From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Christina Warren of Download Squad is a Clueless Idiot

November 30, 2007

You know I really try and stay away from things like this, but when I see people use a widely read medium to spread misinformation, without doing their research first, it makes my blood boil. What did Christina Warren say here’s a look:

There’s lots of talk within the tech community, especially the blogosphere about using [...]

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Why Isn’t Google Maps Integrated with Google Calendar

November 29, 2007

Hey Matt I can’t be the first person who ever wanted a link on Google maps straight to a Google calendar, how come you don’t offer that? I look up the location, add my starting address (which Google never seems to remember despite me telling it multiple times it’s my default address) you have be [...]

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Special Offer From Search Marketing Standard

November 29, 2007

The folks who publish Search Marketing Standard approached me with a special offer for you readers. If you subscribe between now and December 10 2007 you can get a 1 year subscrption for $4.95 (yep that’s $5) if you use the following code when you subscribe:
coupon code: HOLIDAY67
In addition for every person who does subscribe [...]

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How to Ruin an Excellent Piece of Linkbait, and Why Someone Should be Fired

November 29, 2007

Here’s a prime example of how to ruin an otherwise amazing piece of linkbait. It’s hot, it’s fresh, it’s easy to get, but where are the damn pictures! A huge component of social media is the eye candy! You need it especially if you are playing the celebrity space. If someone produced this for me [...]

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Making Google Reader More Social

November 29, 2007

I know Google’s been trying to get more involved in the social game, but here are a few suggestions on how they can make the integration a little more seamless, and I’m totally name dropping Mihai Parparita so he catches this one ego surfing.

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Duplicate Copy in Action

November 24, 2007

Think Google is a good as they would have you believe they are about detecting duplicate copy, then take a look here [fireproof safe with power]. Since result two links to result one I’d say result two is probably the original and Google got it wrong.
In this case the comments probably played a big role [...]

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Why is Everyone Connected With Google So Creepy

November 17, 2007

Anne Wojcicki wife of Sergey Brin who is in charge of 23andMe.com (sorry no link love for you) is set to bring the company live this week. Here are the details via techcrunch:

23andMe will offer a genetic screening service for $999. The short story is that 23andMe will administer a test (presumably a swab or [...]

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Google Reader Indexes Really Fast

November 14, 2007

I’m not sure if it’s some synergy between google reader and feedburner but damn google reader is picking up new posts in like 10 minutes, that totally rocks! I still get the dupe thing occasionally, but latency was one of my primary concerns when I switched, and now it’s a total non issue.

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Is Matt Cutts Pulling the “I Did You a Favor” Card

November 14, 2007

C’mon Matt you either do things because they are the right thing to do or don’t do them at all, I don’t think you want to get into the Google’s did you a favor, now stop bad mouthing us card at all. Bringing up stuff like this just makes people question your motivation …

Why get [...]

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Configure a Windows Computer Network Card for Internal Use Only

November 12, 2007

I’m sure the answer to this exists on the web however my lack of proper terminology makes it difficult for me to find it, so I’ll describe what I’m trying to do.
I have a windows XP computer on my home network, I want to configure it only to accept internal network traffic over the network [...]

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Site Links and Search Volume

November 12, 2007

One of the things that I admire about the Google algo is it’s ability to “learn” and “adapt” based on incoming data. For example when search volume for a certain keywords reaches a certain volume words that were originally mis-spellings become real words. Today I came across an example of this logic being applied to [...]

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Bug in Google Desktop Forces You to Give Data to the Borg

November 11, 2007

So last week I twittered I noticed something odd that made it look like Google had opted everybody into personalized search and web history since I was #1 for [michael]. Danny Sullivan twittered back that that wasn’t the case, so I went to my Google account turned it on and then turned it off again, [...]

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Compete Still a Bit Wet Behind the Ears

November 8, 2007

I actually like Compete I think it’s quite a bit more accurate than Alexa or other competing services, however when I see comments like this on their blog it makes me question some of their conclusions:

Every search query we see in our data is a query performed by an actual person.

via compete blog

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Testing how Much Google and YouTube chat behind the Scenes

November 7, 2007

There’s nothing in this video or this video that will make much sense unless you follow me compulsively, but we’re doing some testing, remind me in a week if you want to know how it turned out.

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Upgrading

November 7, 2007

Ok doing a few upgrades site may be a little wonky for a little while today.

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Site Links are Ephemeral

November 5, 2007

When I see things like this I have to admit I’m fascinated about the inner workings of the Google Borg

Anybody think they aren’t using user/toolbar data? Want to do a nice experiment repeat this search every 15 days and watch for changes …

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Do You Subscribe to Your Own Blog

November 5, 2007

Seems a silly question to ask but I can’t believe that the people who run Trendspotting are subscribed to their blog and haven’t yet noticed that their blog is published without a title or haven’t done anything about it

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Google Open Social I’m Disappointed I Think

November 2, 2007

So am I the only one confused/let down/disappointed by Google open social? I mean like I actually thought Google/it was going to do something other than being a bunch of incoherent technical gobbeldy gook? Umm Google I know I’ve said this before but when you guys release something, it really needs to be written in [...]

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Jason Calacanis & Michael Gray

November 2, 2007

Probably pretty high on the list of pictures you never thought you’d see but there’s a picture of me with Jason Calacanis last night after dinner.

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