Lichtman Consulting

Thankfully the new server has a current version of PHP 5. As a result, I’ve been able to get my posts to ping.fm running again, via PingPressFM. That was an ongoing low-level annoyance, the past couple of months.

Nathan forwarded me this link from Mashable, with the subject line prefaced with the word “HUGE”.

From what I can tell, it looks like Microsoft is finally starting to put together the pieces of an overall web strategy: determine what Google would like to do and put roadblocks in their way. Hence the previous Yahoo deal.

Its obvious far to early to see if this helps them out. I’m fairly sure though that it means search engines will be displaying a lot more “current” or trending data pulled from profiles and micro-blogging posts.

The server on which our site is hosted was switched last week, resulting in some issues. I believe most of them have been sorted out at this point. If you notice anything broken on the site, please let me know though.