Archive | May, 2009

Google Wave: The Future of Real-Time Internets & Web Communication

Holy radio waves, Batman! The folks over at Google Wave made a huge splash yesterday. Led by Lars Rasmussen, Jens Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon, Google Wave is a real-time collection of chat, IM, and other real-time apps, and it’s quickly moving to integrate with Google Docs and Gmail. As for the nerdy details, Google Wave [...]

May 29, 2009 by | 0 Comments

Google PageRank Update May 27, 2009

Google updated the toolbar PR today. I just saw that my PageRank stayed at a PR4. Awesome. Yay. Let’s go have a beer or something. Update 05-28-2009: PageRank Update Fail – I dropped to a PR3. Dammit. Oh well. I’m still going to have a beer.

May 27, 2009 by | 1 Comment

QuitRank: Google Algorithm Predicts When Employees Will Quit

Oh my goodness. According to this WSJ article (here), Google has developed an algorithm to determine which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit: The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees [...]

May 19, 2009 by | 1 Comment

SEO Fail: WolframAlpha.com Not Loading without WWW

To be clear, I’m excited about Wolfram|Alpha and its potential as a game changer for the internet and the search industry. WolframAlpha.com is a fun concept, and I think it will catch on over time. I laughed when I typed in hello, and it responded with Hello, human. Despite the fact that I really like [...]

May 18, 2009 by | 0 Comments

Twitter is Down for Maintenance, Call in the Caterpillar and the Icecream Cone

Twitter is down for maintenance. This happens sometimes. I enjoy the caterpillar and the icecream cone. Whenever my site is down, I wish I could use a caterpillar and an icecream cone image. “It’s cool. I can chill. Hurry up.” That makes me laugh.

May 13, 2009 by | 0 Comments

Wolfram Alpha Up, Now Down

Well, I got word that WolframAlpha went live today. But now it’s down. Uh oh. Did they have some problems? Hopefully they didn’t pull the plug on it like the superduper collider where it worked for an hour and now it’s out of commission for a year. Godspeed, WolframAlpha.

May 7, 2009 by | 1 Comment

The Wolfram Alpha Search Engine, an Internet Revolution for the Next Generation

You may not know this, but Wolfram|Alpha is launching in May 2009. What is Wolfram|Alpha? For starters, it’s a new software that will give tailored answers to specific questions. In the grand scheme of things, WolframAlpha is predicted to revolutionize the internet and how we search for stuff. From an SEO standpoint, the site already has [...]

May 3, 2009 by | 1 Comment