May 2007
27 posts
In Fierce Competition, Google Finds Novel Ways to... →
âThis is exactly the kind of person they want, someone who is going to work and solve problems on a Saturday and enjoy it.â
If the goal was to impress this crowd, it did not hurt that the games were held inside one of Googleâs cafeterias, where t
17 Poor Quality Signals Your Site May Be Sending... →
Second Life virtual vandalism destroys... →
Miscreants have hacked into the ABC Island inside the virtual reality world of Second Life, reducing the two-month-old facility to rubble.The vandalism, which completely wiped out months of painstaking work, was discovered this morning.
Google Universal Search - is Vertical Search Space... →
Clustering, Semantics and Aggregation?
Google Universal Search review.
Official Starcraft 2 movies... holy shit! →
When a game is announced and 3 people ring me up just to pass on the information, you know we’re talking about something very special.
Starcraft 2 might just be the most anticipated game of all-time…
Google Image Search Optimization →
Pearson believes that Google places a premium on two things when ranking images in its results:
1. the alt attribute of the image
2. the context of the page and the relevance of the alt attribute thereto
Trend Detection Through Temporal Link Analysis →
2004 Temporal Link Analysis paper by IBM researcher Einat Amitay
Measure the Real Conversion Rate &... →
One of the biggest mistakes business make is thinking that every visitor to the website is fair game, conversion fodder.
17 Most Common PPC Mistakes →
Biggie Smalls: “And if you don’t know, now you know”.
The Holy Grail of Synchronization: →
This is a guide for synchronizing Contacts (address book) and Calendars (schedule) across multiple computers and gadgets. Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld.
Daemon: A Novel (with viral advertising) →
Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer—the architect behind half a dozen popular online games. His premature death from brain cancer depressed both gamers and his company’s stock price. But Sobol’s fans weren’t the only ones to note his pas
WTFCNN? →
Description: A HILARIOUS COLLECTION of CNN’s often ridiculous headlines.
My take: A source of headlines that ‘work’.
Visualizing the Overlap between the 100 Most... →
A collection of data visualizations illustrating the monthly lists of the 100 most visited Wikipedia pages between September 2006 & January 2007
Editorial Independence: PC World CEO leaves, Chief... →
McCracken tendered his resignation on April 30 after Crawford refused to allow publication of a story entitled “10 Things We Hate About Apple.” McCracken said that the story was killed (it is now running on PCWorld.com) because of Crawford’s concerns abou
Shift Happens.
2007 Web 2.0 Awards - Digg Wins in Social News... →
After reviewing thousands of nominations, these guys reviewed, ranked, and awarded 41 winners. Also includes interviews with many of the founders and hundreds of 2nd/3rd place winners and honorable mentions.
Coca Cola 1988 Australia | Dabble Video Search →
A legendary Australia ad by Coca Cola, featuring Sounds of Then by Gangajang