So these passed week both Alex and I have been busy with other stuff, so we haven’t had much time to work on the development for our yet to be announced super-duper-product. However, this weekend we have planned to get together for a ‘hackaton.’ For you guys not familiar with hackatons, it is something that fairly common in Silicon Valley among both start-ups and established companies. A hackaton something of a team-event where you get all your staff together (for us, that means me and Alex), and code/work for 24 hours or so straight to solve a common (or team-based) goal. Often these event are filled with plenty of fast-food and caffeine, and are usually appreciated in the geek-world.

Our event will of course only involve me and Alex, but we hope to be able to make some major progress in our development. We will keep you updated when we start our hackaton, and see how much of what we accomplished we will reveal. We’re still in stealth-mode, so don’t expect us to reveal much though.

Small update today. We just want to let you know that we’ve added a ‘add to Google-reader’ and a RSS-button on the very top of the page. This is pretty common, but yet very nifty. Just click on the RSS-button to subscribe to our page with your favorite RSS-reader, or click at the Google-icon to add this page to your Google-reader page. Just a small feature to let you monitor our posts more easily.

PlayingWithWire.com brings you a tiny useful utility that almost every web-master/blogger needs: a digg, del.icio.us and Blink generator. The reason why Alexander took the time to write this was because of the simple reason that all the other ones suck. Cuzimatter (which is the name of the product) is very simple, just enter the URL and title of the article or page, and it will give you the code necessary to paste into your document – it’s that simple.

We’re not really in the market of writing small nifty tools, but if we do write more of them, we will post them so you can enjoy them as well. I mean, what are friends for?

The name of the product is Cuzimatter, and if you have any comments or feedback, don’t hesitate to post a comment here.

This might not be directly related to our startup, but how could I resist writing about Firefox 2.0 on the big day of its release? I’ve only been running it for about 15 minutes, but so far I really like it.

The first difference that strike the user is the new polished design. The design looks very similar to the previous one, but there are some changes, such as the new icons next to the address-bar, as well as the tabs looks a bit smoother with a metallic-look.

One of the new features that I really like is that links now opens in a new tab by default, before you had to right-click on the link, and choose ‘open in new tab’.

The new version also comes with another feature that I really like (and just discovered); the built-in spell checker. Now you don’t need to copy and past your text into a text-editor just to check your spelling before posting a comment or blog-entry.

In addition to this, the browser also comes with a built-in resuming of tabs. What that means is that you can shut down your browser, and next time you open it, you can resume the tabs you were using. Great feature, I use it a lot.

If you want to read about all the new features, visit the Firefox 2.0 Release Notes.

If you haven’t already downloaded Firefox 2.0, go to Getfirefox.com, and download your copy right away. Don’t think about upgrading to Internet Explorer 7, Firefox is the real deal.

A strange thing happened today.

We’ve been keeping an eye on our Google Sitemap, as I mentioned earlier. Since inception we have seen our little company blog slowly grow into a position on Google and other search engines. A query like “site:www.playingwithwire.com” on Google would give you a bunch of results, one for every single blog entry we’ve had.

But today when I logged into sitemap, the web page told me that “No pages from your site are currently included in Google’s index.” And it wasn’t kidding! As of this writing, the query “site:www.playingwithwire.com” on Google returns no pages at all.

Did Google get angry because we published their secret? :)

Hopefully it’s just a temporary thing as Google reindexes and we’ll be back on your favorite internet map shortly. Meanwhile make sure to use our cool links below to add us to del.icio.us so you won’t lose us!