Infobox Website name Bloglines favicon logo Image Blogo225x50.gif 150px Bloglines logo. screenshot Image Bloglines screenshot.png 250px caption Bloglines feed view url http www.bloglines.com bloglines.com commercial type RSS aggregator registration Required, Free owner MerchantCircle author Mark Fletcher launch date June 2003 current status revenue Bloglines is a web based news aggregator for reading Web syndication syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom standard Atom formats. Mark Fletcher , former CEO of ONElist , founded the site in June 2003 and sold it in February 2005 to Ask.com InterActiveCorp . ref cite web url http www.bloglines.com about pr 02082005 title Ask Jeeves Acquires publisher Bloglines date 2005 02 08 accessdate 2010 07 14 ref ref name cnet cite news url http news.cnet.com Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines 2100 1025 3 5566828.html title Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines last Olsen first Stephanie date 8 February 2005 work CNET News accessdate 14 July 2010 ref In 2005, it hosted more than 200 million searchable blog articles. ref name cnet On July 23, 2007, Bloglines released an iPhone version of their site. On August 27, 2007 the company released a public beta version of their site, with new features such as drag and drop feeds in the feed tree and a customizable start page. Bloglines offers an application programming interface that can be used to write software that can read feeds, search its database of feed entries, and ping the service when a blog has been updated. ref http www.bloglines.com services api ref Ask.com announced that Bloglines would be shut down effective November 15, 2010. ref cite news url http blog.ask.com 2010 10 bloglines update.html title Bloglines ... assume control of Bloglines. ref http www.merchantcircle.com corporate press 2010 11 04 MerchantCircle ... established in 2003 de Bloglines es Bloglines eu Bloglines it Bloglines ko ja Bloglines pt Bloglines zh Bloglines ... more details
for the English footballer Mark Fletcher footballer Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website , Bloglines , and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. ref name resign cite web title Moving On Fletcher on leaving Ask.com author Mark Fletcher url http www.wingedpig.com archives 2006 06 moving on 230.html accessdate 2006 06 09 ref Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005. In February 2005, Fletcher won one of the annual Rave Award s, presented by Wired magazine Wired magazine . Fellow nominees in the Tech Innovator category were Internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales , Adam Curry , Bill Healy and Zhang Zuoyi . Previously, Fletcher started the free mailing list service Onelist ONElist . Onelist ONElist merged with eGroups , which was later acquired by Yahoo in June 2000 and is now called Yahoo Groups . Fletcher was also a Software engineering software engineer at internet appliance maker Diba, Inc. , now owned by Sun Microsystems , and at Pixel, Inc . Fletcher is an Investor in the following companies One True Media, Plaxo , Techdirt and Wesabe ref http wingedpig.com ref Mark obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego . Footnotes reflist External links http www.wingedpig.com wingedpig.com Fletcher s weblog Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fletcher, Mark ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fletcher, Mark Category American chief executives Category University of California, San Diego alumni Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people Category Angel investors Category American technology company founders US CEO stub compu bio stub ... more details
Mergeto IAC company date March 2010 The corporation IAC Search & Media formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc. is a wholly owned business of IAC InterActiveCorp NASDAQ symbol IACI . ref IAC Search & Media Company Overview company website , IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage http sp.ask.com en docs about company overview.shtml IAC Company Overview . ref Its headquarters are located in the city of Oakland , California , with other offices throughout the United States , as well as in Europe and Asia . IAC Search & Media was founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California by David Warthen , Chief technical officer and veteran software developer , and by Garrett Gruener , a venture capitalist at Alta Partners and the founder of Virtual Microsystems. ref IAC Search & Media Fact Sheet corporate profile , IAC Search & Media, 2006, webpage http sp.ask.com en docs about fact