May 5
FluTracker: ”
Tracking the progress of H1N1 swine flu
This map and the data behind it were compiled by Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza Labs and Google. The map was compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions.
Hulu Now The Number Three U.S. Web Video Site. Soon To Be Number Two.:
To be clear, the new March U.S. numbers released by comScore show that Hulu is still slightly behind Yahoo’s video properties when it comes to unique viewers. But the NBC and Fox-backed Hulu should pass it any day now in that category as well. Meanwhile, the number two player, Fox Interactive Media (which runs MySpace), is slipping just as quickly as Hulu is rising in videos viewed. It could well be as soon as this month when Hulu moves into the number two web video position.
Noteworthy: Youtube has over 40% of the market, while the closest competitor has 3%
Feb 10
The Twitter Gold Mine & Beating Google to the Semantic Web:
There’s always been jabs at Twitter for not having a viable business model and the chatter has increased in the current economic climate. In a recent interview Evan Williams, Twitter CEO, said ‘We had planned to focus on revenue in 2010 but that’s no longer the case, so we changed the plan quite a bit… We’ve moved revenue higher on our list of priorities…’.
I believe Twitter, potentially, has an incredible business model.
(Via O’Reilly Radar.)
Jan 27
On July 3rd, 2008 the excellent web-application company 37Signals announced the phasing out of support for IE6 for their suite of online productivity tools. Someone had to go first.
Now it appears that Google has joined the chorus of web application suppliers who no longer want to support Microsoft’s IE6 browser. IE6 was release back in 2001, over eight gizillion years in internet time.
After coming across a few articles that claimed Google was giving IE6 the boot, the closest I could come to a primary source declaration from Google was in the Supported Browser section of their GMail help section:
Jan 27
If you just use Google to search for people, places and things to buy, you’re missing out on the POWER OF TEH GOOG!!!
Take for instance the fact that you can use simple variables in your search phrase like: “KH(Ax)N” for x=1 to 100
This yields the following graph:
Jan 24
Apparently there is a quasi-standard that Google, Yahoo, Ask.com et. al. have agreed on w/r/t blogs, indexing new content, and the good ol’ fashioned robots.txt file.
A plug-in for WordPress automatically generates a new sitemap, archives the old, and alerts all of the above search engines (plus a few others) all as part of the regular functioning of WordPress. Slick.