Posts Tagged ‘news’

The Web is huge

According to Google, well, according to anyone, the Web is huge. Except that Google know exactly how huge it is. You see, the have just released a post with some interesting metrics: apparently they have a trillion URLs in their database. Apparently they don’t index them all, some are...

Interesting news day

It’s funny how some days there’s nothing interesting in the news and some days a whole bunch of different things capture your attention. It’s a bit like playing craps in one of these vegas hotels, you never know what you’re going to get! So, here’s what I found interesting: Specs of...

Technorati and the Wind of Change

Technorati’s home page looks very different today and it’s thanks to the introduction of Technorati Topics. (On a sideline, the search is still pretty messed up, try running a lawyer search or blogger search and you’ll see what I mean). The new? functionality is described in more detail on the...

Let the News Makers comment!

Interesting story doing the rounds today about how Google News lets relevant people add comments to it’s news articles. The keyword here is “relevant”, in that they don’t let the unwashed masses comment, but instead people or organisations connected to the story can add their comments by sending an email...

Fynoderee

I’ve been reading a book by a local author called Fynoderee. It’s fiction based on Manx legend full of mythical creatures, including fairies, bugganes and of course fynoderees. I found out today that Waterstones is carrying the book in 50 stores across the UK which is excellent news for Alex,...

£100,000 for game winner

Intereting post on the BBC about Perplex City, an alternate reality game (ARG) which has just been completed, netting the winner a £100,000 prize pot. The game started in April 2005 and has had a myriad a clues to the solution, including puzzle card, a banner plane flown across Manchester,...

Gadgets as tyrants

Interesting article on the New York Times which talks about the emerging trends in gadgets today in that they focus predominantly on limiting users’ choice and flexibility. If you look at DVDs for example, they are more difficult to copy than videos. New media like HD-DVD or Blu-Ray make it...

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