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Personal Search Engine – (PSE) – Find Things
While looking for a twitter name that was hard to spell I decided to search Google Reader for a term that might have been used. Last I recall, there were a few Twitter feeds coming in to Google Reader. One is tweets marked as favorites and there is or was one for @ replies to my account. The hope was that the person using Twitter I was looking for used the word “Biggby” (coffee chain here in Michigan) in a message to me. As of this post the search continues, but the reason behind this post is that you can use Google Reader as a personal search engine (PSE) that will search all the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds you subscribe to. This would be similar to searching a single site using the advanced search features of Google but doing it for hundreds of sites that you subscribe to via RSS.
The search continues …
*The person I am looking for is on Skype and is logged in. Status is marked as do not disturb and in any case I want to learn how to find what I am looking for faster and more effectively using tools that are available. Will try Greplin next.
**Greplin came through after just two attempts.
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Crap Ads Seen on The Wall Street Journal Online
When people tell friends about products and services that turn out to be crappy, the relationship suffers, trust is eroded away. That same erosion of trust happens to companies that associate with or promote low quality products and services (ads).
Ads like those pictured above are not doing readers any favors. One might even say, ads like these damage the brand of The Wall Street Journal.
*The screenshot of ads above were from the right sidebar of the Wall Street Journal website on 2/28/2011 at 12:15 P.M. EST.
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Rain, Snow, Or?
Looking at the latest AccuWeather radar…
Looks like we are in for a wild ride tonight.
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Slow Download – iPad App
The above screenshot is from iTunes. This is a very large iPad app download. Didn’t think it would take an hour to download using Comcast broadband Internet. It’s after 11 PM EDT on a Wednesday. Might pause and restart the download to see if it gets a burst of speed.
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What Makes One a Co-founder in a Startup?
That’s why some people say that anyone who joins a company before they raise money is a founder. In other words, anyone who joins the company before the stock has value to a third party, is considered to be a founder.
via Are founders really 1000x more valuable than employees? – Venture Hacks.
Was previously unaware that this was the case. Certainly to join a venture that has not raised funding can be and is risky. Perhaps it is this risk of it falling apart and building a product or service from a value of $0 that makes one a founder as part of joining the team early.
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Roku, There You Are
Does Roku use tracking software to have ads follow you? The ad posted below appeared at the bottom of an MLive story about Facebook. Was on the Roku site in the past week checking out their offerings.
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Tokyo Has Expensive Rent
In Tokyo, the average monthly rent for a two-bedroom “expat apartment” as defined by ECA – roughly 80 square meters, a palatial for most regular Tokyoites — came to $4,352 in 2010, according to the report. The figure for Moscow was $3,500, followed by Hong Kong’s $2,830, London’s $2,824 and Singapore’s $2,810.
via Yen Keeps Tokyo Rents Highest in World for Expats – Japan Real Time – WSJ.
According to Google, 80 square meters is about 861 square feet.
The price per square foot per month is $5.05. On a yearly basis the cost per square foot is $60.66
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Tablet Computers in Education – Specifically, College
And, if the tales of Facebook and Google are any indication, the new champions of education might not be a McGraw-Hill or Blackboard, but a couple of intrepid tinkerers toying around with their new tablet.
via Apple’s iPad Officially Passes the Higher Education Test [Exclusive] | Fast Company.
Imagination + Technology + Action (can) = Amazing Success
*Read the full article in Fast Company.
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A Twitter Follow Strategy #Fail
It’s almost like clockwork.
Follow, no reciprocity, unfollow
Follow, no reciprocity, unfollow
On and on the strategy goes.
Where is that Fake Follow feature Mike Arrington talked about?
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Groupon vs. Living Social
The screenshot above indicates that both Groupon and Living Social are targeting the Detroit market where I live.
Looks like Groupon prefers the terms “Detroit Coupons” and that Living Social prefers “Detroit Deals.”It is unclear what keywords Groupon is using. Perhaps their AdWords budget for the day was expended and not reset for the new day. Seems odd that they did not come up in any of the searches. Living Social came up as the top ad or the only ad on four variations of those search terms.Example Google searches for those terms
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