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Folders RSS feed

2007-06-13T08:24:00.000-04:00

Based on an email I got from a member I realized that the RSS feed for the Folder channel was not working. For this who do not know the linkaGoGo channels feature, channels allow you to access parts of your bookmarks in other applications. For example as an RSS feed or a on Active desktop. And you can show your most used bookmarks are the latest posts on the Society page. So I had a look it and

linkagogo.com is back

2007-06-01T07:45:00.000-04:00

Finally, after almost 2 months, linkaGoGo can be reached at its regular linkaGoGo.com location again. Yesterday I received an email from godaddy.com that the domain linkaGoGo.com was now registered through godaddy.com. With the approval of ICANN Godaddy.com made a deal with registerFly to take over all their domains. Over the next few days we will make changes that all traffic for linkaGoGo.net

ICANN making progress

2007-05-26T13:04:00.000-04:00

According to ICANN’s blog, RegisterFly made a deal with an existing accredited Registrar to take over the domain names. They are currently transferring all the domain name data and is expected to complete next week. So hopefully next week we should have control back over our domain. GoGolian

Society Spam

2007-05-18T08:52:00.000-04:00

Despite various attempts to stop spam on the Society page, I could not get it under control. Not only did the Society page became unusable as there was no real information to be found there anymore, the non-stop posting of entries slowed down the website and almost brought it to its knees yesterday. Apparently someone created a system to spam our Society page. They signed up for a Trial accounts

ICANN chooses registrar next week

2007-05-04T22:23:00.000-04:00

Today ICANN posted an update that they received interest from four registrars to temporary host the RegisterFly domain names. Next week ICANN will decide which of the registrars will get the honour. Then registrants like linkaGoGo should be able to get control over our domain names. GoGolian

linkagogo.com back or not?

2007-04-27T08:27:00.000-04:00

Yesterday I received an email from RegisterFly, the domainname provider that manages the linkagogo.com domain name, with a confirmation that they had unlocked the linkagogo.com domainname and provided me with an authorization code. I should now be able to transfer the linkagogo.com domain to another domain name provider and activate the linkagogo.com domain again. I feverishly started the

RegisterFlies

2007-04-13T00:42:00.000-04:00

I thought I kept myself well informed of trends and news on the Internet, but now I feel like a dummy, a moron, not in touch with reality. Today I ran into a website called registerflies. This is a website dedicated to people who are victimized by RegisterFly. RegisterFly is the registar who managed the linkagogo.com domain. From reading this site I understand this may affect upto 2 million

Where is linkaGoGo?

2007-04-10T22:26:00.000-04:00

Yesterday I got a warning from our server monitoring service Hyperspin that the linkaGoGo website was no longer accessible. So I checked it out by logging into my linkaGoGo account and everything seemed fine. Then a half an hour later I tried it again and I could not get in anymore. I tried various ways to test if the server is up, but it wasn’t accessible. Then I verified if my IP provider was

linkaGoGo search plugins for Internet Explorer 7

2007-04-04T20:58:00.000-04:00

I like to use the Firefox browser. And off course I installed the linkaGoGo Smart Bookmarks Search plugin. See also an earlier GoGolian article called “A linkaGoGo command line in your browser” Most of the modern browsers now have a search box on the top left toolbar. Many of them allow you to plugin custom search engines; Firefox was the first one I think, followed by Opera. And now Internet

Bookmark comments are back

2007-03-25T13:25:00.000-04:00

The end of last week was pretty exciting for linkaGoGo. I started to get the first signs of it on Thursday when I got a support email from a member who wanted to publish some folders using Javascript and had some trouble doing that. When investigating it I noticed that the comments on the bookmarks in his folder consisted of only weird characters. I thought it being an anomaly. The next morning

Tips & Tricks 4, Duplicate Finder

2007-03-18T12:51:00.000-04:00

One of the nice features that helps you cleanup your bookmarks is the Duplicate Finder. Now before we go into the details of the Duplicate Finder, I’d like to define what a duplicate bookmark is. A duplicate bookmarks is a bookmark in your collection that has the same url, also known as location, for a website but has a different name and/or lives in a seperate folder. So for the last few weeks I have been analyzing and improving some of these

Archive links fixed

2007-01-31T08:49:00.000-05:00

With the move to Blogger 2, the archive links got broken. They are fixed now thanks to the information on this post GoGolian

