December 31, 2005
Coworking
http://codinginparadise.org/coworking/
Community Office Space for Writers and Programmers
Posted by jzawodn at
07:23 PM
Canon Lens Rebates
http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/photo/canonLensRebates.html
"Canon has a yearly amazing rebate program; if you buy three qualifying items you get a 10-30% rebate on all of them."
Posted by jzawodn at
05:23 PM
Free Pentium Computer with Keyboard
http://www.craigslist.org/sby/sys/121748228.html
I'm giving away my original linux web server from college! Get it while it's hot.
Posted by jzawodn at
05:00 PM
ISO Recorder v 2
http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm
ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a di
Posted by jzawodn at
09:23 AM
The Cloud Appreciation Society
http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/
"At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we're not ashamed to say it and we've had enough of people moaning about them."
Posted by jzawodn at
08:00 AM
Bitter Brew
http://www.slate.com/id/2132576/
"I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life."
Posted by jzawodn at
12:23 AM
December 30, 2005
How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/fraud.html
a good intro to click fraud from wired magazine
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 PM
Dell 2405FPW UltraSharp Flat Panel Monitor User Guide
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/2405fpw/English/index.htm
trying to figure out why mine is fucked
Posted by jzawodn at
09:23 PM
Marissa Mayer quotes
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/marissa_mayer/
found via Rifkin
Posted by jzawodn at
08:23 PM
Search is hard
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/12/search_is_hard.html
"I think it's inevitable that many users are going to become cynical about the power of search as this problem gets worse (and I think it will) before it gets better."
Posted by jzawodn at
03:23 PM
Adobe Su&#@s
http://toni.schneidersf.com/?p=54
"PDF seemed like a good idea once upon a time, now it’s just another piece of offensive bloatware."
Posted by jzawodn at
02:46 PM
Wikimedia needs your help
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_needs_your_help
Just a few years ago, wikipedia.org was not even a top 10,000 website; now it is in the top 30 with more than 2.5 billion pagehits in November 2005 alone.
Posted by jzawodn at
11:23 AM
John Battelle Talks to Performancing about FM Publishing
http://performancing.com/node/674
"Federated Media (we call it FM) is something of a mashup of business models, all of which exist to support what might be called "talent" - think of the music labels, agents, book publishers and the like, but without the evil approach to intellectual prop
Posted by jzawodn at
11:00 AM
Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without
http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/30/web-20-companies-i-couldnt-live-without/
my list is ... zero.
Posted by jzawodn at
11:00 AM
SoartheRockies.com - Invermere Soaring Center
http://www.soartherockies.com/
"The Invermere Soaring Centre is located in the beautiful Canadian Rockies. We consider it one of the best mountain soaring sites in the world with a wonderful mix of thermals, dynamic soaring and wave."
Posted by jzawodn at
09:23 AM
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been MIT's introductory pre-professional computer science subject since 1981.
Posted by jzawodn at
08:46 AM
The Perils of JavaSchools
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html
"I'm going back to ones and zeros."
Posted by jzawodn at
08:46 AM
December 29, 2005
Jeremy Zawodny vs. Matt Cutts : Search Blog Award
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2707
congrats to Matt!
Posted by jzawodn at
09:00 AM
Solar Converters Inc.
http://www.solarconverters.com/
Solar Converters Inc. is a manufacturer of highly efficient power control products for the renewable energy field.
Posted by jzawodn at
07:23 AM
December 28, 2005
The Yahoo chef gets a little adventerous
http://www.grayhatnews.com/node/273
"Oh no, in the Yahoo canteen this Holiday dish of the day was Roast Alien."
Posted by jzawodn at
10:24 AM
Air-Patrol Kft. Zlin 137T Agro Turbo
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=981409&size=L&width=1280&height=972&sok=JURER%20%20(qngrfgnzc%20%3E%20qngr_fho(ABJ()%2C%20VAGREINY%2024%20UBHE))%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20ivrjf%20qrfp&photo_nr=3&prev_id=981474&next_id=981548
towing 4 gliders at once!
Posted by jzawodn at
10:23 AM
Beware Of Evil Free SEO Software Messing Up Your Computer
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003028.html
"After closer inspection I found the little program has overwritten my environmental variables in Windows XP, including the system variables and values."
Posted by jzawodn at
10:23 AM
StaxRip
http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/
With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD's, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format.
