The Death of the Relational Database

Just read Hank Williams's "The Death of the Relational Database" and it is very interesting.

Online dressing room

KnickerPicker has a very interesting online dressing room with real person model.

I think this is one of good example of web application. Well done!

Microsoft will deliver the next big thing?

Robert Scoble wrote "Microsoft researchers make me cry" saying that based on research of Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay, Microsoft will release something big on/after February 27th.

And more interestingly someone might solve the mystery already.

Ok, let us wait and see what Microsoft will release and if it it related to Photosynth.

Information is useless while knowledge is useful [Part 2]

Point #2 Knowledge Serialization needs to be solved.

Basically we need an extended "storage" of our brain -- just like you have external hard-drive for your computer.

The functionality of knowledge serialization is not only for storage, it is a solid foundation for machine(computer?) to have the same knowledge-base for any further process.

We write notes, use online bookmark, search information... All these are early stage of ways of serialization, although this serialization is more about information, not about about knowledge.

[to be continued]

The future of the internet

Markus Frind wrote "The future of the internet".

For those who does not know him, Markus is the founder of Plentyoffish.com, one of the largest free dating site in the world.

I agree with what he wrote and think it is actually an issue of what I called "Brain Integration".
If my brain can communicate with your brain directly without go through writing/reading/talking/listening, things will move as fast as we think!

In order to achieve that, one of steps will be able to backup our brain -- just like backup your data.
More technically speaking, serialization of the content of brain.

The Bombay Company

From its website

"The Bombay Company is discontinuing operations and all stores are closed as of January 21, 2008. We would like to thank you, our loyal customers, for your business over the past years."

I liked this company. Too bad it is gone :-(

Information is useless while knowledge is useful [Part 1]

As of now, I think the technology solutions we have are pretty good to process INFORMATION.

With so much information in web right now, just like other people, I feel the information is so much that it almost becomes useless. It is more and more difficult for me to find the information I want.

So it is more and more urgent to come up a solution to process KNOWLEDGE.

People did so many research in artificial intelligence(AI) field for so long. Yet I did not see a good solution so far, for AI in general and in knowledge management particular.

This shows again that how little we know about our own brains :-)

I am not an expert on this and am not doing research for living. But I am interested in this enough to do some research and do my own thinking during spare time. I will try to write down what I know(or I think what I know) here. Hope to come out at least 2 good things:
1) your comments;
2) organizing my own thinking.

Enough meta-information. Here is the point one.

Point #1 It is not possible to develop a software as an AI solution without human intervention.

The reason is very simple, if it is possible, it should have been done already. So I think it is a wrong approach to develop any 100% automated software system as AI solution.

Well, if you think my "prove" is too naive, let us try another way. Software is nothing but a set of logic, or in a more concise way, Any software can be formed into a formula(OK, OK, a complicated one). You give inputs, and you will get the predicted outputs. But logic becomes static as soon as you finish the development. And this static, predicted logic will never being intelligence.

Intelligence is more about a dynamic process instead of a static state.

[to be continued]

Links from 20061126

http://www.highrankings.com/
http://www.cre8pc.com/
http://www.webmarketingplus.co.uk/
http://www.searchengineblog.com/
http://searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000820.html
http://www.marketingvox.com/
http://www.searchengineblog.com/interviews/pay-per-click-part1.htm

http://www.searchengineblog.com/columns/three_page_optimisation.htm

A good article about Friendster and MySpace and some links about social web

By danah boyd

A article about Friendster from nytimes.com



About another site: myyearbook.com
http://www.myyearbook.com/
http://brazilbusiness.biz/2006/09/25/my-yearbook-siblings-conquer-online-niche/
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/06/myspace_my_teen.html

About Linkedin
http://linkedintelligence.com/linkedin-dangerous-forbes-thinks-so-ahh-the-irony/
http://blog.calevans.com/2006/08/23/why-linkedin-sucks-and-why-ill-keep-using-it/
http://www.happyabout.info/linkedin4recruiting.php

Why I don't use social software

Spam Farm

The Spam Farms of the Social Web is a excellent post.

Hack Attack: Set up and host a blog on your home computer

From lifehacker.com

Common Errors in English

Good book.

AllAdvantage 2.0

Agloco is AllAdvantage 2.0?

"Pay you to surf the web"

Yahoo Memo: The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto'

From wsj.

Interviews

CenterNetworks - News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews

Simply Google

Good tool

simply_google

TechCrunch New York Meeting!

Went to TechCrunch New York Party last night at BED in Manhattan.
I talked with a lot of interesting people and it was pretty good.

