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Is Twitter Still Interesting?

July 13, 2010

Is Twitter still interesting? I think that is a legitimate question. I’m not asking if people are still using the service (because they are), what I am asking is if Twitter is up to anything interesting and what they are planning to do for the web. Twitter was always expected to blow our minds with [...]

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Sex.com Back on the Market, Internet Explorer Grows

July 2, 2010

I’m going to try to do the weekly news thing again every Friday. So without further ado, here is this weeks top stories that made the short list. Story #1: Sex.com is back on the open market, Sedo, a company which specializes in selling domain names is the broker for this deal. You can email consult@sedo.com [...]

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The Best Realtime Search Engines

June 13, 2010

It’s no secret that in the past I’ve been disappointed with realtime search, however, recently my feelings have changed as I discovered two great realtime search engines. The first is OneRiot and the second is Wowd. While both of them are considered realtime search services, their approaches to solve the same problem are different. OneRiot [...]

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Wowd: A New Approach to Search

May 28, 2010

Wowd is perhaps one of the most interesting search company’s that you have never heard of, at least, yet. Wowd is a search company but without the giant datacenters. Intrigued? Me too. The way Wowd was describe to me by their CEO, Mark Drummond, is Skype for search. How does it work? Wowd offers a [...]

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The Real Problem With Realtime Search

October 3, 2009

Realtime search is a huge topic of discussion today. By huge, I mean, literally huge. Various industry blogs discuss it all the time and even Google seems to be interested in the realtime arena. In the society we live in today where everything is instant and people love instant gratification it’s not a surprise realtime [...]

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