Archive for October, 2008

October 28th, 2008

Max’s Restaurant’s 3-Day Online Delivery Service

My friend RJ asked me a while ago if I knew of a restaurant in Manila that delivers and accepts payments through Paypal. He said Max's Restaurant did, but him and his friend didn't feel like eating chicken tonight. I asked my friends on Plurk if they knew ...

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October 21st, 2008

Google Feedproxy: Should You Switch?

Back at Ratified.org, I noticed a handful of blogs whose Feedburner statistics have stopped updating. I looked into it and saw that all of their feeds have switched to a somewhat peculiar URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/xxxxxxx. Because of that, their Awareness API, the place where Ratified.org grabs all the feed ...

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October 17th, 2008

Google Search Results with Discussion and Forum Data

Google now features metadata crawled from forums and discussion sites in its search results. These include the number of posts from the target page, the number of authors, and the date of last post. Here's a sample result I get when searching for Windows Vista Problems:

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