Over the last year or so there’s been a lot of hype about Cloud Computing (a subject which I’ve dedicated a considerable amount of this blog to – I don’t know…it just interests me). This was prompted by Amazon, Google, SalesForce and Microsoft extending their scalable infrastructures out to developers to use, host and store [...]
Archive > March 2009
Garden of Tweetdom…
Considering all the Twitter hype these days, I found this to be hilarious. If you’re not on Twitter you may wonder what a lot of this means…
Kudos to Marcus Brown at andasifbymagic… very cool.
The Garden Of Tweetdom
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Google: Creative Destruction… or just acquire Twitter?
I’m at an airport waiting to board, so just a quick note about this post on Business Insider… it’s a great article… a very interesting read. In summary, it discusses the concept of Creative Destruction and focuses on the impact of Video Search and Twitter Search specifically. I thought I’d bullet point some of the [...]
Financial Times launches NewsSift…
I’ve spent a few minutes playing around with the NewsSift website launched by the Financial Times. This website or rather Search Engine is focused on the Finance vertical and allows users to search through 1000s of articles and post by the FT.
Personally, I don’t spend much time reading the FT (offline or online), I might [...]
Web Prayers… God help us…
Erm… I guess this is an interesting tipping point of how the information age is diluting religious beliefs… and as far as I’m concerned this is crazy.
If you’re too busy to pray… why not log onto the site purchase some prayers and the computer will read it out in “state of the art text to [...]
Hal Varian on How Adwords Rank…
Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, presents how Google ranks adwords… and how it calculates the bid costs. It’s pretty basic info for anyone with an SEM background, but still good to fill in some gaps. Quite well done…
How Search Ads Rank.. and Cost..
New Facebook pages… got yours yet?
So… there’s been a lot of hype about the new/imminent Facebook pages. From a user perspective there are a number of great changes most notably the Stream and Publisher functions, allowing for much more real-time interaction with friends updates. Here’s a snapshot with some info…
From Facebook…
The publisher lets you share your thoughts and content like [...]
Need help understanding the Credit Crunch?
Thought everyone would enjoy this cool clip explaining how the Credit Crunch happened… It’s slightly longer than your average internet clip but worth spending some time on.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
Thanks to the Travolution blog for sharing this…
Looking to make some money on Twitter?
OK… let’s get this out of the way first and manage your expectations…the below solutions will NOT make you a millionaire.
Given all the hype about Twitter since it reached it’s tipping point, its only natural that some startups are going to find ways of making some money through it. It’s quite well documented how Dell [...]
Eye tracking on Universal Search…
I found this cool clip on the Official Google blog… it presents the results of some eye-tracking research that Google have been doing on their Universal Search results page… for more info I suggest you read the corresponding post here.
