Cory at BB has an obit. I'll never forget the image he created in Cat's Cradle when the guy gives God the finger, then touches Ice Nine to his lips. What a talent. Update: Nice video tribute here….
I’ll never forget the image he created in Cat’s Cradle when the guy gives God the finger, then touches Ice Nine to his lips.
What a talent.
Read MoreHuh, what do you know, there are six jobs on the Searchblog jobs board. I expected maybe two. Hey, maybe I'll post a few more myself!…
Here's a link to the story….
No. Really. Watch this space….
Every so often, Rich gets up and rips one off. His most recent is called "How to beat Google, part 1." From it: Our entire industry is scared witless by Google's dominance in search and advertising. Microsoft and Yahoo have been unsuccessful at staunching the bleeding of their search…
From it:
Our entire industry is scared witless by Google’s dominance in search and advertising. Microsoft and Yahoo have been unsuccessful at staunching the bleeding of their search market share. VCs parrot the Google PR FUD machine that you need giant datacenters next to hydroelectric dams to compete. They spout nonsense about how startups should just use Alexa’s crawl and put some ajax on top of it. Ye gods.
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo… It's now a war of distribution as much as innovation. Why do I say this? Read on, a release from Google: LG ELECTRONICS AND GOOGLE TEAM UP TO ENHANCE THE MOBILE EXPERIENCE LG Handsets to integrate Google Search, Google Maps for mobile, Blogger Mobile and Gmail…
LG ELECTRONICS AND GOOGLE TEAM UP TO ENHANCE THE MOBILE EXPERIENCE
LG Handsets to integrate Google Search, Google Maps for mobile, Blogger Mobile and Gmail for mobile
Read MoreMy pal Jonathan Weber emailed me with a special code for any Searchblog readers who might want to register for the conference I referenced here. Use code SPK0607 for $150 off!…
Well, Gary has found a conference and related papers that start to build a body of academic work around this here place. I must say, I'd sure like to be in Colorado about now, thinking about the implications of the blog world….
…I'd write long, overly analytical posts on these issues: Metaweb. I spent some time with Danny Hillis today. What he's trying to do is deeply important in terms of how the web is going to work – or not. I will write something soon, I promise. YouTube. Man, this…
Metaweb. I spent some time with Danny Hillis today. What he’s trying to do is deeply important in terms of how the web is going to work – or not. I will write something soon, I promise.
YouTube. Man, this one is not going away, and there’s a lot to say about the new NBC/Newscorp thing. First, don’t pay attention to the content. I don’t think it matters. Pay attention to two things: One, the community – will it show up? And two, pay attention to the distribution they struck. Note how it’s all the folks on the web who are worried/terrified of Google? Uh huh.
Read MoreWho doesn't love a good data visualization? This one's a doozy. From the writeup on Seed: This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as pale circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other…
This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as pale circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Links (curved black lines) were made between the paradigms that shared papers, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer one another when a physical simulation forced every paradigm to repel every other; thus the layout derives directly from the data.
Link to the big map. Thanks, Bill!
