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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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Clicks matter (it’s not about ads).

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , , , on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Image via Wikipedia The more time I spend online (as if it were possible), the more little things can make me change course completely. It’s all about adding up. Take Ars Technica, for instance. This is a blog I really appreciate. I mean really, really: no crap content, in depth knowledge and coverage, important issues. [...]

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When CAPTCHA mocks you

Posted in liteblogging, tagged , on March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I was trying to comment in Orli’s blog, when I saw this CAPTCHA: “Suroses” in greek means you “got drunk”. Apparently, Google’s CAPTCHA  does not appreciate my comments

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Error on tab?

Posted in liteblogging, tagged , on March 19, 2009 |

I often observe little things while  web surfing, worthy to keep somewhere but not really worthy to make a fuss about. Today I decided to use this blog as a notebook for these little things. It’s a lighter side of blogging… Here is what I noticed trying to register in Streamy.

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The twitter follower fallacy

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , , , , on March 15, 2009 | 13 Comments »

Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr There’s been much a discussion lately about the value of having hordes of twitter followers, sparkled mainly by the Twitter‘s  Suggested Users List. Jason Calacanis came to the point to offer Twitter $250K to be  one of the top 20 Suggested Users for two years. The argument [...]

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Public timelines: do we need them?

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , , , on February 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Do you ever give  even a single  glimpse to twitter public timeline? For jaiku I won’t ask. The map thing in the first page, with the updates popping from every part of the world, is kinda cool to watch for 10 secs, but no more. Identi.ca? Nah! So what is the use of the public [...]

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Obama: I, you, they or we?

Posted in Events, People, tagged , , on January 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »

From the word tree of the inauguration speech. Pretty telling! I You They We

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Get Things Done 2.0

Posted in Personal, tagged , , , , , on January 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I am sure David Allen did not include it in his initial version of  “Get Things Done“  but, as far as I am concerned, it must be included from now on. Ok, here is the new principle: Abstain from Twitter or Friendfeed or Google Reader for so long as needed to see your TODO list [...]

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Even classy companies screw their web pages!

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , , on November 13, 2008 |

I saw it today. Checked it with two different browsers (Firefox and Safari) in two different computers. Looked the same as the image below. Don’t know how long is it like this. The question is how long it will remain…

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Decision ’08 Presidential Results

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged , , on November 5, 2008 |

This looks like a new day!

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