Posts Tagged “news”

Publishing Fail

Posted on February 22nd, 2010 by primatage

I guess the hint wasn’t good enough.
I’m sure this will be fixed in an hour or two, which may or may not break the link, but here it is anyway :)
Edit: They pulled the article about half an hour later.

Google Search to Incorporate Real-Time Data

Posted on December 7th, 2009 by primatage

Yes, they’ve finally done it. After months of talk about incorporating the mounds of real-time data to which Google has access, they’re finally piping it all into their own search results. The sources they listed are some pretty big names: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, and Jaiku, among others — and that’s not counting the major [...]

Google Search Now More Personalized

Posted on December 4th, 2009 by primatage

Google’s been tailoring search results for quite some time now, and their new Web History, a considerable upgrade to the venerable Search History, has made far deeper personalization a reality. Now they’ve taken it one step further — Google’s enabled personalized search for users who aren’t signed in to Google.

Personalization without Google sign-in is enabled [...]

Google Public DNS: Online

Posted on December 4th, 2009 by primatage

Official pages on the matter:

Official Google Blog Post
Google Code Overview
Google Code Instructions

It’s as easy as entering two numbers in your internet connection settings. The payoff is minimal, but I’m quite happy to be using Google’s servers instead of Comcast’s.
 

Thank You, Alan Turing.

Posted on September 10th, 2009 by primatage

Today, British PM Gordon Brown issued a fully open and public apology for the treatment of Alan Turing, whom his own government betrayed and drove to suicide far before most of us were ever born. Regardless of the timeframe, Turing played a part in all our lives today through his work with early computers and [...]

Facebook Using YOUR Face for Ads

Posted on July 15th, 2009 by primatage

[UPDATE]: Facebook has since responded to me regarding this issue, see that post for updates.

Image: Culture Smith Consulting
“Peter” in this case is the Facebook user logged in to his account. The woman in the “Hot Singles” ad is his own wife. According to Facebook, these ads “respect all privacy rules.” Personally, I think it’s [...]

Send Your Name to Mars (why not?)

Posted on July 15th, 2009 by primatage

I know it’s silly, I’m not a fool, but that doesn’t stop the little kid in me from getting excited over this. There are few things I can commend NASA for these days, and this is one of them. It brings back memories of visiting a national lab, or watching Nova on PBS. It’s the [...]