Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Google has begun testing simpler and cleaner models for the search engine results page. The designs vary, but they all have more white space between results, fewer secondary links, like cached and similar, and no underlining in common. Another version of the search engine model has dashed lines between results, ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
Once a niche market among a select few, gaming has grown by leaps and bounds from its humble beginnings. As various role playing games and more mainstream console based games grow in the popularity, the Internet has encouraged the change in the way our society views and uses these brands. ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
As computer companies flood the market in an attempt take control of the computer technology industry, it can be difficult to choose a laptop that fits your unique needs. When computers first hit the market they were terribly cost prohibitive, so technology was only available to the elite few ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Part 1 of "The dreaded 'Idea'" spouts freely new notions concerning Twitter and iPhone/iPod Apps & iOS along with a short treatise-like rant on ideas.
Media
Monetizing great content stuck on crusty websites
An opportunity exsists for acquiring old, but authoritative content that ranks good. This written treasure is often buried on neglected websites. There's plenty ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
Ah, the "Idea." Hardly will we find anything more polarizing.
For seemingly half of us, just the word "idea" alone seems to conjure high-mindedness, nobility and is lauded up above so much else. The other half snubs/thumbs their noise at the word and "ideas" hardly even register as a ...
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
I just nominated Columbia, Missouri, for Google's fiber optic trial. Anyone with home internet access can ask Google to set it up where you live too. Google's hope is to "make Internet access better and faster for everyone."
Here's a few points I made for Columbia, MO:
Why should Google build a ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Techcrunch recently posted a post about music sites called "Your Guide to Music on the Web -- Part 1". Here are the sites it includes:
Pandora
Last.fm
Deezer
Finetune
Amie Street
Jamendo
SoundCloud
TheSixtyOne
Project Playlist
Jiwa.fm
Jogli
MixTube
Lala
Musicovery
CitySounds.fm
Jango
RadioBeta
TheRadio
Aupeo
Tun3r
Play.fm
Some of the sites/services are very similar and some are naturally better than others, but all are worth briefly checking if you admire tuneage. ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Even though the Google Voice app was rejected by Apple, Google went ahead and put out Google Voice through the web, via mobile Safari, at google.com/voice. I haven't had much time to test it out, but did make a test call using Google voice from my iPhone's Safari browser.
All ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Found out about We are Hunted from the 37signal's Signal vs. Noise Blog, who say, basically, the real draw here, the thing that sets We are Hunted apart from other similar music sites is its large album art. But the S vs. N Blog doesn't point out what the site ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The term "content" -- referring to material that constitutes a publication or document for an audience -- is abhorrent. Applying the word "content" essentially cheapens the writing, music, video or whatever other form of media one is taking in and attempting to gain a life enriching experience from it.
The ...
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