So you think you're open source? Are you this open source?

There's the technology, and then there's the under-lying ideology that inspires it.

Cuil: The Latest, Baddest AntiGoogle Looks Like A Magazine

SAN FRANCISCO — Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.

She believes her latest invention is even more valuable _ only this time it's not for sale.

Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.

The end result is Cuil, pronounced "cool." Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.

Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers _ Russell Power and Louis Monier _ searched for better ways to search.

Now, it's boasting time.

Yes this is true to say that keyboards are so lame or ridiculous in other term .We are still using keyboard because we do not have any other easy option to type an each and every single alphabet. Finger work makes a mixture of great touch-only input devices that supported difficult finger hand activities for computer input.
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paul

http://www.treatmentcenters.org/alaska

Washington Post, July 23, 2008

Bloggers, take note: the old-school Google bomb is no more.

That's right, the online behemoth best known for its search engine says that it has rejiggered its legendary and proprietary technology so that online efforts by bloggers to manipulate its top-secret search algorithm to create cheeky, offensive and decidedly off-message answers to searches will no longer work.

"It was fun" while it lasted, said Rick Klau, a member of the Google strategic partner development content acquisition team, at a search engine optimization training session for political bloggers in Washington, D.C., this afternoon. But, he said, "Google bombs don't work anymore."

Lately I've been paying attention to conversations about "social networking interoperation". IE: networking people between their websites, rather than under one roof like Myspace. Here's one such conversation:

Talking Social Network Interop @ GSP East from Brian Oberkirch on Vimeo.

Keyboards are so Lame. I mean, how ridiculous is it for us to physically type each and every single letter in a sentence, including punctuation!? Hasn't technology improved a bit over the last 80 years? Why are we still using keyboards?

http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

It seems like forever my chief complaint against Flash (aside from when it's used in an all-fashion no-function way) has been that it's invisible to search engines. But now, apparently, Adobe is giving Google and Yahoo the keys to indexing SWF files. Why they're not opening it up so any search engine can do it I'm not sure: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/01/1220232&from=rss.

Here's the first part of a series of articles detailing one developer's experience with Mac OSX vs. Windows, with some good history behind it.

Here's a great email from Bill Gates to his dev staff, from 2003. He explains what a PITA it was to download and install a simple program. All I can think about while reading this was: he's getting a Mac after he retires.

You know your platform is gaining popularity when the hackers finally start paying attention to it: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/06/new_trojan_leverages_...