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Sep 23, 2011, 1:22 pm
Whilst perusing the Guardians job section to analyse the platform they use – I both found a number of ways to completely mess up that entire section of the site and I also found what must be the strangest Adsense advert of all time.
Having managed to create arbitrary pages on the job site I too... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2011, 4:40 pm
I love my Job I get to play with large amounts of data and some cool new cutting edge cloud based toys such as Map Reduce and Mahout and some interesting Web 2.0 Machine learning and AI type algorithms
Map Reduce is a software frame work developed by Google to allow processing on large datasets o... Comment - Like
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Apr 11, 2011, 4:19 pm
It looks like the infamous Panda Google update has arrived outside of the USA. According to Google the Panda update (some times called Farmer/Panda) is meant to better identify low-quality pages and sites.
These are the sort of pages (often seen on “content farms”) with text that is automat... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2011, 7:34 am
Google have just lanched some new funtionality in GWT (Google Webmaster tools) two new items in the html sugestions: Non Informative Title Tags and Non Indexable Content
Could be usefull in diagnosing problems in sites that need fixing – espesialy as a non informative title tag is a big l... Comment - Like
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Feb 9, 2011, 4:45 pm
Comics or graphic novels if we are being pretentious have had some odd one offs and crossovers -and recently a genre which mixes science with Jules Verne HG Wells era SF called steam punk has become popular.
Today browsing some gawker properties to see if they have fixed the major javascript sn... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2011, 4:56 pm
Sad to see that Gladys Horton one the founders of the Marvelettes has recently passed away. I saw her obit in the Guardian the other day. I thought I should post up a link to one of my favorite Marvelettes tracks for an early Harlem Apollo show in 63.
As you can see they where doing the moonwalk ye... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2011, 9:40 am
Oh dear sounds like Google is getting upset over Bing using googles results to improve theirs from the write up on Searchengine land here.
Google has run a sting operation that it says proves Bing has been watching what people search for on Google, the sites they select from Google’s results, t... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2011, 5:59 pm
I have been thinking about doing some WH40K gaming and one a visit to the mother ship at warhammer world I finaly broke down and brought a space marine battle force which is a basic starter set. I also looked at the various different Space marine factions and was taken with the Black Templars.
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Jan 8, 2011, 10:12 am
Just been playing with a new site Quora that is the new hotness
Basically its a site where you can post and answer questions – they describe it as:
Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.
You can see my Quora ... Comment - Like
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Aug 6, 2010, 8:29 am
Beer + Search geeks = a good time!
As a standin for the on hiatus SEO London my Boss is aranging a Networking event for SEO’s/People working in Search in London. At the moment its in the advanced cat hearding stage there is an Info Page for Search Marketing Pro Fill in the survay and we hope to ... Comment - Like
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Mar 20, 2010, 6:51 pm
Just saw that IO9 had a link to the latest trailer for the new DR Who series and it looks like DRWHO Season 5 will be a fun season.
WW2 Camo Daleks, Spitfires in space and the return of the Weeping Angels from Blink the HUGO award wining episode from season 3. Comment - Like
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Mar 1, 2010, 3:21 pm
I was somewhat surprised that Bruce Schneier article on CNN blames the US for enabling the Google hack. Bruce you work for the big boys now and you should know how the system works anyhow. I have been mulling his article over for a while and thought I ought to post my thoughts – its not every day ... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Google have given some more details about their new operating system Chromium. It seems to be a very cutdown Linux running Chrome and is tightly locked down and Google say it will only run web based applications which given its Open source roots is kind of interesting I cant see RMS being to happy a... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Last Monday I managed to have test game at the Gladiators with some model ships I brought back in the summer at games Expo. This is something of a rare event for me as the last time I put models I have painted on Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Watching the BBC and Alaks Krotoski’s take on the “internet” is an interesting experience whilst not to bad for a guardian tech journalist. The program has some fairly obvious biases and some of its statements about the history of the internet and its precursors are a little wobbly if not in f... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Just found the S2 Trailer for Sanctuary – in the USA its debuting on October 4th lets hope that its gets picked up again by ITV after all now they don’t have Primeval they might promote it to ITV 1 if we are lucky.
And some of the Cast/Crew talking about the difference between S2 and S1. Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Just listening to one of Leo Laports Podcasts TWIG (this week in Google) all about Google Search and Cloud based computing. For those of us who work in search and SEO this is going to become a must listen podcast.
Along with Leo the other Main Hosts are Jeff Jarvis and Gina Trapani. They have do... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Just heard via the D6 Generation of an interesting hybrid between computer based games and more traditional figure based games.
Ex illis uses traditional plastic figures as is now more common ala games workshop or rakham, though these figures are snap together and unpainted.
Bastion games say:
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I am a UK based Internet developer looking for a new gig full time or contract. I have many years experience in web/Internet systems.
One of the first 5 webmasters and champions of www in BT.
Took over SEO at my last employer helped grow it to a large team with 25+ clients and 4 team members.
Wor... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Just caught up via iplayer with the BBC 4 program Micro Men about the early days of the Computer industry in particular the rivalry between Sinclair and Acorn, with ZX80/81 and Spectrum vs Acorn’s Atom/BBC Micro. At the time I was working with some of the early PC’s PETS and Apples and both I an... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Google has just launched a new language GO. Google say is inspired by some issues Google have with existing languages. on the GO site the reason for creating this new language is given as:
Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming. Programming h... Comment - Like
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