store all her fine new trick.

via PhotoMatt

Surgery Redux

Surgery Redux 12/07/2003 09:24 AM

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Threads Redux

Threads Redux 06/22/2005 02:04 AM

The June 12th On Threads piece got slashdotted (twenty thousand hits for a 2,300 word hard-tech piece, not bad), which provoked really interesting feedback from (among others) David Dagastine, Greg Wilson, and Ben Holm, along with pointers to some related work. All those pointers are worth following, and some of the points are worth a little more discussion...

RVW Redux - OpenReviews

RVW Redux - OpenReviews 04/09/2005 05:50 PM

Hey Arnaud - take a look at what Alf Eaton just updated - this time utilizing Mozilla's GreaseMonkey.

Since you've been impelementing Structured blogging in OPML - why don't you get everything into Alf's namespace - and set up a shared Review server.

I bet the lower case semantic web folks will create a microformat called 'review' - or maybe it's has to be a smaller chunk of 'info' - like 'morsel' - or 'hotel room key' or 'tire'.

But it's not a coincidence that all this activity is starting to percolate. It was destined to happen - once people got tired of talking about "what is blogging."

What's been missing up til now have been the specific namespaces or microformat types - which are appearing, bottom up, literally out of the woodwork.

And with services and APIs like Google Maps, Flickt, de.licio.us and EVDB available - how long will it be til we have aggregators supporting these formats - presenting "easy-to-use" interfaces for humans.

Next step after that - is that it's all available on our smartphones and then we can give Howard Rheingold what I promised him: "tools for the mob." And make Russell Beattie happy.

LLSSRV Redux

LLSSRV Redux 03/19/2005 03:11 AM
Dave Aitel (Mar 17 2005)

Atom/W3C redux

Atom/W3C redux 06/04/2004 08:39 AM
Matt May: We at W3C like Atom. Speaking for myself, my concern remains about openness, not time to market.  The one thing that I felt that was not adequately explored in the meeting was the possibility that there might be a difference from a legal perspective between these two organizations. ...

Scripting by the Bay, Redux

Scripting by the Bay, Redux 04/11/2005 08:22 PM
Matt Neuburg (~100 words)

Scripting by the Bay, Redux -- For those who need to acquire or hone AppleScript skills, Shane Stanley and Ray Robertson will once again be leading their wonderfully intensive AppleScript Pro sessions, 02-May-05 through 06-May-05, in beautiful Monterey, California. I'm slated once again to teach my famous "forced march through AppleScript Studio" class. One source of real excitement is the question of whether Tiger will have shipped in time; if it does, we'll be able to talk about the new features, such as BLEEEP and BOOOP (sorry, censored by the NDA police). [MAN]

Regulation Redux

Regulation Redux 05/28/2004 01:59 PM
You may have to vouch for your information security in the not-too-distant future as regulators get restless over cyber-attacks.

More Unleashed Redux

More Unleashed Redux 06/29/2004 02:38 AM
We've received confirmation that Hasbro is currently soliciting orders for their Unleashed wave 11 assortment.

BlogTalk Redux

BlogTalk Redux 07/08/2004 08:25 PM
Sorry to have missed this year's BlogTalk gathering in Vienna. I participated in the one last year, and got some eye-opening material from European bloggers. Joi Ito set up this wiki about the event.

Yucca Redux

Yucca Redux 07/23/2004 01:23 AM
The flowers on that Yucca have died, but gracefully...

codepoetry :: CSS Debugger, Redux

codepoetry :: CSS Debugger, Redux 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
This seems like a extremely handy tool for debugging your CSS stylesheets. Also, it even works on Safari, which is...

The Technology of Hedonism Redux

The Technology of Hedonism Redux 03/08/2004 11:19 PM
Gizmodo's weed-smoking readers responded en masse to Friday's post on the limited-edition Double Vaporbrothers Vaporizer. Nice toy, they said, but nowhere near the geek appeal...
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