Users Ignoring Google’s Real-Time Search Listings
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 10, 2010
I guess I’m not the only one. According to the U.K.’s Guardian, users are for the most part ignoring the newfangled real-time search listings available on Google search.
The study was carried out by oneupweb which used eye-tracking technology to measure and record the search habits of Google users.
And what they found was that users weren’t very interested …
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Google Leads February Search Traffic; Facebook Gains
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 10, 2010
According to comscore, Google remains the top search engine by a wide margin after a the release of February numbers.
Google and its sites enjoyed 65.5% of the U.S. share of searches followed by Yahoo at 16.8% and Microsoft 11.5%.
Google and its sites tallied about 13.5 billion searches. No. 2 was Yahoo with 2.5 billion. Microsoft sites including Bing …
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Geek Kindle Review
Posted by Michael Swanberg on March 10, 2010
Okay, there are hundreds, nay thousands, of Kindle reviews out there… but what does a true geek think about it? Some of you may recall the commercial some time ago where the mother enjoyed reading tech manuals to her infant child to put them to sleep. For the life of me I can’t recall what the commercial was about, …
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Google Maps Adds Biking Directions
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 10, 2010
Drat! Biking directions are now available on Google Maps. Now your favorite, secretive, dirt path or trail will be exposed the world thanks to Google.
To see it in action just select “Bicycling” from the drop-down menu on a directions search, or visit the main site here.
Google says they already have information on 12,000 miles worth of trails in …
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Retweet.com Sells for $250,000
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 10, 2010
From the “make you sick” category, the website retweet.com was sold today for a whopping $250,000.
Don’t believe such a site could fetch a price like that, well click here to see the auction. The buyer was not disclosed.
Retweet.com is actually a pretty useful site. What is does is tally the number of retweets sent for every tweet …
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Twitter to Monitor Links in Effort to Curb Phishing Scams
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 10, 2010
Break up the spam patrol, Twitter is going on the offensive in effort to try and curb phishing on other scams that have plagued the social site in recent months.
In a post today, Delbius, twitter’s director of trust and safety team, wrote: “Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing …
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Not Everyone Should Blog
Posted by Michael Swanberg on March 09, 2010
Yeah, that’s me calling the kettle black, but this is a great case in point. Check out this article… http://www.minyanville.com/articles/print.php?a=27205 I don’t know a thing about Michael Comeau, the author of this piece, except that he doesn’t know his rear from a hole in the ground. It may be best to read this article from the bottom …
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Official Tron Legacy Trailer Released
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 09, 2010
You remember Tron? The campy 80s sci-flick with recent Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges riding his bike (or Light Cycle) and escaping peril while inside a computer.
Well, nearly 30 years later Tron is back. The follow up, Tron Legacy, opens at the end of the year on December 17. Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner return for the nerdy sequel which just …
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Apple iPad Oscars Commercial
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 08, 2010
Keeping with the Oscars theme – congrats to the Hurt Locker, haven’t seen it yet though – during the telecast last night Apple released its new commercial for the iPad.
In case you missed the 30-second spot while you were refilling the chip bowl or getting another round of drinks, here it is in all it’s Apple-ness. The “glorified iPhone” will …
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Official Iron Man 2 Trailer is Out
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 08, 2010
Enough of the snooty OSCARS, let’s get to some serious kick-arse movie action. And for that, I look ahead to the upcoming release of Iron Man 2 from Marvel.
The long-awaited follow-up to the hit original returns Robert Downey Jr as the Iron Man, aka billionaire Tony Stark. Gweneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle and Mickey Rourke have also been …
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Google Creates Oscars Ballot Sheet
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 07, 2010
Google Docs has been kind enough to create an Academy Awards Oscars ballot template that you can use to help with your viewing festivities tonight.
The template lets you easily gather info from friends, family, coworkers and even enemies on their thoughts on who’ll win the big awards. You can send the doc via email or a link, and then …
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Twitter Passes 10 Billion Tweets
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 04, 2010
Congrats to the folks over at twitter. The social site just hit its 10 billionth tweet today, that according to its tweet ids.
Just five months ago twitter was around 5 billion tweets so the service has doubled in less than half a year. That’s some pretty rapid growth, though I wonder how many of those tweets are automated spam type …
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YouTube Offers Auto-Captioning
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 04, 2010
With a click of a button you can now see what’s being said on YouTube videos.
Announced today, YouTube’s captioning on its videos will now be available on a wider basis in English, with future languages coming in the pipeline.
From thier blog, here are some more details:
* While we plan to broaden the feature to include more languages in …
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The Mysterious Diamond Operator
Posted by Michael Swanberg on March 04, 2010
Just how does the diamond operator in Perl work? Many Perl books don’t go into deep detail about the diamond operator. Still others don’t put all the facts about the diamond operator together for easy digestion. So herein is an attempt to de-mystify and bring a good explanation of the diamond operator, what it does, and how it works. …
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Google Makes a Gesture
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 04, 2010
Earlier today Google announced the release of Gesture Search, a new search for Android phone users with Eclair.
So what does Gesture Search do, and what’s it good for?
According to Google: “Gesture Search from Google Labs lets you search your Android-powered device by drawing alphabet gestures on the touch screen. It allows you to quickly find a contact, …
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Facebook to Hit $1 Billion in Revenues?
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 03, 2010
According to insidefacebook, the social site Facebook is on track to eclipse $1 billion dollars in revenues this year. That’s one billion, with B!
Since the company is private exact figures are not available – at least not to me – but Insidefacebook estimates Facebook’s 2009 revenues in the ballpark of $600-$700 million, well above the $300 million range from …
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Really Cool LEGO Creations!
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 02, 2010
If you are over the age of 30, who didn’t play around with LEGOs growing up?
I used to build houses, skyscrapers and try my hand (and fail) at recreating the Star Wars ships like the tie fighter or x-wing or the Star Trek Enterprise (a friend down the street did a super-sweet six foot high Enterprise, awesome!)
Then I recall …
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Netflix on Your iPhone?
Posted by Sunil Setty on March 02, 2010
You knew it would only be a matter of time, and now according to hackingnetflix, Netflix is considering an app to stream their movies to iPhone users.
Netflix has been surveying users on such an app, so one has to assume it’s in the works. The app would only work when the iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi network.
Then …
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What This Economy Needs
Posted by Michael Swanberg on March 02, 2010
Are we going about this the right way? About the largest issue we seem to face as a nation (we, meaning the United States) is lack of confidence in our businesses. After all, it’s lack of confidence in our financial institutions that brought about this recession in the first place. But we need to go further. The Federal …
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Google Releases Help Page for Chile Earthquake
Posted by Sunil Setty on February 27, 2010
Search engine leader Google has just released a help page devoted to the massive earthquake in Chile this morning.
The page offers a person finder, and interactive map and updated information on the relief efforts in Chile. Visitors can quickly donate money via either the Unicef or Red Cross buttons.
Google responded with a similar help page following the Haitian …
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