Author Archives: Ian

Apple and Google may have killed the Google X search (and it mirrors, but the french one is still around!) but behold Queryster searchx (do a view image to see it better) Category:Google Not!

following up on And FLickr Makes 3, The Globe and Mail posts some of the story behind the Story of Yahoo’s agreement to acquire Flickr and Ludicorp, and Caterina Fake‘s and Stewart Butterfield‘s adventure, like: Flickr started as part of Continue reading Vancouver couple’s Net photo service in Yahoo’s picture→

(Via Scripting News) Globeandmail.com now has RSS (2.0) feeds for eight categories and 42 columnists for use in RSS readers and on personal websites ( as part of a non-commercial website). It’s a, long overdue, start. I’ll be “testing” this Continue reading The Globe and Mail & RSS Feeds→

David Brin bring us “CITOKATE” in his continuing sereies of essay on Modernism, and a defined in Contrary Brin: Modernism Part 13: Michael Crichton vs Science, which started in December: The Issue is Modernity The Radical Notion Of Modernism Modernism Continue reading CITOKATE or… Criticism is the Only Known Antidote to Error→

Via Will pate, The Social Customer Manifesto I want to have a say. I don’t want to do business with idiots. I want to know when something is wrong, and what you’re going to do to fix it. I want Continue reading The Social Customer Manifesto→

It’s official, Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and Ludicorp. This is the third high profile Blog/RSS related buyout of 2005. Live Journal was bought by Six Apart, while Ask Jeeves snapped up Bloglines. Social Media Consolidation Continue reading And Flickr makes 3→