Over the last few years I’ve been pretty much out of touch with the business side of business. When I was freelancing, I pretty much did things my own way, not caring about much more than keeping the bank ticking. Until about 2 weeks ago, I was still in that comfort zone, caring about little [...]
It is the weirdest thing. I was having issues subscribing to blogs that is using pubsubhubbub.appspot.com using a Python script. It returned a 500 Internal Server error without fail. So I rewrote the process in PHP and like magic, it is gone… I used PHP and CURL to subscribe to the appspot service. In Python [...]
Okay, I’ve implemented this beast. Feeds that support Pubsubhubbub functionality will now be able to distribute their posts as they are published to Afrigator. Well, all but Blogger or Blogspot feeds as I’m having a weird issue with pubsubhubbub.appspot.com which is the hub for Blogger/Blogspot blogs. If you are using WordPress.com (i.e. yourname.wordpress.com) your good [...]
What a crazy name! Anyway, the idea is much cooler than what the name is. Basically, what Pubsubhubbub does is it enable your blog to broadcast your new blog posts as you publish them. Instead of aggregators like Afrigator periodically fetching and processing your feed, you tell Afrigator “HEY! Listen up! I’ve written something new [...]
Newspapers love to hate the internet. It sees it as its nemesis and rightly so, since it has such a free and sharing culture. No news are safe. It can easily be copied and redistributed by other users making it very difficult for newspapers online to monetize the news. They can try and go the [...]
Tech Central recently did an interview or “personality profile” of RJ van Spaandok, Executive Director of the Core Group. The Core Group has the monopoly on Apple and Nintendo products in South Africa, just in case you did not know. I don’t think people are refuting the fact that RJ is a learned business man. [...]
What a band. Nice, down to earth bunch of guys. Not only are they extremely friendly, but they tend to leave a lasting impression. They did for me. Great guys making great music and now making great wine. It is a fantastic wine called Giant Mistake. Smooth dry red wine blend that is easy to [...]
When aggregating or reading crap loads of RSS feeds, it makes little or no sense to read every feed every time you check, when most feeds is updated only once a day. To give you and idea, at Afrigator the size of the feeds are half a gig (500 MB), so if you do that [...]
Finally we can talk about Gatorpeeps officially! We’ve been rather quiet about it, primarily since we needed to finish a few things and stress test it before we punted it. We had our fair share of “Blegh, another Twitter clone…” and we expected it. The thing is, we love twitter! Always have, always will. So [...]
I had to smile when I read a comment left on Diary of a gay Kenyan: Afrigator seems to be quite fond of gymnastics in their rating of blogs. Basically, The Gay Kenyan complained that one night he noticed that his ranking dropped suddenly into the fiery pits of Beelzebub. He went from 48th in [...]