March 2006 Entries
The Web is evolving in an amazing way, and it's happening right now. I'm convinced that Yahoo's acquisition of del.icio.us is going to be seen as an incredibly smart move -- and one that will not be good for Google. Yes, Google may still remain the search engine leader, that is, search engines as we now know them -- traditional ones. But more and more people will be using other means to search the web. Web 2.0 means. Social Bookmarking. These are growing rapidly, whereas growth in traditional search...
I ran across Clay Shirky's article Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality and immediately thought of checking the stats on a few TagTooga.com pages. Amazing what I found... In a nutshell, a power law distribution says that "in any system sorted by rank, the value for the Nth position will be 1/N. For whatever is being ranked -- income, links, traffic -- the value of second place will be half that of first place, and tenth place will be one-tenth of first place." I took a look at the "Julian Beever"...
This might be of interest to people. As you know, McAfee recently had a serious error with a DAT file that mis-identified good files as viruses. Depending on your settings, if your server did an on-demand scan when that DAT file was active, you may have either quarantined or deleted important files. These lost files may not become apparent to you until your server next reboots, which may be when patches are next applied. In some cases, we have been able to tell that you've lost files and have already...
You all know what reverse IP lookup is: trying to determine which websites reside on the same web server, whether it be a shared hosting server where the sites are unrelated or a dedicated host. The TagTooga.com site now has "Reverse Google ID Lookup" -- the ability to find sites using the same AdSense Google ID. When a site is detected to use Google ID's, the listing in TagTooga.com will include a icon. If you click on it you will see the Google ID and the other URLs having the same Google ID. Here...
Most blogs have a right sidebar to display blogrolls, or linkrolls. Wouldn't it be cool to display HTML snapshots of the linked web pages instead of text links? Well, you can do it with TagTooga.com. You can check it out at http://tagtooga.blogspot.com/ where I've created a demo blog with an HTML image feed. You can also create the standard text link blogrolls and linkrolls