Archive for the ‘Xtra’ Category
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Comics: Unsuccessful Management (Dilbert)
After recapping on some of the comics lately from Dilbert, this is a great way to not step up into ...
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Unsuccessful Marketing on Facebook
I have noticed recently that more and more folks are adding me on Facebook simply because I'm in the industry. ...
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Video: How Google Really Works
Have you ever wondered the technical details behind how Google works? This is a great video which explains everything. But ...
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Happy Cinco de Mayo from Google Inside
A happy Cinco de Mayo to everyone! You can read more about the Cinco de Mayo (the fifth of ...
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Video: The Microsoft Sales Team Rocks!
This video was supposedly passed around internally around Microsoft. My response was, "hm," after watching the video.
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The Next Mahalo Daily Babe
Here's a daily clip pick for Google Inside today. Our very own, Leora Zellman. Have a watch and ...
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Forbes on Microsoft’s aQuantive Acquisition
Forbes published an article this morning that talks about how Microsoft's acquisition of aQuantive, made a year ago, could have ...
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Hello Worl..errr IRS.
Do not forget to wave to the IRS. Today is tax day for everyone in the United States of ...
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Google Blogging is Popular
Christophe compiled a great list of unofficial and official Google blogs. It's a great list, so head over and ...
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Video: Image Resizing by Seam Carving
Thanks for passing this on to me James. Here is an amazing video of how use new technologies to resize images.
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Buy.at Affiliate Network Acquired by AOL
AOL has been fairly quiet on the acquisition side of things. This move, to acquire Buy.at's affiliate network and ...
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MacWorld 2008 Keynote Continued
This is a pretty impressive Keynote by Steve Jobs. Please note that this it not the compete transcript but rather bits ...
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Yahoo! Directory Adds Images to Sponsored Links
Yahoo! has added images to their sponsored ads in their directory. I used to have a listing there, but ...
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This is How You Get Traffic
Ever wondered how to generate a lot of traffic in a short amount of time? Let's take a look ...
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Attorney General Cuomo Launches Antitrust Investigation of Intel
This just got passed to me from James, I feel it's worth noting (since the processor in my computer right ...
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How to Become a Social Rock Star (without knowing it)
Megan McCarthy of Wired Magazine touches on how to become a social rock star. I noticed this a few weeks back, ...
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Gallery2 Hack: main.php -> index.php
I have been trying and trying to figure out a way to use index.php instead of main.php for my Gallery2 ...
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Google to Compete with Wikipedia
Google announced last week that it is creating a competitor to Wikipedia. Here is a small excerpt from the ...
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Eminem is the Real Slim Shady
Often times I will use Google Images search just for kicks and giggles on certain things I'm doing throughout the ...
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Blogger Now Accepts OpenID Commenting
Blogger recently did some testing and published the new feature to allow OpenID users to login and comment. This ...
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The Untold Gmail Stories
Some of the untold Gmail stories, in a single clip. Here's a quick wrap-up from some Gmail software engineers.
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Update: Larry Page to Marry Lucy Southworth this Weekend
A quick update from Radar gives us all the latest details on the wedding this coming weekend. Larry Page ...
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PubCon + SES Chicago … and I’m in New York!
This is what I like to call being at the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm here in NYC while ...
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Comic: Dogbert’s Tech Support
I don't know about anyone else, but this one hits home to me...therefor I'm posting about it. Enjoy!
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The Bloggers’ Strike
This one comes courtesy of Photomatt (Matt Mullenweg). Thanks for the humorous clip Matt ;)
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LinkRush: November 15th, 2007
It's a small link rush today, but here are some quicky links for some highlights of today so far. YouTube to ...
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Microsoft Bought Massive Inc., Now What?
Microsoft acquired Massive Inc. coming on two years ago. What have they done with it? Not much as ...
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…Goin’ to the chapel…with Larry Page
As the Chronicle has learned, Larry Page is set to get hitched next month. Where? No one knows ...
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Paid Links Presentation for Web Analytics De-mystified
This past week I was given the opportunity to give a short presentation on paid links. Here is the presentation which ...
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WARNING: Spam Will Eat You Alive [privacy]
As I've noticed more and more lately, I've been getting spam for my comment email address. I normally have ...
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Wordpress Security Whitepapers
BlogSecurity.net has released its "How to secure Wordpress" whitepapers, released as the first version [1.0]. Wordpress security is something I have ...
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LinkRush: October 30th, 2007
It's time to update from all the latest news going on around the web. Here are some noteworthy articles ...
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Improving Office Morale, One YouTube Video at a Time
This feels a lot like my office. I have co-workers constantly sending me YouTube videos, funny pics, you name ...
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Google Strongly Supports the Joomla! CMS
As it's pretty clear by the title, this announce comes in the form of an event. Google, as we ...
