Well all, sadly it is time for me to move along from Bloglines. The service is in great hands with Ask and I am confident it will live long and prosper under their watch. But “why” you cry? According to my ever-present Ask PR twin, “to spend more time with my family.” And it’s true; my cats have begun to run with a bad crowd. Beard Papa has some new stores that need visiting.

The other week I had the pleasure of having dinner with Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten in Amsterdam. I had met Boris last October, when I keynoted the E-Day conference. Boris is currently working on a new startup and he’s also putting together a conference. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it due to a previous commitment, but the European Next Web Conference looks like a lot of fun. If you’re in the area, I suggest checking it out.

If you are reading this, then the DNS changes have propagated and you’re reading this blog from it’s new server. For the past 5 years, wingedpig.com was hosted on a machine at my house, running off my DSL line. For various reasons, I decided it was time to move to a hosted solution. Based on a recommendation from a friend, I chose Pair Networks. At the same time, I upgraded to the latest version of Movable Type and changed the style of the blog.

This evening, we rolled out an industry leading blog search engine for Bloglines. In addition, there’s a new ‘Blogs & Feeds’ tab on the main Ask site. We started working on the new search engine soon after Bloglines was acquired by Ask last year, and the engine is the result of a lot of hard work by both the Ask search team in New Jersey and the Bloglines team in California.

Next Monday, May 15th, I’ll be speaking at SDForum’s Startup SIG. Then, on Monday, June 5th, I’ll be the subject of one of SVASE’s Legend dinners. I’ll be talking about some of the mistakes I’ve made and lessons I’ve learned while starting two Internet companies. I hope to see you there. [Update]: I had a lot of fun Monday night at the Startup SIG event. Startup_SDForum is the slide deck that was the basis of the talk.