http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/12/can-technorati-beat-google-at-blog-search357.html

http://www.brainyhistory.com/

Of late, I've noticed that Google Blog Search is failing me in the same ways that Technorati began failing me a few years back. The biggest problem is that a new result for my query will show one hour and when I return an hour later, that result has disappeared only to reappear again a few hours later.

Further, results are being reported where the blog entry does not contain a match, but rather that the match occurs in the blogger's sidebar. This leads to an enormous about of white noise/false positives. I'm guessing that Google is no longer simply indexing the RSS feed, but rather, they are indexing the entire blog page, including the clutter. Last, results from more than a year ago are being indexed today.

These are all problems that made me switch from Technorati to Google Blog Search in the first place.  Now Google has caught Technorati's cold? What happened? Did Google happen to hire the Technorati team? I really hope not.

Migration of FeedBurner and Google feeds is to occur in the very near future. This is likely a very important step in progression of the RSS standard. Many large publishers used the FeedBurner platform to publish their RSS feeds. Google bought FeedBurner quite some time ago. I've been informed that my FeedBurner account will be transferred to my Google account. Not sure how they associated those two accounts, but they did. Let's track this closely. Please email me any issue at randy@kbcafe.com. Thanks!

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=99647

The Samsung HDTVs support RSS via a feature called Infolink RSS. This places TV widgets on your screen, like news tickers, stock quotes and weather. I don't see that you can subscribe to any arbitrary RSS feeds. Anybody know more?

http://pages.samsung.com/us/howiseeit/#/infolink-rss/?DFA=1

This website was selected to be part of Google's limited beta of their Event Tracking API. Read more. I doubt I'll participate. Don't have time. Don't know why they picked me. Usual laziness excuses.

http://www.kbcafe.com/adwords/?guid=20081031081043

I just discovered Feed My Inbox, a new RSS to email service that is trying to fill the void left by SendMeRSS. "Feed My Inbox" was actually a trademark of Rmail, but I doubt NBC is paying attention.

http://www.feedmyinbox.com/

Out of curiousity, I searched Google for RSS and email. Turns out Rmail-SendMeRSS was 3 of the 5 top results (results may vary). SendMeRSS is now dead and twice now people have asked if I had the old Rmail code and if I could just recreate Rmail. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. I thru away the code and even if I could find an old backup, I wouldn't feel right about re-using code I sold to NBC. Nevertheless, I could rewrite Rmail in a few days (given the free time). With SendMeRSS finally gone (what a horror story), I'm considering adding RSS-2-email services to Reblinks and polishing it off. Thoughts?

http://www.reblinks.com/

Just in time for the elections, Newsgator has released some election widgets. Check 'em out!