Putting Our Servers To Work, for YOU
| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 | --jr |
Wow, just a few bits of news out today (and by "few" I'll note that the number is just barely south of double digits), but that aside, you want to know something Cool, don't you?
Well, looking at the press releases, here's a little something that is darn right cool that seemed to get lost in the noise. That's something we here at Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day simply can't abide. MyBlogLog (honestly, I'm not being paid by them, they're just that prolific) released a nifty feature that lets you scan all of the various social services they know about for any of your IDs. That's pretty cool. What's even cooler is how they go about doing that. They've got their own little bot farm that they're running which queries the services and returns your results. What's equally cool for us is the fact that this is a damn simple configuration using a number existing Open Source projects that anyone here can tap into for their own evil purposes. So, faster results for you, less headaches for us. It's a win-win scenario that I'm pushing him to make an OpenSource product.
(Sorry, using my outside voice again.)
Pretty damn cool.