And a lot of interesting companies showing up and I had chance to talk with people from the following list:

Compete.com HitTail PartyStrands BuddyLube Me.dium RightMedia Eurekster Genius BlogTalkRadio Helium Gotuit CivilNetizen Citizenbay Multiply Cozmo Media Freewebs Snap

For more informatin or complete list, please see Michael Arrington's techcrunch

Thanks Michael for the party and looking forward to joining the next one!

Warren Buffett says, "I would say success is really doing what you love and doing it well...It′s simple as that."

WARREN BUFFETT: THE BILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR
CNBC one-hour special on Monday, November 20th at 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM ET.

You do not want to miss that!

Managing Collective Intelligence - Toward a New Corporate Governance

A book from Olivier Zara.

Buzz -- What is hot right now

http://buzz.yahoo.com

What the top seach keywords

-- from compete.com

Local Search

here is a list of good blog/site for local search
http://www.webx0.com/
http://galai.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/announcing_the_.html
http://gesterling.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/tom-mohrs-digital-switzerland/
http://galai.typepad.com/blog/2006/04/yahoo_yellow_pa.html
http://www.ysearchblog.com/
http://yukonbiz.com/site/how_to_improve_yukon_journalism/
http://www.dustyd.net/archive/2006/11/21/Newspaper-com.aspx
http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=355

Wiki Demonstrates How Yellow Pages Are Obsolete -- Gets Sued For Its Efforts
Amateur reviews changing approach of small businesses online ratings
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/09/online_reviews.html
The Power and Importance of User Reviews
http://www.marketingop.us/category/local-marketing/(good)
http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/(really really good!!!)

http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/alternative-sem-opportunities/marketing-on-flickr/

http://andyvogel.com/blog1/
http://sierrawebmarketers.blogspot.com/
http://localonliner.com/
http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com/category/local-search/
http://www.seobythesea.com/
Optimizing websites for local search engine traffic
Right keyword research
http://gesterling.wordpress.com/

http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/cat/local-search/
http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/2006/08/21/61-things-im-reading-now/
http://localonliner.com/
http://verticalsearch.net/
http://www.localerts.com/
http://adverlab.blogspo
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006710.html


And here is a list of good examples of local newspaper and sites
http://www.ljworld.com/
http://sfsurvey.com/
http://loki.com/
http://www.yellowikis.org/

TenHunt

According to TenHunt.com:

TenHunt is a live online scavenger hunt. You are given 10 questions and 10 corresponding websites to find each answer.

It is interesting to see how this goes from here.

EBay: The OS for E-Commerce?

From MIT Technology Review.

Gartner's 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle Highlights Key Technology Themes

Link.

Web 2.0 Traffic list

Here is link.

The Mac as a Java Development and Execution Platform

The article is here.

http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000394.html
http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000398.html

PopSugar

http://sugarpublishing.com/blog/


-- PopSugar
-- DearSugar
-- FabSugar
-- TeamSugar

Screenwerk

From Screenwerk:

Here are the main companies offering versions of "guaranteed clicks" or "simplified search" (SEM or SEM+ SEO) to the local market through partner-aggregators:

• Local Launch
  
• WebVisible
  
• Reach Local
  
• Marchex/Traffic Leader
  
• Leads.com (now owned by WebSitePros)
  
• Matchcraft
  
• ClickForward (now owned by YellowBook)
  
• Inceptor (now owned by SuperPages)

Another one:
http://richmond.justgetlocal.com/

http://www.localsearchhq.com/

Cool applet about zip code

From mit.

And other info about zip.

BossBitching

Want to talk about your boss, BossBitching is for you!

Inform

According to Business2

New York-based startup Inform, which last year launched it's own consumer news aggregation site, is rebooting as a search utility for mainstream news sites (yes, HuffingtonPost, welcome to the club). Inform is offering to replace the sub-par search on most news sites, and add in results not just from their own articles and archives, but from the Web as well (including blogs, video, and audio).

Free Math

http://www.totallyfreemath.com/index.html

Overview: The End of Paper TV Guides

A good article from TechCrunch.

Some real money

According to The Washington Post:

"David Miles Jr. and Kato Leonard, two 20-year-olds in Louisville, say they collect $100,000 a month from their year-old site, Freeweblayouts.net..."


"Daimler and his wife now work full time on SeatGuru, which gets 700,000 visitors a month. About half of the site's revenue comes through AdSense -- $10,000 to $20,000 a month -- and the rest comes from ad deals that Daimler makes with companies directly."

Top 50 SEO Resources

From pronetadvertising.com

.net magazine

From uk: netmag.co.uk

Mighty Mouse

from Apple

Ten Websites I Can't Live Without

By Wendy Boswell from about.

