Archive for July, 2008
Yesterday I wrote about the new search engine Cuil.com and now Yahoo (or at least Yahoo VP of Platforms, Sam Pullara) created a search engine that looks and feels like Cuil. Since Yuil is using the Yahoo API it got much better results then Cuil (and the funny part is that Cuil is said to [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
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This Monday a new search engine had premier. It's called Cuil (pronounced "cool") and is created by two former Google employees Amanda Patterson and Tom Costello. From the start they claim they have over 120 billion pages indexed: We’ve created the world’s biggest index, and we’ve also developed useful features to help you search. They’re [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
Looks like it's not going to be any merger between Digg and Google because according to rumors Digg was notified on Tuesday or Friday that Google was not longer interested. According to TechCrunch Google was in the due diligence stage of the deal, where they "digg" deep into Digg’s technology and financial records, when they [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories
Two days ago Twitter encountered some technical problems which caused people to lose followers. In some cases the number of followers where cut in half, in other cases almost all followers where lost. The problem is solved now and all followers are restored. As you can see on the graph from TwitterCounter.com we've got almost [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Statistics
Now it's time for another 700 EC contest here at XavierMedia.com. All you have to do is post a comment here in this post saying something more then just "Cool" or "Nice!". On the 22nd of August the winner will be selected with a little help by random.org. Winner in our last contest The winner [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
I don't remember how I found this service, but I like it and it got a lot of potential . At CrunchBase.com you can look up companies, products, people and financial organizations. My first search was of course for Shoemoney and I found both his company and him as a person in the database: Jeremy [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, Search Engines & Directories
Most of us trow in all the cash needed in our businesses, but sometimes that's not enough and you need some extra working capital to complete your corporate expansion. It could be for example new computers for your high tech website or a much needed piece of equipment for your medical practice, even a tractor [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Reviews
A man in the U.S. who have made themselves known as the Spam King was sentenced yesterday to nearly four years in prison. The court hopes that the judgement sends a strong signal to other criminals on the Internet. Robert Soloway in the United States has made itself known as the Spam King because of [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
According to Trend Micro you should stay away from files called start.html, begin.html, r.html, main.html, news.html, and about.html since all these files will try to install a dangerious file called WATCH.EXE. This .EXE file contains a malware called TROJ_AGENT.AYZO. Since all these .html and .exe files are hosted on legitimate sites that has been hacked [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
By an accident I found a small plugin for Firefox called TwitterFox. This little plugin will get your tweets and show them in the bottom right corner of your web browser. Directly from the TwitterFox window you can reply to the tweets, write new tweets and of course also follow links you get sent to [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Reviews
I did a small comparisation of three of the best professional bloggers I know about: ShoeMoney.com, Problogger.net and JohnCow.com. The funny thing is that all three of them had less then 50 000 visitors a year ago and now, at least two of them , got more then 200K visitors. This shows that it's possible [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, Statistics
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