Meebo is IM Chat 2.0, and in the tradition of many Web 2.0 ventures they have a WordPress blog. Hat tip: Derkilicious.
Get Into Google Blog Search
Want to get into Google’s new blog search? “The easiest way to do this is via pingomatic, which can ping more than a dozen popular pingservers, according to Goldman.” Thanks Jason! Read more…
WordPress Hooks
Web Service Finder
Web Service Finder, a cool idea.
Value of Community
Robert Young writes on Inherent Truths and the Value of Community. Highly recommended.
Poetry is Microsoft
Has Microsoft stolen WordPress’ tagline? (Note: I’m sure someone in 1970 probably said “Code is Poetry” at DEC or something. 😉 But it has been the WordPress tagline since day 1.)
New Dashboard
Blogs on WordPress.com have a new dashboard which highlights the community content more.
Google 767
Larry and Sergey say: “We’re still indy, we share our jet!”
Simon on Dvorak
Simon Willison is switching to Dvorak. I switched years ago and haven’t looked back since. People claim it’s a hoax, but they haven’t used it over a period of years. My QWERTY chops are still pretty good too, mostly thanks to the Treo. It’s not hard doing both, it’s just like learning a new musical instrument.
Entrepreneurs
In the Astrodome
Jacob Appelbaum is blogging his travel to Houston and beyond as he does all he can to help those affected by Katrina.
Katrina Metasearch
Yahoo has done a Katrina people metasearch, possibly the most useful thing anyone in the tech community has done thus far. Yahoo just went up several notches in my book.
Feng Shui Office
Lifehacker tells us how to set up a Feng Shui office space, I think I break all of these.
Kramer Plugin
The Kramer Plugin fills out your comments with information from Technorati and their built-in referrer analyzer to give you the most comprehensive look possible at all feedback to your posts. Sounds pretty cool, I may have to try it out here or on the WP dev blog.
Tulane University
Tulane University in New Orleans lost their servers and website in Katrina, and on their new temporary site they’re using free, open source software to keep people updated. Note: If you’re trying to contact someone, it’s best to go to Tulane’s official website.
Blogspot Spam Cleanup
Next blog now with less spam, which is great to hear! However I was spending a few minutes every night on nextblog flagging blogs (like the other Matt) in the hope that it would help them out, does this fix the problem (spam blogs) or just the symptom (showing up in nextblog)?
The .org Guy
Just to clear up any confusion, I am not the photomatt.org guy. 🙂
HurricaneHelp
HurricaneHelp is a site for helping family and survivors find each other.
Photolog Fixed
To the (literally) hundreds of you who wrote in about the broken photos the past few weeks, I’m happy to say that the photolog is back online. It broke because while 95% of Gallery works fine with register_globals off, apparently some bit of code somewhere doesn’t. If you haven’t been to the photolog in a while there are some fun pictures from Dallas, Seattle, and New York.
Web 2.0 Show
There is a new “Web 2.0 Show” (on podcast of course) that interviewed me as part of their innagural podcast. The Skype call quality was pretty bad, I must have been too close to the mic on my Powerbook or something. They said they’re fixing that for future shows.