Posted by jzawodn at
10:23 AM
December 27, 2005
Lake Elsinore Soaring Club
http://www.soarelsinore.org/
sacry site, but a good group of pilots it seems
Posted by jzawodn at
10:01 PM
rednecksurfing
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3636904060137062287&q=rednecksurfing
heh... excellent video of a Dumb White Guy
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 PM
Sony MDR-V600 Studio Monitor Series Headphones
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00001W0DI/
possile replacements for my MDR-V6s
Posted by jzawodn at
04:23 PM
SONY MDR7506 Studio Monitor Stereo Headphones
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AJIF4E/qid=1135722617/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-9973510-2663014?n=507846&s=electronics&v=glance
also psosible replacements for my MDR-V6s
Posted by jzawodn at
04:23 PM
Tiger Vision gives police an edge
http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln8_1222.html
A new infrared night vision device donated to the Burlington police department Wednesday by a local business will help officers shed light on criminals hiding in the dark.
Posted by jzawodn at
09:23 AM
2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69904-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
just in case you've already forgotton who this year's dipshits were
Posted by jzawodn at
07:23 AM
December 26, 2005
Ruby off the Rails
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ruby/?ca=dgr-lnxw01RubyOffRails
Get to know Ruby before you hop on (or off) the Rails bandwagon
Posted by jzawodn at
08:46 PM
JVC GZ-MG70 Camcorder Review - JVC Other Media - JVC Camcorders - Camcorder Reviews - Consumer Camcorders - Camcorderinfo.com
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/JVC-GZ-MG70-Camcorder-Review.htm
an eye opening review
Posted by jzawodn at
04:23 PM
Archos AV700: 100GB Mobile Digital Video Recorder
http://www.shoparchos.com/product.aspx?sku=2690790&culture=fr-FR
a high-capcity video recorder
Posted by jzawodn at
04:23 PM
Eject! Eject! Eject!: AREA MAN CONFRONTED WITH A 45; DEFENDS SELF WITH TOY AIRPLANE
http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000094.html
"I think every pilot should be required to start in gliders. You never develop any false ideas about pitch and power (because there is no power), you learn how to fly the wing, you spend your entire day in a sixty degree bank 2 knots above a stall, you ge
Posted by jzawodn at
04:23 PM
Mom Fights Downloading Suit on Her Own
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051226/ap_on_en_mu/music_download_suit
"It was Easter Sunday, and Patricia Santangelo was in church with her kids when she says the music recording industry peeked into her computer and decided to take her to court." The RIAA can burn in hell.
Posted by jzawodn at
01:00 PM
Good and Bad Procrastination
http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
guilty as charged. :-(
Posted by jzawodn at
07:23 AM
Omnidrive’s Online Storage Actually Works
http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/25/omnidrives-online-storage-actually-works/
I told y'all this kinda stuff was coming...!
Posted by jzawodn at
06:46 AM
December 25, 2005
Can I Crash?
http://www.canicrash.org/
a service that lets you lend your sofa to travelling bloggers!
Posted by jzawodn at
08:46 PM
Machine learning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
Machine learning is an area of artificial intelligence concerned with the development of techniques which allow computers to "learn". More specifically, machine learning is a method for creating computer programs by the analysis of data sets.
Posted by jzawodn at
07:46 PM
PyML
http://pyml.sourceforge.net/doc/tutorial/tutorial.html
a Python Machine Learning package
Posted by jzawodn at
07:46 PM
December 24, 2005
The Year in Tags
http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/the-year-in-tags/
This was a big year for tags.
Posted by jzawodn at
07:00 PM
webkit2png
http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/
webkit2png is a command line tool that creates png screenshots of webpages.
Posted by jzawodn at
06:46 PM
Ouch!!!! Hard landings hurt!
http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=147&topic_id=220703&mesg_id=220703&page=2
"One of the major advantages to using Flight Simulator, it doesn't cost anything after making a hard landing. Below are a short series of various hard landings, usually because of a crosswind, that I thought I would share."
Posted by jzawodn at
06:46 PM
Dynamics of Digg
http://www.sourcelabs.com/blogs/ajb/2005/12/dynamics_of_digg_1.html
There are five groups of people who make digg.com what it is.
Posted by jzawodn at
03:01 PM
Green Vehicle Guide - Listed by Air Pollution Score Within Class
http://www.epa.gov/autoemissions/suv-06.htm
good stuff from the EPA
Posted by jzawodn at
03:00 PM
How do I remove Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer?
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/toolbar/toolbar-08.html
In case you're wondering...
Posted by jzawodn at
03:00 PM
December 23, 2005
Pa. Community Celebrates Festivus
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051224/ap_on_fe_st/happy_festivus
The celebration of Festivus is alive and well in northwestern Pennsylvania, nearly a decade after the bizarre "holiday" garnered pop culture notoriety on "Seinfeld."
Posted by jzawodn at
04:46 PM
Cook with a pants hanger
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/cooking/cook-with-a-pants-hanger-144852.php
that's a damned good idea
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 AM
You learn something new everyday
http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2005/12/you_learn_somet.html
or "how not to transport a tree frog"
Posted by jzawodn at
09:23 AM
Mashup Camp: the unconference about the uncomputer
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2304&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
"My goal for Mashup Camp is to do the opposite of what all these other Web 2.0-esque conferences are doing. It won't be invitation only."
