22:47 链接预览专家:Browster » WebLeOn's Blog
早就听说
Browster,可以在搜索结果页预览所链接的页面,不过一直以为它只能在IE里面使用,也就没有特别留意。直到它刚刚
发布了1.0版,才发现,原来这个链接预览软件同样可以在Firefox下使用!
如果你跟我一样,也是一个搜索引擎的“Heavy User”,为了找到最适合的搜索结果而打开数十个窗口或者标签一定也曾经让你烦恼过。Browster就是为了解决这样的问题而出现的。安装这个仅仅334K的软件后,你的Internet Explorer和Firefox就同时拥有了链接预览功能。在Google、Yahoo、eBay等网站进行搜索,所有的搜索结果前面都会出现一个闪电小图标,当小图标完全从灰色变成彩色后,鼠标滑动至这个图标就会立刻出现目标网页的预览,再也不用打开链接来寻找合适的结果了。
在IE里,Browster还有更强的功能,它可以为任何网页增加预览功能,只要在网页某个链接上点击鼠标右键,选择“Browster preload on/off”,就可以启用预览功能,我已经为Baidu加上了这个功能。而在Firefox下,这个Browster的执行速度很快,比其它类似功能的插件要好得多。另外,在Firefox下使用这个软件需要一个“msvcr71.dll”的文件,如果你原来没有,可以下载后复制到Firefox安装目录,就可以正常使用。
Browster是完全免费的软件,并保证不包含间谍软件,只是在预览部分加入了一些文字广告。对我来说,这是一个非常实用的软件,应该不会马上从硬盘上消失。
19:24 Beijing Times: WAP Porn invades mobile phones!Danwei: We told you! » Danwei RSS 2.0Today's Beijing Times features an article with the headline 'Porn Sites Invade the Mobile Phone Web'. According to the article every WAP enabled mobile phone can have access to several sites with explicit pornographic content. The authorities are inviting mobile phone users to report these shameful sites to them. 喂!...Hello!...Danwei warned you about these filthy, unacceptable, and shocking obscenities exactly 1 month ago!
Authorities, save our snazzy mobile phones from Satan!
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Beijing Times article (Chinese): Porn Sites Invade Mobile Phones
Image taken from the Beijing Times
18:32 Blog中文搜索引擎简单比较 » 未完成 - Incomplete 随着Blog的普及和流行,专门针对Blog的搜索引擎就显得越来越重要,尤其是今后预计会有越来越多的企业更加重视来自Blog的个人的声音,因此他们会产生强烈的追踪Blog内容的需求。
正因为Blog搜索有着重要的应用前景,国外不断涌现出新的Blog搜索引擎,其中比较常用而且支持中文的主要包括technorati,Feedster,icerocket,bloglines,blogpulse,还有推出测试后就不见踪影的Yahoo RSS Search。而中文Blog搜索引擎还处于发展的初期,无论是知名度还是用户的使用率应该都比较低,主要是八方,Grassland,feedsearch.net,feedss.com,RssShow。
我并不想在此做个详尽的中文Blog搜索引擎的测试,我也不具备这样搜索引擎详细测试的知识背景,只是想从几个简单的方面来判断哪个搜索引擎目前能够带给我最好的中文Blog搜索结果。
1、测试关键词的选择:
本来想用keso作为关键词测试,但由于有些搜索引擎在结果中会根据URL收录keso自己的blog,有些不会,会造成搜索结果较大的偏差,而且keso这个词太集中在IT blogger上。而豆瓣在中文Blog圈中成功的口耳相传,是个不错的测试关键词。而且豆瓣虽然在IT blogger中更常被提到,但由于其书评与影评的特性,非IT blogger中也常会提及。但是用豆瓣作为测试关键词会有个问题就是搜索的结果中会包括豆瓣酱、郫县豆瓣或者豆瓣鱼这样的结果,不过这样也正好可以测试这些搜索引擎是否支持高级语法搜索。
2、豆瓣测试结果:
由于不少人在提到豆瓣的时候很可能会使用douban来代替,因此在搜索中如果搜索引擎支持就尽量使用OR来包含两个关键词。
英文搜索引擎:
technorati:搜索结果935个,但是搜索结果中包括大量的豆瓣酱,不过technorati支持用NOT来去掉不希望出现的关键词,在去掉豆瓣酱与豆瓣鱼之后,搜索结果只剩下51个,而且大部分的结果都是MSN Spaces上的blog。利用technorati的tag进行搜索,标记豆瓣或者douban作为tag的blog共有8篇
