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Dienstag, 1. März 2005 |
Does Google complain if you reformat its pages? Nope
Cory Doctorow: Yesterday, I posted a link to Yoz Grahame's rant on Google Toolbar, a service that lets you change the webpages on your screen so that things like ISBNs and addresses are automatically linked to database entries on various services.One question that arises from this is: how would Google feel if you were to provide a service that reformatted its pages for others to use? As it turns out, Google routinely allows it. Here are three examples:
- W3C HTML Validator: Scrapes Google and reformats it, commenting on its use of html, linking to relevant elements of the spec
- Bobby Accessibility Validator: Scrapes Google and reformats it, commenting on its adherence to accessibility guidelines
- For Me To Poop On: Scrapes Google and reformats it with a large, floating pile of dogshit drawn over the screen
Update: Phil adds, "don't forget GooglePreview, the Firefox extension that adds dinky thumbnail views of websites directly onto the Google search results page."
Update 2: Nearly forgot my favorite: The Internet Archive scrapes Google, reformats it, and replaces all the links with links to cached historical versions of Google's pages.
Update 3: Two more gooduns: Scroogle "scrapes Google, discards the ads, removes cookie, and has access log deleted after 7 days" (Thanks, Philip!); and Gizoogle "scrapes Google entries...and reformats them from Snoop Dogg's internet perspecizzle" (Thanks, J!).
Update 4: Not always, though: George reminds us that "Julian Bond wrote a PHP script to reformat Google News searches as RSS and Google had him take it down. He was simply aggregating data from Google News, which is exactly what Google News does to other sites."
Update 5:Christoph sez, "Marcos Weskamp's excellent newsmap is remixing Google News for quite some time now and it's still running. Perhaps he has reached some agreement by now, but when he presented his project at Ars Electronica last year he mentioned that he's scraping Google News." [gefunden bei Boing Boing ...]
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Kevin Sites wins WIRED Rave Award
Xeni Jardin: Exactly two years ago today, I emailed Kevin Sites to ask if he'd ever considered doing a blog. My friend John Parres had been forwarding me copies of Kevin's incredible first-person accounts of life as a front line war reporter for CNN, which he'd been sending to friends and family. They were evocative and eloquent, they told stories none of us were hearing through conventional news sources, and they belonged on a blog where more people could read them. A blogosphere barn-raising began -- geek pals including John Parres, David Ulevitch of everydns.net (who's been generously hosting the blog for *free* since day one), Noah Glass of Audblog, Evan Williams (then of Blogger), David Weekly of CCCP, and others joined forces to build the blog, which was up in a few short days. Kevin Sites maintained his new online journal through exceedingly difficult conditions and personal challenges; he chronicled what he saw and experienced at kevinsites.net, and he changed how we saw the war -- and how we viewed news about the war. Our respect for the man and his work has only grown since then, so it gave us all great pleasure to see Kevin win Wired Magazine's award for Blogger of The Year at the Rave Awards earlier this week. Congratulations, Kevin. A rough road, and a well deserved honor. Link to SF Chronicle story, Link to AP. A very special thanks also to Anil Dash, who served an invaluable role on Kevin's blog project during a particularly tough time. trackback []
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Buch über Weblogs, R. Scoble
Note to John Robb and Dave Winer (who are asking for credit for their work): our book about blogging isn't about giving credit to me. We're writing the book. It's about showing how to use the tools you guys pioneered to improve your business.
To ensure everyone gets the credit they deserve, we're doing each chapter in public so you can see what we're doing AND CORRECT IT IF IT IS INCORRECT! If you feel we haven't covered something accurately, or completely, please do let us know! I want a very accurate and complete book that we all are thrilled by. The first chapter will be up there in the next few days. Shel Israel is planning several interview trips right now. Including one to the East Coast. I'm sure he'd be honored to meet with you two, and anyone else that is playing a major role in business blogging.
Don't know who John is? He was my boss at UserLand Software. He hired me there. He also was at least half a decade ahead of the rest of the industry with thinking about how blogs could be used inside corporations to improve knowledge management.
Anything else? Let's take it over to the Red Couch and have a conversation.
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openpodcast
Lots of noise on the internets about podcasting services, many for free, some for profit. It's going to be a great year for podcasting. Time to point to the original podcast service, that has been serving up great shows like Tap Dancing Podcaster news and the sound of the day since october: OpenPodcast.org [gefunden bei Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog ...] 3:00:39 PM trackback []
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SLASHDOT ALS PODCAST
Man sollte zumindest mal zugeben was für eine unglaubliche Verschwendung an Bandbreite das in den meisten Fällen ist, aber dennoch finde ich die Idee Slashdot als Nachrichten vorzulesen schon ziemlich gut. :) Slashdot Review SlashdotReview is a ten minute audio podcast summary of recent technology news items from Slashdot.org Gibts als MP3 ... [gefunden bei DE:BUG BLOG ...] 5:26:27 AM trackback []
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podcasting, updates
nur der schnelle hinweis: es tut sich wieder einiges beim thema podcasting. die links - odeo, nyt, wiki, audible etc. - bei furl.net/fabianmohr. [gefunden bei notebook | online journalismus ...] 5:20:33 AM trackback []
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