This New York Times article talks about Goto.com in glowing terms for pioneering a revenue stream that is based on placement in searches. My opinion of them as a second rate player in this space is reinforced by this article. The same way I skip those “special advertising sections” that sort of masquerade as editorial in magazines, I’ll go ahead and skip search results that are “enhanced” by commercial placement. here’s a quote from the article that I quite enjoyed: “Even Mr. Gross, GoTo’s founder, says he does not use the service for all his searches. ‘If I want information, I use Google,’ he said.”
I also much prefer the Google model of providing related but sponsored links in another section of the page. In the end, if I were advertising, I would rather have this sort of placement with a search engine that delivers solid information than an entry that has been slipped in by the site on a second rate engine.
Looks like Lawrence is bringing Tomalak’s Realm to a close. It’s a shame, but here’s a big thank you to him for doing such a useful site for so long, and good luck in the future.
Moulin Rouge was incredible. Baz really outdid his earlier efforts with this one. This movie was good on so many levels, I can only describe it as a rich piece of triple chocolate cake. I’ll surely be seeing it again.
PocketMac is a to be released tool for synching PocketPC devices with Microsoft Entourage on the Macintosh. As someone who, even today, experienced the pain of not being able to find any way to connect two such devices, I’m happy about it.
I usually don’t link to new Weblogs anymore. There are too many for me to do that sort of thing any justice. However, Nathan, who I work with and who has good curiousity and interests has started n0d.org. I think you’ll find some really good information there.
Windows users pay for hacker insurance. This is interesting, because of the way that insurance companies do business, it’s hard to refute the fact that NT is, as a matter of fact, a less secure choice than the various unixes. (At least in the case of this particular company’s clients.)
‘IRON CHEF' TO AMERICA. A few comments about this. First, William Shatner? Second, part of what I have enjoyed so much about the Japanese version of Iron Chef has been the bad dubbing and the asian oriented cuisine. So, the bottom line is that I’m not really looking forward to this whatsoever. I would imagine they are counting on the cult popularity of the Iron Chef on the Food Network would lead to increased viewership, I somehow doubt it. (link via Eatonweb)
Transcript: Jeffords statement. Regardless of your political stance, you have to admire this man for his strength of conviction. He is standing up for what he believes in and showing himself to be of independent mind.
I’m interested in learning WebObjects, so I’ll pose the question here because I know there are at least a couple of you who develop with WebObjects. Where do you start, what do you need? Where is there documentation? Where are there books? mail me.
Taleban to mark Afghan Hindus. Okay, I got chills up my spine reading this article. Sounds eerily like something done at one point in Germany. On the heels of blowing up the Buddhas too. Very disturbing. (via rc3.org)
Brent: “the average Brent and Sheila will feel less in control of their environment, as technology designed to make life easier makes life more and more annoying.”
I found a link to The Art of the Mix at metafilter, which was interesting because I have a long and interesting history with making mix tapes. The I noticed this XML interface they have built that allows you to access their information with xml based http requests. Even more interesting.