Spam attack

2006-11-26T14:08:00.000-05:00

Last week linkaGoGo was under a spam attack again. The first attack was in September where over 4000 bogus accounts were being created. Soon after that the Society page was flooded with Spam postings. I then added a simple verification code at the account signup page, which stopped it for a while. Apparently the protection was too simple (I admit it was) as this time over 5000 accounts were

Frequently Asked linkaGoGo Questions

2006-06-28T21:41:00.000-04:00

After over 5 years of linkaGoGo support, I finally decided to create a linkaGoGo Frequently Asked Questions page. As some of the questions were definitely frequent.So here are the top three of frequently asked questions:I continually get logged out, how can I fix this? How do I remove my account? This question definitely became more frequent when we started sending out reminders when people’s

Sleeping better

2006-03-16T23:44:00.000-05:00

Ever since the main linkaGoGo server stopped working on January 26th, and we had to fall back to our backup server, I didn’t feel very comfortable about the service level that linkaGoGo provided. The backup server was not only slower, it was also not located in the DataCenter we use and had network stability issues.Last Thursday (3/9) we finally got our main server back in action. It only needed

LinkaGoGo’s availability

2006-01-26T00:06:00.000-05:00

You may have noticed, that we had some downtime problems early last week. What happened was that basically the server had shutdown on Sunday morning and would not reboot. Once we noticed this, we immediately started using our backup server, which always has the previous nights backup ready to go. But it turned out the software wasn’t configured correctly, it then took a couple of hours before the

Happy New Year

2006-01-09T22:33:00.000-05:00

Just returned from a couple of days of skiing at Sunday River in Maine. It was beautiful up there, 8 mountains, fresh snow. I know it is not the Alps, but not bad for a three-hour drive from Boston. Tested out my new ski gear and these new curved skies are excellent, did not get tired nor got any muscle ache.Was pretty un-connected up- there, no WIFI or broadband in sight. But thanks to the

A linkaGoGo command line in your browser

2006-01-02T10:52:00.000-05:00

When you think about the Browser search boxes, you could think of them as a command line to a search engine. Browser search boxes can be found in all the major browsers nowadays. In Firefox you can find it on the top right of the application. With the Google search engine you can do a search by typing in a search string and then hit . But Google does more then just search. Type in 21+21

Format your Bookmark comments with HTML

2005-12-30T17:59:00.000-05:00

Recently on the linkaGoGo forum there have been some discussions around the ability to use HTML to format your comments. The formatted comments will then show with this format on your Bookmarks properties preview, the search results, your public directories and the linkaGoGo Society pages. Coincidentally I ran into a cool Firefox addin called ‘Xinha Here!’ which changes any form text area into a

Tips & Tricks 3, GoGo Search

2005-12-21T23:44:00.000-05:00

As expected from any self-respecting website linkaGoGo provides a search feature that in the linkaGoGo case allows you to search your bookmarks and folders.You can access this Search feature from the LinkaGoGo Search menu, by adding the Search Toolbar to one of you linkaGoGo toolbars or by installing (see Add-ons page) it in your browser’s built-in Search feature.This standard search feature

Ajax and linkaGoGo

2005-12-21T07:34:00.000-05:00

There is a lot of buzz amongst people developing and using Internet applications. This started around the time Gmail came out last year and got even more buzz with Google maps this year. The buzz finally got a name when Jesse James Garret an Internet Advisor came up with a term to address the technologies behind these innovations. He called it Ajax, which stands for “Asynchronous Javascript and

LinkaGoGo and REST API progress VII

2005-12-11T20:41:00.000-05:00

This is already the 7th installment of the linkaGoGo and the REST API. In this issue we discuss some cool new APIs that were added over the weekend. First of all you can now access the linkaGoGo dynamic contents known from the Toolbars and Channels. You can now access your favorites, last added, most visited, recent and reminder bookmarks. For example the link: http://www.linkagogo.com/api/rest

Yahoo! buys del.icio.us

2005-12-09T19:22:00.000-05:00

So ran across this post on Slashdot quoting the developers from del.icio.us that it has been bought by Yahoo. To be honest I’m a little en.vio.us of their success; their service has only been up for about a year (we are running strong for over 4 years). But I do want to congratulate them and wish them all the luck making the transition to the Yahoo organization. Or will they just retire? :-) Has

Facelift for the linkaGoGo home page

2005-12-07T23:44:00.000-05:00

When I was creating the linkaGoGo Browser sample I started playing with gradients to achieve a more professional look. Normally I would use an image editor to create a gradient. But most of these editors have so many features that they are hard to use and it takes (me) forever to create a simple gradient. So after some searching (or maybe I found it on linkaGoGo Society) ran into a little gem