I've just added a YouTube plugin to my RSS to HTML converter script, CaRP.

Using the new plugin, you can display YouTube videos on your website using their preconfigured RSS feeds (for example, recently added, top rated, most viewed, etc.), or you can get a feed for any tag or YouTube user by following the...
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I just launched a new service on Chordata called "Top Feeds" that generates RSS feeds from the content of the top feeds in each category on the site. Go to any category and click the subscription button near the upper-right corner of the page to subscribe. As the top feeds in a category change, you'...
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CaRP 4.0 has been released, and until Saturday, is available at an introductory discount price. Click here for details on what's in this update, and here to get your copy.

With the release of CaRP 4.0 just days away, I've found myself thinking back to the beginnings of Gecko Tribe, LLC, and how CaRP came to be my flagship product. Here's a brief history of my company.

After graduating from San Francisco State University in 1994, I got a job in the Japanese development group...
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I happened to notice this morning that GeckoTribe.com has gotten an "authority listing" from Google for the search terms (don't be too shocked) "gecko tribe". I'm not bragging -- it's not like those are very common search terms. But it's nice to see.

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You'll notice I kept the AdWords ads in th...
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I've got some good news and some bad news.

The good news: CaRP version 4.0 is finally ready for release.

The bad news: I'm going to be out of town for a week and won't be able to release it before then, so you'll have to wait till the 26th or so to get your...
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I've finally done it -- Saturday night, I posted my first video on YouTube. It's one that I made for my Guru Stalker website, but I'll embed it here too:

I'll keep "vodcasting" under that persona and see how it plays.

Oh, and stay tuned for a much more polished video for the son...
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Last June, I launched a product named Fast JV. Until a day or two ago, it had never shown up in Google.

My first thought way back when was that it had simply been sandboxed, but when I registered it in Google's Webmaster Tools, they said that no pages from the site appeared in their...
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Don't get me wrong -- I have Indian friends, and I've even been known to unconsciously adopt an Indian accent while talking with them. And I'm not at all opposed to outsourcing. Nor would I be opposed to hiring in India for email support reps. But U.S. companies simply should not be outsourcing telephone support...
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You know that list of "update services" you configured your blog software to ping whenever you create a new post? If you copied it from the WordPress website (or any of a number of other sites on the web that have the same list) recently, you've got the wrong list.

When I say you've got...
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