January 2006
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My friend Scott had this to say
If they can figure out which sites have the best sales conversions, stickiest content, etc etc, then it gives them amazing prospecting power. They’ll not only know who LINKS to who, but how many of those links are actually USED, when and by who.
Even if that doesn’t help them with prospecting, it could do amazing things with their general relavency algorithm (no more guessing that a site is authorative because of all the billions of unclicked links to it).
Interesting hey?
It does mean that you are giving away to Google your site’s worth… Do major retail outlets allow consultants to analyse every step that their customers take - and then walk off with the data? Do you as a site owner, want to let google into your house like that?
I’ve been eying up a rather large set of books in recent months
Yes, Shelby Foote’s 3 volume tome, ‘The Civil War’.
Whats been putting me off is the price, at $AU69.95 per volume and with three volumes its a little on the expensive side.
So I had a look at Amazon yesterday, and to my delight, they are selling ALL THREE for around $US42.00 - with postage, thats about $62.00 - or a good $140 less than buying it in Australia off my local bookshop.
Its not the bookshops fault, its the publishers. But at that price difference, they deserve to have their market killed.
Anyway, it should arrive in the mail in about 2-3 weeks.
Read this article on crickey.com.au, and you’ll see what I mean.
Sounds like a lovely chap…
Woohoo, fusion for all - next stop FTL travel:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17943650-13762,00.html
Of course, its not going to happen, but we can hope!
Today I was playing with setting up RoundCube - the webmail / IMAP client which I’d just discovered.
It soon became apparent that I needed to setup a subdomain and mysql db, so I ran through doing that with the dreamhost control panel.
As I waited for dreamhost to do its thing, clicking refresh every 30 seconds I was struck by the thought… is this really the most valid use of my time, hitting the reload button like a diseased monkey, hoping that a DNS propagation was going to make it to my laptop …
So I went and mowed the front and back lawns instead.
Sadly, my whipper snipper (weed wacker) lost its protective shield - it seems at some point, all FOUR restraining screws have fallen out.
Anyway, I’ll post the instructions for setting up RoundCube and my review at some point - I’m on my third beer and the final of the australian open is about to begin!
Useful discussion here and the article from google here
There are plenty of sides to the story, but history tends to judge harshly from a moral standpoint those not willing to make a stand on this sort of thing. Western nation’s compliance in the persecution of the Jews in pre-WW2 for instance.
But then I suspect Google is not thinking about that, its all about the 1/5 of the worlds population they could make money from - which is at the core of all dealing with China.
Google is NOT about sharing information, it’s about monetisation of click through their very popular search engine. Remember that everytime you search.
I just got a second hand Sony Ericsson 910 from work.
It’s got lots of bells and whistles and its almost addicted to the internet, it just won’t stop connecting and it even seems to surf real sites very easily - this blog for instance seems to convert to mobile usage quite easily!
Except….
Its obscenely expensive…. How expensive this is my bill for the last day: $14.00 spent, for aroud 700kB, my rough math, my 2GB of broadbad would cost around $100,000 to using GRPS with Telstra.
I’ve disabled internet access now… until I win lotto 
One of my wife’s friends has recently returned from england and brought back our favourite thing: 7 bars of Galaxy chocolate!
I just ate the rest of a bar, and its not even lunch time…. not good.
I should be raking leaves, concreting, putting washing on, writing code, uploading latest release of a private project…
I need a todo list…. I wonder if theres any software on the net for that… perhaps I could write some…
noooooo……
Well, I’m waiting patiently in line for my google analytics invitation: http://www.google.com/analytics/progress.html
Do I need detailed statistics? Hardly, www.herod.net received 3 hits yesterday, and my blog got about 4, so why do I want google statistics?
Because:
- Its free
- I’m curious
Right now, a team of google sys-admins are unpacking new servers, installing new racks, upgrading routers, cabling rooms. Google software engineers are looking over code, enhancing, improving, perhaps even re-writing it. Some google manager is looking at the expenditure reports and the budgets and wondering…. when will costs exceed the benefit, when will the shareholders say “Interesting idea guys, but about my share dividend… what are you doing about that….”
I wonder what their commercialisation relies on… is it that they will have intimate access to whats popular on the net? That they’ll know more about your business than you will?
Gmail proved that Google doesn’t mind invading your privacy if theres a buck to be made (They do read your email to show those ads you know…)
Google has passed Intel and IBM to become the world’s No. 2 most valuable technology company after Microsoft.
Shares of Google, which runs the most-used internet search engine, rose $US15.53 to $US443.03 on the Nasdaq Stock Market yesterday, giving the company a value of $US130.9 billion ($A174.2 billion). That compares with a market value of $US128.3 billion for Intel, the world’s No. 1 chip maker, and $US127.7 billion for IBM, the world’s No. 1 computer-services company.
How can this possibly be accurate…. they have ONE real source of revenue - internet advertising, they have ONE product - internet search.
How long before the fall?
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