Various Artists: Holiday Remixed: Reworked Classics And Originals From The Mistletoe Lounge
Moses Avalon: secrets of negotiating a record contract
This man knows how to write! a must have reference book for the industry. (****)
IAN MCEWAN: Black Dogs : A Novel
Great author (****)
Iain Pears: An Instance of the Fingerpost
Reading the 2nd time. (*****)
And of course, lots of humor and jokes as usual :)
Worth waiting to see the "Create your icon" wizard at 16:00 - that's really a cool feature, that immediately generates value to any internet media brand.
(Tags: palore, local search, semantic web, scoble, podtech, hanan lifshitz, glanceable information, glanceable)
You can join now the Palore beta, thanks to an invite link I got from the lads there.
Palore is a browser add-on which adds relevant highlights to search results about information that matters to you. Icons that represent features/attributes are presented next to the search results.
The current beta version is focused on Restaurants, Bars and Cafés:
A nice set of “info icons” (here's "Green" for example) is used for highlighting features such as Green, Kosher, Wifi, Fair Trade, Vegetarian and more.
The plan is to extend the icons set to support more local search categories later on.
I’ll post later on about my experiments with similar Semantic web tools.
If you are in North America, you can also call for free to the business using a Click-to-call web interface which pop-ups when you click on the phone number.
So Here's the download link :) No invitation codes, just direct link for install file.
The current version works with all the leading Local Search, Yellow Pages and Vertical sites.
Disclosure: I'm an investor in Palore.
(Tags: palore, local search, semantic web, content layers, data visualization, search companion, firefox add-on)
Something nice I read in Palore CEO blog (Hanan), is the new ultra beefy (425 pages) report from Piper Jaffray about "All Things Internet". Greg Sterling posts the download link for the full report (pdf).
Well, everyone today are writing about trends and best practices in the age of web 2.0 - and this report brings some numbers and evaluations that could be useful not only when you prepare the next investor presentation, but also to get a deeper look at what people are doing in the internet, and what value it has as a media (= if you want to base your startup on advertising - really go read this paper).
Hanan highlights the immense value of Local Search for internet users (2nd most used internet service, after email) - something that even surprised me. Everybody was predicting that Local Search is the most promising sector in vertical search, but 2nd most used service....? wow...this is really how digital revolutions are happening.
People used to work with print Yellow Pages. The internet brings so much more value to local search (reviews, data, display, comparison) - and the disruption happens quickly.
Disclaimer: I'm a small investor in Palore, and past employee.
(Tags: local search, all things internet, web analysis, web2.0)
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So Palore is still on a limited alpha run, however this tip could be useful to the many users who run Kerio firewall. Yes, I was also surprised to find out that Kerio has changed owners (bought by Sunbelt Software).
So here's the tweak:
1. Open Kerio, go to "Network Security" tab and click "Packet filter...".
2. Click on "Add" and cofigure the following rule for Palore -> open UDP ports 5060 and 7000. It's also useful to check the log box as well.
3. Ok, Ok. Your rules list should now look like this:
4. Check that Palore works:
That's it, pretty simple.
I just had to join the Alexadex craze and buy some Palore shares, following my previous post. It was the natural thing to do, no?
I actually think it could be quite a good investment, and Net's recent behind-the-scenes update kinda fuels this hope :)
I was taking a part in the Palore project, from the very early days of concept incubation to the recent first phase beta launch (mainly in Israel).
It's been a great period, with many interesting moments during the bootstrapping of this start-up.
I'll write more on Palore in the coming weeks, but here's just something quick for now:
Yesterday the palore client was featured for download (Hebrew page) in Nana, one of the biggest portals in Israel. Less than 24 hours have passed, and the counter is on 2790. Quite an impressive number in Israeli terms for a software on day 1, without any preceding buzz or promotion (they didn't even start a blog yet...). There was an article as well (Hebrew again...sorry, no translation at the mo).
As a reference, ICQ (#1) has a weekly download average of 14k - so in a way it kinda puts Palore's current score near the top of the chart.
A'fcourse, still early to determine how it will grow form here, but it's certainly a successful start. Good luck to the lads...
Update, 14.4.06 - Palore is now #2 in the popular download chart.
