Take a test drive of Cuil this morning; you will be surprised at what you find. It has been a while since a new product has come out on the market in the search engine space that actually works well, and is actually fairly interesting in how they present data. Cuil was released to the public this morning, and it is truly something very cool.
Hitwise: LinkedIn Pretty Classy Place
If you want to contact someone about a job, it’s not a good idea to throw a sheep at him (or her) on Facebook. A better alternative, according to new Hitwise data, is to contact the person through LinkedIn.
You Cant Drink An Ugly Site Pretty
About half a blink, one-twentieth of a second, is the amount of time you have to outdo your competitors online. Internet users only need 50 milliseconds to make a judgment about your website and that 50 milliseconds colors the rest of their experience at www.yoursite.com.
Google Analytics Is Pretty Good
I’ve been using the Google Analytics service for a few weeks on WebProBlog … and I give it two thumbs up.
Yahoos New Pretty Maps Are Doomed
Has Google disrupted the businesses of Yahoo and Microsoft? Yes! It got me out of bed to write this post.
Pretty pictures :a question of blog aesthetics.
Is a blog that uses pictures in its posts more likely to succeed that a blog that posts identical content but doesn’t use the pictures? Sure, we know that there are many other considerations in the success or otherwise of a blog, but take a pure economists view of a perfect market where both blogs are identical in every other way.
Google’s Corporate Governance Score Is “Pretty Darn Awful”
Google has one of the worst corporate governance of any company in the S&P 500 index according to a highly respected advisory group.
Your Newsletters Are Pretty Lame If You Are Doing These 7 Things
I remember the good old days of the internet when it was a real treat to subscribe to someone’s newsletter and receive all their wonderful information through the convenience of your email.
Validating XML: A Pretty Complete Primer
As the Internet moves forward, Extensible Markup Language, XML, is poised to become the method for interchanging information among all sorts of devices. For instance, a hand-held Global Positioning System device might be Internet-enabled to receive weather reports encoded in XML. This hypothetical device doesn’t have a lot of extra memory to do all the error-checking and “forgiving” that a browser can do with your HTML. This means that servers must ensure that the data is “good to go” before sending it to the device. XML Schema is a new method that the World Wide Web Consortium has come up with to help make sure your data is valid.