Posted by jzawodn at
07:00 AM
Yahoobar For Opera
http://my.opera.com/coxy/albums/show.dml?id=19957
look, someone made a Y! Toolbar for Opera. Cool.
Posted by jzawodn at
06:46 AM
December 21, 2005
To Mr. Aisle-Seat Jackass
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/119506393.html
"Look, no one likes flying."
Posted by jzawodn at
09:24 PM
The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users
http://www.slackermanager.com/slacker_manager/2005/12/the_several_hab.html
"That said, many of the best parts of del.icio.us don't require you to get an account. So if you doubt you'll sign up, continue reading--there's probably something here for you."
Posted by jzawodn at
09:23 PM
Python Creator Guido van Rossum now working at Google
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8821
what next, Larry Wall?
Posted by jzawodn at
09:00 PM
Google XSS Example
http://shiflett.org/archive/178
"Rather than offer another vague answer, I decided to provide a very simple proof of concept that demonstrates how character encoding inconsistencies can bite you. Google's vulnerability has of course been fixed, but with a simple PHP script, we can repro
Posted by jzawodn at
08:23 PM
Gravee Takes a New Approach to Search
http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/21/gravee-takes-a-new-approach-to-search/
So now a spammer (err, I mean "SEO") can get money from a search engine by being in the top 10 even if they're never clicked on. I'm in the wrong end of this business!
Posted by jzawodn at
12:00 PM
Reasons Why I Bought The Poker Blog
http://performancing.com/node/482
Reasons that one might buy a blog...
Posted by jzawodn at
11:46 AM
Zeitgeist turning against zeitgeist--time for a new term
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/12/the_zeitgeist_o.php
"Google's year-end report is a very weak and skimpy report, and tells us nothing much. And nothing much that we didn't know already, or could have guessed." Agreed.
Posted by jzawodn at
11:46 AM
Flickr Toys
http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/
Helping you do fun things with your digital camera since 2005.
Posted by jzawodn at
11:46 AM
December 20, 2005
Adam Rifkin
http://www.ifindkarma.com/
our first victim on Power Source
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 PM
Performancing for Firefox
http://performancing.com/firefox
this firefox extension rocks!
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 PM
Fuck You, Josh Stomel
http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=92
This guy is simply stealing people’s blog posts, making slight changes and re-posting them as his own writing.
Posted by jzawodn at
05:00 PM
Graphics Coming to Google Ads
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/20/1431211&from=rss
"It was as if a Million Geeks cried out in terror and then were silenced."
Posted by jzawodn at
01:46 PM
top ten sexiest geeks of 2005
http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2005/12/top_ten_sexiest.html
Geeks are sexy. Big, powerful, lubricious, restless brains are just about as hot as it gets -- the brain *is* the biggest sex organ in the body, after all.
Posted by jzawodn at
12:46 PM
Sharing Your Media With Media RSS
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/05/46/index4a.html
"Originally authored by Yahoo! to improve media enclosures in RSS and also allow the submission of media content to its search engine via RSS, the development of Media RSS has since been opened up to the RSS community through the rss-media mailing list."
Posted by jzawodn at
11:00 AM
December 19, 2005
Jeremy Zawodny Interview
http://www.seobuzzbox.com/jeremy-zawodny-interview.html
SEOBUZZBOX.COM interviewed me about stuff
Posted by jzawodn at
08:46 PM
enhance
http://trainedmonkey.com/2005/12/19/enhance
"life needs and 'enhance' button"
Posted by jzawodn at
05:46 PM
eBay Motors & Google Maps: Find the perfect used car, truck, or motorcycle near you.
http://www.trachtenberg.com/emgm/
Adam built a mash-up that could actually make money for eBay. Cool.
Posted by jzawodn at
05:03 PM
Adium is the Future
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/12/16/Adium
"Software of the future will be Open Source, will have a sophisticated and smart user interface, will take responsibility for making sure it’s up to date, and will meet essential human needs. Like Adium."
Posted by jzawodn at
05:03 PM
December 18, 2005
Google, Yahoo and Dogpile's Top Searches of 2005 List
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051216-184738
"This really illustrates that lots of searchers don't understand how search works (at even the most BASIC of level)."
Posted by jzawodn at
06:49 PM
Paid Text Links and the Bigger Picture
http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2005/12/paid-text-links-and-bigger-picture.html
"What bothers me about Google’s stance is that they are putting the onus on site owners to improve their search results rather than adjusting their algorithm."
