Archive for April, 2008
« Previous EntriesYahoo are Monkeying around with their search engine
Saturday, April 26th, 2008There’s some really interesting stuff going on over at Yahoo. They’ve announced a complete rewiring of the Yahoo plethora of sites in a bid to offer end users a single place to manage all things Yahoo related.
They claim not to be building a new social network but are focusing on building social into everything they [...]
Microsoft Song of Praise: “Our Ecosystem Rocks”
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Just a few days ago I remembered an episode from “Only Fools and Horses” about Batman and Robin. And now all of us here have been glued to the screen, watching a spoof Bruce Springsteen video to the song praising Microsoft Vista SP1 (and there’s a spoof version of a superhero, as well). If you [...]
Tudor Fruit Musings and The Tree of the Blogosphere
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008When I was looking at this lovely picture in a Search Engine Land article (drawn by Elliance) I noticed that an image of a ripe apple stood for “fresh content” and an image of a bird-pecked apple – for “user comments”. Both types of apples can be found on the Tree of the Blogosphere (see [...]
We are feeling the Google Love again
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008[kml_flashembed movie="http://blog.pushon.co.uk/imgs/love.swf" height="90" width="160" align="right" /]Google dumped us recently, pulled out our heart, spat into the open wound and walked off into the sunset without so much as leaving us a Dear John.
We sat and sulked for the first couple of days blaming everything and everyone, life is so unfair, we didn’t deserve that, [...]
How Does Your Cell Phone Smell?
Monday, April 14th, 2008Jim Neath @ Virtuaffinity was somewhat disappointed to learn that in Japan they have invented the way to send a fragrance from your cell phone. NTT Communications proclaims that fragrance is the next big thing in telecommunications. The New York Times review, When Roses Won’t Do, E-Mail a Fragrance, describes it, as follows:
“users will be [...]