Feedster:搜索结果301个,但点击到后面的页面会发现是空页,实际搜索到的结果是154个,而且不支持进一步的高级语法,不能去掉不相关结果和进一步缩小搜索结果。
icerocket:搜索结果1388个,同样包括不少豆瓣酱的结果,去掉这些不相关的结果后,得到714个搜索结果
bloglines:立志要做Blog搜索引擎的bloglines的搜索结果却非常让人失望,居然只能找到两个结果,大为出乎我的意料之外。
Blogpulse:得到27个搜索结果,搜索结果中不包含豆瓣酱的结果,但由于Blogpulse的特点在于追踪某个词在过去一段时间内在Blog圈中被谈论的频率,因此它的搜索只能涵盖过去3个月的结果。
Yahoo RSS Search:Yahoo RSS Search虽然没有正式推出,但我们仍然可以在Yahoo搜索的高级选项页面选择RSS格式类型,得到595个搜索结果,去掉“豆瓣酱”等之后的搜索结果是503个。
中文搜索引擎:
八方:得到356个搜索结果,去掉“豆瓣酱”等不相关结果后得到243项结果。
GrassLand:搜索“豆瓣”得到61个结果,搜索“douban”得到7个结果,由于GrassLand还不支持高级语法,因此无法进一步排除,初步目测大部分结果都是豆瓣网,预计清除不相关结果后搜索到的blog应该在50余篇。
feedss:得到186个搜索结果,去掉不相关结果后得到161个结果
feedsearch:搜索豆瓣得到30个结果,douban得到3个结果,也不支持高级语法搜索。
rssshow:得到63个结果,去掉不相关的之后得到62个结果,不过其中包括大量重复的搜索结果。
综合中英文Blog搜索引擎的搜索结果,获胜的是icerocket与Yahoo,而且搜索得到的结果与其他对手相比并不在一个数量级上。而在中文Blog搜索引擎中,八方优势明显,其次是feedss。
3、搜索结果订阅
绝大部分的Blog搜索引擎都支持RSS结果订阅,其中technorati采用的是添加到watchlist的方式,不支持RSS订阅,feedsearch与Rssshow均未提供RSS订阅功能,feedss同时提供了将搜索结果以javescript方式订阅输出的功能。
4、其他功能
icerocket与blogpulse都提供了以图形化输出反映搜索结果变化趋势的工具
icerocket、Feedster、八方与feedsearch都在搜索结果中提供了目标网站的RSS以供订阅
Yahoo可以将搜索的结果直接添加到My Web
GrassLand将搜索结果分为文章与评论两类,但从评论中搜索到的结果似乎未必是blog的评论,困惑中。
以这样简单测试的结果,无疑icerocket是目前功能最强,搜索结果最齐全的blog搜索引擎,而其他的中文blog搜索引擎与它还存在不小的差距。但icerocket的高级搜索不支持仅在中文blog或其他特定语言中搜索,这方面Yahoo的功能最强,如果Yahoo的RSS搜索正式推出,是否会成为Blog搜索的王者呢?那么Google呢?百度又是否会意识到对blog搜索的需求而尽早进入这一领域呢?
18:07 TK park, a living library » Easy Librarian
Thailand Knowledge Park (
TK park) inspire children’s desire to read and learn by playing and communicating with each other. to prepare Thailand as a knowledge-based society and encourage people to search for and management of knowledge, information and technology,Tailand Prime Minister Thaksin Chinawatra endorsed the foundation of the Office of Knowledge Management and Development,
OKMD. TK park is one of 8 projects funded by OKMD to practice e-learning in Thailand.
Mr.Narongsak Tamsunthornpanit ,designer of TK park, thinks that the highest priority of a living library is freshness and appropriateness which can not be duplicated easily. He hope this library will help children to love reading and learn new thing beyond textbooks.
TK park will be a learning complex where people will enjoy their original fun on reading and playing. It will become one of my destinations in Thailand if I have the honor to be invited in
ICADL 2005.