Posted by jzawodn at
06:40 PM
December 17, 2005
Lock-in is bad
http://kalsey.com/2005/12/lockin_is_bad/
"What crack are they smoking? If I bought a wifi camera or phone and discovered that I could only use it at T-Mobile hotspots, I’d be mighty annoyed. Forget the $40 a month part for a minute. You’re telling me that this new camera I bought to connect
Posted by jzawodn at
09:23 PM
should i participate in a government panel?
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/12/15/should_i_partic.html
"They want to understand how blogs and Friendster work."
Posted by jzawodn at
07:23 PM
gathering the troops
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/12/17/gathering_the_t.html
"Yahoo! is going through a really strange transformation right now and it's intriguing to be a part of it." ... "Before mainstreamification, Yahoo! used to stand for the people who were rather quirky. It's rather nice to see it moving back in that directi
Posted by jzawodn at
07:23 PM
Yahoo! Developer Network - JavaScript Developer Center
http://ws1.inf.scd.yahoo.com/javascript/
Do you eat, sleep and breathe JavaScript? This is your source for information for using JavaScript with Yahoo! Web Services APIs.
Posted by jzawodn at
06:47 PM
Using JSON with Yahoo! Web Services
http://developer.yahoo.net/common/json.html
Many of the Yahoo! Web Services provide JSON as an alternate output format to XML. This page describes The Yahoo! Web Services JSON output, and how to use it in your own programs.
Posted by jzawodn at
06:46 PM
The Poop on Diarrhea Vaccine
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69865,00.html?tw=rss.TEK
nice headline
Posted by jzawodn at
06:46 PM
Oodle
http://www.oodle.com/
The Search Engine for Local Classifieds
Posted by jzawodn at
06:46 PM
Google releases GTalk API, Puts Gun To Skype’s Head
http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/17/google-talk-puts-gun-to-skypes-head/
Google has just released a set of components called Libjingle that allow third party applications to interact with Google Talk. The components, which include some source code, are being released under a very liberal license allowing for free incorporation
Posted by jzawodn at
03:23 PM
Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/technology/16cnd-aol.html
"Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done before." Holy Shit!
Posted by jzawodn at
09:20 AM
HOW TO: Customize WordPress : Part 2
http://performancing.com/node/429
good stuff from performancing
Posted by jzawodn at
09:20 AM
Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=80
"It's been a huge year for the Web!" No shit!
Posted by jzawodn at
09:20 AM
HOW TO: Customize WordPress : Part 2
http://performancing.com/node/429
good stuff from performancing
Posted by jzawodn at
09:00 AM
Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=80
"It's been a huge year for the Web!" No shit!
Posted by jzawodn at
09:00 AM
Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/technology/16cnd-aol.html
"Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done before." Holy Shit!
Posted by jzawodn at
08:41 AM
HOW TO: Customize WordPress : Part 2
http://performancing.com/node/429
good stuff from performancing
Posted by jzawodn at
08:40 AM
Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=80
"It's been a huge year for the Web!" No shit!
Posted by jzawodn at
08:40 AM
HOW TO: Customize WordPress : Part 2
http://performancing.com/node/429
good stuff from performancing
Posted by jzawodn at
08:21 AM
Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005
http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=80
"It's been a huge year for the Web!" No shit!
Posted by jzawodn at
08:20 AM
Konfabulator now Yahoo! Widgets Engine
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/12/12/konfabulator-now-yahoo-widgets-engine/
some people are not happy
Posted by jzawodn at
12:21 AM
Mix 06
http://www.mix06.com/
a microsoft conference with an un-microsoft look
Posted by jzawodn at
12:21 AM
CMS Support For Advertisers? Sponsored links?
http://www.feedblog.org/2005/12/cms_support_for.html
"One thing I like is the fact that Jeremy allows comments. Why not take this to another level? Start shipping CMS systems with a 'buy a link' feature integrated directly into the product."
Posted by jzawodn at
12:20 AM
CMS Support For Advertisers? Sponsored links?
http://www.feedblog.org/2005/12/cms_support_for.html
"One thing I like is the fact that Jeremy allows comments. Why not take this to another level? Start shipping CMS systems with a 'buy a link' feature integrated directly into the product."
Posted by jzawodn at
12:00 AM
December 16, 2005
Garmin: GPSMAP 396
http://www.garmin.com/products/gpsmap396/
it's an amazing GPS unit for pilots
Posted by jzawodn at
11:40 PM
Doctors to Remove Growth from Girl's Face
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1756&e=2&u=/051215/ids_photos_ts/r395554352.jpg
holy crap!
Posted by jzawodn at
11:40 PM
Google in talks to buy 5 pct of AOL
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/051216/media_timewarner_google.html?.v=7
Web search leader Google Inc. is in exclusive talks to buy a 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc.'s AOL Internet unit for $1 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
Posted by jzawodn at
11:20 PM
Because I Can: Top Searches
http://danisaacs.com/blog/archives/000558.html
"Yahoo! presented its not so Top Ten Searches of 2005. Looking at the list, you'll see it is complete bullshit. So I present for you the real top 10 search phrases."
