Tag Archives: pingomatic

Ping-O-Matic Fun

1/13/2006 – 4:27 pm

The problem with running a service like Ping-O-Matic is that sometimes you have to send emails like this: 

To: [...deleted...]
Subject: Re: pingomatic

> Hi!
>
> I have tried to ping pingomatic for about 2 days now
> but it will not work for me. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Fun, Ping-O-Matic, Services, Spam | Comments (22)

Google Blog Search

9/14/2005 – 5:31 pm

I may be a little late coming to this party, but Google has introduced Google Blog Search, which limits searches to just blogs (well, in theory, anyhow). The most interesting thing about this, to me, is that GBS provides the search results for your terms as Atom and RSS feeds.

It seems that Google is leveraging blog feeds to get structured data, and monitoring ping sites for timely updates. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Atom, Blogs, Search, Syndication | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

WordPress 1.5.1 Released

5/9/2005 – 4:57 pm

Hot off the presses is the release of WordPress 1.5.1. There is a Changelog available on the Codex which gives some highlights, a full list of submitted bugfixes on the mosquito bug tracker, and even more pedantic changeset details in the repository.

Here are some of the main new features/fixes that matter to me:

  • Database query optimizations
  • Improved Conditional GET support (I lobbied a lot for this)
  • Fixes for plugin menu hooks
  • Admin UI improvements
  • Extended ping support

One thing that’s neat about the extended ping support: For each server in your “Update Services” list, WordPress will first attempt an extended ping, and if that fails it will fall back to a standard ping (we aren’t the first to do this). [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Ping-O-Matic, WordPress | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (10)

Happy Birthday, Ping-O-Matic!

4/20/2005 – 4:45 pm

Ping-O-Matic is one year old today. To think that my lowly little service pinger, originally created to help me gain an edge on BlogShares, is all grown up and sending out approximately 1 million pings per day! We’ve sent out pings on behalf of over a half-million individual blogs, and over 85 thousand in just the last week.

I haven’t been able to give PoM as much attention lately as I’d like. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Community, Ping-O-Matic, Services | Also tagged | Comments (6)

GeoURL.org Returns

3/1/2005 – 5:09 pm

After months (and months, and months) on hiatus, GeoURL.org has returned. The service is now run by Ask Bjørn Hansen. It appears that it’s been back up for about a week, and they’re still kicking out some kinks. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Geolocation, Maps, Search, Services | Also tagged , | Comments (1)

Thank You

12/23/2004 – 12:23 pm

As suggested by a thread in the WordPress Support forums, I want to share some Thank Yous…

This list is not comprehensive, I’m sure to leave out plenty of people who deserve to be included. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Personal, WordPress | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

blo.gs: hook up a cloud

11/28/2004 – 12:46 pm

Extreme technical blogging geekout zone ahead!
blo.gs: hook up a cloud

the old cloud service that operated via rebroadcasting pings over HTTP is being phased out. it is no longer documented here, and will be shut down at the end of 2004. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Tech | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Another Ping-O-Matic Update

11/22/2004 – 12:40 pm

I’m back. Did you miss me?

I didn’t think so.

Anyhow, ever since Feedster announced their new ping interface earlier this month, we’ve been getting requests to add them to Ping-O-Matic. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Tech | Also tagged , | Comments (3)

Ping-O-Matic Update

11/14/2004 – 4:44 pm

Over on the Ping-O-Matic blog pinger, I’ve added the A2B Location-Based Search Engine as a new service on the ping form. This will replace the old GeoURL service, which has been AWOL for quite some time now. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Tech | Also tagged | Comments (2)

About This Site

10/15/2004 – 11:05 am

Geek Ramblings is where Dougal Campbell occassionally dumps bits of content from his brain. He does this for various reasons:

  • Because he has a bad memory and wants to be able to find the information again later.
  • Because he found something interesting, and thought others might also find it interesting.
  • Because he just needed a place to vent.
  • Because he was bored.

How does this affect your life? Not a whole heck of a lot. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Whatever | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (5)