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And you people call yourselves tech bloggers

June 1, 2009

In much of the news about Microsoft’s relaunched search engine, Bing, one of the things that many tech bloggers have been mentioning as being new is how Bing will display images and videos. More than a few comments I have seen around is how it is rather cool that Bing will let you play videos [...]

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Ballmer admits to the value of ‘verbing up’ but gives us bland instead

May 28, 2009

It’s nice to have my opinions about something, even if in a round about way, verified as being even close to on the money. It doesn’t happen very often and especially not from the level of a Steve Ballmer.
I took a lot of flack recently over a post I wrote at The Inquisitr that [...]

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Rebranding Update: the Google PageRank

May 27, 2009

The one really big thing that I was worried about as I began planning the rebranding of WinExtra into its new identity, Shooting at Bubbles, was the hit that the blog’s PageRank would take. Prior to the move WinExtra had managed to get to a PageRank of 6 but it had taken the better [...]

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Can Google afford the real-time and semantic web?

May 13, 2009

Google makes its money from AdSense and AdWords based advertising. In fact they make billions of dollars off of the simple act of selling keywords which then people create ads around. The idea that Google makes any money directly from their search business is a fallacy.
Every penny they make is based on keywords.
While real-time [...]

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So why is a Google music search in China cool but not for the rest of us?

March 31, 2009

I’m kinda surprised that the fact that Google will be providing a music search with the blessing of over a 140 plus music labels, including the Big 4, in China but the rest of us have to watch from the sidelines hasn’t gotten wider traction. Sure there are alternatives, for as long as they [...]

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Giving ourselves enough Latitude to hang ourselves with

February 5, 2009

Yesterday much of the tech blogosphere was abuzz with Google’s announcement about the release of a new application for mobile phones called Latitude. Much of today I have been thinking about it and trying to figure out what the excitement was about and why the idea behind Latitude is even something to get excited [...]

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There’s numbers and there’s confusing bullshit numbers

January 22, 2009

The last couple of days has seen a resurgence in the discussion about Feedburner and the growing dissatisfaction with the service – especially since it was sucked into the black hole known as Google Acquisitions. People like Chris Pirillo; who is actually thinking of leaving the service, and Allen Stern are pointing out the [...]

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I guess it pays to get the Big Guns involved

January 4, 2009

The tech blogosphere is littered with posts giving the big boys of blogging a slap around or chain yanking over their popularity and presumed power but today proved that there is something to the A-List power after all.
I wrote earlier over at The Inquisitr about the complaints that are going on about Feedburner and Google’s [...]

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Well that didn’t take long for Google’s Friend Connect to be screwed with

December 9, 2008

If there is one reliable thing on the web it has to be the fact that spammers and porno pissants will ruin a service faster than you can shake a tail. It turns out Google’s Friend Connect isn’t immune to them. this is what I just found when I refreshed the WinExtra page

I don’t imagine [...]

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WinExtra joins Google’s Friend Connect

December 4, 2008

One of the newest sidebar baubles that is showing up in blog sidebars is a new Google Friend Connect widget. I first really saw it in action [...]

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