News: July 20

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TechCrunch

Google Image Search: Over 10 Billion Images, 1 Billion Pageviews A Day
Offerpal Moves On, Gives Game Developers New Ways To Distribute Notifications
MOG Launches All-You-Can-Eat Music Service For iPhone And Android
SCVNGR Looks To Make ‘Checking In’ Less Antisocial, More Physical

Mashable

10 Tips for Corporate Blogging
Nokia Looking for a New CEO [REPORT]
China Satisfied with Google Search Tweaks: So What Has Changed?
.CO Domain Names Now Available
How Mark Zuckerberg Intends to Repair Facebook’s Battered Image
Google Launches Buzz Firehose
How Mobile Technology is a Game Changer for Developing Africa

CNet

Apple earnings should quell antenna debacle
The story behind $255 billion in gold
New bill renews Internet privacy fight
Chinese official: Google's search fix is law-abiding
BP crowdsources Gulf clean-up technologies
Handset world: Don't speak for us, Steve Jobs
Google Energy buys wind power in first deal

BusinessWeek

Bill Gates, Teachers' Pest
The Energy Industry Turns on BP
Rise of the Corporate Tweeters
Sarkozy's Campaign Finance Scandal
Goldman Profit Drops 82%
Solving the Social Security Squeeze
BP Well Stays Shut as U.S. Says Leaks Pose No Threat
Britain Delays Universal Broadband Goal
Avoid a Self-Inflicted Second Recession

Digits

Is India Ready to Offer the iPhone 4?
Users Rate Facebook Slightly Above the Tax Man
Netflix Execs Finally Find Their Passports
Mark Cuban: In the Future, Stores Will Recognize Your Face
Looking to Cellphones to Deliver Aid in Africa

Bits

The Recipe for Clouds Goes Open-Source
Fallout From the iPhone 4 Press Conference
Virtual Tiger Woods Takes A Tumble
Bits Pics: Twitter Traffic During the World Cup
A Field Trip to an Apple Lab
Google Buys Metaweb to Improve Search Results
What We’re Reading: Trailers
It’s Just a Phone

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I Am Big In Canada

An image is worth a thousand words, so let me not elaborate too much. This map above is based on the traffic to this blog this past week. The major countries seem to be as follows.

The Germans Called Me Robin Hood

Canada
United States
United Kingdom
India
Brazil
Mexico
Australia
Germany
Japan
South Africa

Sergey Brin's Is The Right Stand

I got Brazil and India but not Russia and China.

A 4 AM Traffic Peak, Mostly From Canada
Traffic: Canada Top Country, 2 AM Peak
What Just Happened? 3,000 Page Hits

The page hits for yesterday stand at 2,000 and for today so far stand at 1,000. So I guess that 3,000 hits a few days back not an aberration. That 3,000 could be my new daily floor.

Weekends tend to be slow for bloggers in general. People read blogs when they are at work! So 1,000 for a Saturday is good, it is like getting 2,000 hits on a week day.

My Secret Sauce

If you want to know how to do this, this is my attempt at a formula.

Blog Traffic = (Number Of Total Posts)*(Number Of Inbound Links)*(Frequency Of New Posts)

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Go Outside: Cults

We All Want Someone To Shout For: Best Songs Of 2010 So Far
(Via Fred Wilson)

Beach House – 10 Mile Stereo
Young Empires – Rain Of Gold
Delorean – Grow
Broken Bells – The High Road
Big Boi – Shine Blockas (Feat. Gucci Mane)
Caribou – Odessa
Glass Vaults – Forget Me Not
The Soft Pack – Mexico
Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar
Cults – Go Outside

Special shout outs to: 1,2,3,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,31,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50.

Skipped after sampling: 4,5,8,26,32.



