Our latest pet, a kitten currently called Spooky, wishes everyone a happy holiday.

I just got an email from Mikel Maron where he suggests that I add geocoding to my rss feeds. He has detailed instructions on his site on how to do that.

I just stumbled upon the Alexa traffic rank for markovic.com.
Great news, markovic.com is on place 409,769 up from place 3,828,749…
I find it a bit suspicious that Google is not on first place. And that myplace.com has a higher rank than Aol. This must be painful for Time Warner who paid $182 billion for Aol.
It […]

The best way to get your 15 minutes of the fame on the internet was getting slashdotted (or simply /.ed). Slashdot.org is still a popular site but it is now loosing out on it its edge according to Alexa.
The new way of getting attention to your site is by gettings it bookmarked […]

I have released a beta of eBay France Google Maps and eBay Germany Google Maps.
The new version might be buggy. There are many new features including permalinks, this is something I thing turned out pretty well.
Please let me know, by email draskomarkovic at gmail.com or by leaving a comment, if you have any […]

I am now working on creating eBay Google Map searching for France and Germany. Most of the work is done with the searching and geocoding. Both countries have nicely formatted postal codes, the same format as US codes. Not the nasty UK postal codes.
I will probably also make translation of the web page. There is […]

I have now released RSS feed support for eBay searches. It is a beta and I am sure that there are some bugs. Do a regular search and the click on the My Yahoo, XML or My Aol icons.
I am using permalinks for the RSS feed which I find nicer than regular query string based […]

I ran into some trouble today. Hostip.info was down and my application stopped working as there was no error handling for getting data from other sites.
It has been fixed. I have also added other error handling. I still have problem with people entering postal codes that eBay dislikes, but that is not really an application […]