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Never Worry About an Algorithm Update Again, a History – SEOmoz (blog)
Jan 19th
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Never Worry About an Algorithm Update Again, a History
SEOmoz (blog) The hard part is that almost every SEO I know who has a natural focus on scale has burned a more than their fair share of sites or clients in their career. There is just a mentality that comes along with the "scalable SEO", and it brings risks and … SEO Services Los Angeles Now Offers Off and On Site SEO Services |
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The History Of Google Places, All On One Page
Jan 10th
Maybe it’s my bias as a longtime fan/practitioner of local search and SEO. Or maybe it’s because I’m mentioned as one of the sources/contributors. But more likely it’s just that this is an important search reference document, and that’s why I think that anyone…
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Norad Santa Tracker : The History of NORAD, Google & Santa [Infographic]
Dec 22nd
Embed this on your siteSource: Norad Santa Tracker : The History of NORAD, Google & Santa [Infographic]Christmas Eve is only 1 days away and that means that Santa Claus is getting his reindeer and sleigh prepped to bring presents to boys and girls all around the world. Every year around this time, NORAD launches its Santa [...]
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Fusion Garage and the JooJoo: An Unremarkable Footnote in History
Dec 19th
Tablet maker Fusion Garage is on the ropes. One of the first companies to try and make tablet computing commercially viable, has been embroiled in a legal battle with its partners and this weekend lost its legal council after it failed to pay him. The JooJoo, once called the CrunchPad, could have been exciting. Now, it is likely to go down as an unremarkable footnote in history.
Fusion Garage is also the maker of the Grid 10 tablet, an Android slate that was released to terrible reviews and poor sales. As of Monday morning, a Grid 10 tablet was not available through the company’s website. Fusion Garage appears to be on its way to a shallow grave, its path to demise lined with broken promises and bad products.
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The impending doom for Fusion Garage reminds me of a line in the movie Tommy Boy where auto parts conglomerate Zalinsky, played by Dan Aykroyd, says, “We have to have the courage to take a few companies, tie them to a tree and bash their head’s in with a shovel. That’s progress.”
Make no mistake, Fusion Garage’s woes are progress. The tablet market can only withstand so many suppliers and the low end of the ecosystem already has established bottom feeders Acer and Asus cranking out cheap slates that most consumers will pass over.
With the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook providing cheap tablets that consumers actually want to buy, the squeeze is being put on the rest of the Android tablet market (or, really, the non-iPad market). The weak companies are going to start to die off or rearranged their priorities towards a strategy that actually makes money. In that regard, Hewlett-Packard was probably smart to discontinue the HP TouchPad. Get out of the market before it collapses entirely and new products make your efforts look poor in comparison.
There is also the fact that Fusion Garage was never seen as playing fair. TechCrunch founder and now venture capitalist Michael Arrington has had a very public feud over the tablet that become the JooJoo. The project was originally supposed to be called the CrunchPad and would have pre-dated the release of the first iPad by months. Fusion Garage eventually cut ties with Arrington, released the JooJoo independently and were subsequently sued for fraud and breach of contract. That case is still ongoing, with AOL now representing TechCrunch’s interests. Arrington posted to his personal blog this weekend that Fusion Garage’s attorney has filed to be taken off the case because the company has not paid him and the relationship had become strained beyond repair.
Fusion Garage public relations company, McGrath/Power, dropped Fusion Garage earlier this year.
The signs are pretty clear: everybody involved with Fusion Garage is running away, the company is embroiled in lawsuits, the brand name is tarnished beyond repair and the one thing that could save it, the product, is insufficient.
The old guard of TechCrunch employees are reveling in Fusion Garage’s woes. Arrington said, “Fusion Garage finally destroying itself certainly makes me happy. The fact that Quinn Emanuel and PR firm McGrath Power, who advised Fusion Garage on the right way to execute on the fraud, are left with unpaid bills also makes me happy. I’m sorry to the customers who tried to pre-order these things and may never see their money again. But, really, what were you thinking?”
At this point, there is probably that Fusion Garage can do to avoid the inevitable collapse. Call it progress, call it revenge, call it whatever you like. In 10 years, Fusion Garage, the CrunchPad/JooJoo/Grid 10 will be the answer to a trivia question that only a select group of geeks will be able to answer.
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A History of Online Patent Search
Dec 12th
Last week IBM announced that it has taken chemical data from various patents and made this information available to researchers online. It is just the latest in an ever widening of publically available information concerning patents and intellectual property. But online patent access has had an interesting history, and even though it dates to the early days of the Web, it was a difficult path and an interesting story in public access to information.
In collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont and Pfizer, IBM is providing a database of more than 2.4 million chemical compounds extracted from about 4.7 million patents and 11 million biomedical journal abstracts from 1976 to 2000. IBM Research developed it in collaboration with these private companies over the past six years. It includes patents from a variety of sources outside of the US. The data will be incorporated into the PubChem archive at the National Center for Biotechnology Information of the National Institutes of Health.
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The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) receives hundreds of thousands of applications each year and now posts the ones it approves on its own online patent database here. But that wasn’t always the case.
Before the Web, patent searches were long, tedious, and expensive, and province of a select group of private entities. Finding “prior art” (as it is called) was a very specialized field. This started changing, when back in January 1994 Carl Malamud began a project to put patents and other government data online. Malamud has been a tireless advocate for posting more data online by various private and public entities and has been rewarded for his efforts by various awards and funding from Google and numerous foundations started by early Internet pioneers. By 1995 his system was serving up a million files via FTP, Gopher and Web access. (Remember, back then graphical browsers were still somewhat new, and many websites were predominately text-based.)
Sadly, the PTO turned off this access for several years. Malamud lobbied PTO but to no avail, and IBM posted the patent data online until PTO could offer their own service in 1998. Since then, they and others including Google, FreePatentsOnline. Cambia’s PatentLens and LegalZoom (the latter for a fee) offer patent searches.
Malamud told me that “The patent database is pretty much liberated at this point. Jon Orwant at Google did all the heavy lifting, deserves the credit for making this a reality.” You can read a copy of his letter to Al Gore back in 1998 here to get some additional perspective.
(Above you can see Doug Engelbart’s diagram in his 1970 patent for a computer mouse.)
What about non-US patent access? In addition to some of the free sites mentioned above, the European patent office can be searched here using its Espacenet service, which was started in 1998 with bare-bones features. Search was enhanced earlier this year, and you can now export results to Excel, setup RSS feeds, and keep a query history as part of its free service. You can search in English, French and German.
And the World IP Organization maintains its patent search here with its PatentScope service, which also has been expanded and improved.
Patent applications have been growing steadily for the most part, and IBM is the most prolific: each day it is granted about 20 patent applications. Samsung and Microsoft get about half that. That is each calendar day. Apple gets about 500 patents a year, and Google and Motorola less than that. We’re glad to see that more information is entering the public domain, and hope that this trend continues.
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SEO Positive Reviews Google’s Official History of Search Video – PR Web (press release)
Dec 9th
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SEO Positive Reviews Google's Official History of Search Video
PR Web (press release) SEO Positive reviews the key ideas discussed in the release. Alongside the video, Google has released a concise timeline that highlights the main points raised in the production. Those involved in any sector of the web market will understand the … |
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Cyber Monday 2011 Marks Biggest U.S. Online Spending Day in History
Nov 30th
Cyber Monday 2011 was the heaviest U.S. online spending day in history, with the holiday season as a whole up 15 percent YoY to $15 billion this season-to-date. Average order values increased 2.6 percent and mobile traffic to retail sites are up 3…
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Google Thanksgiving Doodle History: From 1998 to 2011
Nov 23rd
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! As has been Thanksgiving tradition, Google posted a special Google Doodle to mark the holiday in the U.S., with this year’s interactive and shareable logo arriving a couple days early.
Thanksgiving is the long…
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Google’s Timeline Search Option is History
Nov 11th
As Google pushes fresh search results, a helpful Google search tool for historical searches quietly vanished earlier this month. Google has confirmed that Google’s Timeline search option, which debuted in 2007, has been discontinued.
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Whoops: Dolphin’s Mobile Browser Leaks Your Web History
Oct 28th
Dolphin HD, a popular third party Web browser for iOS and Android, has been found to have a potentially serious privacy flaw. The software routinely sends a list of visited Web addresses back to the servers of MoboTap, the company that makes the browser.
The breach, which was confirmed by CNet today, affects the security of encrypted data accessed over HTTPS, in addition to raising privacy issues.
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The issue was first discovered by a member of a forum for developers, who posted details about what the security flaw entails. In response, MoboTap said that they do not store this data, but rather only use it to assist the functionality of their Webzine feature, which is a Flipboard-style digital magazine for Web content.
An initial attempt to fix the problem was unsuccessful, but MoboTap pushed out a second update pushed out today claims to have resolved the issue.
Dolphin had long been a popular browser among Android users when it launched on iOS earlier this year.
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