Friday, June 17, 2005

OpenRank.org

by damonp on June 17, 2005

in SEO


OpenRank | An open source project to have local and global link popularity measurable independently of any search engine

This is definitely worth following for a while to see if they can get it off of the ground.

The problem with any search algorithm, once the details are known, they can be manipulated. Will the human element be able to curb the tide of spammers who try to scew the results to their bottom line?

Maybe a user-centric model like WikiPedia could provide enough manpower to keep the relavancy high.

Popularity: 1%

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BetaNews | Google Bundles Software with WinZip

by damonp on June 17, 2005

in Uncategorized

Big Brother is coming, and not from where we thought he would.
BetaNews | Google Bundles Software with WinZip

When did a laidback hacker company become bent on world domination?

If true hackers can be drug in to this overly capitalistic mentality, is there hope for everyone else?

More and more my image of Google is being tarnished by things like this.

Popularity: unranked

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Snippet: Clearing Apache Semaphores

17 June 2005

ipcs -s | grep nobody | perl -e ‘while (<stdin>) { @a=split(/\s+/); print `ipcrm sem $a[1]`}’ ipcs -m | grep nobody | perl -e ‘while (</stdin><stdin>) { @a=split(/\s+/); print `ipcrm -m $a[1]`}’ </stdin>

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Responsible Capitalism

17 June 2005

I want to be a multi-millionaire! There has never been a question in my mind since I was a child. I think we all dream that some time in our lives. Today, the question is not that I want it, or even if I deserve it, but to what lengths will I go to in [...]

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Test From Dashboard

17 June 2005

This is posted from a Dashboard Widget. Not sure how helpful that will be as I always have 5 browsers open as it is. But a neat little feature.

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