This is big news – Murdoch is making noises about preventing Google from crawling News corp sites. Jason Calacanis seems to have smelled this strategy ahead of time. Some interesting stuff going on here (http://bit.ly/2nOzNo). This could mean good news for Bing and an inflection point for Google’s domination in search. Content sites may be able to [...]
Mike must be pretty happy with the interest his article is generating about RSS being dead, now that Dick Costolo, founder of Feedburner is joining Twitter. This viewpoint seems to be a bit far fetched, at least for the time being. As several TC readers mention in the comments, RSS is quite strongly embedded in [...]
I use Google Trends for understanding the popularity of a wide variety of phenomena. For example, it’s a good tool for getting a rough idea of relative market size. An useful tool. So its not surprising that Google has harnessed all that search query data and understand the data correlation with US economic indices. Google [...]
I just received email invites for the SF mobile meet-up and the Facebook tech talk. The RSVP policy for both had something that I have not seen before in such emails: Security is tight and if you are not on the RSVP list, you cannot get in. I have a feeling this heightened security is [...]
Check out the extract from this article about urban poultry farming. One of the sites catering to folks interested in this topic is generating 6 million PVs/month. That’s probably a million plus uniques/month! Chicken farmers are finding each other on sites like TheCityChicken.com, UrbanChickens.org and MadCityChickens.com. BackyardChickens.com logs some 6 million page views each month [...]
Sometimes a movie or book touches you deeply. Here is a movie based on an immigrant theme that really struck a cord with me. The Visitor I saw this movie recently on a plane trip to India. Haaz Sleiman’s acting as Tarek, an illegal immigrant from Syria, is wonderful. He gives the character a very [...]
I am glad there are companies out there (finally) that are tackling the question of toxicity in products and whether the companies that are producing products have sustainable practices. The whole question of being green is gaining momentum (apart from the marketing spin) and society is all the better for it. Check out goodguide.com. They [...]
US unemployment rate reaches 14 year high
An awesome piece of research/investigation into those dating lawn signs. “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape
The NY times has covered a Pretty Interesting start-up. The idea may have legs: Math – Indian Style Update: The article comments both here and on NY times are very illuminating.
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