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Video: Back Street Boys Cockatoo
A co-worker passed this on to me and couldn't pass up the opportunity to share it with everyone here.
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LinkRush: September 26th, 2007
A quick list wrap-up of things to note throughout the past week. AdSense for search launches in Vietnamese New CPA bidding product ...
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Following TechCrunch 40
Here are some TechCrunch links for those of you not following TechCrunch 40. TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery Yahoo Presents ...
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Yahoo! to Take on Facebook and MySpace
Yahoo! is once again at it trying to take on the big dogs. The question that first comes to ...
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Are We Using Web 1.0 or 2.0?
I have a feeling that this happens far too often in older businesses. I've seen some companies around that ...
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Google’s Webmaster Central on Duplicate Content
Duplicate content is an issue I'm trying to battle right now myself. It's been on my mind about Wordpress. ...
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I Am Most Like Matt Mullenweg!
So I've been a fan of reading up on Matt's blog lately through the Wordpress Planet feed in my dashboard ...
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IBM Blogs Throw a Mean Curve Ball, 404 Style
Some how I ended up browsing IBM's website tonight and started cruising around. I finally noticed they had some ...
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The Google Master Plan
I watched this video quite a while ago and it has actually made me more aware of my privacy. ...
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404 Done Right
Surfing around today, I came across a page on the UrbanOutfiitters.com website. Well, I sort of came across it. Taking ...
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Clouded Search
As a little experiment, I used this tag cloud generator to create this little tag cloud below. What's the ...
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Before and After: Broadband vs. Dial-up
Many of us remember the days of dial-up Internet. Connecting at 14.4k, 28.8k, then 56k. Even some of ...
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Comics: Dilbert Motivation Buzz Kill
So what can we learn from this? There's a bit of office management involved here. The obvious of, "don't give ...
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MediaWhiz Holdings Acquires AuctionAds
NEW YORK, NY, July 27, 2007 –MediaWhiz Holdings Inc. today announced the acquisition of AuctionAds (www.auctionads.com). MediaWhiz launched AuctionAds ...
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Business.com Sold for USD$360 Million
Reports are coming in from Reuters that Business.com was recently sold for upwards of USD$340 to USD$360 million to Donnelley ...
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Wordpress, 9th Best Download on the Internet
According to the Google results for the term "download", Wordpress is ranked #9 out of 800 million results. There are some ...
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WordCamp 2007 - July 21 & 22
This 2-day conference will cost you a whole whoppin' $25 to get into. There are a few items I feel are ...
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OpenDNS Search Techniques
I recently started using OpenDNS again because I was unhappy with the speed of the current DNS that Time Warner ...
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Technorati Interface Redesign
Technorati has been for a long time, gone un-redesigned. They have been using their old design since...let's take a ...
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Vote for Wordpress at CNET WebWare 2007 Awards
This blog is proudly powered by Wordpress. Millions of other blogs are also powered by Wordpress which is astonishing ...
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Ships Passing Through the Nights
There has been a lack of posting lately, but let me explain a bit. I recently moved from Los Angeles to ...
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Favorite Tech Quotes
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. - Andrew S. Tannenbaum Where is all ...
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Joost Invites - Beta
I was invited to Joost today. The brand new revolutionary free online television system. If anyone wants an ...
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Save Net Radio
I'm an avid fan of Digitally Imported radio (www.di.fm) and I listen to it almost everyday. As part of ...
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LinkRush: April 19th, 2007
Google introduces the new Google Product Search Google adds charts to Google Spreadsheets Philip writes on Paid Links Google holds 79% of the ...
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On Paid Links
Something that was mentioned last week at SES NY was Paid Link advertising. Matt Cutts wrote up an article ...
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Video: The Starting Line
Ironically, I know almost all these guys from school. I thought it was pretty funny and funny enough to ...
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Ginside.com Site Problems
Our server underwent a php/apache upgrade over the night and it seems the upgrade to php is causing some major ...
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To Post or Not to Post. That is the Question.
Turns out I just can't stay away from what's happening with Google. I met with some friends this morning for breakfast ...
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Time off to Singapore and Sri Lanka
I'll be out of town tomorrow to the end of next week while I'm visiting Singapore and Sri Lanka. ...
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HOWTO: Migrating from Blogger to Wordpress
I couldn't write it any better, especially since I don't use Blogger myself, but here is an awesome HOWTO guide ...
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Video: How do you Fit in?
(direct link) This video actually moved me and made me think about the world out there. It's something I've never ...
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LinkRush: March 19th, 2007
Here are some key highlights you may have missed recently... Google launches Rebang for China Google to stop storing users' data after ...
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Summer of Code 2007 Kick-off
Summer of Code 2007 has officially kicked off as of Thursday, March 15th, 2007. What are some of my favorite projects ...
