Bye Bye ISVs

Dave recently has been stating that there aren't ISVs any more.  That's a debatable point as Scoble argues but I have to think that this is a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad (still with me?) bad thing:

A SCHEME BEING IMPLEMENTED by Office Depot – almost certainly at Microsoft's behest – means that companies that fail to join a logo scheme will find their XP products won't appear on store shelves unless they've been certified by Redmond.

Only products that conform to Microsoft's Designed for Windows XP rules and carry its logo will be sold in Office Depot after May this year, the INQUIRER has discovered. (See memo at the foot of this article). These rules apply to both software and hardware products, and suppliers have been given a deadline to either include the Microsoft logo or see their products disappear off the shelves. More ...

How much longer before Microsoft starts charging developers for the "privilege" of writing software for Windows?  Pathetic. 

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DOH!  Happy Birthday to My Blog

I knew this was soon.  I didn't realize it was today.  1 year of blogging.  Go figure.  I'm not sure I would have predicted that a year ago -- that I'd take to blogging and absorb it into my day like email, IM and the web.

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Feedster and the War Filtered Search / Miscellaneous Stuff

War Searches

Matt seems to like it (or at least appreciate it).  Chris likes the war search (even though he's too modest to take the credit he deserves) and I got nice email from Ben also.  Ben also said it eloquently:

 To Scott Johnson, I tip my hat, light a cigar, and send promises of dusky maidens - for he has implemented the No War Filter.

Dusky maidens indeed.  Promises, promises ...  Oh and if you haven't seen it, the war search is here.

Non-War Searches

Sean used Feedster to research Windows Media Player.  I just can't tell you how happy it makes me when I see comments about people using Feedster as a general purpose tool.  Wow.

ScottW's not seeing Feedster supplying as many links as it had been.  Interesting.  I wonder why?  Perhaps the novelty effect of a new search popping on the scene and then people reverting to old (google) habits?  I'll have to keep this in mind but we're here for quite a while so it'll get back up there.

I'm thinking a lot these days about search results in a blogging world and how relevant really "short" results are.  Take a look at MOUStech.INFO for example.  The result is just a single line of text and a link.  Now I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that -- there isn't and I'm very pleased to get the link love but ...

• Should the size of this be shown in the results list as something other than .25 K ? 
• Should the ranking of it be changed since its so small ?

RobotDeathSquad seems to like us.

Fixes and Other Stuff

DevHawk pointed out some issues with his blog not getting indexed which got fixed.  Thanks man!  He's also looking for a Soap interface and improvments in result viewing.  Well a better result set is coming quite shortly.  I'm just wrestling with HTML issues right now and then it'll be ready.  A Soap interface clearly takes more thought though ...

Since I'm now heavily involved as an RSS developer, I guess I need to get the sample chapters of Ben's book now.  And add it to my next Amazon order.

More later today.

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