Monday, January 30, 2006
Introducing: Tag Trends
During the past weeks I have learned a lot about tag visualization, tag clouds in particular. Today comes the release of "Tag trends" A simple yet powerful idea where each tag has a small indicator as of its current trend - it is moving up or down right now?
More "trend related" features are now in "training", and will be deployed soon.
The trend indicator - a little ^ or v arrow just next to the tag is currently pretty small. The good Dr. wants is much much bigger.
Feel free to email me at guytavor@newzingo.com regarding the new feature, with more feature requests, and (especially): do you think the indicator should be smaller or larger?
technorati tags: feature, update, newzingo, google, news, tags, trends
NEWZingo maintenance - tomorrow Jan/31 1am-2am PST
A new version of Newzingo will be deployed tomorrow on production servers. The new version includes some nifty stuff.
Servers will be down for about 30 minutes scheduled at 01:00am PST.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Beta: Newzingo Google Homepage Module
You can now add the Newzingo cloud to your Google Homepage.
In order to install the Module, go to: http://newzingo.com/static/google_module_install and follow the instructions at the top of the page.
Send me Bug reports, change request, etc...
technorati tags: newzingo, google, news, homepage, module, guy tavor
Monday, January 23, 2006
Glass ceiling hit
I'm back from my "vacation".
As you might be aware (or not), the newzingo and techzingo sites are using Yahoo's API to automatically extract the terms from incoming news stories. I have recently added additional languages to newzingo, only to discover that I've hit Yahoo's API usage rate limit. I've written Yahoo asking them to "gimme more", hoping they will allow me to use their API for new languages, and 2 new zingos I am dreaming of.
I could circumvent their limit, and even just squeeze it to its limits (I can think of a couple of tricks) - but I don't see a reason why I should be a jerk when they supply this great service free of charge. So - while waiting patiently for them to answer, I've done some research regarding writing my own term extraction service.
In any case - I really admire Yahoo!'s strategy (and tactics), they really seem to be able to quickly react to market changes. kudos.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Site continues normally while Guy is going offline, be back on Monday...
The bad part, is that I am moving apartment on Sunday, and will be mostly offline from now until Monday next, when I resurface. Coming to think of it, I can't believe how hard it is for me being away from the Internet for such a long period of time. I will be reading emails, but won't be developing any zingos those days.
When I get back, I already have a "zingo" that I am planning to cook. I hope it will be "the mother of all zingos" if I might quote Mr. Saddam.
I made arrangements for the zingos to continue their constant updates while my home Linux boxes are off line, and hope all will be well on that front. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mathew for helping me out. While you're at it, checkout his project: sprol.com - the worst places on the world.
technorati tags: guy tavor, update, buzzingo, newzingo, techzingo, bibli.ca
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
BUGFIX: Newzingo wasn't updating
I'm so pissed off. Due to a silly, silly cache bug, the Newzingo tagcloud wasn't updating the past 12-15 hours or so.
Again on a completely different note, The Newzingo site also suffered from some sabotage attempts at the past 24 hours. Hey, People, relax - Don't get over competitive on me, will ya?
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Added local news for Canada, UK
Canadians and Britons can now use Newzingo to track their homecountry's news. Additional countries will be added on request. Please email me the with the URL for your country's best news source, and I'll add it to newzingo provided its compatible with the technologies I use.
Technorati Tags: UK, Canada, US, google, news, newzingo, guy tavor, update
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Introducing: Techzingo.com
Techzingo automatically tags stories from Digg, Slashdot and The Register.co.uk. It then displays them in a tag cloud.
The version is still experimental, so I haven't sent it to anyone yet. BUT, if you're watching this blog, I figured you are my friend, so I ought to give you early access, right?
Technorati Tags: techzingo, guy tavor, digg, slashdot, the register, news, tags
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Newzingo: tags rss feeds added
Added RSS feed per every tag in the system.
Changed the cloud font weight due to user input regarding the colors being too light
Friday, January 06, 2006
Overwhelming Newzingo Interest
Traditional search engines did not have a chance to crawl the site yet (I'll bet MSN will be the first to index the site).
Anyway, all this has made me realize I only understand the following words in spanish: Que Pasa por el Mundo?
technorati tags: google, news, visualization, tool, guytavor, blog, web2.0, mention
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Newzingo!
An interesting relevant link is newsmap
technorati tags: google, news, visualization, tool, guytavor, announcement, web2.0, tagging
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Early morning server downtime
Sorry for the inconvinience.
technorati tags: update, bibli.ca, buzzingo, textdrive, downtime
