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Matt Cutts Talks About Spam (Video)
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 12, 2008
For around 10 minutes at O’Reilly’s web conference, Google’s Matt Cutts talked about spam: how Google detects it, which kind of systems are better made to defend against it, and also, how you can protect your own site against attacks and avoid looking like a spammer due to malicious software being installed. The slides to Matt’s presentation are available at his blog. [Thanks Miss...
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Monetize Social Graphs
via Geek And Poke by Oliver Widder on May 10, 2008
... writes (seen through Steve O'Hear):Many social networking cheerleaders see this type of business as theirown AdWords goldmine, while failing to appreciate that a generalongoing interest in “sports” is nowhere near as valuable to marketeersas a Google search on a particular day for “Adidas football boots”.It seems, making money out of your virtual friends is not too easy.
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Google vs Baidu
via Google Blogoscoped by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub Google and Baidu both send a lot of traffic my way. Google + China = 4,918 visits/month. Baidu + China = 20,831 visits/month.Jason Yu provides a break down of some of the differences between Google China and their local competitor, Chinese search engine Baidu. One section compares the products of the two:<
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Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know
via Online Marketing Blog by Lee Odden on May 05, 2008
Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. (Follow me @leeodden) We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community on how to get the most productivity out of it. This post shares a few new Twitter tools you may find useful.TweetWheel - You may have a 100 or...
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The Value of Ideas
via www.stevepavlina.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
Shared by Roger Ideas do have values. It's the solid implementation extract value from ideas. Withoud implementation, the value can't be realized.The real value of any creation is in the implementation, not the idea.
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Adobe to Publish Flash File Format Specs
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 01, 2008
Adobe is today announcing the "Open Screen Project" which will seek to create a consistent runtime environment for rich media across a myriad of devices. In other words, Flash on the web, mobile, desktop, television, and other consumer electronic devices. As part of this initiative, Adobe will be releasing the file format specifications for Flash (.swf and .flv/f4v) and removing all licensing...
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Using IMDb data for Netflix Prize
via Geeking with Greg by Greg Linden on March 26, 2008
In a post titled "More data usually beats better algorithms", Anand Rajaraman talks about the success a team from his data mining class at Stanford found in the Netflix recommendation contest by using IMDb data to supplement the Netflix ratings training set.Some excerpts:Team A came up with a very sophisticated algorithm using the Netflix data. Team B used a very simple algorithm, but they added...
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Google Sets, the Search Engine for Lists
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 26, 2008
SEO by the Sea points to an interesting patent that describes how Google Sets works. Google Sets is one of the first services that were added to Google Labs and it's a cool way to find list of related terms. Google Sets is a tool that generates lists from a small number of examples by using the web as a big pool of data. You enter some items and Google Sets finds other items that tend to...
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Microsoft's Latest Jab at Google Docs: Albany?
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on March 27, 2008
Over the past couple of years, Microsoft's online office strategy has grown increasingly muddled, while Google has emerged has the clear leader in the web office space with their Google Docs product. Microsoft has been reluctant to cannibalize any of its cash cow desktop office software business by introducing a web-based version of its popular Office suite. Instead, Redmond has been trying...
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