Archive for April, 2005

30
Apr
2005

3 Google Services you should know about

Google seems to be coming out with a great new service every week. Here are 3 you should try out:
Google Desktop Search: Not only does it enable you to search your files on your computer fast and efficiently (much better than the native XP search), but I have found it most useful in searching …

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20
Apr
2005

“Joining the Blogosphere”

I went to a talk at the Silicon Valley Common Wealth Club last night which posed the questions: “Are blogs a valid grassroots form of journalism? Or is there too much chance for inaccuracy and not enough fact-checking?” with a panel of uberbloggers:
DAN GILLMOR, Grassroots Media
DAVID PESCOVITZ, co-editor, BoingBoing.net
JUDE BARRY, Catapult Strategies, www.sanjoseinside.com
DAVID SATTERFIELD, Managing …

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16
Apr
2005

The Current State of Search

The other night I went to a fascinating panel discussion at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, famous for the mouse and other technological breakthroughs) hosted by BayCHI. There were 5 panelists, representing the cream of today's Search Engines (conspicuously absent was MSN):
Peter Norvig, Director of Search Quality at Google
Ken Norton, Director of Product …

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08
Apr
2005

What are the Creative Commons?

If you look at the bottom of this blog's right hand column, you'll see this box: It means that you (and anybody else) are free to copy and distribute the contents of this blog, under the following conditions:
Attribution: You must give the original author credit (that would be me).
Noncommercial: You may not use this work …

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05
Apr
2005

The Rise of the Meta-Newspaper and the Fifth Estate

I came across a fascinating site, the Annotated New York Times, which tracks online discussions on NYTimes articles. We get the physical version of the paper every morning, and occasionally I even have time to read it. I often wonder what kind of reaction certain articles provoke, and now there's a great way to find …

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01
Apr
2005

Why you should switch browsers if you still use Internet Explorer

Since the beginning of the internet in the early nineties, browser market share has wildly fluctuated. As an excellent article on the browser wars at evolt.org explains:
In the First Era of browser history Mosaic and the other early browsers ruled. The Second Era was that of Netscape dominance. Microsoft's challenge to Netscape marked the beginning …

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