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Ever since I started out as an entrepreneur, back in 1997, I’ve been publishing websites of my own and building the tools I couldn’t find anywhere else.
Some of them never got past the prototype stage, secret tools for my own personal use. Others got recycled, and out of that whole little crowd, a few tools that were more relevant, or more endearing than the rest, saw the light of day as public products or services.
Here are a few of them:
Cocon.Se
Cocon.Se is a tool that shows you your website the way a search engine sees it. It’s especially good at analyzing the internal structure of websites and tracking down whatever is blocking them. What makes it stand out is its focus on graphical visualization. And of course, when you want to check your semantic cocoons…
xSpin
Early 2012. During a week’s vacation at my in-laws’, I cobble some code together to give shape to a hunch: “drawing” your masterspin, to come up with highly varied texts, a far cry from what people usually mean by “content spinning”. xSpin was born. Yahoo Pipes-style modules, with links between them. No twisted syntax to…