sheet.shtml IAC Company Fact Sheet . ref IAC Search and Media provides worldwide information retrieval products through a set of Web sites, portals and downloadable applications. IAC Search and Media s search based portal brands include Ask.com AskforKids.com Bloglines Bloglines.com Evite.com Excite.com FunWebProducts FunWebProducts.com IWon.com MyWay.com Zwinky IAC Search & Media is a parent company of the Ask.com , division and search engine of the IAC Search & Media . The company division and the search engine shares a same name, Ask.com . IAC Search & Media s software includes spyware , such products are MyWay Searchbar , also known as MyWay Speedbar, MyWay Search Assistant, MyWebSearch or MyWeb Searchbar Ask.com Toolbar Ask.com Toolbar Notes references External links http www.siteadvisor.com sites ask.com SiteAdvisor s report on Ask.com . http www.siteadvisor.com sites bloglines.com SiteAdvisor s report on Bloglines Bloglines.com . http www.siteadvisor.com sites evite.com SiteAdvisor s report on Evite.com . http www.siteadvisor.com sites excite.com SiteAdvisor s report on Excite.com . http www.siteadvisor.com sites funwebp ... more details
APML Attention Profiling Mark up Language is an XML based format for expressing a person s interests and dislikes. Overview APML allows people to share their own personal attention profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between news readers. The idea behind APML is to compress all forms of attention data into a portable file format containing a description of the user s rated interests. The APML Workgroup The APML Workgroup is tasked with maintaining and refining the APML specification. The APML Workgroup is made up of industry experts and leaders and was founded by Chris Saad and Ashley Angell. ref http apml.org geeks workgroup Australian The APML Website ref The workgroup allows public recommendations and input, and actively evangelises the public s Attention Rights . The workgroup also adheres to the principles of Media 2.0 Best Practices. Services Services that have adopted APML Bloglines is an RSS reader. It is one of the major RSS readers on the web, with its main competitor being Google Reader . Bloglines announced it will support APML. ref http www.bloglines.com about news 147 Bloglines Blog ref OpenLink Data Spaces is a Distributed Collaborative Web Application Platform, Social Network and Content Management System. Specifications http www.apml.org developers spec Specifications at apml.org Example Example taken from the http apml.pbwiki.com APML wikisite . syntaxhighlight lang xml ?xml version 1.0 ? APML xmlns http www.apml.org apml 0.6 version 0.6 Head Title Example APML file for apml.org Title Generator Written by Hand Generator UserEmail sample apml.org UserEmail DateCreated 2007 03 11T01 55 00Z DateCreated Head Body defaultprofile Work Profile name Home ImplicitData Concepts Concept key attention value 0.99 from GatheringTool.com updated 2007 03 11T01 55 00Z Concept key content distribution value 0.97 from GatheringTool.com updated 2007 03 11T01 55 00Z Concept key information value 0.95 from GatheringTool.com update ... more details
Refimprove date February 2010 IceRocket is an Internet search engine which specializes in real time search. Based in Dallas, Texas Dallas , Texas , it launched in 2004 hoping to market itself solely through word of mouth. ref http www.clickz.com 3391731 ref IceRocket is backed by Mark Cuban and headquarters headquartered in Dallas, Texas . The company has received angel funding from Mr. Cuban. IceRocket is generally for blog searches but has expanded into searching the popular social networking websites Twitter and Facebook as well as allowing searching of news and the world wide web . IceRocket s Big Buzz feature allows users to search Blogs, Tweets, news, images etc all from one page. The IceRocket site is a free resource for people looking to monitor their brand, it is ad supported. IceRocket has an API that it licenses to social media monitoring firms as well as PR agencies. In August 2011, it was announced that IceRocket had been acquired by the Meltwater Group . ref http techcrunch.com 2011 08 04 meltwater acquires realtime search engine icerocket ref See also Bloglines BlogScope Technorati References reflist External links http www.icerocket.com IceRocket website Category Blog search engines Category Web 2.0 Category Article Feedback 5 searchengine website stub fr IceRocket ... more details
