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It’s Official: Apple Is Now Worth More Than Microsoft

Posted in Miscellaneous on May 26, 2010 | Comments Off

via businessinsider.com Let’s see for how long… Posted via web from websurfing diaries

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Today’s Google Doodle denotes a … capitalist

Posted in Miscellaneous on May 1, 2010 | Comments Off

via google.gr Regardless of the aesthetics of today’s (May 1st, 2010) Google’s Doodle, I think there is a negative connotation that has escaped the artist’s attention: the ‘Google’ name appears to be mostly a part of the structure and pipes of an old fashioned factory, identifying this way Google with this kind of old fashioned [...]

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Google Chrome doesn’t trust … Google!

Posted in Miscellaneous on April 10, 2010 | Comments Off

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Good design can’t fix …

Posted in Miscellaneous on February 8, 2010 | Comments Off

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Consumers Trust Their Friends Less

Posted in Miscellaneous on February 8, 2010 | Comments Off

…social networks themselves may be contributing to the decline in trust. Platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have allowed people to maintain larger circles of casual associates, which may be diluting the credibility of peer-to-peer networks. In short, the more acquaintances a person has, the harder it can be to trust him or her. Mr. [...]

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What is this in Google Wave?

Posted in Miscellaneous on October 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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People will react to anything :)

Posted in Miscellaneous on October 6, 2009 | Comments Off

Taken from the Yahoo Mail Blog feed in Google Reader Posted via email from websurfing diaries

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What is a conversation?

Posted in Miscellaneous, social media, tagged , , , , on August 20, 2009 | Comments Off

Maybe the reason why Twitter succeeds is because people don’t really want to have conversations. They just want to be able to scream out into the void and listen for echoes. says Victor Ganata. If true, then all web 2.0 product developers should go back to the design desk. The real underlying question though is: [...]

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What is wrong with Webmonkey?

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , on April 18, 2009 | Comments Off

Don’t know how many people have noticed this:  the feed of Webmonkey tutorials is gone mad. Most of the articles lead to empty pages while some of them are really weird stuff. Like the following: which, if you click upon, leads to a page like this: Is this a hijacked feed or what?

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Yahoo Pipes most frequent use: porn

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , , , , on March 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I was working on a personal weekend project with Yahoo Pipes, when I took notice of this: The most frequent feed source used with Yahoo Pipes is Adultfriendfinder. The tag ‘porn’  is not that much used though. Clicking the link of the adulfriendfinder source leads to dozens of pipes, most of them of elementary functionality [...]

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