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Cisco Acquires WebEx to Further Collaboration
Announced today was Cisco's acquisition of WebEx -- an industry-leading company that dominates in on-demand group collaboration applications. Before ...
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Fwd: FW: alien abduction
ATTENTION ALIENS ARE COMING TO ABDUCT ALL THE GOOD LOOKING AND SEXY PEOPLE. YOU WILL BE SAFE, I'M JUST EMAILING ...
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Comics: Setting a Goal is Important
This one actually gave me a strong chuckle so I felt it was worth sharing.
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LinkRush: March 9th, 2007
Google releases some trade secrets Google will be gaining some serious new competition through open-source search Google joins in on the mobile ...
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LinkRush: March 7th, 2007
Sarah touches on some basics of invalid clicks with some real numbers. Google Base becoming a little more involved and expanded. The ...
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8apps, We Have Contact! Anyone want an invite?
I just got invited to 8apps.com, yet another social networking site, but this one is geared to be even more ...
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LinkRush: March 6th, 2007
Matt Cutts on some great Gmail tips Lifehacker with 7 tips to improve your confidence Do not get lazy with your articles, ...
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The Top 50 Most Important People of the Web
Yahoo! released an article with the top 50 most important people of the web today. So what makes this ...
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Wordpress 2.1.2 Release — Upgrade Immediately
Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit ...
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Want a Virb.com Invite? I Have Some!
I recently received an invite to Virb.com which appears to be a new social networking site (yes, geez, another one), ...
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New ReviewMe Affiliate Program
ReviewMe.com has announced they have a new affiliate program. Something that I have been waiting a while for. ...
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Video: Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging
A video I've known about for a while but failed to finally put up here. This is something that ...
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Why I Support TextLinkAds.com
I have been a member of TextLinkAds.com ("TLA") since January 2006. Throughout the past year, I have had a ...
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Video: The Ransom Notes
The Afters - Beautiful Love Kelly Clarkson - Beautiful Disaster Lauryn Hill - Killing Me Softly Looking for more? Check out ...
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Can You Hear Me Now?
This video was found via Digg and it all started with a simple quest... Read all the details on his ...
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Video: Lord Vader as a Day Manager
I saw this and couldn't pass it up...it's a bit lengthy, but worth every second of it. It's a ...
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Monster Rabbits
My mom sent me this one. Something I couldn't pass up. I don't know if there's too much ...
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Wordpress & Gallery Named Best Free Software
Recently on the Gallery homepage I noticed a small article about how they were mentioned in PC Mag's recent edition. ...
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“Dude, you’re getting a burned down house!”
On Monday morning I was heading to work like any other day.. little did I know that my home was ...
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Rand Fishkin’s Superbowl Proposal — Will She Say Yes?
The one and only Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz.org is the mysterious mysuperproposal.com. Alas, the invitation to wed Sir Fishkin ...
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Microsoft Windows Vista Launches
I completely missed this one. I don't know how I didn't hear anything about it until today (1 day ...
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Yahoo! Offers Backlink Badges
As Yahoo! tries to gain more webmaster popularity, it has released a Backlink Badge display for webmasters. You can choose and ...
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Ma.gnolia’s Poor Marketing
I am very adamant about marketing and advertising. I'm continually analyzing and restructuring advertising campaigns and marketing strategies. ...
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Video: Lifesize Bomberman Action
A group of students at the University of Aalborg in Copenhagen have taken their Bomberman fandom to some grin-inducing new ...
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Wordpress 2.1 Released
The long awaited Wordpress 2.1 is here with some amazing new features. Some features a lot of us have ...
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Wordpress 2.1 RC1 Released
Wordpress (the platform this site is using) has been released as RC1 for the next major upgrade. 2.1 has ...
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The Apple and Cisco Battle
As it was the talk of the town on Wednesday, Apple released their new iPhone. Shortly after releasing the ...
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Apple iPhone iPod Released
This one I couldn't pass up writing about. At the MacWorld Expo taking place right now in San Francisco, ...
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The End of the Road for Windows?
There has been rumors floating around on the web that Vista may be the last release of Windows by Microsoft. ...
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Viacom Takes the Funny Route — Comedy Online
When Atom Films relaunches today, it will be a playground for aspiring video producers hoping for the next big Comedy ...
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Easy iTunes QuickBuy Feature
So I'm listening to di.fm right now (the best trance radio station on the net) and I'm thinking dang, I ...
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Insights on Podcasting
So I've been a little slow on this one, I haven't even remotely started thinking about podcasting yet. Well, ...
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Something you need to watch
This video really meant something to me, maybe you can take it to heart too. This isn't related to ...
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The Future of Advertising: Chat-enabled Ads
IBM and Intel have been running a new type of marketing campaign in the past few months -- with chat-enabled ...
