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Google Experiments With Voting On Results

Google is running an experiment with voting on search results to indicate which results you like or don’t like. Future searches will continue to show the results you vote for and hide results that you vote against. According to Google:
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search […]

The History of Nonsensical Names

Great article today from Paul Farhi at the Washington Post, How Do You Tell a Web Name From A Typo?
Many grown-ups now sound like babbling toddlers when speaking about the digital world — because many corporate names now have the ring of a collection of Dr. Seuss characters.
Websites, companies and projects name checked in the […]

Support Your Local TinyURL

TinyURL had an outage a couple of weeks ago, which I didn’t notice, but Steve Rubel and others did. If Twitter being down now and then bugs you then if this is the beginning of a trend for TinyURL you are going to be doing some serious moaning in the near future.
There are options […]

Where’s The Zune?

I swap my MP3 player about once a year. I’ve never owned an iPod, though the rest of the family does, and have cycled through about 5 different non-Apple players so far. Last year I got the first generation 30GB Zune, which has its pluses and minuses, and now I would love to […]

Yahoo! AP Internet Presidential Poll

Yahoo and the Associated Press teamed up for the first in a series of polls on the presidential candidates. Some of that data is below, but what I found interesting was this.
Unlike most Internet polls, this one is nationally representative because people are first contacted using traditional telephone polling methods, and are then followed […]

Email Addiction

I’m taking my annual Thanksgiving-week vacation, but as always keeping in touch with goings on at the office while getting some stuff done around the house and being with the familia. The constant buzzing of my BlackBerry and nightly couch time with my laptop lead me to consider the fact that I probably am […]

Online Video Viewership Continues to Spread

New data about the consumption of video online provides a few choice nuggets.

Almost half of the U.S. population watches as least one online video per month
The average age of viewers is 36
Viewers are almost evenly split between men and women
Most viewers watch at home
Viewing sessions typically last more than 10 minutes
People use online video for […]

MySpace Biggest, but Facebook and LinkedIn Growth Surging

While MySpace’s growth is anemic compared to that of Facebook and LinkedIn it still has the largest amount of traffic each month according to data from Nielsen Online as reported in Fortune. In addition it’s clear that there is a built in audience being developed through Club Penguin.

Social Networking Sites October 2007

Site
October 2006 UA (000)
October […]

Why Are Candidates Dropping The Ball With Search?

It’s not as if search engine marketing is cutting edge anymore or that that only a select few know about it. SEM is mainstream and that’s why I’m puzzled about the results of Rimm-Kaufman Group’s report Search and Politics ’08.
According to the study:

less than 50% of the Presidential Candidates are using SEM, and
more Republican […]