16:53 Dissect WordPress Plugin » Xerdoc Together一直对软件的组件、插件架构非常感兴趣,我认为现在开发任何应用程序,一定要有一个架构良好的插件机制,这样可以吸引其他人来开发插件,极大的扩充系统的功能。Eclipse就是一个非常棒的例子,几乎你想什么功能,都可以从社区中找到相应的第三方插件。Firefox也同样如此,它的插件机制非常灵活(尤其是相对IE而言),因此Firefox社区中可以找到各种各样的插件。
自从开始使用WordPress,就想学习学习WordPress强大的插件机制。以前曾经研究过的COM、XPCOM、Firefox Extensions、Eclipse Plugin都是桌面应用级别的组件结构,而对Web应用中的插件确实知之甚少,于是,Dissect了一下WordPress(1.5.3)。虽然对PHP不是很熟悉,不过看看源码还是问题不大。
1)WordPress读取所有可用的插件
在文件“admin-functions.php”中,函数
function get_plugins()
用来从文件系统得到所有的插件。原理很简单,就是读取’wp-content/plugins’目录下的所有PHP文件。而函数
function get_plugin_data
用来得到插件的描述(Plugin Descriptor),主要包括插件的版本、名称、作者,等信息,而这些其实是以注释的方式存在的。用WordPress中自带的Hello插件来举例:
Plugin Name: Hello Dolly
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/#
Description: This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong. Hello, Dolly. This is, by the way, the world's first official WordPress plugin. When enabled you will [...]
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16:08 This week in media idiocy: music trends, Liu Yifei, and online marriage » Danwei RSS 2.0Is this the cover of the next big thing?First, from Beijing Daily Messenger, which has its finger on the pulse of online trends:
In today's wired world where things can change in an instant, if you are still enthralled with Dao Lang, Mice Like Rice or Two Butterflies, then you are so not IN, you know? Right now it's the college folk song Glass 《玻璃杯》 that's most popular online.
The article goes on to announce the dawning of a third age of acoustic folk rock, following the Taiwanese invasion of '82-'85 and the mainland golden age of '94-'95.
Problem is, search statistics from Baidu show Glass far beneath those other tunes. And the Beijing Daily Messenger article itself is suspiciously similar to an article that circulated in online forums last month. That article, in turn, bears a remarkable similarity to the album description for Glass: New College Folk Songs I, the single piece of evidence that there is a burgeoning folk music movement.
Is this all just a ploy to sell more records? After all, the singer of Glass is coming out with her debut album in August.
16:00 Sprechen Sie Deutsch? » Yahoo! Search blog be careful squeezed of hands Originally uploaded by mimbrava. You know what I love about this sign? Obviously there's just the hilarious "huh?" factor that comes with translations gone awry. But what makes it even better is that despite...
14:58 Released: Movable Type 3.2 Beta » ProNetWe know that many of you are getting as excited as we are about the upcoming release of Movable Type 3.2 and we wouldn't want to keep you waiting any longer than necessary to experience what the new version has...
14:54 Beijing Media Top Stories: medical insurance refund, Olympic gala and names for bus routes ... » Danwei RSS 2.01. New drugs added to the list of medical insurance refund
2. Two events held in Wangfujing avenue and The Workers' Stadium to mark the 4th anniversary of Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games winning bid
3. Some of Beijing bus routes to change names
4. The second round of recruiting students for universities starts today
5. Three big Chinese beer producers Tsingdao, Yanjing and CRC Snow deny adding formaldehyde to their beer
The pictured front page is from Beijing Times. It features a photo of a performance to celebrate Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games winning bid.
14:28 Improved Documentation in Movable Type 3.2 » ProNetGiven the scope of changes, fixes, and improvements in Movable Type 3.2, it was clear that simply updating our existing documentation for the new version wouldn’t be enough. So Movable Type 3.2 features a completely rewritten set of documentation for...
12:30 Xinhua: Won't someone think of the children? » Danwei RSS 2.0Kids these days. Occasionally tardy! Sometimes truant! Unconcerned by 'substandard food makers!'
Chaos reigns in schools acriss the country, apparently, as students fake absence notes, cheat on tests, show up late for appointments, and skip 7 AM morning exercises. A survey conducted in Chongqing Municipality in Southwestern China says that nearly 90 percent of 12 to 16 year-olds will act selfishly, given the choice.
A China Daily article on Xinhua's website bemoans the survey's findings, noting that 'once upon a time middle students viewed it an honor to help others in need now it's considered "outdated" by students nowadays [sic].'
Traditionally, students have been given 'moral instruction' through education about model citizens, like the model worker Lei Feng, who died when a pole fell on his head, or the student Lai Ning (pictured at left), who, hopped up on class consciousness and revolutionary fervor, waged a heroic battle against a forest fire. (He lost.)
