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February 2005 archives
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Search engine statistics
James Lamberti, Vice President of Search Solutions at comscore Networks, presented today at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York. comScore * 18% of searches come from toolbars * 58% of searchers have not installed toolbars * 12% of searchers have uninstalled the toolbar * 20% of the search users constitute 68% of the search volume.
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Craigslist postings transmitted to space
On May 15, 2005 the Deep Space Communications Network will transmit craigslist postings, a video message from Craig Newmark, and a clip from "24 Hours on craigslist" from Cape Canaveral into space.
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Flickr deal still being negotiated?
and Flickr are still in negotiations over purchase price and no final agreement has been reached. A high level source within Yahoo told SiliconValleyWatcher that the two companies are in negotiations over the purchase price and that as of late Friday night Pacific Time, no final agreement had yet been reached.
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David Sifry 106 Miles talk
I just finished editing the audio of David Sifry's talk at the February meeting of 106 Miles, a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers in Silicon Valley.
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Rumor: Yahoo! has purchased Flickr
supposedly purchased Flickr last week and will make an official announcement on March 1. I have heard similar chatter and frequent Flickr sightings on the Yahoo!
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Microsoft issues security patch resets home pages to MSN
BusinessWeek: "It looks like Microsoft tried to get a little benefit for itself when it repaired a serious security flaw." Microsoft issued a security patch for MSN Messenger earlier this month that reset a user's browser home page to MSN by default.
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Web Spam Squashing Summit will not be broadcast
Tomorrow's Web Spam Squashing Summit will not be broadcast to the outside world. No IRC, no audio, and no video stream will be published of the event.
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Jason Kottke to work full time on his weblog
Jason Kottke just announced he is going to run kottke.org full-time supported -- he hopes -- by user donations. "This is me taking online personal publishing seriously because I feel it deserves as much."
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Charlie Rose February 15 episode on weblogs
I just uploaded the full audio of the February 15, 2005 episode of The Charlie Rose Show.
