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Published: Mon, 28 July 2008, 15:04, also tagged: news, development, internet, search, statistics, graphs, speeple, speeple news, historical data
A graph is now displayed for certain searches which are grouped by day or month. The graphs display the activity over a time period of 100 days or 100 months.
The Speeple News graphs help outline when keywords were popular in the index, normally by showing a spike. This is most visible during sporting and seasonal events along with major world issues.
Published: Mon, 14 July 2008, 07:16, also tagged: internet, search, google, search engines, statistics, google trends, swastika, 卐, ǝlƃooƃ, ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ
Manipulation of the Google Trends query rankings seems easy as pie. On the 13th of July Google Trends top ten search terms included “ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ”. This is shortly after the swastika making an appearance.
Google states that a single post on a large forum community (4Chan) was the cause of the “卐” appearance:
Published: Tue, 8 July 2008, 17:01, also tagged: games, internet, google, social networking, messaging, virtual worlds, second life, instant messaging, social software, avatars, google talk, gtalk, lively, google lively
Google today has launched a new service named Lively. Google Lively provides users interactive avatars on top of the Google Talk (GTalk) instant messaging platform.
Lively works through a browser plug-in that is currently only available for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox on Microsoft Windows. The Lively browser plug-in allows the service to be embedded directly into web pages.
Second Life and other such competing services might be in for a tough time – although in its current form Google Lively doesn’t consist of a single world, each room is individually created by a user, so for now virtual worlds with a central world aren’t direct competition. It does seem very feasible that future iterations of Google Lively will have a central world where users can interact.
Published: Wed, 2 July 2008, 16:58, also tagged: office, firefox, linux, open source, gnome, ubuntu, openoffice, compiz, hardy heron, canonical ltd
Ubuntu is to many non-technical computer users the face of Linux. From my past use of Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 and more recently 8.04 (Hardy Heron) I’d agree with that it certainly is the distribution of choice among many Linux folk, both geeks and non-geeks.
The latest iteration of Ubuntu brings some improved GUI tweaks with the inclusion of a recent version of GNOME and improves on many other features. One particular thing I like now is the NVIDIA drivers are provided by Canonical Ltd and when new updates are released the system is seamlessly updated. This is a great improvement over the tedious installation required in earlier versions of Ubuntu.
My Linux usage increased in part due to my visits to Russia. On the Dell Inspiron 1520 Ubuntu is responsive, full of great software (thanks to the open source community) and extremely stable.
Published: Tue, 1 July 2008, 16:43, also tagged: rss, news, development, internet, programming, statistics, syndication, speeple, speeple news
I’ve put together a source for Speeple News Statistics. The page provides overall statistics of the Speeple News service, including health statistics such as crawl rate and top sources grouped by domain and individual feeds.
The stats cover news item totals, feed count, feed types and type version and content languages. The page is updated every 30 minutes.