Sphere was a blog search engine . The Sphere search engine delivered blog posts based on algorithms that combine semantic matching with authority factors to deliver results relevant to the search query. Sphere also organized bloggers by topic. The company produced an application called Sphere It allowing users to seek blog posts related to news articles based on the contents of a particular web page they re viewing. The function was accessed from a browser navigation bar plug in. Upon clicking the plug in button, a semantic analysis was performed on the text within the page and blog posts related to the text of the article were returned. The search engine required that Javascript is turned on in the visitor s browser. Sphere had a variety of content distribution venues among major publishers where blog results from Sphere were presented, contextually, within news stories or other content. Sphere was founded by Tony Conrad, CEO, Martin Remy, CTO, Steve Nieker, CIO and Toni Schneider, Advisor. The company was based in San Francisco, CA. In April, 2008, Sphere was acquired by AOL to be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary. ref cite web last Schachter first Ken title AOL Buys Sphere url http www.redherring.com Home 24126 accessdate 2008 09 18 ref In 2010, Sphere was merged into AOL News. References Reflist See also Bloglines Technorati AOL Inc. searchengine website stub Category Blog search engines ... more details
took over management of RSS feed company Bloglines, through which it plans to deliver local and industry specific targeted content to member merchants and local deals and information to Bloglines account holders ref cite web url http techcrunch.com 2010 11 04 exclusive bloglines will be resurrected by iac funded merchantcircle author Leena Rao title Bloglines Will Be Resurrected By IAC Funded MerchantCircle ... 4, 2010, MerchantCircle announced it would acquire Bloglines from Ask.com . Ask had earlier ... bloglines shutdown avoided merchantcircle swoops title Bloglines Shutdown Avoided as MerchantCircle ... more details
RSS Tracking is a methodology for tracking RSS feeds. History RSS feeds have been around since 1999 as a form of internet marketing, however unlike other forms of publishing information on the internet, it is difficult to track the usage of RSS feeds. Feed tracking methods have been growing in popularity Technology There are currently many methods of tracking RSS feeds, all with their own problems in terms of accuracy. Method 1 Transparent 1 1 pixel images These images can be embedded within the content of the RSS feed by linking to the image which should be held on the web server. The number of requests made can be measured by using the web server log files. This will give a rough estimate as to how many times the RSS feed has been viewed. The problem with this method is that not all RSS feed aggregators will display images and parse HTML . Method 2 Third party services There are services available on the Internet that will syndicate your RSS feed and then track all requests made to their syndication of your RSS feed. These services come in both free and paid forms. The problem with this method is that all analytical data about the feeds are controlled by the service provider and so not easily accessible or transferable. Method 3 Unique Uniform Resource Locator URL per feed This method requires heavy web server programming to auto generate a different RSS feed URL for each visitor to the website. The visitor s RSS feed activity can then be tracked accurately using standard web analytics applications. The problem with this method is that if the feed is syndicated by a search engine for instance then this will defeat the purpose of the unique URLs as many people could potentially view the RSS feed via a single URL. Method 4 Estimating number of subscribers from the log files. Some aggregators for example, Bloglines and Google Reader include a number of unique users on whose behalf the feed is being downloaded in the HTTP request. Other readers such as web browsers ca ... more details
Infobox Software logo Image Snarfer logo.png name Snarfer developer Snarfware, LLC latest release version 1.0.2 latest release date June 15, 2008 operating system Microsoft Windows genre Feed reader license Freeware software Freeware website http www.snarfware.com Snarfware.com Snarfer is a free RSS feed reader produced by Snarfware, LLC . It was created and developed by James Holderness member of RSS Advisory Board ref cite web url http workbench.cadenhead.org news 3033 james holderness and paul querna join rss title James Holderness and Paul Querna Join RSS Advisory Board accessdate 2008 11 19 ref , William Templeton, and Kirk Colvin ref cite web url http www.prlog.org 10016711 snarfware llc releases major snarfer rss reader upgrade.html title Snarfware LLC Releases Major