First Look at Tweenky, Gmail-like Interface for Twitter (20)
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I'm really happy for the Twitter/Summize partnership because I loved the real-time feature on Summize (a necessary one), which I guess will be integrated on Twitter stream anytime soon.Gladly, I don't have to wait till it happens. I've tested a new service that giving me so much more than Twitter itself. Tweenky is not yet another Twitter tool that we usually see, it's a full management that built under consideration that you use twitter on ...
Cool, I’m in Hindi (3)
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Also in the article (and some of these names are familiar to me, top names from the Indian blogging scene) Gaurav Mishra of Gauravanomics, Patrix (Desipundit) and the author of the article is Debashish Chakrabarty (known as the founder ...
You’ll Never Know Unless You Ask (26)
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Growing up I was a very shy little guy. I was so shy that I rarely put myself out there in situations that I was unfamiliar with and never asked other people for favors unless I was either in desperate need or very familiar with the other person. I remember my mum telling me on numerous occassions when I was too shy to ask people things - ‘you’ll never know unless you ask’. It struck ...
Technologies behind Google ranking (115)
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In my previous post, I introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking. As part of our effort to discuss search quality, I want to tell you more about the technologies behind our ranking. The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR). The IR community has studied search for almost 50 years. It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages. (See "Modern Information Retrieval: ...
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smuggyuk said:
It is great that they tell us all about their great synonym and concept systems, what would have been a better post would be to tell us they're opening up these great systems via an API so others can make use of the hard work they've put in. Shame!
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Ihar Mahaniok said:
Great examples by Amit. As for me, localizing globally is one of the greatest challenge, but it's worth it..
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Linda said:
This just astounds me.
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Umang Saini said:
Lots of bragging about the queries they got right. What about the ones that fail flatly?Interesting work in IR, whatever that is :-)
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Brandon Bloom said:
You already know this, but it is nice to hear spelled out: "Google is really good at search"
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Eric said:
Interesting to see how their system can distinguish between what you actually searched for and what you wanted to search for. The synonyms based upon intent are amazing stuff.
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shuman said:
Some good explanations of the technical challenges Google search handles.
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Reece said:
Google gives it to you in, fairly, plain English. Unfortunately, they describe basic search and retrieval concepts in a way that makes the reader think they invented them. Hardly standing on the shoulders of giants . . .
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Derek said:
really interesting look into all of the strides Google has made in search
Speech Recognition in YouTube Lets You Search for Spoken Content (26)
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This is huge. Google has added speech recognition capability in some YouTube videos that enables you to search for text spoken in these videos. To try speech recognition in YouTube yourself, add this gadget to your Google homepage. The search is currently limited to some political videos only but a good hint of what is yet to come in Google search. If your search query match some YouTube video, the positions are indicated by yellow ...
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booyaa said:
and so it begins.... what i want to know is can we pipe audio stuff through youtube (it's not the first time this has been done before) and get them to transcribe podcasts?
Blogging Jobs: How Much is Blogging Worth? (4)
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In “Blogger Jobs: What Are They Looking For?” we talked about what jobs are out there and what blog owners and companies are looking for when they hire a blogger. Blogger Jobs: How to Apply For a Blogger Job? covered how to apply for a job as a blogger, with some good tips on what to do - and not to do. Today, I want to look at a very serious issue: How much are ...
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abhi said:
This is an important read for all my freelancer friends and also those who employ freelancers.
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Sean said:
DRAT! I have had a similar post sitting in my personal blog drafts section for like 3 months!
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/07/what-i-learned-from-going-bankrupt-in-my-20s-that-proves-to-be-immensely-valuable-in-my-30s/ (21)
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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt It’s so easy for us to fall into the pattern of working really hard on goals that we picked up through social conditioning but never really consciously chose. ...
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Wyn Lim said:
amazing story – true freedom occurs when one has nothing to lose.
Make Use Of Podcast #10: Chipping in, virtualizing and working well with others (3)
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This week on the show I take a look at the new iTunes app store, ways to raise money online, how to install Windows on your Mac for free — sort of, how to work well with others online and how to schedule and manage messages. My guest this week is Make Use Of author Abhijeet Mukherjee and we chat a bit about some of his posts on Make Use Of and his own blog, ...