Posted by jzawodn at
11:00 PM
Airzooka Air Gun
http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/60b6/
Launch A Full Air Assault - Without Ever Leaving The Ground!
Posted by jzawodn at
11:00 PM
December 15, 2005
amusing telemarketing call
http://hard-clan.com/users/canabis/Misc/prank/citibank.mp3
guy gets call from mbna for a visa card and spends a long, long time arguing with the caller
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 PM
A Google Nightmare
http://joeduck.blogspot.com/2005/12/google-nightmare.html
"We were concerned about the way people are starting to change their writing styles and subjects to comply with search engine preferences."
Posted by jzawodn at
02:20 PM
Web-based text files with Yahoo! Notepad
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-webbased-text-files-with-yahoo-notepad-142952.php
heh. everything that's old is new again
Posted by jzawodn at
08:01 AM
Yahoo! 2005 Top Searches
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2005/
all of the image searches are guys looking for chicks (real or virtual). that's not terribly surprising I guess
Posted by jzawodn at
08:01 AM
Structured Blogging Will Flop
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/002215.html
people are lazy!
Posted by jzawodn at
08:01 AM
Corporate blogging panel at Syndicate
http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2005/12/14/corporate-blogging-panel-at-syndicate/
Chad blogs the panel I was on
Posted by jzawodn at
08:00 AM
Yahoo Won't Correct Billion Dollar Errors
http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/12/09.html
we really suck at math. but barbie says math is hard, so maybe it's okay?
Posted by jzawodn at
08:00 AM
Yahoo hires DARPA director to head research
http://news.com.com/Yahoo+hires+DARPA+director+to+head+research/2100-1030_3-5996430.html?part=rss&tag=5996430&subj=news
"Yahoo has opened an East Coast research center, hiring an artificial intelligence expert and former director at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to head the office and start similar operations in other countries."
Posted by jzawodn at
07:41 AM
Oh, No, We're Not a Portal
http://www.internetoutsider.com/2005/12/oh_no_were_not_.html
what have I been saying for... ages?
Posted by jzawodn at
07:41 AM
Greg Boser Interview
http://www.seobuzzbox.com/greg-boser-interview.html
"Once you take away algorithmic visibility, that ideal model collapses pretty quick. It would be virtually impossible for my Father to replicate what he’s done online if he started from scratch today. Google has become so restrictive when in comes to ne
Posted by jzawodn at
07:41 AM
Google whistles a new tune
http://news.com.com/Google+whistles+a+new+tune/2100-1024_3-5995864.html?part=rss&tag=5995864&subj=news
" Google was set to launch on Thursday a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page."
Posted by jzawodn at
07:40 AM
Google, Microsoft to Fund New Internet Lab
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/051215/internet_lab.html?.v=2
"Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience." Stragne bedfellows!
Posted by jzawodn at
07:40 AM
December 14, 2005
Amazon.com Success Story AdBrite
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=aws_gen_nl14ssna/103-3569205-5494254?&node=16284421
AdBrite using the Alexa APIs to help rate sites that advertisers might want to buy space on
Posted by jzawodn at
10:21 AM
Google Homepage API
http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/
"Create a Module for the Google Homepage" using HTML, JavaScript in an IFRAME
Posted by jzawodn at
10:20 AM
My Take on Google’s Ten Rules
http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/?p=376
Jeff Barr’s got an interesting take on Google's rules
Posted by jzawodn at
10:20 AM
Cheating Google 101
http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/12/cheating_google.html
"I wanted to understand clickfraud a bit better, so I started advertising this blog on Google and trying to see what sort of fraud it could catch. Then when I had finished the experiments I left the ads running. Now I've just checked the latest stats, and
Posted by jzawodn at
10:20 AM
December 12, 2005
Bedework
http://www.bedework.org/update.do
an open source institutional calendar system
Posted by jzawodn at
11:40 PM
Alexa Web Information Service APIs
http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/WebInfoService.html
interesting commecial terms they're using
Posted by jzawodn at
11:20 PM
Copulating deaf couple unaware of own volume
http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2005/12/copulating_deaf.html
this is the funniest story I've read all week. Deaf couple has sex loudly and wakes up everyone within several hunred yards.
Posted by jzawodn at
11:20 PM
Konfabulator 3.0 Goodness
http://toni.schneidersf.com/?p=51
There’s a new version of Konfabulator, now called Yahoo! Widgets, available at widgets.yahoo.com.
Posted by jzawodn at
10:20 AM
A Yahoo! Company
http://mike.teczno.com/ayahoocompany/
resistance is futile... you will be acquired.
