Tag Archives: Internet

Fantastic FriendFeed

If FriendFeed keeps up the rate at which they make improvements they will become the de facto social sharing site. I already find most of my interesting news from FriendFeed and the more services they offer (and the more users that sign up) the better it will get.
The founders use it, listen to feedback, [...]

Pop Secrets Updated

I wrote the original script for Pop Secrets over a year ago. Back then I was just getting into Python and was woefully ignorant. Using Universal Feed Parser I simply gobbled up all the content from a number of celebrity gossip blogs and spitted them out sorted by date onto a page. [...]

Google PageRank Update - The Original Benjamin Golub

benjaminGolub.com jumped from a 1 to a 3 in PageRank this month which bounced it up to the #1 spot for searches for benjamin golub. I only go by Benjamin when my name is written out; most Google searches that reach this site are for ben golub, which places me at #2. I [...]

New Project - Streams

A ton of services are popping up that take all of your (Twitter, Google Reader, Netflix, Blog, etc) RSS feeds and make a “stream” of your online activity. My favorite is FriendFeed. Last night I decided to see how fast I could whip one up in Django, and the result is http://stream.benjamingolub.com. [...]

New Design

benjaminGolub.com is sporting a new look as of today. I was feeling minimalist and wanted something that was easier to read than the old layout. The new design is shamelessly stolen from James Henstridge, a man who showed up in my RSS reader one day, with some slight modifications of my own. [...]