The 10 RSS Whores of the Blogosphere

Posted by hts | January 4, 2008 .

The following is a list with the blogs which have the most RSS subscribers on the blogosphere. If you add up the readers of these 10 blogs alone, they would inhabit a city bigger than Los Angeles.
Notes: click on the name of each blog to go to their homepage, click on the “chicklet” image to […]

Google Algorithm is Flawed - NOT

Posted by hts | January 2, 2008 .

When 2 authority blogs, with hundreds of thousands subscribers / visitors, like Techcrunch and Mashable tell you that Google screwed up their algorithm, then you should believe them, shouldn’t you?
The answer: NO.
What is this all about?
1st of January is the “birthday” of the TCP/IP protocol. As usual with such important events (for the web, […]

Today’s news: 14.12.07

Posted by hts | December 14, 2007 .

I thought I’d express my opinion, just like everyone did, about some recent things.
First of all, Movable Type goes fully open source. I’m using wordpress for this site, but this move from Six Apart team, who owns movably Type, should encourage competition. It will be interesting to see what WP’s next move will be.
Then, it […]

What Google Thinks of Reese Whiterspoon

Posted by hts | December 14, 2007 .

If you search on Google for “Reese Whiterspoon”, without quotes, (the actual name of the actress is Reese Witherspoon) you get some strange images at the top of the search results (distorted, alien-like version of the actress).

See for yourself:

According to Google, you may occasionally see small images at the top of your Google search […]

Google Is Cheating You

Posted by hts | December 10, 2007 .

Google is a corporation that extended well beside their initial scope: they have a contextual advertising network, social network, email, web2.0-style services etc. Also, it is known that Google is a company with huge profits, and besides, with rapid-growth profit.
Basically, you wouldn’t expect from such a company to steal some hundreds from small bloggers. Yet, […]

rssHugger Review

Posted by hts | December 9, 2007 .

While searching for ways to promote my blog and to increase the number of RSS subscribers, I found a post on John Chow’s blog about rssHugger
I wanted to give it a try, so here we go, this the review needed to get “in”.
What is rssHugger about? Basically, you send your blog for review and, if […]

So much creativity: IE8

Posted by hts | December 6, 2007 .

After working hard for months and months, the marketing team behind IE has finally come up with a name.
Some of the ideas they looked at were:

IE 7+1
IE VIII
IE 1000 (1000=8, binary speaking)
IE Eight!
iIE
IE for Web 2.0 (Service Pack 2)
IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate Edition for the Internet
(ouch!)
Ie2.079
(Math Edition, maybe)

but […]

How to Support Linux

Posted by hts | December 5, 2007 .

I want to make it clear from the beginning of the post: I am not one of those Linux/M$/Apple fanboys, who is trying to promote by any means one or another OS.
I have used Linux in the past, for short periods of time and it provided a better experience than Windows XP. That’s why […]

Google Wants to Keep Track of Your Possessions

Posted by hts | December 4, 2007 .

We already know that Big G stores a lot of info about us: browsing habits (search engine), emails (gmail), relatives/contacts (orkut), news we read (g-news) etc.
However, it seems that it is still not enough. As if indexing the world’s documents wasn’t an ambitious enough plan (if this would be Google would “take care” of…), now […]

20+ Greasemonkey Scripts for Digg

Posted by hts | November 29, 2007 .

Digg is a great site, but as any other thing in this world, it has its flaws.
This list compiles a series of Greasemonkey scripts (small bits of Javascript which allow you to customise the way a page is displayed) for Firefox, which enhance the Digg interface and behaviour, for a better “Digging” experience.
You obviously need […]

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