Matt Cutts responds to iCrossing’s Randip Dhesi on Page Rank Sculpting
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Tim
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Climate change will remove Earth’s magnetic shield
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Tim
Wow – this is a head scratcher, but one that makes absolute sense to me (no idea why!)
Gregory Ryskin, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University in Illinois, has conducted research that…
…suggests that Earth’s magnetism is actually linked to ocean movements. The salt in seawater allows it to conduct electricity, meaning it [...]
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Bing – winning in the attention markets?
Posted on June 11th, 2009 by Tim
…Bing does appear to be winning in my attention market! Especially with ads like this…
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Ten Simple Rules for Twitter
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Tim
Loved this so much from Umair Haque that I’ve just copied the lot! Take a look and be sure and go back and let him know what you think (http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/06/twitter_2.html):
1. Ideals beat strategies. What infuriates people most about Twitter is that it seems to have no plan, scheme, or angle. “Hey, Twitter” say the pundits: “don’t [...]
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Waving or drowning: Google Wave
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Tim
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year.
Interesting… I mean the timing is interesting… I’m sure any tool launched by Google in the web 2.0 era will be awesome (with this much fanfare > there are 1990 linked Google news articles to the original Reuters article [...]
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How to: improve Gmail
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Tim
Finally… a useful improvement to Gmail!
I recently (at SOMESSO with @amayfield and @craighepburn) got to quiz a Google Gmail engineer (!) about improvements to Gmail (IMO one of the worst email clients despite it’s portability). I started off by suggesting that creative types (yes I do know a few!) would really benefit from the introduction [...]
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Twitter usage: fact me
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Tim
Whenever I see research from WARC I always break out into song – in this instance Run DMC’s “Warc this way…“!
Ahem… anyway… here’s something that’s been on my mind.
I’ve often looked on Twitter as a different type of social network. In fact I wouldn’t actually call it a social network. To me it is relly [...]
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