Snarfer RSS Reader Upgrade date May 14, 2007 accessdate 2008 11 19 publisher PRLog ref . According to its producers, Snarfer is the most downloaded RSS reader from CNet s download.com , being downloaded more than 158,000 times. ref cite web url http www.snarfware.com companypress4.htm title Snarfer Press Release October 5, 2007 date 5 October 2007 accessdate 2008 11 20 ref ref cite web url http www.snarfware.com rss reader.html title News about Snarfer accessdate 2008 11 20 ref These are among Snarfer s features ref Cite web url http www.snarfware.com snarfer.htm title About Snarfer publisher Snarfware accessdate 2008 11 19 ref ref cite web url http techjamboree.com 2008 09 21 snarfer a free rss reader title Snarfer, a free RSS reader date 21 September 2008 accessdate 2008 11 20 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref Tabbed window Drag and drop management of feeds and folders Scheduled updating of feeds Embedded browser with simple navigation controls Embedded video support Customizable view Keyword searching Sharing articles by e mail Import and export in OPML format Bloglines synchronization The last release of Snarfer was on June 15, 2008 and, on the main page, a caption reads At this tim ... more details
Image 2011 OccupyWallSt MediaCloud Sept26 vs Oct3.png thumb right Media Cloud analysis of top 25 News media United States U.S. news sources coverage of Occupy Wall Street for the week of September 26, 2011, compared with week of October 3, 2011 Media Cloud is an Open source software open source content analysis tool that aims to map news media coverage of current events. It performs five basic functions media definition, Web crawler crawling , text extraction, word Array data structure vectoring , and analysis. ref Media Cloud. http www.mediacloud.org dashboard about 1 About . Retrieved 2011 10 12 ref It tracks hundreds of newspapers and thousands of Web sites and blogs, and archives the information in a searchable form. The database ... enable s researchers to search for key people, places and events from Michael Jackson to the Iranian elections and find out precisely when, where and how frequently they are covered. ref Patricia Cohen. Hot Story to Has Been Tracking News via Cyberspace. New York Times, August 5, 2009 ref Media Cloud was developed by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and launched in March 2009. ref Berkman Center. http cyber.law.harvard.edu research mediacloud Media Cloud . Retrieved 2011 10 12 ref ref Alisa Miller. Media Makeover Improving the News One Click At a Time. TED Books, 2011 ref As of October 2011, Media Cloud tracks news from mostly U.S. sources. It collects news stories in sets from ref Media Cloud. http www.mediacloud.org dashboard media sets 1 Media sets . Retrieved 2011 10 12 ref Top 25 mainstream media sources from the U.S. according to the Google Ad Planner service includes New York Times , BBC , etc. 1000 most influential U.S. political blogs according to Technorati examples include Outside the Beltway http www.outsidethebeltway.com otbabout1 1000 most popular feeds in Bloglines such as Gawker All public feeds from whitehouse.gov References Image 2006 Berkman CambridgeMA 210841138.jpg thumb right 100p ... more details
Infobox Website name Skweezer favicon screenshot Deleted image removed Image Skweezer v4.gif deletable image caption 1 Monday, 24 September 2007 caption Skweezer Home Page v 4.0 url http www.skweezer.com http www.skweezer.com type Mobile browser Mobile HTML transcoders Mobile HTML Transcoder registration Not required, Free author Skweezer, Inc. owner Skweezer, Inc. launch date 2003 current status Active Skweezer is a Mobile browser Mobile HTML transcoders Mobile HTML Transcoder for users of handheld devices such as personal digital assistants and mobile phones . Skweezer reformats and compresses web content in order to reduce a web page s file size and makes the downloaded content easier to view on a small screen http palmtops.about.com cs productreviews fr Skweezer.htm?terms skweezer . Skweezer was developed by Skweezer, Inc. f.k.a. Greenlight Wireless Corporation and initially released in 2003 . Skweezer s technology is used to mobilize Web content service by search engines , Web portal s, and wireless carrier s such as IAC InterActiveCorp http www.irconnect.com ask pages news releases.html?d 106740 , Bloglines http blogs.zdnet.com mobile gadgeteer ?p 159 , and Orange SA http www.mirror99.com 20051018 skweezer technology provides optimized web access for the new orange world portal of orange bhab.jspx . Currently Skweezer is available in English language English , French language French , German language German , Italian language Italian , Portuguese language Portuguese , Spanish language Spanish , and Japanese language Japanese languages and serves customers in over 175 countries worldwide http www.wirelessdevnet.com news 2006 oct 24 news8.html . Mobile browsing innovations Skweezer has introduced several Mobile Web mobile browsing innovations since its inception, including the first Portal based transcoding engine Skweezer 2003 Globally distributed mobile advertising platform Skweezer Ads 2004 Pagination system that splits large Web pages up for viewing on cell ... more details
