Monthly Archives: January 2005

Geo-everything…

Lately, I have come accross many applications or ideas that combine geographic data with other information. People are talking about “geocasting” that is podcasts associated with geographical coordinates, geo-targeting in ads (this is old, I know) and now this: Mappr! … Continue reading

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Get 1,800 marketing and sales people to keep a secret? No problem

Looks like today is a google-news-day… Here is the latest one: SiliconValley.com | 01/21/2005 | Get 1,800 marketing and sales people to keep a secret? No problem (according to this article, google is planning to implement a public API to … Continue reading

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Google Raises Query Limit To 32 | InsideGoogle

I never had to search for something longer than 10 words, but I guess that such upgrades are always welcome.. So, this is it, you can now google using up to 32 words per query. Google Raises Query Limit To … Continue reading

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g-metrics.com and rel=”nofollow”

From now on, g-metrics.com will be using rel=”nofollow” in the links returned by Google (Top 10 shown at the bottom of each report). The reason is avoiding cyclic reference to the results that Google returns anyway…

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rel=”nofollow” supported by Google

According to this post at Google Blog

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Email signatures and permissions

This is one of the most brilliant ideas I heard for some time:Marqui’s world: This e-Mail Is… [x] Bloggable Nice and simple. Just add something like – [x] blogable [ ] ask first []private – to your signature and make … Continue reading

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From “Reference Tracking” to “ContentMix”

Those of you who have been reading this blog are already familiar with what I’ve called “Content Enrichment” (if not read this). I was reading Reference Tracking and the Performance of Technorati, Feedster, and Bloglines (by Jeremy Zawodny) when I … Continue reading

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Diversity: The key to Linux adoption?

I was wondering what is the best way to prepare an organization to accept Linux in its IT infrastracture. Then it struck me: instead (or at the same time) of evangelizing Linux and Open Source, one could just inject diversity. … Continue reading

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I want one of these!!!!

The Mac mini is soooooo cool! Will it run Linux? I’ll buy one the soonest possible. The perfect server for home.

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Technorati Developer’s Contest Winners

The Technorati Developer’s Contest is over and here are the winners! Nice ideas, check them out!

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