What should have been a simple demo of the Nikon D5000 video capabilities has the potential to become the next internet meme. Click here to watch the video excerpt
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If you haven’t yet come to the realization that Digg.com is only looking out for itself and not its users or the people who actually create the content that powers Digg, then you might want to read this excerpt from Search Engine Land about the DiggBar: Sounds cool, especially because it puts tools for those [...]
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One year after Automattic acquired Gravatar, a lot has changed. Gravatar migrated from Ruby-on-Rails to PHP, now allows up to 512px avatars, and resides on about 20 servers. 2 Database servers, 1 File server, 2 Load balancers, 5 Caching servers, 9 Web servers, and 1 Development server. What is Gravatar? A gravatar, or globally recognized [...]
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According to CNN, Ex-Google emplyee, Anna Patterson, has been working on a search alternative to Google called Cuil. Patterson is claiming that Cuil has indexed 120 billion web pages, which is far greater than the 8.2 billion pages Google claimed it had indexed three years ago. Google no longer publishes its number of pages indexed. [...]
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Google has improved their indexing of Flash sites and Flash elements of websites. Q: What content can Google better index from these Flash files? All of the text that users can see as they interact with your Flash file. If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when [...]
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Yesterday I decided it was time to upgrade my hosting plan for this domain, because it was starting to get kinda cramped. So I logged into the ICDSoft hosting control panel and click “Upgrades”. The thinkunique.org domain was apparently being hosted on an older machine, and in order to upgrade, it needed to be migrated [...]
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I cloned a couple of my Google Gadgets over to Myspace Apps. The first is a headline feed of this site so you can stay up date, and the second is a Geek Deals app that shows the best deals from Newegg. Geek stuff blog MySpace App Geek Deals MySpace App
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My Newegg Daily Deals gadget is gaining in popularity. This gadget will show several random deals from Newegg, instead of only the $5 to $10 items. Newegg Daily Deals by Geek stuff Geek stuff blog headlines TigerDirect Deals by Geek stuff
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I just noticed today that Google has a new favicon for their Analytics site. I wasn’t able to see it until I logged in. Update: It’s not just the Analytics site, but all Google sites, I think.
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Bell Canada’s use of DPI (deep packet inspection) has some privacy groups concerned. Should you be concerned too? Current gear is so sophisticated that it can reconstitute e-mails and IM conversations out of asymmetric traffic flows and it can essentially peek “under the hood” of any non-encrypted packet to take a look at what it [...]
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