I forgot my blogger.com password, so I used the “forgot password” form to regain access to my account. The automated email I received said at the end:
You could also try logging in/recovering your password from a different web browser – we recommend Mozilla Firefox:
http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
Does this, as well as this mean tha Google is actively pro-firefox? I hope so! I wish Yahoo! and other mazor sites showed similar signs too.
Lilina 0.5.2 is out. Changes/enhancements include better date handling (even for dateless feeds) and opml import/export. HTTP authentication has been droped for session based authentication so that it works nice with php as CGI. Other minor changes and bug fixes too!
I’d really like to see some alternative CSS… Any suggestions?
BTW, if you are using lilina, please post here, including your lilina instalation URL!
Research buzz have a piece on CiteULike. An application that allows you to track white papers and who cites them by tag, author, user and more.
Once you’ve set up a watchlist you can grab the RSS at the bottom of the page and add it to bloglines or your favorite desktop aggregator.
[via www.threadwatch.org]
InsideGoogle reports:
Just like I first reported last month, Google has released all of its major free software as a single download, now available on the Google Software Downloads page.
The programs included are Google Toolbar, Google Desktop Search,
Picasa, Google Deskbar, and Gmail Notifier. Expect Hello to join these
whenever Google determines it “ready for prime time”.
(via Dirson)
From the first time I discovered Google WEB APIs, I thought that this thing is ideal to create an “ego-surfing” script, that is a script that looks up google for, let’s say, my name and returns the results.
I have written a small script that does exactly that (and obviously, you can put your name where it says “Panayotis Vryonis”). What you will need to use it, is
You may notice that the actual query is a bit more complex than a simple “Panayotis Vryonis”. The reason is I want to exclude results from my own pages, so I ask Google not to return results from g-metrics.com, vrypan.net and blogshares (which returned a number of results that were useles in this context.
A couple more notes taht could be useful:
You may find a working example here 
I released lilina 0.5.1 today. For most of the changes in this version I have to thank Robert Baker for his great work on the CSS and the UI in general.
lilina is quite stable now, I think you should give it a try.
Magoie 0.7 is out and this has improved character set detection and improved date handling. Read the rest here.
This is great news. I’ll make sure lilina takes advantage of these features…
“You can now put Overture ads in your RSS feed. I don’t plan on doing it yet, but I think its great. Many blogs lose half their traffic to RSS, and for bloggers that make their money that way, ads in RSS had to happen. A tiny text ad doesn’t make it harder to read your favorite blog, but does support your favorite blogger. Bloggers need money, too.”
(via InsideGoogle)
As some of you may know, I have set up a site, g-metrics.com that keeps track of the googlecount of various queries (users can add their own). This way you can see how many results google would return for a cetrain keyword for example, and how this number changes from day to day.
The other day I was wondering arround g-metrics when I noticed something very weird. The graphs returned for “on-line” * betting and “sony ericsson” are identical!
For me this is very strange since the two queries re not related. Well obviously they are in some way. Any ideas?
This is so cool, I couldn’t help linking to it (although it’s late and I ahve to go to bed…) ASCII Generator turns any text into ascii art. Very helpful for e-mail signatures, text-based e-mails, etc. Very nice work.
(by Yna Feng blog)