Infobox Software name NetNewsWire logo Image NetNewsWire.png 64px NetNewsWire icon. screenshot Deleted image removed Image NetNewsWire App.png 250px caption NetNewsWire 2.0.1 under Mac OS X v10.4 . developer Current Black Pixel Former NewsGator Technologies latest release version 3.3 latest release date October 18, 2011 latest preview version 3.2b28 latest preview date September 21, 2009 operating system Mac OS X genre News aggregator license Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.newsgator.com individuals netnewswire newsgator.com individuals netnewswire NetNewsWire is a news aggregator for Mac OS X and IOS Apple iOS , and was one of the first desktop RSS file format RSS readers on any platform. History NetNewsWire was developed by Brent and Sheila Simmons for their company Ranchero Software. It was introduced on July 12, 2002, with NetNewsWire Lite , a free version missing some advanced features of the then commercial version, ref cite web title NetNewsWire feature chart publisher NewsGator url http www.newsgator.com nnwlite compare.aspx?nnw 1 accessdate 2007 05 30 ref introduced some weeks later. Version 1.0 was released on February 11, 2003, and version 2.0 was released in May 2005. At that time it included custom feed views, custom downloading and opening of podcast s, synchronization of feeds and feed status between computers, Bloglines support, and a built in tabbed browser. In October 2005, NewsGator bought Ranchero and NetNewsWire, bringing their NewsGator Online RSS synchronization service to OS X. ref cite web last Fleischman first Glenn title NewsGator Acquires NetNewsWire work TidBITS publisher Adam C. Engst date 2005 10 10 url http db.tidbits.com article 08278 accessdate 2007 05 30 ref Brent Simmons was hired by NewsGator to continue developing the software. ref cite web title NewsGator acquires NetNewsWire publisher Brent Simmons url http inessential.com 2005 10 04 newsgator acquires netnewswire accessdate 2011 06 12 ref NetNewsWire 3.0 was ... more details
Infobox synthesizer image Moog Taurus small .jpg image caption synth name Taurus synth manufacturer Moog Music synthesis type analog synthesizer Analog subtractive synthesis subtractive polyphony Monophonic synthesizers Monophonic timbrality Non Multitimbral oscillator 2 filter 24dB Oct Moog low pass filter low pass attenuator ADR envelope lfo keyboard 13 pedals memory 3 preset sounds, 1 variable fx none dates 1974 1975 1981 price Infobox synthesizer image image caption synth name Taurus II synth manufacturer Moog Music synthesis type analog synthesizer Analog subtractive synthesis subtractive polyphony Monophonic synthesizers Monophonic oscillator 2 VCO timbral filter Voltage controlled filter VCF low pass filter low pass attenuation ADSR envelope ADS lfo keyboard 18 pedals left control Portamento pitch bend and modulation mod wheels ext control CV Gate outputs memory none fx none dates 1981 1983 price The Moog Taurus is a foot operated analog synthesizer designed and manufactured by Moog Music from 1974 ref name introduction cite media title Moog proudly introduces... the Taurus Bass Pedal Synthesizer Available November, 1974 url http retrosynthads.blogspot.com 2010 08 moog taurus bass pedal synthesizer aka.html?utm source feedburner&utm medium feed&utm campaign Feed 3A RetroSynthAds 28Retro Synth Ads 29&utm content Bloglines medium brochure publisher moog synthesizers, Norlin Music, Inc. &mdash This brochure indicates at least at that time, the Taurus was supposed to be launched as early as 1974, but the result is not sure. ref or 1975 ref name moogarchives cite web title Chronology 1953 1993 url http moogarchives.com chrono.htm publisher Moog Archives quote 1975 Moog Music Div of Norlin ... Release Taurus and Polymoog. ref to 1981. Commonly called the Taurus I , it has a 13 note organ style pedal board similar to the pedal keyboard of a spinet organ . History The Taurus was originally intended to be one third of a larger synthesizer ensemble called the Constella ... more details
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