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News: July 17 (2)

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New York Times

One Bride for 2 Brothers: A Custom Fades in India
Draft Law Revives Practice of Soviets
Energy Secretary Emerges to Take a Commanding Role in Effort to Corral Well
Voices From the Spill | Dia D’ingianni, Retiree: A Dream of a New Life Is Painted Black by Oil
Officials Call Results of Well Test Encouraging
Paterson’s Legal Bills Are Adding Up
Harlem Journal: For People on the Margins, a Ministry Steps Outdoors
Animal Autopsies in Gulf Yield a Mystery
Four Recommended Apps for Losing Weight
At School in Harlem, Resentment Over Girl’s Drowning on a Field Trip
Teacher Fired Over Field-Trip Drowning of Girl, 12
Bangladesh, With Low Pay, Moves In on China
After Goldman’s Concession, Regulators May Be Satisfied
Apple Goes on the Offensive
Bits Pics: Twitter Usage During the World Cup
Europe Without Hotels
This Land: From a Gulf Oyster, a Domino Effect
Habitats | Bushwick, Brooklyn: A Bushwick Mansion Where Music Fills the Halls
State Secret: Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding Plans
Wheelspin: In Michigan, Homage to the Auto’s Heritage
Editorial: Haiti at Six Months
Op-Ed Columnist: Tweet Less, Kiss More
Movie Review | 'Inception': This Time the Dream’s on Me
Theater Review | 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking': A History of How We Got From Here to There
Love Among the Ruined
Man as an Island
Time to Wake Up, Sleeper Spy
Digital Diplomacy
When Funny Goes Viral
Quote Unquote | Fashion Phobia
What Business Can Learn From Chess
Laugh Lines, R.I.P.
Aging Gracefully, the French Way
David Brooks: The Gospel of Mel Gibson
Wealthy Reduce Buying in a Blow to the Recovery
Iran’s President Renews Pressure on Conservatives
Charles M. Blow: Dog Days of Obama

Time

Schwarzenegger's Minimum Wage Rejected
Palin Earned $75K to Speak at University
Smoking Gun Sought in BP-Lockerbie Link
CNN: BP's Progress Bittersweet for Some
The Child Tobacco Farmers of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan Comes On Strong
Why Venezuela's Chavez Dug Up Bolívar's Bones

CNN

Tolerance for Ground Zero mosque
Back on TV, same old Fidel
Poll: Reid moves ahead of Angle
GOP blasts Obama on economy
Poll: Palin hot with GOP
Techies moving to 'Silicon Prairie'
Afghan 'Oprah' helps country heal

Foreign Affairs

The G-20’s Dead Ideas
Castrocare in Crisis
Coping With China's Financial Power
Khomeini's Long Shadow
Veiled Truths
Defining Success in Afghanistan
Renewing American Leadership
Honolulu, Harvard, and Hyde Park
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
Obama and the Americas
Fear and Loathing in Nairobi
Mugabe Über Alles
Prisoners of the Caucasus
Empire Without End
The New Cocaine Cowboys
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Stopping Proliferation Before It Starts
Ukrainian Blues

The Economist

Egypt: After three slow decades, change is in the air
Greece: A controversial consolidation
Where has America's greatness gone?
Tibet and Xinjiang: Marking time at the fringes
Europe's future: Can anything perk up Europe?
The future of Europe: Staring into the abyss
Protests in Indian Kashmir: Stony ground
Lexington: Where has all the greatness gone?
Arab autocracy: Thank you and goodbye
China and Sri Lanka: The Colombo consensus
Hong Kong's economy: End of an experiment
Charlemagne: Calling time on progress
Ranking care for the dying: Quality of death
Leader: America's bank reform is hardly a panacea, though it fixes some important things
The banks' supposedly miraculous contribution to economic growth has been more of a mirage
When kings and princes grow old
Your Party. At last, an up-and-coming force in Japanese politics
Somalia comes to Uganda
Bombs in Uganda are probably the work of the Shabab
When the rivers run dry

India Today

RSS sorry for damage at Headlines office
K'taka political crisis reaches Delhi
'Muslims won't forgive Mulayam
TV studio attack: Sena MLA held
'Pak army chief derailed talks'
CPI-ML seeks arrest of Nitish
Normalcy returns to Kashmir
Bihar court summons Sonia
Film review: Tere Bin Laden
Film review: Udaan
Film reviews: Lamhaa
Lamhaa banned in Gulf
China wants to bid for 2026 FIFA WC

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