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By Larry Mrazek on
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:47 AM
If you're not a Mac or Linux user, the following post from ZDnet might be of interest. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes benchmarks several versions of XP against a couple of Vista versions ... good stuff. Read more at: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1772&tag=nl.e622.
He will be releasing gaming benchmarks later today, which will provide an additional "real world" performance test. Bottom line is that Vista seems to be out-performing XP sp3 (especially the 64 bit versions).
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By Larry Mrazek on
Monday, April 28, 2008 2:23 PM
Before even thinking about designing that new name or marketing mark, remember to check out the USPTO's free search utility at: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=6t5g1f.1.1.
While it won't replace the services of a good patent and trademark attorney, this could save some $$, especially if you find that your "unique"concept was already taken, and has been in use for 10 years.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Friday, April 25, 2008 7:38 AM
BlinkX (www.blinkx.com), the video search provider, recently added yet another content provider to their growing portfolio of sources. According to the TelevisionPoint.com press release, BlinkX will carry content updated daily from Headlines Today, the English portal of India Today. Add this to the growing list of online partners, and BlinkX is beginning to look like one of the top choices for video search.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:04 PM
Check out the beta of Trendpedia (www.trendpedia.com), a blog search engine. This engine allows you to query blog postings, and create a trend chart based on the results. This is a nice feature, and will be useful, once Trendpedia solves the puzzle of spam postings to blogs. Query any large company or product, and you'll find many false positive posts ... not a good thing. Trendpedia could develope into a nifty resource for anyone needing to monitor and analyze blogs ... put this one on your watch list.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:42 AM
I'm currently using Google Alerts to track a couple of companies and industries, and was surprised (but not shocked), when Google "alerted" me of a job posting for one of the companies that was posted in 2007. While this was due to Google's spider discovering a new page that fit my search criteria, I'm wondering why we can't eliminate these situations from the alerts.
Anyway, Google Alerts are free, so I really can't squawk too much over the features, and these false positives aren't really that difficult to filter out ... just wouldn't mind NOT seeing them!
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By Larry Mrazek on
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:44 AM
As reported on TechCrunch, BuzzLogic, a media monitoring/reputation management/buzz tracker (insert your description of this space here ... ) just acquired Activeweave, which will give them additional information about who is reading blogs. Activeweave's Firefox plugin, BlogRovR has about 180,000 users (TechCrunch), giving BuzzLogic a nice sample to use for analytics.
I'm wondering, however, if all of those users are active readers, and if they'll be thrilled about having their reading habits (no matter how well cloaked) integrated into a private company's algorithm. Also, what happens if th ...
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By Larry Mrazek on
Friday, April 18, 2008 7:23 AM
In honor of the minor earthquake that awakened me this morning, here are a couple of links:
Have a great weekend!
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By Larry Mrazek on
Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:52 AM
Thought this post needed another link ... it asks a couple of good questions about software development and business. Read the full post at: http://codeclimber.blogspot.com/2008/04/all-i-need-is-programmer.html
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By Larry Mrazek on
Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:08 AM
From the Google Webmaster Central Blog, it seems that Google is now selectively crawling and indexing content from the "invisible web" (content requiring form submissions or search parameter inputs ... often found in Government and Industry sites).
This should be a good feature for Google ... though what is needed perhaps a bit more is the categorization of the available data sets on these sites, accessible via a single search interface (not a trivial undertaking).
According to Google, they are only selectively indexing sites that are open (no password protected sites yet) and that the additional pages won't affect the existing site's pageranking.
Read more on this at the Google Webmaster Central Blog.
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By Larry Mrazek on
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:31 AM
OK, couldn't resist the first part of the post title. Of course AOL is still in business, they have valuable properties like Truveo and now, Sphere. Read the PR at: http://www.sphere.com/blog/2008/04/15/aol-buys-sphere/, TechCrunch also has a posting and analysis.
What does this mean for bloggers/searchers? Hopefully AOL will be able to fund some improvements in the search area, to help Sphere produce even more relevant results (they do pretty well already), minus the spam.
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