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Archive for July, 2007

A Few Google Tips & Tricks

July 27th, 2007

Search engines like Google can do a lot. Sometimes too much. If you’ve ever tried to search for something, but found it was returning the exact opposite of what you were looking for, here are a few tips and tricks that may help you become a more efficient googler. 1) Searching Individual Sites This is [...]

YouTube scores in presidential debate

July 24th, 2007

The Democratic presidential candidates faced a new challenger in last night’s debate on CNN: YouTube.  The event marked the first time candidates answered questions in a debate format from citizens who submitted their questions on YouTube. Initially, I was skeptical of the format and considered it a gimmick. But when I saw how the dynamics [...]

Online social networking for seven-year-olds is here. Higher childhood obesity rates can’t be far behind!

July 18th, 2007

Club Penguin is the only online site 7-year-old Maisie in England is allowed to visit unsupervised, where she can play games, throw virtual snowballs and chat with other preteens who appear on screen as plump cartoon penguins. According to an Associated Press report in the International Herald Tribune, sites such as Club Penguin are “the [...]

‘Splashdown’ A Major Letdown

July 11th, 2007

The theme of this year’s MLB All-Star Game in San Francisco involved the ‘Splashdown’ at AT&T Park, which is nothing more than a homerun that’s hit over the shortened right field bleachers and into the bay which runs adjacent to the stadium. The identity developed for the 2007 ASG put the ‘Splashdown’ front and center, [...]

The beginning of the end for pageviews?

July 10th, 2007

Nielsen has announced that it will no longer be tracking pageviews as a measure of a website’s traffic. Instead they are going to focus on time spent on the site as a metric. The reasoning behind this is that newer web technologies such as Ajax mean you can view different content on a site without [...]