Posted by jzawodn at
10:20 AM
A VC: Online Backup's Inflection Point
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/12/online_backups_.html
"I have been using online backup for over ten years in my home. I have even used it over dial-up. You just let the backup go over night." Bingo.
Posted by jzawodn at
07:40 AM
spew
http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/?z=post&y=archives/003304
"when it comes to something like a digital camera, Asians will do anything - anything - to win" heh
Posted by jzawodn at
07:40 AM
Yahoo 360 revisited
http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/152_Yahoo_360_revisited.html
"Now, almost the only thing my friends seem to be using it for is to point to their real blogs -- which I read anyway -- or lame feeds, which I don't want to read."
Posted by jzawodn at
12:00 AM
December 11, 2005
Firefox users ignore online ads, report says
http://news.com.com/Firefox+users+ignore+online+ads,+report+says/2100-1024_3-5479800.html
I should add some tracking code to my site...
Posted by jzawodn at
11:00 PM
Yahoo to buy Tivo?
http://www.hughes-family.org/wordpress/2005/12/11/yahoo-to-buy-tivo/
would that mean I'd have to own a tivo again?
Posted by jzawodn at
09:21 PM
To Promote a Cable Network, a Plan to Inundate the Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/technology/12msnbc.html?ex=1292043600&en=d738d2017a9416a6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
"The MSNBC cable network plans to flood the Internet this week with its largest concentrated online pitch, running advertising on hundreds of Web sites and blogs." Fuckers.
Posted by jzawodn at
09:20 PM
It's just a goddamned piece of paper
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” (beware lame pop-up on that site)
Posted by jzawodn at
10:20 AM
The efficacy of time-constrained hacking
http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2005/12/10/time-constrained-hacking/
less time == more efficient hacking
Posted by jzawodn at
08:00 AM
Filemon
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html
it's kinda lika lsof for windows, but without the stdin/stdout fun
Posted by jzawodn at
08:00 AM
A camera that has it all? Well, almost
http://news.com.com/A+camera+that+has+it+all+Well%2C+almost/2100-1041_3-5990286.html?part=rss&tag=5990286&subj=news
David Pogue reviews the new Sony R1 and it sounds like Sony is really shaking things up with this unit!
Posted by jzawodn at
07:40 AM
December 10, 2005
Writely
http://www.writely.com/
The Web Word Processor. Beta, of course. It's Web 2.0, ya know?
Posted by jzawodn at
07:40 PM
Google Increased Ad Font Size
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-12-10-n86.html
mo money, mo money
Posted by jzawodn at
01:20 PM
The Elements of Platform Leadership
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2002/spring/5/
Nowhere is the growing interconnectedness of business more clear than in the information-technology industry, where the success of any one company's innovation is dependent on the activities of a complex web of partners.
Posted by jzawodn at
12:00 PM
Google vs Yahoo vs MSN vs AskJeeves
http://joeduck.blogspot.com/2005/12/google-vs-yahoo-vs-msn-vs-askjeeves.html
"The search landscape, built almost entirely on advertising revenues, is changing at the speed of cash."
Posted by jzawodn at
12:40 AM
December 09, 2005
Yahoo! becoming a Web 2.0 Poster Boy
http://woodrow.typepad.com/the_ponderings_of_woodrow/2005/12/yahoo_becoming_.html
All of the sudden Yahoo! has become an important component of my daily life in too many ways to discount. Not a day goes by that I don't use Flickr or del.icio.us; and now they're part of the Yahoo! family. Add to that a pretty decent new RSS aggregator,
Posted by jzawodn at
11:20 PM
rsstroom reader
http://www.djspyhunter.com/teapot/uploaded_images/rsstroom_reader_restroom-761230.jpg
rss on toilet paper! I needs me one of these machines...
Posted by jzawodn at
02:00 PM
Great Tastes That Go Great Together
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000223.html
And as of today, del.icio.us is part of the Yahoo! family.
Posted by jzawodn at
11:08 AM
del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!
http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/12/yahoo.html
yahoo buys del.icio.us
Posted by jzawodn at
11:00 AM
December 08, 2005
my year in twelve cut-and-paste sentences
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/574964.html
oh, I think I'm gonna do something like this too. It'll be fun to see if I can pick just one sentence for each month...
Posted by jzawodn at
09:40 PM
San Fransocial
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/12/06/san-fransocial/
instead of the old chat, look at each other in the eye, sip, drink, speak, listen, respond and on and on, you have these myriad verbal, non-verbal and digital communication methods happening simultaneously, spontaneously and asynchronously.
