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15/04/2010 23:40:46 UTC+0000

Technorati woes

Before

Back in the days, Technorati seemed like a great tool to give blogs and news sites a little push in the back. After all, starting a blog isn't that easy when nobody knows you. So, that's where Technorati came in: on this website, you can "claim" your blog, give it a few keywords, and voila... your blog details gets indexed on Technorati. When you add a news item, it gets published on Technorati too. With a little luck, others might just stumble onto your blog.

When registering, I didn't have RSS feeds yet, but that wasn't really a problem for Technorati, as it would crawl my website in order to fetch the latest news.

Also, I was pleased to hear that they were implementing an OpenID server. Webmasters who do that, are usually people who are serious about their website, and want to take that extra step in order to make the web a better place.

Now

I would have expected Technorati to grow, as more and more people started to use it. I guess something went wrong in the process... Technorati is - after all those years - still far from finished, and it seems like nobody's really working behind the scenes to get things right.

Since my major update, I now have RSS feeds too, and I thought it would be good to update my site info on Technorati accordingly. But adding an RSS feed afterwards just doesn't work! What am I supposed to do now, remove my website info and start from scratch? Contact the webmasters?
Their OpenID server doesn't work anymore. I found other people blogging about this, but never found a real explanation from Technorati about why they stopped this service.
It is still in beta, as shown in the website logo. Common guys, only Google can get away with something like this...
Apart from adding your personal info and claiming blogs, what is there to to? It looks like time has stood still.
Everywhere on the internet, you can find people who are complaining about their support, so I'm not going to even try to reach them.

What happened here... where did they go wrong? It's probably money releated, but I guess we'll never really know.

I want to delete my account, but I doubt this is even possible...

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12/04/2010 13:12:05 UTC+0000

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx - Change is coming

You may have noticed the ad on the bottom of the site menu: this month Ubuntu's new release named Lucid Lynx will be released, on April 29 to be exact.

Those that can't wait can already install the daily build and update regularly. Keep in mind though that it's still in beta, and might not run that stable on your computer. But for those that feel adventurous enough and want to know what Ubuntu has planned for us, go ahead and download!

I already tried beta1 on my laptop, and everything seems to be running just fine. No major problems, no crashes, ... only problem is it just won't shutdown. It just loops at the logout screen. But I'm confident this will be solved when Lucid becomes stable.

It looks like they still haven't decided yet on the design change. I guess we'll have to wait until the end, in order to know where they'll be putting the window buttons (minimize, maximize, close), and also in what order. I am sure though that it won't bother me much, as I'll likely just adapt. It's not that important to me anyway.

What can be expected in this release?

LTS (meaning Long Term Support), meaning you'll be able to just update your system longer than with normal releases: 3 years security updates for desktops and 5 for servers.
Stability: on every LTS release, they try to make it as solid as possible.
No Gnome3. Seems like the obvious choice on a LTS release. Let's just hope this will be included in Maverick.
Faster startup time.

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01/04/2010 11:48:50 UTC+0000

Oh right, the first of April

I didn't think of April Fool's Day, until I visited the Tweakers.net website. It's always nice to see what popular websites like google, xkcd, wikipedia, thinkgeek, slashdot... come up with each year.

xkcd's one was really nicely done this year!