March 2012
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Google goes after over-optimized websites →
Looks like Matt Cutts has announced that if you’re website is TOO optimized, you could be penalized in Google’s SERPS. Combine this with the recent announcements that Google’s future in search is Semantic based, and the SEO industry looks to soon be a rapidly dying one.
December 2011
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October 2011
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August 2011
2 posts
What will live be in 500 years?
Here’s my theory of what life will be 500 years into the future:
We will all speak a hybrid of English, Chinese and Spanish.
People will all become a dark beige in skin colour from increased global movement and breeding.
The internet or whatever they call it in the future will become so a part of every humans life that you will not be able to live without it (we’re not too far...
July 2011
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June 2011
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Microsoft to buy RIM?
After seeing their massive drop in stock today, my prediction is that less than a year from now Microsoft will buy RIM. It makes perfect sense, they can compete directly with Apple on the consumer side, while dominating the enterprise sector, which they already do with their server products.
On top of it, if they bought out RIM, they would have instant access to a tablet device, something...
May 2011
3 posts
Winnipeg Jets
WOOHOO! The Jets are coming back to Winnipeg! Seems that since the league was being all sketchy and protective about Phoenix the future owners of the Jets went to Atlanta instead.
My guess is that since Phoenix won’t be staying in Arizona long term they’ll eventually end up in Hamilton. One new team in Canada is fantastic news, but if we end up with TWO new teams in the future, that...
Microsoft buys Skype...
So the rumors were all true, Skype was looking for a buyer and Microsoft outbid Google. Outbid is an understatement, as Google it seems only wanted to pay $4B for the company, and Steve Balmer went crazy as per usual and added on an extra $4.5B for a whopping $8.5 BILLION FREIKING DOLLARS! Insane I know…
Technologically speaking, Microsoft acquiring Skype makes perfect sense, they can tie...
Osama is dead!
Wow! They finally got Osama! There is now a lot less evil in the world.
April 2011
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February 2011
2 posts
December 2010
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November 2010
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possibilianism
Are you a possibililanist? This is one of the best talks I have yet to see: poptech.org/popcasts/david_eagleman_on_possibilianism
October 2010
2 posts
back to the mac
Just finished watching Apple’s live product demo on my iPhone, they’re releasing a lot of really cool stuff.
OS X Lion
App Store for macs
New MacBook Air (2 of them)
iLife 11
If you haven’t watched it already, when it’s made available on the homepage of apple.com, go and watch it, I know I’m getting one of those MacBook Airs, they look incredible, and have...
new twitter
The new twitter is seriously awesome, if you don’t have it yet you’ll probably have it over the next few days, it’s slowly being rolled out.
September 2010
2 posts
what's new in cyberland?
Google Instant: http://www.google.com/instant/ New Twitter: http://twitter.com/newtwitter You can now pre-order a Boxee Box: http://www.boxee.tv/box Steve Jobs is a ninja (it all makes sense now!): http://bit.ly/9Nhx86 New Digg still sucks (for something better see Reddit)
August 2010
2 posts
Louis CK Videos of the Day
One of my favourite comics for some time, here are some good clips:
welcome to the new decade
Welcome to the new decade:
Java is a restricted platform
Google is evil
Apple is a monopoly
Microsoft are the underdogs
June 2010
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death of the synthesizer?
One more reason for people to by the iPad, you can now use it as a virtual synthesizer: “iElectribe offers up 64 pre-set patterns ranging in genre from House to Hardcore, which allow the user to get up and going without having to create anything from scratch. The application also has 32 templates in a similarly large range of genres; this gives a basic framework which, with a little...
May 2010
2 posts
AAPL > MSFT
Wow, Apple is now worth more than Microsoft, and now the 2nd most valuable company in the US!
google pacman
Found a great article about the effect from Google displaying a playable Pac-Man game on their homepage: “Google’s playable Pac-Mac doodle has collectively consumed about 4.8 million hours of our time since its Friday release, according to a new report. Assuming the average player earned about $25 per hour, that is a financial loss of about $120 million, according to a blog post...
February 2010
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January 2010
1 post
big apple news tomorrow!
