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SearchFox Bites the Dust

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I just got an email from Este­ban Kozak, Prod­uct Man­ager of Search­Fox, with the fol­low­ing sad news:

Search­Fox will shut down on Jan­u­ary 25, 2006

Thanks for all your help in mak­ing Search­Fox what it is. We have enjoyed pro­vid­ing this ser­vice, and hope that you have enjoyed using it. Please export all of your links and an OPML file with your RSS sources before the site shuts down. In accor­dance with our pri­vacy pol­icy, we will delete all per­sonal infor­ma­tion on Jan­u­ary 25 after we shut down the services.

This came as a com­plete sur­prise to me. Noth­ing in the blo­gos­phere sig­naled it’s peril or what have you. Oh man, I guess it’s back to News­ga­tor for me till I find another web-based RSS-reader that can do the job the way Search­Fox did it.

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Linkage Finds Interesting Treasures for the Mind

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One of the “weak­nesses” that I have (other than a sucker for FREE food) would prob­a­bly be the fact that I like to learn a lot of new things. How can this be a weak­ness? Well, it’s kind of like play­ing sports. You would like to get into each sport you see on TV or the ones that your peers love to play. By doing so, you get to become a great ath­lete. How­ever, a down­side to that would be you not being able to become a great player of a par­tic­u­lar sport. Now, this might not be true for every­thing and every­one but col­lec­tively, it is.

Lately, this weak­ness have been get­ting me in the world of tech­nol­ogy, more specif­i­cally web-technology. With all of this “Web 2.0″ boom going around in the air, it just makes you won­der when this “upgrade” will be set. Appli­ca­tions left-and-right are com­ing at you at ludi­crous speed. Try­ing to keep up with every sin­gle one of them is a chore, but also excit­ing, edu­ca­tional and inspiring.

With the boom comes com­pe­ti­tion. The will to suc­ceed and ide­ol­ogy “to be bet­ter, smarter and more effi­cient than the next guy” are what fuels these new breeds of think-tanks and Web 2.0 innovators.

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