Archive for July, 2006

FeedBurner buys BlogBeat

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

It’s old news already, but FeedBurner has bought BlogBeat. BlogBeat is the neat little blog statistics service I use to track the three readers of my blog (hi there, 62.194.1.219!) I find this buyout quite entertaining for three reasons: Even though the service continues to operate for their existing customers, they give a full refund to all […]

Best quote ever

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (from this great collection, via SvN)

The future of custom-built small websites

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Ismael Ghalimi: How To Build a Website with Office 2.0 Can you build a company website just by mashing up Web 2.0 services? It turns out there are still some problems, but it’s getting closer. Ismael uses Wordpress as the main platform, DabbleDB for structured content, Zoho Writer for press releases, Flickr for image hosting, and […]