I’m super excited to find out what Apple is going to announce tomorrow! The big rumor of course is the famed tablet, a.k.a. the iPad or iSlate. Other rumors include a refresh to the macBook lineup and macBook pros, and iPhone OS 4.0
December 2009
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the cloud is the future
If I were to start up a small to medium sized company, I don’t see any point in having IT staff, a rack of servers, expensive gear, etc. Cloud based computing in my opinion is the future, it’s cheap, it’s WAY more reliable, and even greener. Some of these solutions will even work for large organizations. Why pay for expensive servers and staff or IT contractors that charge...
October 2009
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jedi squirrels
I haven’t posted anything for awhile here, so here is a picture of some squirrels with light sabers.
June 2009
2 posts
stop using IE 6!!!!
Join the campaign, stop using IE6, the scourge of the internet: stopie6.org Internet Explorer 6 is probably one of the biggest problems for web developers and overall progression of the world wide web. This browser was released in 2001 and has been replaced by Microsoft twice now (IE 7 & 8). I know that a lot of large companies have legacy applications that were built for IE6, but if...
May 2009
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April 2009
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human engineered bionic penguins have arrived!!!!!
Robot penguins have long been the holy grail of science, the military, and children’s cartoons, and now they are finally here. clicky here
January 2009
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December 2008
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switch your browser!
A serious flaw(once again) was found in Internet Explorer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7784908.stm Quotes from the page: “The flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people’s computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.” “As many as 10,000 websites have been compromised since the vulnerability was...
September 2008
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August 2008
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July 2008
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May 2008
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25 ways to tell that you've grown up
1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them. 2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question. 3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge. 4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed. 5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator. 6. You watch the Weather Channel. 7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of “hook up” and “break up.”...
April 2008
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a greener less spammy earth
So earth hour has come and gone, and after the stats were run, the countries/regions that participated seemed to save A LOT of power, simply by turning off their lights for one hour. Imagine if everybody turned off their computers at both home and the office at night, every night. The power savings would probably dwarf earth hour. I know TONS of people who pretty much leave their computer ...
March 2008
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charlie rose face plants to save his macbook air
This is hilarious, Charlie Rose is such a hardcore mac fan that when he tripped and fell, he opted to land on his face instead of dropping his precious new macbook air. I can’t really blame him though, those things are freiking expensive! Story here: techcrunch article
February 2008
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yahoo! rejects microsoft!
10 days ago Microsoft offered Yahoo $44.6 billion to buy out Yahoo! (note the exclamation on yahoo is only for spelling purposes). During these ten days the rumors were flying like crazy all over the internet. Some people said that Yahoo would be crazy not to take the bid, others proclaimed the evils of Microsoft and how the devils child would be spawned if these two corporations were to...
January 2008
2 posts
first darwin award candidate of the year?
After finding this picture on the internet, I thought that these guys would be a great candidate for the darwin awards. For those of you who don’t know what the darwin awards are, here’s a definition from wikipedia: A Darwin Award is a tongue-in-cheek honor named after evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin. “Awards” have been given for people who “do a service to...
oil reaches $100 a barrel
Today oil (light sweet crude) rose $4.02 to $100 a barrel in New York, prompting a drop in shares and a surge in gold prices. This is the first time in history that a barrel of oil is in the triple digits. Why did this happen? It’s a combination of low volumes of production combined with war in Nigeria and allot of speculative trading. I personally think that this is just a taste of...
December 2007
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November 2007
2 posts
google now 5th most valuable company in the world
Google is now worth over $700 per share and the founders seem intent on not splitting the stock. With this value per share Google has now become worth more than Procter & Gamble, Bank of America and Citigroup. And the growth of Google won’t be stopping any time soon. Microsoft is the new IBM Google is the new Microsoft Apple is the new Google
October 2007
3 posts
microsoft takes stake in facebook
Seems that Microsoft has agreed to invest $240 million into facebook to get a 1.5 percent stake in the company. This of course prolongs the deal they already had with facebook for advertisement (till 2011). This values the company at approx $15 billion!!! This came after both Google and Microsoft were trying to lobby facebook to sign a deal. I can totally understand why, facebook has a ...
