Although it’s darn near impossible to tell from this photo, Luther Dickinson, the guitar virtuoso from the North Mississippi All Stars, is playing lead guitar on The Black Crowes‘ latest tour!
On Sunday (3/2), I was lucky enough to catch the first show of the tour and hear their entire new album played for the first time in front of a live audience.
Quite a show.
Voting closes for the SXSW People’s Choice award tomorrow. Don’t forget to cast your final votes for Feedhaus and keep your fingers crossed!
If you’re going to SXSWi, catch up with me in one of the panels by downloading my calendar ICS feed.
We’re pleased to announce that we’re sponsoring Chicago’s first MashMeet, an event designed to bring Chicago’s best Web 2.0 startups together for a night of social networking (the in-person variety, not the online kind).
Here are the details:
7:00 – 10:00 PM, November 29th, 2007
Fulton Lounge, 955 West Fulton Market, Chicago, IL
The event is open to all and no RSVP is required. Hope to see you there!
BEA thinks they’re worth more than the $6.7B offered by Oracle. I guess the ball is back in Oracle’s court, now. This could get interesting.
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Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at Harvard Business School and an outspoken advocate of Enterprise 2.0, wrote this great blog post about why there’s real value in “Enterprise Facebook.” Now the question is, simply put, who’s going to build Facebook-like software with all the auditing, security, performance and stability demanded by the enterprise?
You may notice that the detail pages are now ad-supported. I would have implemented this weeks ago, but Google was very slow to approve our AdSense account.
We’re not trying to make a killing here — in fact our first goal is just to cover the cost of hosting. . . .
We also implemented Google Analytics so we can track site usage.
Right now the ads aren’t targeting themselves correctly — apparently that takes 48 hours to kick in, so stay tuned.
In response to some complaints from my hosting company and registrar that we were using too much CPU and bandwidth, I’ve moved feedhaus from a virtual dedicated server to a dedicated server.
I think Lucene was the culprit — as FUD was indexing feeds’ articles, Lucene was consuming WAY too much CPU. Anyway, after a 24 FUDless hours, FUD is happily chugging away to bring you new stories from the 70+ feeds we now have in feedhaus.
I’m very happy to say that I was able to move feedhaus and FUD over to the new hardware with only 30 minutes of web site downtime. W00t!
This incident led me to thinking a bit about scaling feedhaus. My fears about the scalability of cometd/long-polling are probably unwarranted. What I should really worry about is FUD. I think ultimately FUD needs to be separated out from the web server machines so that it doesn’t interfere with web site performance. Furthermore, I think the feed table should probably be broken into segments and there should be a new FUD process instantiated for every 100 (or so) feeds.
I guess FUD and I will cross that bridge when we get to it . . . but for now, performance is snappy as ever AND you’re getting your news in near-realtime. Enjoy!
We made a few notable changes, including revamping the “add a feed” page by adding clearer feedback and better instructions. We also made the feed adding, indexing and aggregating a lot more robust by fixing some bugs deep within the feed processing engine.
We’re trying our best to emphasize that this is a social news site, so we added the orange button (on the right) to encourage people to add their own content.
Coming in the next alpha build: the much anticipated search feature, along with perhaps some personalization and/or user profiling bits. More about these new features to come….
We’ve put the “Alpha 1” build up and removed the password protection, which marks the beginning of the feedhaus public alpha!
In this build, we’ve repaired a lot of the IE problems (although there are still a few sneaky issues) and revamped the forms along with other parts of the UI. The “add a feed” page is much more robust now — if you enter a web site URL instead of a feed URL, it will actually search the page for one or more feed URL(s) and pre-populate the form for you. (Thanks Andrew for implementing this great feature.)
We’ve also changed our slogan from “What’s Hot Now” to “Be the First to Know.”
One known issues is that the history slider is still a little wonky and it will be for several days (until enough snapshots exist for it to scroll smoothly). This problem will be with us for about a week or so and then it will work itself out. Think of it as feedhaus’ “growing pains.”
So, have at it, folks!
And please report problems and suggestions by commenting on this blog or sending an e-mail to [email protected].