Archive for January, 2006

Search Censorship Viewer
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

My friend Chris wrote a beautifully simple application that displays the google.com searches (and image searches) side-by-side with the google.cn searches.

Visit the Censorship Viewer homepage, or go directly to the examples of “tiananmen” and “Falun Gong”.

Chris — you should add Yahoo and MSN to the mix as well.

Google Toolbar, Custom Buttons, and OpenSearch
Monday, January 30th, 2006

I’ve barely sipped my coffee this morning and I’ve already read a few emails asking me about the new Custom Buttons feature on the Google Toolbar. Custom Buttons are a nice feature that allows you to add third-party search engines to the Google Toolbar. The format that Google uses is similar to the [...]

FeedLounge
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

I want to quickly mention that FeedLounge is now out of beta and accepting new users. I had the pleasure of participating in their alpha program and think they have tremendous potential. That and they are simply very nice guys and I love the way they have communicated about building the product.

There will [...]

Unto.net Comments Feed
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Chris wrote and asked if there was a comments feed for unto.net. Great idea, considering that the comments are the best part of the site.

Subscribe to the following feed URL in your aggregator and you will stay up to date on just the comments posted on unto.net:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/untonet/comments/

And don’t forget, you can [...]

We Get Letters
Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Occasionally I receive comments regarding unto.net via email that are so involved, so compelling, that I’d like to respond to them publicly for all to read. Fortunately, the authors are often accommodating. This is one of those cases. Evan Miller, currently of WSO fame, but certainly poised for much greater accolades, wrote [...]