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As I was saying on 2008-04-26
Oh my head - What happended lnight? Coffee kicking in - Sun is calling - Love Brighton.aaaaaahh #
As I was saying on 2008-04-24
Yahoo! opens everything including search platform - But I really am too tired to care tonight. #
Fedup with trying to follow all of you on different platforms - sending invites to join FriendFeed #
Gutted can’t go to the VRM meeting this evening. Family calls #
The Economist have their PageRank reduced for selling links. tut […]
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-23
Another wet day in Brighton - must find stronger coffee #
Complex networks and decentralized search algorithms - now stop right there #
how about this for a piss-take - type in ‘vrm whitepaper’ into Google and it says ‘ did you mean ‘CRM white paper’ #
promissed I wouldn’t but here I am slagging off everyone in […]
Rel=nofollow fixed says Matt Cutts
The first time the major engines collaborated, it was to introduce the rel=nofollow tag to combat comment spam on blogs. Comment spam where anyone can add a link in the comment section of blogs was getting to the point, where it was almost impossible o administer a blog without spending hours deleting unrelated comments […]
Google pushing personalised search
Last week Google made a significant change to the personalised search experience, which should increase the use of the service, and has the SEO community concerned about the impact on the service they offer their clients.
Personalised search is nothing new and have been around for several years, but the recent announcement by Google to personalise […]
Google Moon and Mars
Nasa and Google have signed a formal agreement to collaborate on a number of project which is hoped to bring Nasa’s space data to the masses. They hope to create real time footage of space walks as well as a Google earth like mapping functionality for the Moon and other planets.
The New York times
Watch your carbon footprint from Second Life
Tony Walsh asks the question is Second Life ecologically sustainable? A quick sum on the back of a fag packet by Nicholas Carr, suggest avatars consumes just a little less electricity than the world average for a person and as much as the average Brazilian. That’s right, the ammount of energy used by […]
No more Google answers
That’s right, Google is shutting down answers. If anyone is wondering why - the graph from Hitwise makes it pretty self explanatory
Unlike Yahoo! who built a social community that share their expertise for free, Google created a fee paying model, where the person answering the question get paid. In 4 years they managed to get […]
FBI probes YouTube video of LA cop hitting suspect
The first FBI investigation into Police brutality based on video evidence on YouTube was reported by Reuters yesterday. While this is not the first case of home cinema to get the LA police into trouble - the beating of Rodney King causing riots in 1991. This is the first piece of evidence to arrive […]
Computing 2016 - Washington
New York Times - “Computer scientists from academia and companies like I.B.M. and Google discussed topics including social networks, digital imaging, online media and the impact on work and employment. But most talks touched on two broad themes: the impact of computing will go deeper into the sciences and spread more into the social sciences, […]
