Most recommendation engines tell you what you want based on aggregate data from faceless users. As starkly revealed by the 09F9 incident, most Digg users are rebellious geeks who don’t care much for faceless entities telling them what they want.
Tags: Digg, Social News
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Windows XP may be off the streets, but she’s still in our hearts. She’s certainly still on my desktop.
Tags: Microsoft, OS, OS-tan, Windows, XP, XP-tan
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Funny that the creator of the first popular Web browser now helps run one of the most Web-unfriendly, browser-unfriendly sites on the Web. Marc Andreesen, personal mentor to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, now joins the Facebook board of directors.
Tags: Facebook, Marc Andreesen, Mark Zuckerberg, Social Networking
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We all hate Bill Gates, but you could still feel the emotion in his voice as he bade goodbye to Microsoft yesterday. I had to clean up a lot of choking and stuttering and other verbal garbage as I transcribed his farewell address.
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In my previous post, I asked if you would register domain names in new TLDs (or register whole new TLDs, if you’re filthy rich) should ICANN relax regulations on TLDs.
That question just became more than academic.
Under the new plans, domain names can be based on any string of letters.
Individuals will be able to register a […]
I once mindfucked some n00bs by registering their .com, .net, and .org domain names and redirecting them to one of my sites. They were so clueless, it took them months to figure out what happened.
They shat bricks when they found out. It was a laugh riot.
Unfortunately, repeating that little prank could get ridiculously more expensive […]
I think Yahoo did the right thing by fighting the Microsoft takeover, and any Yahoo shareholder who thinks otherwise is a whiner. I’ve read much of the tech blogosphere, especially Michael Arrington, side with the whiners. Good to finally see somebody take the long view of things.
John C. Dvorak chastises the whiners in a recent […]
Firefox 3 not only fixes Firefox 2’s infamous memory inefficiencies. It blows all other browsers’ memory efficiencies away, according to a test by developer Sam Allen.
Memory usage per browser
Safari: 636.9 MB
Internet Explorer: 194.4 MB
Flock (Firefox 2) 191.9 MB
Opera 9.5: 190.6 MB
Firefox 3: 111.8 MB
Firefox 3 takes a lot of memory to get her motor running at […]
Now that Nokia has bought Symbian and plans to open source it, they hope to standardize the Symbian platform across all Symbian phones. Many a developer has cried over the need to build many versions of the same Symbian app for various Symbian phone models from multiple manufacturers. Soon, they will cry no more.
Tags: Mobile, […]
Despite (self-inflicted) server troubles, Mozilla exceeded its world record target for Firefox 3 Download Day. They were shooting for five million downloads in 24 hours. They exceeded that number in five hours, ending the day with 8.3 million.
Mozilla’s still whittling down overcounts, but the final tally will definitely put Firefox 3 in the Guinness Book […]
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