A quick look on OneRiot and it’s like looking at OK!Magazine combined with Google news and tech crunch: Canadian beavers, Ipad, Oil spill, Will Smith’s new video, Pelin talks about who she likes, Girls Gone Wild and smoking mamas keep their babies up… Yikes!
So ok, the homepage OneRiot has chosen to go with is not very useful, but how do they fair in categories or vertical topics? Like travel? Things are suddently starting to get VERY interesting indeed! Continue reading
Google is incorporating the “more options” that where previously hidden under “show more options” in the main search window in the main search.
Here’s a few screenshots
Google 6-5-2010
Google wonder wheel
Google video
Google images
They have also introduced “fewer shopping sites” and “more shopping sites” links – just like the old Yahoo shopping slider half a decade ago… I really liked that btw Yahoo!
Last week Facebook launched Open Graph, a platform that allows sites and apps to share [Facebook] information about users in order to tailor content. Open Graph comes to compliment a series of site applications Facebook has been releasing for the past 9 months, that are all bucketed under Facebook for websites.
Facebook for websites is a suite of tools Facebook is working on, to extend their global domination outsite their domain, and into the entire web! Their key strategic areas are: Continue reading
I spent half an hour looking for info on site hierarchies – but evidently there isn’t much to it. You just need to have breadcrumbs in your pages and Google will pick them up.
The information in these new hierarchies come from analyzing destination web pages. For example, if you visit the ProductWiki Spidersapien page, you’ll see a series of similar links at the top, “Home> Toys & Games> Robots.” These are standard navigational tools used throughout the web called “breadcrumbs,” which webmasters frequently show on their sites to help users navigate. By analyzing site breadcrumbs, we’ve been able to improve the search snippet for a small percentage of search results, and we hope to expand in the future.
Wolfram Alpha doesn’t do traditional search very well, in fact if you try the terms most people search for, cheap flights, holidays, car insurance, laptops, hotels, loans, train tickets and mobile phones, and naturally porn, in most cases there won’t be an answer you can get from Wolfram Alpha.
So why is Wolfie a big deal? What does it do well?
It’s fantastic for geeks – so all the techcrunch geeks write about it
Weather: It’s weather history and interface looks very promising. You could ask what was the weather like in a specific location 35 years ago – on your birthday for example – and if there was a tide. Continue reading
For those who have previously used Where I’ve been on FaceBook the integration is easy and provides an intuitive extension to the FB app capabilities.
Sadly though I wasn’t exactly sucked into it – I might give it another look to get inspired for my next trip and see how useful it might prove on a real life scenario. Will keep you updated
