Geeking with Greg

Richard MacManus notes the shutdown of Pluck's feed reader and says : Microsoft is integrating RSS into Outlook next year, Google will p...

Some interesting tidbits on the Netflix movie recommendations contest lately. First, 27 days after the start of the contest, there are now ...

In his post, " Gaming YouTube for Fun and Profit ", Pete Cashmore looks at how easy it is to get a video featured in YouTube'...

I (and therefore Findory ) will be at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco November 7-9. Web 2.0 looks like a great event. The list of ...

As discussed by many others ( [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] ), Google announced a new feature rather boringly named " Google Cust...

Mary Jo Foley describes the confusion about the Windows Live brand and how it relates to Windows, Microsoft, and MSN: Microsoft is actually...

I thought Weird Al Yankovic would never do better at capturing the essence of geek than his song " It's All About the Pentiums ...

Emre Sokullu and Richard MacManus at Read/WriteWeb wrote an article, " Personalized News: A Market Overview ", that covers severa...

Findory's Q3 traffic numbers are in. The good news is, after a dip, there is a modest increase from the previous quarter. The bad new...

In Google's Q3 2006 earnings call , Google CEO Eric Schmidt emphasized personalization of information in Google's mission and future...

Jessica Mintz from the AP has a fun article asking a few entrepreneurs and analysts, "What should Google do next?" An excerpt fro...

Google Website Optimizer appears to allow other websites to run A/B tests to optimize the effectiveness of their designs, features, algorit...

In a recent interview , Kim Malone (Director in the AdSense group at Google) said, "Behavioral targeting is not something that Google [...

Shiva Shivakumar (Director, Google Kirkland) who "led AdSense through beta, launch and hypergrowth" gave a talk at University of W...

Saul Hansell at the NYT tells us that " At Yahoo, All Is Not Well ". Some selected excerpts: Yahoo would seem to have a strong ha...

Seven days after the start of the Netflix contest , the first entry appears on the leaderboard that beats the performance of Netflix's ...

Kevin Delaney at the WSJ says that "Google Inc. is in talks to acquire popular video-sharing site YouTube Inc. for roughly $1.6 billio...

Ionut Alex Chitu points to a UC Berkeley talk, " Theorizing from data: Avoiding the capital mistake " by Googler and AI guru Pete...

Google Reader , a feed reader similar to Ask.com's Bloglines , recently redesigned and is getting rave reviews ( [1] [2] [3] ). If yo...

A9.com , Amazon's web search startup, has done a major design that completely changes the site. It now appears to be a metasearch engine...