<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Michael Hussey Blog</title>
	<link>http://michaelhussey.com</link>
	<description>All the latest happenings...</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:24:01 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.0.1" -->

	<item>
		<title>How we used to encourage people to click our banner ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ron Gallagher just dug up some hilarious code we wrote back in the days designed to induce people to look at and ultimately click on our banner ads. Note, this is not recommended or even legal with most ad networks (e.g. Google Adsense) today. This code was written ten years ago when things still a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2010/06/22/how-we-used-to-encourage-people-to-click-our-banner-ads/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The scary space between West 37th and 38th St, New York City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our office is in an old fashion district building at the edge of Hell&#8217;s Kitchen (West 37th St). In the back of our building, a fire escape opens up to what has to be a uniquely New York City vista. This photo was taken on the 6th floor, between 37th and 38th St, looking from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2010/02/26/the-scary-space-between-west-37th-and-38th-st-new-york-city/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Panorama Photos from across Albania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kejda and I just returned from Albania, where we spent two weeks visiting her family and touring the southern half of the country. We keep a separate blog dedicated to our Albanian trips, where we&#8217;ll soon describe our daily activities in greater depth. For my birthday, I bought myself a Gigapan robot it is safe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2009/09/17/panorama-photos-from-across-albania/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Filed an extensive utility patent today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we submitted an extensive utility patent with the goal of securing many of the database and web technologies we are pioneering at PeekYou. It has been a privilege over this past year to work with the excellent team at Patterson, Thuente, Skaar &#038; Christensen. I&#8217;m very excited about the next stage of our company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2009/03/31/filed-an-extensive-utility-patent-today/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Combining My Twitter Accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, I try to keep my atheism and libertarianism private, as most people are rightly sensitive about religion and politics. While I hold strong views on the role of the State and am averse to mysticism of all stripes, I get along with people from all walks of life. My best friends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2009/03/30/combining-my-twitter-accounts/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>RateMyTeachers Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news. Patrick Nagle and I have agreed to partner up to re-focus and build RateMyTeachers.com. Patrick is well known for buying RateMyProfessors.com, improving it, and selling it to Viacom/MTVu. He is also the creator of Swooks (originally Switch Textbooks), a used textbook swap and sell service. Stay tuned, for good things to come.]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2008/11/19/ratemyteachers-update/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Married today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kejda and I were married today in a small ceremony at my sister&#8217;s house. by lucillehussey]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2008/05/16/married-today/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Winner Takes It All (By ABBA) starring Hillary Clinton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An ode to the sad life of Hillary Clinton backed by the famous Abba song, The Winner Takes It All. The judges will decide The likes of me abide Spectators of the show Always staying low The game is on again A lover or a friend A big thing or a small The winner takes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2008/04/02/the-winner-takes-it-all-by-abba-starring-hillary-clinton/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>CEO Spotlight on PeekYou’s Michael Hussey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed this interview with Alt Search Engines.]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2007/12/21/ceo-spotlight-on-peekyou%e2%80%99s-michael-hussey/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Leothemaster is the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there a website he hasn&#8217;t joined? Look at this.]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2007/11/30/leothemaster-is-the-internet/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>PeekYou + Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early this morning (after a couple of all-nighters), we launched the latest PeekYou product &#8211; a Google search that displays the owners of the websites directly next to the search results (or the people referenced within them). The search results are generated with Google&#8217;s Custom Search engine &#8212; so you get the same exact results [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2007/11/28/peekyou-google/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>AltSearchEngines Essay Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently won first place on an AltSearchEngines essay competition. Charles Knight asked readers of his new blog to contribute ideas on how alternative search engines can increase their collective market share. Here is my entry. &#8212;- Google and Yahoo currently have a stranglehold (75%) on the search market for one simple reason – for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2007/08/15/altsearchengines-essay-competition/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>RateMyTeachers, Teacher Unions and the UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do not believe the excuses put forward by the teacher unions &#8212; demanding that internet censors protect teachers from cyber-bullying? RateMyTeachers is at the forefront of protecting teachers online by promoting the best and the most effective among them. Since our inception, RateMyTeachers has instituted rating rules to protect teachers from bullying. Any rating that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2007/08/05/ratemyteachers-teacher-unions-and-the-uk/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>PeekYou.com Beta launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PeekYou Emerges From Stealth Mode With 50 Million Profiles in Beta, Providing Easy and Efficient People Search Capabilities Tuesday July 17, 12:54 pm ET RateMyTeachers.com Founder Seeks to Meet Growing Demand for Online People Search Via Yahoo: NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; PeekYou.com (www.peekyou.com), an innovative search engine dedicated to finding people online, announced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2007/07/17/peekyoucom-beta-launch/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Life Online with Bob Parsons XM Radio Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I was interviewed on the Life Online with Bob Parsons (of Godaddy.com) XM Radio business talk show. It was an interesting interview, centered around RateMyTeachers; but I got to talk about a lot of things I do not usually delve into and I really enjoyed it. Listen to the interview here.]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2006/08/23/life-online-with-bob-parsons-xm-radio-interview/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>BBC Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewed on BBC today regarding RateMyTeachers in the UK. Listen here (Real Player required)]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2006/08/23/bbc-interview/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Trip to Albania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kejda and I blogged our trip to Albania. Check it out here.]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2006/08/04/trip-to-albania/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Coming soon&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quietly launching&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2006/07/15/coming-soon/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Getting under the skin of a few Brits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A beautifully biased piece of reporting from the British education website, teachers.tv. I enjoyed this one very much. By the way, we searched high and low for the negative comments the editors highlighted in this report, and all but a couple of them were never found. We&#8217;re not calling the reporters liars, but&#8230;..]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2006/03/26/getting-under-the-skin-of-a-few-brits/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Open Source Media Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was able to attend yesterday&#8217;s launch party for Open Source Media (formerly Pajamas Media) at Rockefeller Center and the W Hotel. It was most exciting to put faces to many of the blogs that I read on a regular basis. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame, who OSM CEO Roger Simon dubbed &#8220;The George Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michaelhussey.com/2005/11/17/open-source-media-launch/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