08:22 请大家继续为王俊加油! » CNBlog: Blog on Blog来自“爱心拯救王俊”网站的截止至7月11日的消息:
目前帐户中总额达到了14万左右,其中8万左右为各位朋友的募捐,6万左右是王俊亲友的借款。另有一些朋友直接将钱交到了王俊家人手中,再加上他自己原本借到的一些,已经基本凑足了20万手术费。
具体帐户数目请参见:http://befresh.bjug.org/content/view/20/3/
王俊已经向医生预约了手术,11日就将进入医院做全面的术前身体检查,并将一直住院直到康复。具体手术时间需要视王俊体检情况和医院的安排来定,目前暂无法得知。手术押金将在手术时间确定后缴纳。
手术后将是最危险的一段时间,由于白细胞皆被化疗杀死,病人将非常脆弱,免疫力极其低下,必须住在无菌病房中。再加上术后的排异药物,术后保健等,仍需要一些资金支持。(以上医学知识本人只是了解大概,可能不太准确)
因此我们的目标为30万。在这里再次呼吁我们其它同样有爱心的兄弟姐妹们,我们已经筹集了到了20万(包括亲属筹集),但是还有10万的缺口需要补齐,希望能得到您的帮助。我们也在用其他的方式进行筹集,相信不久,我们就能够凑够所有的治疗费用。
请大家继续加油吧,如果你已经行动了,请继续帮助传播,传播的方式看这里。
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07:25 Intelligent employment in China » Danwei RSS 2.0There are some interesting jobs being advertised on Danwei at the moment:
Business Development Manager for Economist Intelligence Unit in Shanghai
Immediate vacancy: subeditor for international news agency in Shanghai
Interpreters needed for film production in Beijing
Shanghai Daily seeks media sales professionals
Wanted: Graphic Design Lecturer
That's Beijing seeks Deputy Managing Editor
Writers wanted for Shanghaiist.com
Job available: Editor In Chief at In Touch Zhejiang magazine
Jobs available in Beijing for doctor, pharmacist, nutritionist, editor, webmaster, online marketing and community specialists
06:24 Thanks for playing » Google Blog
Posted by Matthew Vosburgh, Google Video Software Engineer
Google Video searches a rapidly growing database of network TV shows and uploaded material. We show text and picture info for everything, which is great when you want to know how often they mention
cereal or
Superman on
Seinfeld, for instance. For some material, you can also play the actual video. That's how I know that this guy Eric has
a cool ca
t.
Because lots of people have asked for a way to just find the results with playable video, I've added two radio buttons below the search box on
Google Video. To get the stuff you can actually play, click on "playable video" before you search.
05:20 Chicago - Day 3 » Owen's Blog - 文心来到Chicago的第三天,还没有时间到处看看,大部分时间是呆在Feedburner的办公室里开会,感觉有些疲惫。 Feedburner的办公室在芝加哥的市中心,离Sears Tower步行不到10分钟,隔着一条街便是火车站。我住在Midway机场附近的酒店,开车到这里大概需要30分钟时间。 一栋红色的欧式建筑物,Feedburner的办公室在6楼,实际上他们刚刚搬来3个星期。办公室里没有间隔的Cubic,一个蛮大的房间里分散的摆着十几张办公台,完全开放的办公环境,不论谁希望跟另外一个人说话都不许要站起来,提高些嗓门就好了。CEO也没有设置单独的办公室,不过Dick却把自己的办公台摆在正中间。大家都在安静的工作,偶尔传出一些笑声。 整个公司大概10几个人,很有特色的一家Start-up,Starting small, Thinking big,非常Purpose Driven的一间公司。Steve带我去品尝了附近的一些美味食肆,甚至还去了Chicago的中国城。Dick和Steve都非常健谈,我们聊了许多有意思的话题。昨天下午,Steve带我去著名的Sears Tower逛了一圈,站在103层的Sears Tower顶搂,俯瞰整个Chicago和密歇根湖。可惜天公不作美,多云的天气看不到更远的Wrigley field球场。 希望今天还能有时间去Navy Pier坐船一游Chicago River。 Technorati Tags: chic...
04:42 Testing FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 1: All Subscriptions Lost » Jeremy Zawodny's blogThis is painful. I read Nick's announcement of FeedDemon 1.6 Beta 1 and was eager to give it a try. Lots of great new features and fixes. I installed it, ran thru the setup (opting to to subscribe to any of the built-in feeds), and was presented with an empty aggregator. Doh!!! All my subscriptions are gone. Does anyone know where FeedDemon 1.5 stored 'em? I hope to go into my laptop backups (I hope) and pull in the necessary...