Posted by jzawodn at
08:40 PM
To a Long and Happy Life
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69789,00.html?tw=rss.TEK
Half of Americans in the 55-to-64 age group — including the oldest of the baby boomers — have high blood pressure, and two in five are obese. That means they are in worse shape in some respects than Americans born a decade earlier were when they were
Posted by jzawodn at
05:40 PM
Feeling a little bit of buyer's remorse, eh eBay?
http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2005/12/the_ink_on_ebay.html
heh, maybe voip will soon just be free like everything else on the Internets
Posted by jzawodn at
05:20 PM
Yahoo Answers - Are they out Googling Google?
http://joeduck.blogspot.com/2005/12/yahoo-answers-are-they-outgoogling.html
I think the services are actually quite different, mostly because of the incetive structures.
Posted by jzawodn at
05:00 PM
Why should I search on Yahoo! rather than on Google?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjB8bCUFaU2QkyTaGw_CxSLpy6IX?qid=1005120800232
it took no time for someone to ask the obvious question on Yahoo! Answers
Posted by jzawodn at
08:20 AM
Donate a Computer to Computer Recycling Center
http://www.crc.org/
Computers & Education reuses computers, and Computer Recycling Center promotes the highest and best re-use of computer and electronic equipment, and recycles unusable items to keep them out of landfills.
Posted by jzawodn at
08:20 AM
Network effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
The network effect causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service. Metcalfe's law states that the total value of a good or service that possesses a netwo
Posted by jzawodn at
08:20 AM
Google's butt-ugly interface design
http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2005/12/grokking_google_2.html
As Google moves into different, more complicated application services, particularly those with a desktop component, its weakness in interface design will hinder its ambitions.
Posted by jzawodn at
07:20 AM
December 07, 2005
Ruby Book Sales Surpass Python
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html
interesting viewpoints in the comments too
Posted by jzawodn at
10:40 PM
Google Transit
http://www.google.com/transit
just launched
Posted by jzawodn at
10:01 PM
The Japanese game to end all Japanese games
http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2005/12/01/the-japanese-game-to-end-all-japanese-games/
Yes. A fighting game where panty-shots are the core mechanic.
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 PM
Asking the Internet
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000221.html
We want to give anyone a place to tap the collective wisdom of the Internet for advice, recommendations, theories, jokes, ... whatever. Anyone can answer. It's free.
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 PM
Drinking the Google Kool Aid?
http://joeduck.blogspot.com/2005/12/drinking-google-kool-aid.html
With Yahoo now equal in search quality and MSN and AskJeeves equal within months or a year at most, the division of advertising revenues will challenge Google, making it hard to grow faster than the rate offline advertising money pours online.
Posted by jzawodn at
07:20 PM
No Machine Can Do My Job As Resentfully As I Can
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43214
Replacing us with machines will increase profits, but can a dollar value be placed on the labors of someone who drinks before his morning shift just to get through the day? And when the machines are sitting in six-inch-deep gore at day's end, will they go
Posted by jzawodn at
04:40 PM
Tripping the Yahoo Fantastic
http://gigaom.com/2005/12/05/tripping-the-yahoo-fantastic/
Om wonders what Yahoo is...
Posted by jzawodn at
12:00 AM
Introducing JSON
http://www.crockford.com/JSON/index.html
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate.
Posted by jzawodn at
12:00 AM
December 05, 2005
RFC 4287
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287
The Atom Syndication Format
Posted by jzawodn at
10:01 PM
Yahoo! Related Books
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/books.cfm
check it out! Yahoo is pimping my book. kick ass.
Posted by jzawodn at
10:01 PM
What's New in ModSecurity
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2005/12/01/modsecurity.html
This article describes the most important new features in ModSecurity 1.9.
Posted by jzawodn at
10:01 PM
Buying Search Traffic
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/12/04/Search-Momentum
pretty soon the traffic will be dealt out totally based on who’s willing to pay the most for it
Posted by jzawodn at
10:01 PM
James Burke's KnowledgeWeb Project
http://www.k-web.org/
an expedition in time, space, and technology to map the interior landscape of human thought and experience
Posted by jzawodn at
10:01 PM
Sage: a feed reader for Firefox
http://sage.mozdev.org/
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't.
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 PM
SuprGlu - Gluing your life together.
http://suprglu.com/
Do you already use services like del.icio.us, flickr, blogger, typepad, etc? SuprGlu is a new way to gather all your content from those sites.
Posted by jzawodn at
10:00 PM
basic bread
http://trainedmonkey.com/2005/12/5/basic_bread
Jim publishes hs bread recipie. I need to cook more.
Posted by jzawodn at
08:00 PM
Yahoo! Japan Developer Network
http://developer.yahoo.co.jp/
kick ass! I didn't know they were doing this...
Posted by jzawodn at
02:00 PM
December 04, 2005
Cats in Sinks
http://catsinsinks.com/
pictures of cats in sinks. because... why not?
Posted by jzawodn at
10:40 PM
AI and banner ads
http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2181198.html
That's like saying, "We've invented a cheap, safe car that runs on water, and also flies, but our actual business model is creating 2" large plastic replicas for sale in McDonald's Happy Meals."
