Category: Random, But Interesting

What, Numbers from Google?

Yes, indeed. Google's code blog has hard numbers on the number of calls to Google's Gadgets. It's clear Google is looking to promote these tools, as allowing numbers like these to get out is not common. In fact, I'd say it's a totally unnatural act for Google. The numbers…

Gadget Info

Yes, indeed. Google’s code blog has hard numbers on the number of calls to Google’s Gadgets. It’s clear Google is looking to promote these tools, as allowing numbers like these to get out is not common. In fact, I’d say it’s a totally unnatural act for Google. The numbers are not aggregated in one place, but Radar has done some of it for us. From that post:

* Google Map – 4,861,113

* PacMan v2.0 – 8,114,344

* DIGG – 3,228,599

* My IP – 1,063,244

* Wikipedia – 27,314,972

* Countdown – 2,076,028

* Online Second Life Friends – 1,396

* Free Sudoku Puzzles – 4,450,349

* Memory Game – 647,151

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Do You Think Google Is Dead Serious About The Ad Biz?

Yeah, it is. This post from Searchviews talks about a survey Google is fielding to learn more about what products it might create for advertisers….

Yeah, it is. This post from Searchviews talks about a survey Google is fielding to learn more about what products it might create for advertisers.

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A Very Bad Day for Markets. What Does It Mean?

When was the last time the market dropped 500 points? Yep, right after 9.11. Today's events – we can blame China, but I don't buy it – I sense the US markets were waiting for a reason to head for the hills. It reminded me of a few events…

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When was the last time the market dropped 500 points? Yep, right after 9.11. Today’s events – we can blame China, but I don’t buy it – I sense the US markets were waiting for a reason to head for the hills. It reminded me of a few events in the tech world – 9.11, the dot com bust, the Asian flu.

Each of those events predicated major changes in the world, and certainly in my life and the lives of tons of folks in our industry. But this time, I’m not sure. It’s not like we have a ton of overvalued stocks out there in the web world, like we did in the late 90s, but….I’m still uneasy about where this might go. Are you?

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Congrats, Steven and Outside.in

Pal and amazing author Steven Johnson, a founder of Outside.in, is now a funded entrepreneur. Congrats! Outside.in is a local blog/web aggregator – a sort of town newspaper writ large. I love the concept, but that's been true of nearly everything Steven has dreamt up……

Pal and amazing author Steven Johnson, a founder of Outside.in, is now a funded entrepreneur. Congrats!

Outside.in is a local blog/web aggregator – a sort of town newspaper writ large. I love the concept, but that’s been true of nearly everything Steven has dreamt up…

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Humor Becomes Them

Become.com is a shopping search engine (previous coverage here). They rent space in an office complex that is now owned by…wait for it….Google. Their sense of humor was not appreciated by the new landlords, apparently……

Become.com is a shopping search engine (previous coverage here). They rent space in an office complex that is now owned by…wait for it….Google. Their sense of humor was not appreciated by the new landlords, apparently…Overlord Small

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Startupping

Mark Fletcher, who started Bloglines among other stuff, has created a blog to help folks start up companies. He asked me to help him with his first post. Check it out here….

Mark Fletcher, who started Bloglines among other stuff, has created a blog to help folks start up companies. He asked me to help him with his first post. Check it out here.

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Google and Wikipedia

This augurs further action on the part of Google (via Digg). I can't imagine it will stand. From the original posting on Hitwise: The percentage of Google's downstream traffic going to Wikipedia increased by 166% year over year (week ending 2/10/07 vs. week ending 2/11/06). Last week Wikipedia was…

This augurs further action on the part of Google (via Digg). I can’t imagine it will stand. From the original posting on Hitwise:

The percentage of Google’s downstream traffic going to Wikipedia increased by 166% year over year (week ending 2/10/07 vs. week ending 2/11/06). Last week Wikipedia was the #3 website in Google’s downstream, after Google Image Search and MySpace.

Regardless of posturing, no business likes to send that much traffic to a third party site without some kind of value coming back. Will Wikipedia start running AdWords? Watch this space. I could imagine some kind of approach that drives revenue to the Wikimedia foundation….

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A Profile of Sergey

From Moment. Well done. What's interesting is that Sergey let the author talk to his parents, even visit his home. That was off limits a few years ago….

From Moment. Well done.

What’s interesting is that Sergey let the author talk to his parents, even visit his home. That was off limits a few years ago.

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