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Have you ever wondered how something goes from obscure to ubiquitous on the internet. I think it started with that annoying dancing Allie Mcbeal baby. And it didn’t end with the Star Wars Kid. You may have seen wherethehellismatt.com’s dancing movie.

More interesting is Matt’s posting on how the whole thing went from his […]

Thanks to Jay for the tip on tenbyten

This cool little application is possible because we are getting more sophisticated about what we put on the world wide web. The internet is playing host to much more these days than simple web pages. In the early days, if you ever looked at the html […]

This is pretty cool…

Use it when you visit me in Boston.

If you’re bored at lunch, give this a try. Think of an object. Answer a few basic questions about it… and, like magic, the computer will tell you what it is. (I happened to “win” with the object “an envelope”)
Check out Artificial Intelligence in action: WebOddity

So the site has a new look, new pictures, and is sporting some new software under the covers. This new software is designed to help me fight link spam which was becoming more and more of a burden. It’s part of the reason that my blogging stalled. Everytime I logged in, I had […]

A few weeks back, I posted on the new Google Desktop Search Engine.
If you have downloaded it and are using it, you may want to read this article.
Speaking of Google… have you seen this?
UPDATE: Security Flaw in Google Desktop
Interestingly, I found this on the news.google.com site.
Alert me to your thoughts.

This is an absolute must-have.
Have you ever wondered why Google can search the whole Internet in less than one second, but Windows takes forever to find one file on your own hard drive? Well, I don’t have the answer to that but I do have a solution for finding stuff on your computer:
Google […]

Wouldn’t it be cool to have an internet paperboy that delivered info from all your favorite sites right to your desk?
One of the very cool technologies on the web is Real Simple Syndication (RSS). If you’ve ever seen an orange XML button or an RSS icon, the site is enabled. Those buttons point to […]