Technology Predictions for 2006 and Reflections on 2005
literally took the world by storm The tragedies of the Asian Tsunami the Hurricanes that blew through the Gulf Coast and the earthquakes that swallowed parts of Pakistan have left an indelible mark on While mother nature cast a shadow on it was technology that delivered the impact that resulted in a huge outpouring of donations The world was touched by the human element seen realtime in pictures and videos Todays technology was able to deliver the graphical grittiness that portrayed the nightmares occurring half a world away...
December 26, 2005 - January 1, 2006
Last week saw the launch of two new search engines Wink and Gravee Well they are more like metasearch engines since they slice and dice search results and data from other sources and present it in new ways Wink for instance lets you search tags on delicious Digg Furl Slashdot and Yahoo MyWeb as well as rate and tag regular search results from Google While Gravee tries to get more relevant by paying Websites to register with its search engine in return for a cut of the search ad revenue
Wink is very much a social search engine since results are based on how other people previously rated and tagged things...
Microsoft faces backlash after blocking Chinese blogger
Microsoft is under the spotlight over its blocking of a prominent Chinese Internet blogger in the latest case of a major Western technology firm helping Beijing curtail free speech
The Spaceshosted web log or blog belonging to Beijingbased media researcher Zhao Jing was closed down this week after he posted articles critical of a management purge at the Beijing News daily
I posted three posts about the Beijing News and all posts and articles were deleted inside China Zhao who uses the pen name Michael Anti told the sia news service this week...
SEO For The Big Three
Ranking your website highly on one of the ampldquobig threeamprdquo search engines Google Yahoo or is a daunting task let alone ranking your website highly on all three
Three engines three algorithms three different sets of rules and yet there are websites out there that have first page rankings across them all ampndash how do they do it
While all of the major search engines use different algorithms the end goal of all three is the same to provide the searcher with the most relevant results available It is this one common thread that makes it possible for an to rank a website highly across all the major engines...
Wow. Big bets.
Published on 2 Jan at 750 pm 1 Comment
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Microsoft sure is rad Would you just take a look at what they expect to roll out this year Awesome cool intense Oh and canampt wait Cutting fucking edge stuff folks
After years of development and repeated delays the company plans later this year to launch the next version of its flagship operating system amp still the single biggest portion of its business
The industry will be watching the companyamps progress closely as it approaches the Windows Vista launch...