Archive for April, 2008

Technorati Blog Ranking

Uncategorized on April 30th, 2008 No Comments

I met Kevin Marks at the data portability meet-up. Here is an interesting post from him on Technorati ranking. Kevin was at Technorati between 2003-2007 and was responsible for their spiders which tracked the millions of blogs across the web. All Bloggers are Above Average

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Twistori

Uncategorized on April 30th, 2008 No Comments

Check out this twitter app: twistori Its very cool. Shows messages that contain words love, hate, feel, think, believe and wish. It reminds me of wall mounted screen at Googleplex that shows search queries from around the world being done on Google at that moment.

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Twitter, Friendfeed and Information overload

Uncategorized on April 30th, 2008 No Comments

As I open myself up to the information deluge through Twitter, Friend feed and the 100s of feeds in my Google Reader, I find that the mind can focus and digest only so much. As these tools go mainstream, I expect that this problem will become more pronounced. As one would expect, apps are being [...]

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Funny or Die

Uncategorized on April 29th, 2008 No Comments

On the heels of my post about Jonathan Schwartz CEO plugging Aggregate knowledge, I was reminded about another event from the past. Sequoia Capital partner Mark Kvamme was speaking at the Stanford Venture lab panel. As part of the discussion, he announced that the site funnyordie was going live. His spin on it was that [...]

Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart

Uncategorized on April 29th, 2008 No Comments

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New York & Company email spam

Uncategorized on April 28th, 2008 No Comments

I am checking an email account that has not been used for the past few months. The inbox had a preponderance of emails from New York & Company. I have received 19 emails in April from them. Ditto for March. I wonder what their click through and unsubscribe rates look like, given this spamming.

PR for Aggregate Knowledge

Uncategorized on April 28th, 2008 No Comments

At the web 2.0 conference, Sun CEO Jonatha Schwartz brought up Aggregate Knowledge’s technology and its sophistication. I was quite impressed by the traction that AK was receiving. But later on, I got to know from their competitor Baynote that Schwartz is a Limited Partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of the investors in Aggregate Knowledge. [...]