May 2, 2007

News | Digg gets 0wn3d by its own Community

Forget about what I was blathering about yesterday over the autodigg hack. What happened shortly after I posted that was much crazier. As it turn out the HD DVD cypher was cracked and posted on the internet recently, much as it was for the original DVD back in 2001 when Jon Johansen (DVD Jon) released DeCSS.

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October 11, 2006

News | Yahoo Index Update Oct 10, 2006

Yahoo’s Search Blog posted a weather report on their blog yesterday which seems to have gone almost unnoticed. What this really means is that the Yahoo index was updated some time last night.

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October 10, 2006

News | The GooTube Deal: Links & Opinions

Wow it is official. GooTube! Google has done the predictable and bought the biggest video site on the internet YouTube for $1.65 Billion in stock.

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October 7, 2006

News | Saturday Linkfest

There has been a ton of great stuff being posted around the blogosphere (ick I said it!) as October kicks off. As I was vacationing in Sin City (Pattaya) I missed a bunch of it. Here is a recap of worth reading.

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September 29, 2006

News | Google PR & Backlinks Update Sept 29, 2006

I saw Google PR rankings and backlinks change across 3 datacenters today and the PR has finally spread to my toolbar. The change seems to be propagating now so I guess this must be an official update. W00t.

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September 25, 2006

News | Taking the Cool out of YouTube

YouTube has recently been adhearing too any and all copyright claims on its popular video service. Google Video did this long ago but until a couple of weeks ago I was happily watching UFC, Boxing and other PPV events to my hearts content. Alright so PPV events I can see but what prompted Fox News to pull the heated Clinton piece with Chris Wallace the other night?

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September 24, 2006

News | Hiring Experienced PHP/mySQL/AJAX Developers

I have been really tied up finding key staff for some really exciting projects that use the web is some really cool ways. If anyone looking for contract work matches the following specification please let me know.

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September 12, 2006

News | LonelyGirl15 Revealed as Hoax

Am I wrong or is this the most successful viral video campaign ever? It seems that Bree or Lonelygirl15 of YouTube fame is a 19 year old New Zealand actress. And she likes to smoke.

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September 6, 2006

News | Is Digg Rigged?

JesusPhreak posted a detailed list of digg's top 30 users who he claims are block voting each others stories on a regular basis. I will get to that in a minute but first let me catch you up on the last few months of digg controversy.

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September 4, 2006

News | Labour Day Links

I'm not even an American and I'm lazy on Labour Day. Here is what caught my eye today.

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August 30, 2006

News | Google Pluto Update

Thought I would throw this up in case anyone missed it a week ago. The big news last Friday was the Google backlink update spotted on WebMasterWorld's forum.

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August 27, 2006

News | Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Watch List

I just noticed Seth Godin’s list of Web 2.0 sites to watch on Alexaholic. Very interesting as many of these big volume websites I have never heard of. Great stuff to get the idea juices flowing.

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August 23, 2006

News | Google Base API Released

Google has released the API for Google Base (dubbed GData) allowing developers to tap into Google’s auction system.

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July 9, 2006

News | MSN Rankings Update

I noticed in this thread on DP forums that MSN has made an algorithm update on July 8th. I can confirm several of my most watched keywords have drifted up the rankings nicely, but I have been really busting my ass on virally building links. More on that later.

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July 4, 2006

News | SEO for Firefox

Aaron Wall has just released a very nifty SEO research extension for Firefox - SEO for Firefox. The usual SEO metrics are pulled in and displayed right in your search results. Obviously this uses a great deal of bandwidth so you have the choice of what you want queried. Overall as a quick analysis tool it works great.

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June 29, 2006

News | Gbuy Beta Launch Today?

As reported earlier this month in Forbes Google is set to release their Paypal killer GBuy into beta today. Now of course Google has no comment on impending product releases so it remains to be seen if and when GBuy surfaces. In the very recent past its existence was completely denied.

So here is what we know about GBuy.

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June 26, 2006

News | Digg 3.0 Launches

Kevin Rose has just announced that Digg version 3.0 is being rolled out across all servers as we speak as promised a few days ago. There is an excellent podcast with Digg founders jay Adelson and Kevin Rose with screenshots over at techcrunch.

