April 21st, 2010
Feeding some numbers from Google’s new Government Requests page into a simple spreadsheet reveals that Australia is 7th world-wide in Google government removal requests of search results and other materials. South Korea, Germany and Brazil lead the sad pack.
Note that only countries with over 10 requests have been included and that the population data is circa 2008/2009.
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April 1st, 2009
The ‘you are here’ person in Google Maps’ Street View is now a Panda, as this screenshot illustrates. I’m assuming this is an April Fools joke.
I’m wondering if this is happening in the US version of Street View or only here in Australia.
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April 1st, 2008
Work mates of mine just released A Good Ride, it is a Rails 2.0-based motorbike riding site with some killer features. Check out the ride video feature.
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July 4th, 2007
I should have a category for that…
What type of Fae are you?
Time wasted thanks to Fa11ing Away…
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March 9th, 2007
Some of you may have heard about Amie St, the online DRM-free music store that recently signed major artists (such as Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan, Paul Van Dyk and others) to sell their music without any of the foolish DRM restrictions that the iTunes Music Store imposes on [...]
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March 1st, 2007
Luckily it is just a product design and not an available product. Because anyone who buys it should not be allowed to reproduce…
via Gizmodo.
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February 16th, 2007
Interesting piece describing Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s life, from a slightly Jewish perspective. via Digg.
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October 30th, 2006
The “No blogging allowed at “consumer generated media” conference” reported over at Boing Boing via Greg Verdino’s Marketing Blog, really struck a nerve with me. The name itself of course shows that the conference organizers just don’t get it: “Generating Media” makes you a producer, not a consumer…
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October 19th, 2006
While I understand the need for adding the left-right arrows on the tab-strip when there are many tabs open, I reckon Firefox 2.0 switches to this solution too quickly which bugged me to bits.
Luckily, there’s a fix for that:
Go to the Firefox’s ‘behind-the-scenes’ configuration screen by typing ‘about:config’ in the URL bar.
Search for the property [...]
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October 15th, 2006
My father is now flying to the states and we had just finished speaking over Skype just as he was flying over Iceland.
He had a chance to try out using the “Connexion by Boeing” Wi-Fi service on his Lufthansa flight. The service is unfortunately being terminated at the end of the year, so this is [...]
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