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Gambling Pub is a rating site. If you are going to gamble online anyway, it is best you play it safe and are informed. You don't want to end up in the clutch of scamsters, and you want to have a ton of fun. When you are looking for your casino online this site comes in handy. It has reviewed and rated many of the online casino games and tallied them in a user friendly way so you don't have to browse around hoping to find just the right casino games for you.The site also lists free casinos for those who want to have some fun without having to dip into their pockets. The reviews are specific. The site strives to be your one stop shop for all your online gambling needs. Bonus size, payout percentage, customer service, game features, number of games, software graphics, ease of use: these are some of the metrics used to tally the various online casinos. All the top ones in the country are listed. This site helps you get the most out of online gambling, in terms of how much money you might win, and in terms of how much fun you might have. The site helps you discover and cater to your personal gaming style.

Monday, November 16, 2009

When O'Reilly Said 2.0

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Obama not on Twitter. This makes the "humbled" tweet really interesting.
Outright book keeping.
Microsoft to Google: that was fast.
IBM eating its own dog food on business analytics.
That all in one device will be the Internet Computer. It will replace the PC, the Netbook, the smartphone, the Kindle.
When O'Reilly said Web 2.0. This interview is of outsize importance.
And what are those mistakes?
Tablet PC. Still elusive. Overhyped?
A L?
Droid does?
Slum kids' easy ways with the computer.“Where’s my Oscar?” Ha!
Mashable beat TechCrunch on page hits with Twitter marketing.
Anonymous no more.
Amazon + Twitter.

This Blog's Alexa Rank Is Up Substantially

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A few days back I realized this blog's Alexa rank is up substantially. Right now it stands at close to 200,000. Early this year, if I remember it right, it was closer to 2,000,000. Maybe it was 1.8 million. But it was definitely up and above the million mark. My two other blogs are still past the million mark, way past. How did this happen. I can take a guess. My guess is this blog went up in the ranks because it is this blog that I link to from my Twitter page, and as I have moved from 300 followers to more than 30,000 followers on Twitter, my Twitter page has gone up in value.When someone follows you on Twitter it is like they linked to your Twitter page from their Twitter page. That drives up the web value of your Twitter page. So a link to this blog from my Twitter page is a valuable link. Hopefully that translates into better rates for blog post ads.

Twitter Should Go For A Netscape-Like IPO

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Web Search, Real Time Search, Social Search

Web search, real time search, social search.The social search space is in major flux.
Murdoch, Madoff, Mark Cuban. Cuban is missing the point. He is going back to the era of the Yahoo directories way of doing search. The list of the top 1,000,000 sites is in constant flux as it should be.
Twitter and Google. This is a dream come true for me. Index all tweets ever. Index all real time tweets. And then help make sense.
Facebook updates are very valuable. I am counting links to news articles and videos among the updates. You have your personal repository that you want to dig into at a later date.
If Twitter is your entry point to the web which is your entry point to the world, does that put Twitter in some kind of a central position? Sure.
The Google Chrome Operating System is showing up earlier than I had expected. But I guess they did say some time in Fall, did they not? A Netbook with a large enough screen with a Chrome OS on it, now that would be something.
Unless Twitter grows and keeps adding new features to richen the experience, it might stay among the tech elite.
If this is not JP Rangaswami!
Give India time. There is space for many Silicon Valleys across the world.
A Yahoo Connect sounds like a good idea.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

And If This Is Not JP Rangaswami

Deindexing Murdoch

For Murdoch to deindex from Google and to ask Bing to pay to be able to index, that goes against the basic ethos of the internet. This goes against the spirit of Net neutrality.
Google paying to Twitter is not the same thing. Because Twitter does real time search, Google does not do real time search, so Google pays Twitter to be able to offer real time search.
For the media companies to start playing this indexing, deindexing game would be problematic. Instead of the move resuscitating the old media empires, it might be a huge bonanza to the blogosphere.
In short, the deindexing move would be an act of self-destruction on the part of old media.

Murdoch's Google Gambit - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
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Suddenly Murdoch is a Real Threat to Google?
Is Murdoch Handing Google a Ransom Note? « J. Nelson Leith
Rupert Murdoch Plans To Hide His Sites From Google, The World ...
Google Boycott Would Only Cost Murdoch About 10%-15% Of Revenue ...
Baron von Tollbooth: Murdoch, Google and money
Google to Murdoch: Whatever, Dude - Rupert Murdoch - Gizmodo

Short Task

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Short Task Review: Short Task is a website that is a meeting ground for individuals and companies that want short tasks done, and those who are eager to do those tasks. Such short tasks are great for those who like to work from home.

These are not enormous projects. For that there are other websites available. This site is specifically for bite size tasks. Seekers, as they are called at the site, want work done. Solvers get the work done.

This is a skilled, virtual workforce that tackles the tasks that get listed. The site is high on innovation and does a good job of allowing Solvers/Seekers to handle their tasks.

Research, Data Entry, Writing and Design are some of the broad categories of tasks. There are numerous subcategories.

This site is a great marketplace and deserves to grow leaps and bounds. The site offers 21st century style work for the knowledge workers who can and should be able to work from anywhere. That way it is rather futuristic.

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