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Being an online publisher is hard to begin with. Being at the mercy of search traffic, fluctuations in Ad prices, and constantly searching to find new topics to write about can be challenging. Convincing a landlord that your income is stable, because your rent comes from a huge dependable company like Google can help with [...]
www.cloudsleuth.net released a report about the fastest cloud platforms that is pretty much a waste of time to read. Jon Brodkin’s artictle on Ars Technica is an even bigger waste of time to read because he makes some claims that would provide misinformation to the already skewed interpretation of what Compuware’s data actually means. Jon [...]
Google Chrome is not the best for protecting your privacy, but you can make it quite a bit better using some of the hidden menu options found in about:flags. In the navigation bar enter about:flags and scroll down to disable 3rd party cookies, and select “enable” which disables the cookies. This is slightly counter intuitive.
For debugging being able to use an alternate DNS can be useful. It can also be useful when you want to use Google DNS or OpenDNS in an environment where you also have to be able to connect to resources on your Intranet, and would normally be forced to use network DNS. To enable the [...]
Speeding up HTML5 rendering of animations using your GPU is one of the many features you can enable at about:flags in Google Chrome. This will speed up many of the flash-like animations that use the HTML5 2D Canvas.
By going to about:flags in Google Chrome, you can enable many hidden features in Google Chrome. One of the most useful of these features is the ability to enable GPU acceleration. This speeds up the rendering of the page, and often improves the appearance of screen fonts. GPU Acceleration is a feature that is still [...]
w34.us Internet Enabled Televisions add a bit to the price, but they are awfully cool. Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, Pandora, all at your finger tips. No messing with the Home Theater PC just push play and watch them go. Sure you could pay for a Google TV or a Roku box, but putting the Set Top [...]
Kontera is a great supplement to Adsense. By advertising in text, you don’t have intrusive ads, but can earn significant amounts of money beyond what you earn from just your display ads.
Google let me in to the beta of the new Adsense interface. It is pretty cool. Unlike the Adwords "improvements" which I still don’t like. The new Adsense does a lot of useful things, The CTR to eCPM tool is interesting, and the daily trends let me know if it was my traffic, or my [...]
If we just admit we are heading in to a technology Duopoly split between Microsoft and Google. Microsoft is the reigning king of the desktop, Office Automation, and all things local. Google reigns over all things Net, Search, and Connected. As the lines blur between the desktop, the Net, and the Cloud, the two kings [...]
Today Google’s doodle entitled Unexplained Phenomenon is creating some strange trends in search. The image links to a search for “Unexplained Phenomenon” and features a UFO beaming up an O from the Google Name. Being the top hit for the most searched term on Google is bouncing from Site to Site as the day tracks [...]
Matt Allard works with graphic design and web design for both independent and professional clients. During that time he’s found a way to blend the arts and create a niche in the Interactive Design market, as well as gain experience in the professional arena with a highly regarded company. The work displayed in his portfolio [...]
I sat down to put my depth of Python experience in to learning Google App Engine this weekend. And my first app http://drakaalfirst.appspot.com/ is an accelerator for my XYHD.tv Blog. Rather than porting WordPress to run on Google, I instead built a proxy designed to take the load off of the installation. This does several [...]
Do Midgets Have Night Vision? No. Of course they don’t. They are Midgets not Dwarves. They don’t work in the mines of Mordor. The Internet is making people stupid. If you have to Google to find out the answers to obvious questions you are an idiot. The problem with having the answer to any question [...]
Remember the good old days when search was about mastering Boolean expressions so you could find what you want? You could say you wanted “((bing OR kumo)) AND search) NOT crosby NOT bada” and get exactly the result you were looking for. Yeah those were the days. Then we decided the Internet was too large [...]
Microsoft is soon to announce/release Kumo/Bing.com a rebranding of Live.com Search. While Microsoft has been trying to consolidate brands in to a single “Live.com” in order to get away from preconceptions it is rebranding at Microsoft Bing. Bing is really just Live.com with an easier “Modify my search” function. Basically Google Suggests for Live.com. The [...]
DuckDuckGo.com appears to be a Yahoo powered search engine that has just a few modifiers, such as the addition of FavIcons and a Cutesy UI. Duck Duck Go is clearly looking to capitalize on the Popularity of WolfRam.com in the press. Everyone wants to see Google Fail, and with Search being a Multi-Billion Dollar business [...]
In this rapidly evolving world of online marketing it is sometimes hard to remember what all the terms mean, let alone how the strategy works. As such I have broken down the various services as applied to the bar scene. Brandon walks up to the cute girl at the bar and says “I’m great in [...]
David Silversmith has a history of making bombastic headlines that are so far from the truth, backed by numbers that are no where near a whole picture, but this one is probably the one furthest from the truth I have seen. Let’s assume most of David’s Numbers are right, he cites where he got them [...]
Christine Lu is the Top China Expert when it comes to how to take an American business to China. Converting your business to work in the Chinese economy and market is not just a matter of translating your existing ad copy to Mandarin and Cantonese, it takes an understanding of the culture, politics, and business [...]
Despite spending time to talk to the BBC and Engadet, Onlive’s Math doesn’t hold up, and that’s before we get to cost. Steve Perlman is whining that people like me haven’t used the system and are already saying it won’t work, but Onlive is one of those technologies that if they have solved the theoretical [...]
www.Google.com/Voice has gone live as replacement for Grandcentral.com. while many of the features are staying the same, the ability to forward your calls to multiple phones, ability to make outgoing calls from your Virtual Number. What’s new in Google.com/voice is that you can now get your voicemails converted to text, and sent as e-mail or [...]
EHarmony sent me three letters telling me the accounts I set up when I lived in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and most recently San Jose, have been closed. There was no reason cited. Just a note saying it could be because I’m a criminal, married, or could be any or no reason. · Misrepresentation of [...]
And One Ring to Rule them All! With Ping.fm, and Onlywire.com and Friend Feed, and Face book, I think I may have more Social Networks than I have friends. Actually it is pretty close. I have about 500 “Friends” fewer than that followers, and I have logins for 146 social networks, that is before you [...]
While Google has a great Unit Conversion Tool Built in, that won’t help you on a plane, when you need to quickly figure out how many Feet per second 200 knots are before you crash in to the ocean will it? If you start Calc.exe in Windows 7 and select Options –> Unit Calculator you [...]