what’s wrong with broadcast networks? what’s their problem with bittorrent?

misc — Tags: , — Panayotis @ 18:11

Could someone please explain why broadcast networks don’t set up their own bittorrent trackers sharing their movies and series with ads?

Why do I have to download a ripped version of my favorite series (that isn’t broadcasted here in Greece) instead of downloading it from the official site together and watch the ads in it just like I would if it was broadcasted?

And if they are not into this business, why hasn’t someone set up a legal bittorrent tracker much like they would set up a TV station? They would by the rights to the series or movies and sell ad space in them…

Yahoo! wake up!!!

misc — Tags: , , , , — Panayotis @ 13:11

What the hell is Yahoo! doing? They have a couple of the first and best social networking sites, like del.icio.us and flickr. They have an IM. They have Yahoo!Mail with people’s contacts. They have a lot of eyeballs on them.

Why can’t the just come up with a simple site to integrate all of my and my friends activity, in one page? Not some fancy, complicated, Yahoo360 thing. A simple page, where I can see all my friends activity -just copy facebook News Feed.

And a “friends” page where all my friends, will be listed -as flickr friend, del.icio.us follower, addressbook contact, messenger contact etc.

Then, join on the Open Social thing.

Com’on Yahoo!, pull yourself together!

Google CSE for Wordpress plugin v0.2

Google CSE plugin for WP — Tags: , , — Panayotis @ 20:11

I just released v0.2 of Google CSE for Wordpress.

The new version includes a widget making it very easy to integrate the search box in you sidebar.

Other changes include:
- cse_search_box_tags() that if used in single.php will pre-fill the search box with the post’s tags.
- automatically inserted in page headers. Of no use so far, but who knows? :-)

flickr CC licensing

misc — Tags: , — Panayotis @ 02:11

Shouldn’t Flickr let us users decide on the jurisdiction of the CC license we use for our photos?

Google Reader stoped reporting subsriber numbers?

misc — Tags: , , — Panayotis @ 16:11

Suddenly, today I noticed that my feedburner stats don’t include Google Feedfetcher subscribers!!!

Is it a Feedburner (now Google) problem or a Google Reader problem? Is it a hickup, or a new policy?

UPDATE: others report the same problem too.

UPDATE #2 It was Google feedfetcher’s fault :-)

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