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April 7, 2006

News | From $10 to $1700/day in Adsense

The official Google Adsense blog is profiling another Adsense professional today with Ivan Heneghan, a Dublin based optimizer pictured at right. He drops some good points and tells the story of a website he managed that went from $10 to $1700/day via Adsense contextual ads. He also sings the praises of the leaderboard ad format, color blanding and using the link units.

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April 5, 2006

News | Google Pagerank Update

I thought I would wait to post this as fluctuations often occur but there appears to be an official PR and backlink update happening for many Google data centers. Threads are happening at all the major forums with reports of Pagerank changes, backlink changes (the number of people linking to you), or none of the above.

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April 2, 2006

News | April Fools 2006

It’s my birthday today and I have hopes of hitting the beach with the Nutter, so I figured I would collect some of the best April Fools pranks I spotted yesterday.

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March 25, 2006

News | Spammers Target DNS Servers

It would seem for the last few days a large website I maintain (a 3 server operation) was down for the count. I quickly realized the problem had nothing to do with me but with my registrar joker.com. According to the website they’re nameservers were under a DoS style attack.

here is how this works.

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March 24, 2006

News | SES China - Johnny Chow Video

Alright this is my first attempt at messing around with video in any way so it is far from a superb job. The audio of Johnny Chow is not too bad but scoring a microphone last minute in Shanghai proved a daunting task. It’s quite watchable. Johny Chow is CEO of Google China and was has to be impressed with the man’s speaking ability considering English is his second language.

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March 19, 2006

News | SES China: Who’s got the Juice?

Some of the English to Chinese translations didn’t make a whole lot of sense but considering the extreme differences between the two languages you couldn’t not be impressed with the effort. I wish I could have met some of the people actually doing this work. Hopefully the upcoming show in Tokyo takes notes from Chinese ingenuity and does a bi-lingual session – word on the street is this won’t be the case for the upcoming show in April. So I highly doubt I will be making the trip. Continue reading "SES China: Who’s got the Juice?"

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March 17, 2006

News | SES China 2006: Initial Thoughts

As I write this John Chow, CEO of Google China and Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba/Yahoo China have just finished their introductory keynote speeches to kick off day one of SES China 2006. Jack Ma, in particular was very impressive. He is definitely a bit of rock star in these parts as he holds the distinction of starting China’s first web page: www.chinapage.com. Let me come back to Jack. First a bit about what I have seen at the show and what is expected to come... Continue reading "SES China 2006: Initial Thoughts"

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March 12, 2006

News | SES China - Behind the Iron Curtain

Wow what an exhausting weekend. The good news is I was comped a couple of press passes and a great hotel deal for the Search Engine Strategies China conference in Nanjing on the 17th and 18th next week. The bad news is scoring a Chinese visa and buying plane tickets at the last minute in Bangkok is a major ordeal. The visa alone took all day to organize – and for some reason all the flights out were booked so I was stuck paying double fare. On top of all that I wasted all weekend running around preparing for the event - business cards, handouts, portfolio, a haircut, that type of stuff.

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March 5, 2006

News | Seth Godin and Sergey Brin Videos

I spent most of the day hunting down some good marketing media on Google Video. I guess it goes without saying that it's really freaking easy to waste a day on Google Video but I did find some gems on topic...

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March 2, 2006

News | Some SES 2006 NY Coverage

Just a quick post as to who is covering what at the Search Engine Strategies conference going down right now in NY. Details on the Barry Diller speach as well as some tidbits from Rand and Cutts.

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February 13, 2006

News | Google's Share Price Plummet

In Bangkok there seems to be an overwhelming number of online stock investors. There also seems to be a huge group of online poker players here but that’s another article. Many of these guys day trade most of the usual NASDAQ favorites: AOL, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, NVIDIA and of course everyone’s favorite: Google or GOOG.

I should point out that most of these guys I know are quite l33t with their daily trading. One guy employs a system whereby he hires locals (aint cheap labour great?) to watch an index he generates with java, and react accordingly to a big green indicator. The software behind it is pretty intense and I have tried many times to let me market it. Again it is food for another article but suffice it to say his algorithm has a good track record.

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