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Someone finally gets it! Many comsumer electronic devices have been hacked with cooler features, and it’s helped them gain popularity. TiVo, PSP and Linksys routers are just a few devices that have very popular mods availble for them. Now Neuros is taking the concept further by designing their system to be modded from the start and reaping the benefits of the community effort.
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Here is a collection of photos of vending machines in Japan. You gotta check this out there are some weird ones.
PhotoMann Travel Photgraphy - Images of Japanese Vending Machines
Yahoo has offered about $900 million for Facebook after the previous offer of $800 million was rejected. All these amounts seem arbitraty when it was only a few months back that Facebook said they were looking for $2 billion. I’d be interested in what kind of vistors per month to dollars conversion rate Yahoo gets out of it’s current properties. I’d imagine Flickr would be a good one to compare against, in as much as it’s got a “social” element to it and it was very popular before they bought it. Are they solely in a competition with Microsoft and Google for market share or is there a real bottom line plan to this and other aquisitions?
Is Ze like Dr. Phil 2.0?
This article talks about why metadata is often metacrap. He makes a lot of good points about the weaknesses of depending on humans to classify information. Some of the problems he talks about could be somewhat fixed by standards, but we all know what a big bag of worms that opens up. In the short term, I don’t have too outrageous expectations for metadata… I’d just like to be able to Google something like “meta:review solar powered flashlight” and get actual reviews of a product rather than useless crap and ads about where I can buy said item. Right now Amazon or sites like Tom’s Hardware are my best bets for reviews. (Why the hell does InfoWorld never show up in search results?)
This is a really great post that sumarizes a lot of past posts about seach engine optimization. I never really gave it much thought, but now I’m starting to pay attention to it more. I’ve just skimmed some of the articles, but it looks like I’ll have a lot of reading this weekend!
Here’s a handy registry mod I had forgotten about. I ought to keep a running .reg files with all the mods I use so I don’t forget one when I reload a computer.
I’m kinda a Google-a-holic, so of course I use their personalized home page to keep up on important headlines throughout the day. I keep shuffling stuff around cause I never scroll down to look at the stuff lower on the page… I still use stuff like popurl.com for the high volume news feeds and an offline news RSS reader for sites that are only updated once in awhile. Never got into the Google RSS reader (or the others like Bloglines, etc); they just didn’t feel comfortable to use.
Some search engines penalize you for having duplicate content in a domain because they consider it spam or an attempt to up search ratings simple by stuffing keywords. I never thought about it before, but this can happen if example.com and www.example.com point to the same content. Well, this guy made a handy Wordpress plugin that helps you fix this problem. It appears it only works for Apache since it depands on you modding your .htaccess file.
Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can fraudulently change vote counts without being detected.
When I’ve been reading about voting machines, and they talk about a “paper record” as a backup, I figured it printed a tape as the people voted and had a little window so they could see the tape and confirm the correct vote was recorded for them. Printing a summary at the end is just a joke (a bad one).
