A Note From the CEO…
PubSub would like to thank you for your support and guidance over the past few years and we look forward to great things in the next few months.
Salim Ismail is no longer with the company and has resigned from the Board of Directors. We wish him well in his new endeavors and opportunities.
As we move into our 5th year as a company, we will continue to provide you with the quality service that has made PubSub more popular than ever before. Our user base continues to grow and our relationships with our partners and services to the community will always be our number 1 priority. Over the past 6+ months I have worked internally helping the company focus on meeting its commitments to our partners and the community and look forward to continue to serve the community in any way I can.
PubSub continues to be a leader in the blogging and syndication community pioneering initiatives like Structured Blogging, Community Lists, and the Feedmesh.
We look forward to continuously “matching” your needs and queries. Please feel free to contact us at feedback@pubsub.com
Thanks again
Constantine Gus Spathis
Chief Executive Officer
Pubsub Concepts
March 8th, 2006 at 2:57 am
[…] There has been a little shake-up at New York-based PubSub Concepts, one of the original RSS tracker services. Long time CEO, Salim Ismail, known for his flamboyant shirts and no-nonsense manner has left the company. He has been replaced by Constantine Spathis. In an email to several of his contacts, Ismail said he was leaving for several reasons, and wrote, “When I started PubSub, it was always the intent to build it to a certain point and then leave to do my next venture. After four years (internet years, no less), that time has come.” Is something major is clearly afoot at the company? There have been acquisition rumors doing the rounds for a while now. More details to follow. […]
March 8th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
I have felt that PubSub has lost much of the relevancy advantage that it once held for me. Two years ago I felt that they consistently provided much more relevant links to my blog than Technorati. Today it is different. Although Technorati has it’s own lags at times, they consistently produce more and better quality referral links than PubSub today. PubSub still has quirks like the fact that they frequently send me links of my own Flickr uploads or when I mention myself by name on my blog. These are less relevant to me than where others are linking from.
March 8th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Hi Thomas:
Thanks for commenting
You wrote:
“PubSub still has quirks like the fact that they frequently send me links of my own Flickr uploads or when I mention myself by name on my blog. These are less relevant to me than where others are linking from.”
I think I can help. If you add AND NOT SOURCE:flickr.com AND NOT SOURCE:thomashawk.com to your query, you will not get any results from Flickr or your domain.
Please let me know if you have any other questions or comments.
Steven Cohen
PubSub Concepts
[email removed]
March 9th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Hi Gus,
It’s been a long time since we worked together at Brand Dialogue (Young & Rubicam). Congratulations on your new position.
Kevin Stewart
Engineering Manager
Adobe Systems, Inc.
April 25th, 2006 at 7:15 am
“I think I can help. If you add AND NOT SOURCE:flickr.com AND NOT SOURCE:thomashawk.com to your query, you will not get any results from Flickr or your domain.”
except of course, you might want to know when other people are mentioning you somewhere on Flickr, or if you have multiple blogs under the same domain (i.e. http://myserver.com/myblog http://myserver.com/someoneelsesblog) then you do want results from the other blogs. Particularly with the latter Technorati has an edge because it lets you claim your blog. I don’t *think* I’ve seen similar functionality on pubusb.