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abhi said:
My first podcast interview !! Make sure you listen to it :)
Create Custom Apple iPhone WebClip Icons For Your Site (3)
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Have you spotted those glossy rounded icons on the Apple iPhone? Often called web clip bookmark icons, now webmasters can create their own custom icons for iphone (and iPod Touch) and link them to display on these gadgets. Here is how you can display a custom iphone icon for your site… Custom Apple iPhone Webclip Icons First you need to upload a .PNG image named “apple-touch-icon.png” in the root directory of your server. This image ...
NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers (39)
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As it is often the case with technology, blogging can seem like a boys’ club to many, but this is obviously no longer the case. As it is often the case with technology, blogging can seem like a boys’ club to many, but the average blogger is no longer (if they ever were) a geeky, twenty-something man from the US. Strong, interesting women are taking over the blogging world. They have the passion, they have ...
The TechCrunch Digg Club (1)
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Interesting, I’m no longer loved, but they keep on asking me to vote for them on Digg. Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! Thanks To Our Sponsor: Text Link Ads Money for your blog today!
Official Gmail Blog: Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account (192)
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Posted by Erwin D'Souza, Gmail Engineer Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I'm sure, you don't always want other people to see. We understand how important your Gmail accounts are to you, so we're adding a new layer of information and control. With this new feature, you can now track your recent sessions and you can also sign yourself out remotely.If you are ...
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Alaska Report said:
a clip... "If you are anything like me, you probably sign in to Gmail from multiple computers. I, for example, occasionally sign into my Gmail account from a friend's house when I need to check an important email. Usually I remember to sign out, but every once in a while I wonder if I really did. Now I no longer have to wonder.At the bottom of your inbox, you'll see information about the time of the last activity on your account and whether it's still open in another location:".. ..... Aha! The mystery iFrame BlackBox revealed as a super security tool? I love it!
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Linda said:
good stuff
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Sean said:
This is a nice new feature. I am often jumping between 2 or 3 or more machines all with the same basic setup.
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Setu said:
Wow ! just what I wanted :).
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billrod said:
Very cool...
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Andrey said:
Should be pretty interesting for control freaks like me
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twilight fairy said:
finally some stuff i am really interested in!
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Emon said:
this is fuckin cool!
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ndench said:
That's a good idea
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Cameron said:
i like this!
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Kavinda said:
Its features like this that make Gmail stand out from the crowd.PS: I'm seeing this feature in my Google Apps email account as well.
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lishevita said:
This via Ira Abramov, who I'm thinking of giving the pseudonym "info filter" since he always finds the best and most relevant info to post to his shared list.
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emacsian said:
Nice feature from google. I believe they are the first to role this out
15 Awesome Tutorial Websites You Probably Don't Know About (52)
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Written on 7/07/2008 by Abhijeet Mukherjee, of Jeet Blog.If I were forced to choose an aspect of the internet that made it simply indispensable, it would definitely be its availability as a huge learning resource. 20 years ago, who would have thought that one would have easy access to already completed business documents, research papers of world class universities, free encyclopedias and some great books, no matter where he or she is located in the ...
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Khanh Le said:
Yes, really awesome
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Jen said:
Learn something. Don't just sit around.
Pioneer Succeeds in Developing World's First 16-Layer Optical Disc (pioneer.jp) (3)
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pioneer.jp: Pioneer Succeeds in Developing World's First 16-Layer Optical Disc — July 7, 2008, Tokyo, Japan - Pioneer Corporation has succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400 gigabytes for the first time in the world*1. Its per-layer capacity is 25 gigabytes …
Viagra Link Test: One Year Later (5)
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Ok, this will be the last post that contains the word viagra for at least a month. I promise. But after reading and answering Marty’s comment earlier today, I noticed something funny. About a year ago, I tried to see if it’s possible to get Matt Cutts’ blog ranked for a viagra related keyword. Within a few days after adding a link with ‘buy cheap viagra online’ as the anchor text, Matt’s blog ranked third ...
Google Results in Firefox's Address Bar (59)
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Ryan Wagner from CyberNet News developed CyberSearch, a Firefox extension that lets you see Google results in the address bar. The extension adds new functionality to Firefox 3's address bar, which already shows bookmarks and other pages from your web history.By default, CyberSearch is a little inefficient: it performs web searches as you type in the address bar and it shows Google's search results after the local results obtained by Firefox. If you type one ...
