Monthly Archives: February 2005

Yahoo!’s tenth anniversary coming up

Posted on February 28, 2005 by Karl

A great list of articles from Yahoo!’s early days over at SearchEngineWatch. Other sites that were hugely influential, and often forgotten about: The first browser – NCSA Mosaic The first real blog – The NCSA What’s New Page The first … Continue reading →

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A redesign at Philly Future

Posted on February 26, 2005 by Karl

While migrating to PHPTemplate from XTemplate, I decided to give Philly Future a new look. There are a few wrinkles I need to smooth out, but it finally feels right.

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Yahoo’s weblog directory

Posted on February 25, 2005 by Karl

I submitted PH to Yahoo!’s Weblog directory. I don’t have the cash to pay for 7 day inclusion, so I wonder how long this will take

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Google is broken… for me at least

Posted on February 24, 2005 by Karl

Forget all the talk about their toolbar for the moment… Yahoo! and MSN have been sending users to Philly Future while Google doesn’t. Google sends them to the old editthispage.com address. Today I’ve resorted to doing something I haven’t in … Continue reading →

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The latest rumor: Flickr and Yahoo!

Posted on February 24, 2005 by Karl

business2blog: Flickr, Yahoo Deal Rumored

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A terrific introduction to XMLHttpRequest

Posted on February 24, 2005 by Karl

Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps) from WebPasties

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The new Google toolbar has stirred a lot of controversy

Posted on February 23, 2005 by Karl

I don’t know where I stand on this yet, but for a heated discussion, check out Rogers Cadenhead’s post on the subject.

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Huge Star Wars spoilers

Posted on February 23, 2005 by Karl

Click here to see a ton of pics from the upcoming movie. Be warned. Heavy spoilers.

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Adding a front page blogroll to Philly Future exposes its political leanings

Posted on February 22, 2005 by Karl

And leads me to write a difficult post.

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Wouldn’t you like to play Heretic again?

Posted on February 22, 2005 by Karl

You can download it and many other titles from tha past at Liberated Games. via Metafilter.

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