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Web 16.0
According to W3.org, the first web page created is dated back to: Tuesday, November 13, 1990 7:17:00 AM I remember that ...
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Lisensa Copyright Protection Tools
A problem that I've had personally for this blog is splogging -- aka spam blogging. Darren wrote up a ...
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Windows Vista Gets VoIP
On an off-side note back to Windows Vista, there was an interesting write-up on the Microsoft Informer about how Vista ...
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TextLinkAds.com Acquired by MediaWhiz
Yeah, I know, this isn't Google related, but I have close ties to TextLinkAds.com and I thought this was worth ...
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Set Your Clocks Back
In case you didn't realize it yet, Daylight Savings happened, so set your clocks back an hour. That means ...
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Puzzle: It Can Read Your Mind
Take a look at this puzzle. I tried it out and sure enough, it was right. Almost a ...
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Amazon Just Says No
BsuinessWeek reports: Amazon.com Inc. has objected to providing details about its book search feature to rival Google Inc., which says it ...
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Firefox 2.0 is Official
It is official. Mozilla Firefox 2.0 has been released today. With a long wait and much anticipation, it ...
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LinkRush: October 23rd, 2006
Google Acquires SpaceShipOne Google Poland Blog Google Activity Reports via Google WebmasterCentral New AdWords Tools via Google AdWords Blog Easier to Get a Job ...
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Popular Typos by Yahoo!
Yahoo! released a list of mis-spelled words: Rachel Ray Tatoos Scarlett Johanson Wierd Al Yankovic Evanesence Soduku Barbara Streisand Louis Vitton Jamie Presley Jimmy Buffet Brittany Spears Brittney Spears Anna Nichole Smith Eva Mendez Jessica ...
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Search With Animation
Going through my feeds, I ran across this from Phillip. It's a search engine with a face -- but ...
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Video: Google Just Brought Sexy Back
Google's recent partnership now allows for users to view music videos for free. This only allows for "lower quality" ...
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Time to Get Fuzzy, Google
The comic Get Fuzzy -- a comic strip I read often -- highlights Google in this segment of the comic ...
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Yahoo! Time Capsule
This was too good to pass up and not blog about it. Yahoo! has released a digital time capsule that is ...
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Microsoft Wants a Piece of it
Microsoft has signed a deal with Blinkx.TV to power their video search. With all the talks of YouTube and ...
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Microsoft Windows Vista - Part 2
As I've been using Windows Vista lately on my laptop, I have not been too entirely happy with the power ...
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AntiLeech Content Splogging
Lorelle wrote an awesome article on how to combat content-thiefs. I actually took her up on some of the ...
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b5 Media VC Funding
A huge congrats to b5 Media -- a large blogging company -- for their venture capital funding. About b5media Inc. b5media (www.b5media.com) ...
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Contact Courtesy
Shoemoney wrote a good article on contact courtesy. While he didn't label it as such, essentially that's what it ...
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Feedvertising by TextLinkAds.com
Feedvertising is a new platform just released today from TextLinkAds.com. Feedvertising doesn't directly help your SEO rankings, but it ...
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Wordpress Named Top Blogging Tool of 2006
Businessweek.com has released their "top of the top", and Wordpress was named the top blogging tool of 2006. Wordpress Blogger Sixapart.com (TypePad, LiveJournal, ...
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Internet Privacy Today
Do you think Internet privacy is bad today? Look back on what it was 9 years ago. Things ...
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Google Better Take Notes On This One
Techdirt has the latest on the class action lawsuit against AOL. When AOL released the personal records of search ...
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The Praetorian Mad House
I talked about it a little bit, but I never got around to posting the pics and all the specs ...
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Wordpress.com VIP Program
Wordpress.com launched the VIP program today. First thing that comes to mind after reading: "It's all for the moneyyy." ...
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Added Features for iTunes 7.0
I recently downloaded iTunes 7.0 when they released their new iPod line-up. I love iTunes with a passion, especially ...
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Windows Vista Follow-Up
I've been using Windows Vista for about 24 hours now and I'm not entirely impressed by it. They've taken ...
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Time to Go Vista
I'm installing Windows Vista RC1 on my laptop right now just to test it out before installing it on my ...
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Doggy-Pouch Exposed
On the off-topic side of things, I couldn't pass up sharing this. DailyMail.co.uk
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Pandora Internet Radio
This is a bit off-topic from Google, but I thought it was worth mentioning. This music radio station learns ...
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Wordpress WordCamp ‘06
Wordpress had a WordCamp conference this past weekend which I would have loved to attend. Unfortunately, I reside in ...
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coComment Addition
This blog is about trying new things and reaching out into the community. With that in mind, I thought ...
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Comics: Dilbert’s HR Department at Work
You'll often see some comics from Dilbert here because I constantly read it and I often think it correlates closely ...