Archive for June, 2005

Installed two more storage servers today. Bringing total storage space up to almost 3 TB. The servers are Super Micro 5014C-MT. P4 with Hyper-threading, 512 MB ram and 900 GB disk space.

Photo: Supermicro Inc

See here for an overview over our storage system:
http://bbh-001.boitho.com/phpSysInfo/

EVDB just launched their API.

I like Step 3: "Go make something cool!"

You may have noticed the Bloglines Plumber appearing unexpectedly recently, generally in the evenings. That's the web page that we put up when we need to take the Bloglines site down. We try to avoid downtime whenever possible, and when it's necessary, we post advance notice here on the Bloglines blog. Unfortunately, we've recently been experiencing a corruption issue with several of our databases. When that happens, we need to take the site down and fix the database in question. No data is lost, but it does require downtime to fix, which is bad; we're just as addicted to Bloglines as you are. We're feverishly working to track down the problem, and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Dick just announced FeedBurner's Feed Awareness API, which "enables any 3rd party to query feed statistics on FeedBurner feeds."

"AwAPI uses a straightforward web-based protocol to receive requests and return data. Known as REST, it allows anyone to request feed traffic data using URLs submitted via HTTP. The data is returned as plain text XML which can be repurposed, transformed, and displayed by applications that you build. Using XML as the output format means testing and exploring AwAPI is as simple as composing an AwAPI URL and then requesting it with a web browser."

Scott Lemon just wrote in to let us know he's released RadioAtomBridge, a tool that enables Radio Userland to post to Blogger blogs:

"A while back I realized that I really wanted to use Radio to be able to post to some of my blogs that are hosted at Blogger.com and Blogspot.com..."

"So this is it ... the new and improved RadioAtomBridge Tool ... a derivative of the xManilaBloggerBridge Tool which was a derivative of the ManilaBloggerBridge Tool. I'm giving all of this code to Userland to incorporate this into a future version of Radio."

as many of you may be aware of, a new of version of start was recently released:

• a preview of start.com/3 was released on june 3rd at 6:30 pm:
  a blend of /1 and /2 and your feedback. the highlights include new UI, search results/history integration, overlay module, drag and drop
  
• UI facelift was released on june 8th at 9:00 pm:
  a cleaner look and feel with a softer color scheme and much less clutter as well as a much improved drag and drop experience

this is still a preview as we have some issues that we still need to resolve, mainly:

• firefox support
• opml import
• roaming
• improved add content experience
• improved left pane navigation

keep sending us your feedback... we love feedback.

apologies about the lag for this entry, we promise to update this space more frequently. we are also working on a community discussion board. 

sanaz ahari
start.com program manager

as many of you may be aware of, a new of version of start was recently released:

• a preview of start.com/3 was released on june 3rd at 6:30 pm:
  a blend of /1 and /2 and your feedback. the highlights include new UI, search results/history integration, overlay module, drag and drop
  
• UI facelift was released on june 8th at 9:00 pm:
  a cleaner look and feel with a softer color scheme and much less clutter as well as a much improved drag and drop experience

this is still a preview as we have some issues that we still need to resolve, mainly:

• firefox support
• opml import
• roaming
• improved add content experience
• improved left pane navigation

keep sending us your feedback... we love feedback.

apologies about the lag for this entry, we promise to update this space more frequently. we are also working on a community discussion board. 

sanaz ahari
start.com program manager

Got the papers from Brreg (The Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises) today. Boitho AS have been incorporated.