Posted by jzawodn at
09:00 PM
How is Yahoo My Web 2.0 doing?
http://glinden.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-is-yahoo-my-web-20-doing.html
"It seems that there may be just a few thousand people using Yahoo My Web 2.0."
Posted by jzawodn at
09:00 PM
Free blog hosts
http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2005/free-blog-hosts/
Blackhat SEO saves you time in your mad linkfarm building game
Posted by jzawodn at
09:00 PM
Froogle: Shopping Made Complex
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051205_849495.htm
"Froogle, turns three years old this month. That's nearly an eternity online. Yet all that time hasn't helped the site gain much ground in the hotly contested field of comparison-shopping sites."
Posted by jzawodn at
08:40 PM
Worst Job Ever (video)
http://media.putfile.com/Worst-Job-Ever
amusing as hell!
Posted by jzawodn at
06:40 PM
New bookmarklet: Make img tag
http://www.squarefree.com/2005/12/03/new-bookmarklet-make-img-tag/
I've been tempted to write something like this dozens of time.
Posted by jzawodn at
06:40 PM
Palmdale Missing Glider Found
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_338115547.html
I've flown there before. There's some nasty terrain nearby.
Posted by jzawodn at
06:40 PM
LISA '06 Checklist
http://blog.megacity.org/archives/002133.php
Anyone who thinks "going to a conference" means "doing nothing" has never been through six days of LISA, believe me.
Posted by jzawodn at
05:20 PM
Bush gets jury duty call, says he is busy
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=10469907&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews
President George W. Bush had to explain that he was a little busy running the United States when he got called for jury duty.
Posted by jzawodn at
05:20 PM
December 03, 2005
Yahoo! Recommends Hate-Blogging Your Boss
http://yahoo.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000207070757/
DOH!
Posted by jzawodn at
10:40 AM
December 02, 2005
Why Yahoo's marriage of RSS and e-mail could be an antispam breakthrough
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2222&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
I'm skeptical but willing to be convinced...
Posted by jzawodn at
09:20 PM
December 01, 2005
The Truth About Click Fraud
http://www.webguerrilla.com/checkbook-seo/click-fraud/
Greg's gonna build a clickbot and collect data.
Posted by jzawodn at
09:00 PM
Google Gets 3 Out of 10
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-12-02.html#n72
Oh, come on... I'd give 'em at least a 5. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at
09:00 PM
Bill of Rights - Security Edition
http://www.securityedition.com/
The First Ten Amendments to the constitution of the United States printed on sturdy, pocket-sized, pieces of metal.
Posted by jzawodn at
05:40 PM
Chitika publishers see drastically reduced earnings in audited reports - JenSense.com
http://www.jensense.com/archives/2005/12/chitika_publish.html
Chitika fit is hitting the shan it seems
Posted by jzawodn at
04:40 PM
An Apology Letter From Ed Lopez, Owner of PriceRitePhoto
http://thomashawk.com/2005/12/apology-letter-from-ed-lopez-owner-of.html
sleezy on-line merchant: 0; angry web people: 1
Posted by jzawodn at
04:40 PM
G2G uses GMail for file sharing
http://www.tipmonkies.com/2005/12/01/g2g-uses-gmail-for-file-sharing
raise your hand if you think this will last...
Posted by jzawodn at
04:01 PM
The Geek Gorgeous Calendar featuring Women in Technology
http://www.geekgorgeous.com/index.htm
you know, I had this same idea years ago... seriously.
Posted by jzawodn at
04:01 PM
Photomatt Mullenweg shares his VC-fed secrets
http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2005/11/30/photomatt-mullenweg-shares-his-vc-fed-secrets/
a quick interview with Matt
Posted by jzawodn at
04:00 PM
Noticing Performancing Ads On Blogs
http://www.webproblog.com/pub/2005/12/noticing_performancing_ads_on.html
Rich noticed my new sponsor...
Posted by jzawodn at
01:40 PM
Yahoo's strategy: Stay out of Microsoft's crosshair?
http://news.com.com/Yahoos+strategy+Stay+out+of+Microsofts+crosshair/2030-1069_3-5977397.html?part=rss&tag=5977397&subj=news
Yahoo's position as primarily a media company is likely to keep it quietly at the forefront of the next generation of World Wide Web players, say experts at Wharton.
Posted by jzawodn at
01:40 PM
Will Ferrell: Earth to America
http://www.devilducky.com/media/38792/
one of my favorite comedians, making fun of Bush
Posted by jzawodn at
08:00 AM
This Place Sucks
http://www.vsocial.com/video/?d=160
heh, a very funny vido re-using some voices from Office Space
Posted by jzawodn at
07:20 AM