24th January 2008, 07:53 pm
Baidu announces Japanese language search engine.
Digg is overhauling how it determines popular articles. After the amount I’ve heard about people gaming Digg, I can’t say I’m surprised.
10th anniversary of Netscape Communicator source code release announcement? Thanks. I feel old now. Really old.
Murdoch talked out of dropping the paywall. My guess is that WSJ is going to look silly in about eight months.
Google: Super Tuesday YouTube Channel! Whoop Whoop! Yippie Skippy.
FyberSearch top queries of 2007. The interesting thing is that there other top searches for the year going back to 2004.
Ooo! National Geographic Maps is going to launch a trails database.
New database for logistics courses offered throughout Europe.
24th January 2008, 06:53 pm
Just a few notes on things I’ve noticed/figured out/learned in the last couple weeks:
– I do not give Bloglines ( http://www.bloglines.com/ ) enough cred as a blog search engine. I used it for a few searches today and realized that you get a somewhat different set from standard blog search engines — because Bloglines apparently indexes RSS feeds for forums (at least some forums.) Found some very interesting stuff.
– Interested in the roller coaster that is our current stock market? I don’t have a regular stock ticker on my computer, but found that if I just opened the Google Finance Dow Jones page, I had constantly-updating Dow index information in the title of the window. This hint is only for those of us who are only sometimes interested in the market and don’t already have a ticker…
– I am so interested in doing keyword-based feeds that I didn’t realize you could do http://news.google.com/?output=rss and get an RSS feed of all the top/front stories in a variety of categories. By the way, Google News has a dedicated election news section at http://news.google.com/news?topic=el.
– I went to check and see what was going on with Penelope/Eudora project and found that I can now download — Eudora? It’s apparently a Eudora/Thunderbird smushup. Haven’t tried it yet.
22nd January 2008, 10:14 pm
NASA to open large-scale online game? Cool.
Can Web-based worlds teach us about the real one? My quick answer is “I wouldn’t think so,” shading to “depends” but I’m certain I can elucidate further if you give me a jillion dollars in funding.
ExtremeTech reviews iTunes’ new movie rental feature.
TheAtlantic.com goes free. Dat’s nice.
Yahoo can has weather report.
Meg Whitman getting ready to step out?
Trackle is currently closed for renovation. Sadness!
An update on Google book scanning.
Oh, could it be any more awesome: online pocket protector museum.
