According to the latest figures for the end of August the Cuil market share has dropped to, well, just about nothing at all. Net Applications has the market share being a very meagre 0.01 percent. At least it is a very steady 0.01 percent though.
The article points out the obvious problem: their search results suck. [...]
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Played with it tonight a bit. It’s freakin’ fast, especially for Google apps (natch). I like the new car smell it gives off, could do without the comic.
It feels like Firefox 3.0, but I think that was the point. No add-ons (yet, I assume), but it’s a beta. A nice, solid beta for a change. [...]
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I have no idea if this is something that I’m not configuring properly, but why, when I click on a link to a new email in various desktop notifier’s does the email message open in Gmail without the complete interface? For instance, when I click the new mail notification in Digsby, the window/tab that opens [...]
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Word on the street is that Comcast will be implementing a 250 GB/month usage cap on their internet service. This is, apparently, in response to the FCC smackdown they recently received for selectively blocking traffic on their network.
Comcast’s argument during that dispute was that blocking traffic (BitTorrent, to be specific) was necessary to maintain the [...]
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So, seems that, after using them as an example of a bad idea, Delicious went and fixed themselves up with a new website design. And it’s great! Very clean, very functional, and no more idiotic URL. Well done, Yahoo, well done.
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Curmudgeon mode, Engage!
I’m a big gadget/Web/Internet/wasting time fan, but the latest waste of time just made me laugh today. It’s called firefly. Firefly (sorry, firef.ly; did no one learn from del.ici.ous, wait, deli.cio.us, damn it del.icio.us?) is a service that lets you add (sigh) live chat to your web site. Really. Live chat. You know, [...]
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During a discussion over our first grilled meal of the year (brats), J– and I got into a discussion about LinkedIn. I asked J–, as a recruiter, what was she looking for in a recommendation? As we talked through the ins and outs of a telephone conversation with a listed reference, it become readily apparent [...]
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