Recent Comments:
Searching Google for Girls {The Search Engine Marketing Weblog}
Jul 10th 2006 4:49PM Seems like a pretty lame version of Google with pink screens - does not actually search for Girls.
A wireless network in NYC's future? {The Wireless Report}
Jul 7th 2006 5:09PM I wrote two posts on this, one at Webmetricsguru.com and another on SmartMobs.com. I really hope NYC does get a wireless network soon - it would greatly help the quality of life in New York - esp - Ecommerce and on the fly kinds of projects.
Microsoft's adCenter Labs {The Search Engine Marketing Weblog}
Jul 5th 2006 2:24AM AdLabs is old news - it's been live for about 3 months now. I've written a great deal about it on Webmetricsguru.com
aSmallWorld invites... {The Jason Calacanis Weblog}
Jun 26th 2006 4:45PM Well, I grew up in the Bronx but lived in Brooklyn for a while now....I wonder if I could be in ASmallWorld? Maybe I should be.
Jookster {The Social Software Weblog}
Jun 23rd 2006 11:05PM I don't know...I signed up for it and was not that impressed. It seems to me everyone wants to come up with the killer app and yet they don't do the basics well.
All this social stuff ignores the basic fact that for Jookster to work well you have to invite all your friends to do use it and it's too much of an investment for me (not that I have anyone I'd invite). I can imagine some people will buy into it - but like the first comment, I don't think enough people will buy into it to make it useful.
New Ajax Powered Search Engine Launched {The Search Engine Marketing Weblog}
Jun 23rd 2006 10:44PM I don't know .... NuSearch looks like another tool that I don't have the bandwidth to really process. I'm not really sure the Ajax interface makes much difference to me. I don't see the advantage of using NuSearch and it's still klutzy interface (and really klutzy logo) don't inspire me to want to try it again.
Maybe the only good thing is the searching in other countries - it gives that option but I doubt it's worth it to me to want to use just for that.
Be careful about Web surfing in coffee shops without buying anything {The Wireless Report}
Jun 23rd 2006 12:47AM Evidently, the people in the coffee shop never checked to see if anyone else was using their network outside the coffee shoppe!
T-Mobile Sidekick III on display, well, everywhere {The Wireless Report}
Jun 8th 2006 11:34PM I can't wait - I switched from the Sidekick II to the TMobile MDA; but while the MDA as most of the features the new Sidekick is going to have - those features are often hard to use and even harder, in some cases, to know about.
A look at Google's Spreadsheets {The Unofficial Google Weblog}
Jun 7th 2006 12:46AM Google Spreadsheets ideas
Marshall Sponder June 06, 2006
Know More: Google Spreadsheets
In the tradition of Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Notebook, Google Base, Google Wireless Access there is now Google Spreadsheets according to John Battelle.
I like the ability to share spreadsheets online and to choose who will be able to access the spreadsheets. I think there's a feature or two I'd to see Google add to Google Spreadsheets:
1. Allow formulas to query Google (or any internet site) and put a calculate answers (results) based on rules built into Google Spreadsheet.
2. Google to create Plug Ins to Google Speadsheet that do different things like:
Check Search Rankings of urls without violating Google's Terms of Service
Allow searchers to create their own Google Spreadsheet Plug ins and functions and for Google to create a search engine to list all the user created functions and import those into Google Spreadsheet when a user wishes to.
Use Google Spreadsheets as an interface into Google SiteMaps, Google AdWords/AdSence and Google Analytics.
Allow Google Spreadsheet to interface with sites such as TVGuide and HBO to pull online media data such as the Buzz over who watched The Sopranos" and calculate the online audience reach of, say, American Idol 5 which I highlighted in blog posts such as Clay Aiken scores new fans on American Idol Finale, Idling In America - Search Trends from AdCenter, Idling In America II - Search Demographics from AdCenter, Idling In America III - Searcher Geolocation from AdCenter and Microsoft's adCenter Labs Demographic Prediction Demo weighs in on American Idol Popularity.
Google Spreadsheet should also be able become it's own programming language, but much more web based. Let's imagine that Google Spreadsheets could pull the information I talked about in Weekly Pop Music Blog Roundup: The Return of Clay Aiken or Ashlee Simpson's nose job and process that web data based on semantic analysis.
Use Google Spreadsheets as a way to inbed Google Video and YouTube videos.
But what would be most interesting of all, it to give Google Spreadsheets the ability to query other Google Spreadsheets and pull data out of them - perhaps interacting with the data in another spreadsheet it finds from a Search Query.
For example, lets say that you could program a Google Spreadsheet to look the value of a OnlinePoll, of say, who how many people liked the DaVinci Code and then - based on the value - take a certain action.
I hope I'm giving Google's engineers some ideas on how to improve Google Spreadsheets.
If Feedburner dies - we're going to live {The Social Software Weblog}
May 23rd 2006 12:06AM It came up today on one of my client's calls; some one wondered if it violated a company to use FeedBurner to monitor RSS Feeds since FeedBurner hosts your RSS Feeds. I assured this person you could keep your actual RSS feed url and still use FeedBurner.
