The World of Wingrove (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Big Blue Ball Big Blue Ball . Buy MP3: Habibe Sigur Rós Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust Buy MP3: Gobbledigook Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer . Buy MP3: Language City There is an amazing record getting a physical release this week in the form of the Big Blue Ball projects’ self-titled LP. The album brings together almost 18 years of open-studio recordings at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studios in...
brooke maury (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Copyright NYTIMES.com This is the best news I’ve read all day. Via tailrank and The New York Times, John Edwards has endorsed Barack Obama’s candidacy! This is big news for several reasons, among them: the “white, working class” vote that Hillary has been bragging about, Edwards’ solid domestic policies, Edwards’ 19 delegates that [...]
Kevin Burton's Feed Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
We’ve open sourced the web thumbnail backend that we use within Tailrank. It needs some work but if you're ready to get your hands dirty then webthumb will get you 80% of the way to a scalable thumbnail backend. The API is pretty simple. You just create a REST call to webthumb with a URL to [...]
With Malice... (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
You really have to feel for the Denver Nuggets franchise. Despite putting up the third largest combined salary in the NBA, they were the only team swept out of the first round. Denver owner E. Stanley Kroenke has never shied from spending his cash to make improvements on the roster… but either he’s getting some very bad information on those roster decisions, or he’s guilty of pulling the trigger...
Webware.com (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
If you're familiar with Techmeme , Tailrank , and other services that track content trends on the Web, you should bookmark a new service called Twitlinks . It uses a hand-picked selection of technology personalities on Twitter and compiles their tweets into a news feed. If there are news links or stories that come out of those tweets, they'll end up on the front page, in a reverse chronological view...
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Just to recap: earlier, I documented how Tailrank’s “spam” was accidentally documenting some massive hacking efforts into blogs around the world. What I didn’t realize was that one of the “victims” were one of the more more well known tech blogs in the blogosphere, ZDnet. Thanks to some intrepid screen capturing it looks like Allen [...]
YugaTech | Philippine Technology Ne (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Tony of DJI talks about an unexpected outcome from TailRank’s River, a blog monitoring service. A large number of blogs turned out to have been hacked to promote spammy content and affiliate links. Hidden content injected in the blog templates with links to each other in order to push the rankings in the SERPs. Blog monitoring [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
So in some innocent conversation earlier today with Allen Stern, he noticed that Tailrank was getting hammered with spam, via Tailrank’s River — something Duncan Riley also noticed. To be honest, I’ve noticed it as well, noting snarkily that perhaps it wasn’t so much that Tailrank was getting hammered, as much as Tailrank’s algorithm was [...]
Kevin Burton's Feed Blog (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
This is kind of a funny unintended consequence. It turns out the the blogosphere rickroll’d tailrank. All the bloggers linked to the Rick Roll video which then clustered on Tailrank, creating a recursive Rick Roll. Awesome
Music News (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Featuring Chris Martin. add to del.icio.us :: Add to Blinkslist :: add to furl :: Digg it :: add to ma.gnolia :: Stumble It! :: add to simpy :: seed the vine :: :: :: TailRank :: post to facebook. Original post by notorious70
Kevin Burton's Feed Blog (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
The zombie/trojan spam blogs are at it again tonight. I just caught another 5k stories published to Tailrank because of this recent blog spam torrent. There is clearly some unknown vulnerability that he must be exploiting. I’ve only done sample based auditing of about 20% of the links and they’re nearly 100% Wordpress blogs ranging [...]
Kevin Burton's Feed Blog (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Just an FYI, Tailrank (and Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, pretty much anyone that crawls the web) was hit with a coordinated spam attack sometime last night and early this morning. This is similar to an attack that we found and documented before. Some jerk has hacked into a few hundred Wordpress blogs and installed a trojan which inserts [...]
Environmental Republican (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
Terry features a BBC piece on the key players in the run-up to the Iraq war and finds the Beeb's memory lacking. Tailrank is a nice site for breaking news. I highly recommend it. To mark the day Maggie's Farmer Bird Dog links to a corned beef and cabbage recipe. Us Micks love that in between sips of stout. Irishblogs is a site to find...well, Irish Blogs.Alright all, I'm going to do what all
raincoaster (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
He failed his saving throw vs Death . You just can't come back from a natural 0, even if you did invent the game . Gary Gygax, inventor of the fantasy roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons and born-again Christian, has died at his home after a long battle with illness. He had suffered several strokes and a near-fatal heart attack within recent months. The funeral is to be a private, family event....
Mashable (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
The Spinn3r memetracker, a subsidiary of social news-tracking service Tailrank, has released a laundry list of upgrades today, which comprise the Spinn3r version 2.1. The biggest aspect of the new release is the full crawler support. It fetches the full HTML of all the posts it discovers and extracts the body of [...]
