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A good “new” blogs list

Posted by Nadir on February 27th, 2006

Todd, over at Stuntdubl has published a good list of his favorite “newer” blogs. I recognized a lot of sites on his list but he also included sites that I’ve never heard about before but that seem very interesting. A good example is Fiftyfoureleven, a beautiful web dev resources site and blog. The author seems […]

Week end in San Francisco

Posted by Nadir on February 24th, 2006

I am in San Francisco this week end, so I apologize for not being able to post. You have to understand, San Francisco is such a beautiful town that you don’t wanna miss it for anything.

According to this article from AuctionBytes, Alibaba, the famous chinese trading site, will be present at the next SES event in Nanjing, China. Jack Ma, who is CEO of Alibaba but also Yahoo! China, is known for being one of the most revered entrepreneurs in China, and certainly seen as one of the best Internet […]

How Google recruits Stanford Students

Posted by Nadir on February 15th, 2006

According to an article from ZDnet, Google is using its homepage to hunt Computer Science Students from Standford. When going to Google.com, CS Students apparently can see a text link on the middle of the page that says “Graduating? Come work with us.”

Yahoo! Mindset could make life harder for SEO

Posted by Nadir on February 14th, 2006

The guys at Yahoo! Research have been working really hard. Yahoo! Mindset is a great example of their efforts. This search engine, currently still in Demo version, is able to determine if a page has for primary goal to sell something (commercial) or if the goal is to present information only (informational).

Wifi everywhere and free with Fon

Posted by Nadir on February 13th, 2006

Fon is a very innovative Spanish Startup. They set out to create a community of people who will share their Internet connection with strangers. Basically, to be part of the community and share your Wifi connection with others, you need to go to Fon’s website and download a program onto your WiFi router that will […]

Please, use our search engine!

Posted by Nadir on February 10th, 2006

You don’t like my search engine? I’ll pay you to use it! That’s what Yahoo! is willing to do. They will give different kind of rewards to their users if they use mainly Yahoo! Search Engine. They are currently polling their users about what kind of rewards they would like to get in exchange for […]

Google will pay HP and Dell to include their programs in PCs

Posted by Nadir on February 8th, 2006

I know I would be able to find a confirmation really soon. As I said it in my last post, I noticed that new PCs from Dell had Google Desktop already installed but I didn’t find any article about it. The Seattle Times confirmed today that Google will install their programs on Dell PCs in […]