• Bloglines: I spend a lot of time reading my feeds from Bloglines; feel free to check them all out (who knows, you might find YOUR blog or website on there!)
• Panddora: I've gotten my mom and my husband now addicted to Pandora. I just created another great station on there that plays Johnny Cash and like-minded artists (Tennesse Ernie Ford is on right now!).
• Dooce: Very few websites can make me laugh so hard or cry so hard that I start choking and crying and making weird hooting noises that scare my cat. Dooce does this for me every day.
• Digital Tracker Keyword Suggestion Tool: As a writer I've found Digital Tracker to be absolutely invaluable.
• GoFugYourself: Every day a new horrible fashion mistake.
• Flickr: Flickr has replaced doodling while talking on the phone for me. I just type in a search phrase and watch slideshows.
• Popurls: A mashup of something like 10 memetracker sites. A must have.
• Topix: Topix is hands down the best news site on the Web. I check this quite often throughout the day.
• Lifehacker: Gina and the gang do such a great job over at Lifehacker; I've been privileged enough to guest-edit and do some occasional features for them (that's not the reason I love it so much, but it does help!).
• Craigslist: I'm looking for a dog run and dog house right now here.
• Yahoo Groups: I've got quite a few groups that I'm involved in here, a 22Q deletion support group, a jewelry making group, a crockpot recipes (low fat!) group...

Google's growing list of domains

From pronetadvertising.com

Have you ever wondered how many domain names Google owns? Currently Google owns 520 domain names.

And among them, here is google's top 20 properties( from Hitwise).

Review, review and review

From ShoutBlog:

Products
Amazon
The Mint Pages
iNods - A product reviews aggregator
ResellerRatings
MyPickList
Epinions

Media (Books, Music, Films, etc.)
All Consuming
Books Well Read
Reader2
MyFilmz
Criticker

Housing
Apartment Ratings

Brick and Mortar
Yelp
Judy’s Book
Burritophile
Zipingo
Add Your Own - Manhattan restaurants and reviews
Insider Pages

Anything and Everything
The Best Stuff in the World
RateItAll

Web 2.0 and Websites
BuzzShout
Web 2.0 List
Neobinaries
StumbleUpon
BringALink

Wine
Cork’d
TastyDrop
Nosewine
Wind Diary

Computer, Electronics, Gaming
gibbity

Travel
TripConnect
Epic Trip
43 Places
Trip Advisor
TravBuddy
IgoUgo

Education
RateMyProfessor

Attention Economy

From blog of znet

techcheatsheets

Bookmarking tech articles: techcheatsheets.com
Similiar to dzone.

Google gets into Binary Search

From PCWorld

A little-known capability in Google's search engine has helped security vendor Websense uncover thousands of malicious Web sites, as well as several legitimate sites that have been hacked, the company said today.

Bubble 2.0?

There are so many sites coming up almost every single day. And some of them, IMHO, just a random combination of some buzz words: social, tag/tagging, ajax...

For sure, down the road in few years, there are some winners will emerge to surface. But for the rest of them, they will just disappear.

It does not hurt to ride the tide. But just following the crowd will not lead to win.

Just my two cents. We will see :-)

And just found this Dead2.0.

Group Blogging

commongate.com is a site for GROUP blogging.

To start a social networking site?

Please rethink it again.

300+ social network startups in less then 2 years


And here is a new summary from TechCrunch:

Online Dating 2.0: Thirteen Sites To Find Love

Shop + Wiki

Shop + Wiki = Shopwiki.

I think it is a good idea.




I had a post of on line deal site before. Here are another two I just noticed
http://www.dealspl.us/
http://www.dealplumber.com/

sanebull

Gool ajax app: sanebull.com

Bezos Expeditions invests in 37signals

From 37signals:

Today we have a very special announcement to make: Bezos Expeditions, a personal investment company of Jeff Bezos, has made a minority private equity investment in 37signals.

Google’s Secret billion dollar revenue stream

Google’s Secret billion dollar revenue stream


Ask Jeeves buys Interactive Search


Google Office in the Offing

FireFox Myths

http://btwohig.wordpress.com/

Prediction

From BurningDoor:
TechCrunch becomes the new F---edCompany-type site.

Top online properties and categories

From Yahoo:
comScore Media Metrix today released its monthly analysis of consumer activity at top online properties and categories.

Web2.0 Comliant?

Use certifyr.com/

Google-Mart

This is an great article about google.

"Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked"

According to Charlie Paglee.

Friendster's Patent Possibilities

From BusinessWeek:

Friendster.com may be losing some of its "friends" to upstart MySpace.com. But the old-school social-networking site just got something that MySpace lacks: a patent on—you guessed it—social networking.

AdBrite

Pud(Philip Kaplan)'s AdBrite is a good idea and sucessful site. Here is an article by The Wall Street Journal and the blog.

Here is an interview with Philip Kaplan.

And AdBrite network status.

24 hours live - 5.4GB served

It is amazing that Who Are You served 5.4G traffic in the first 24 hours live!

It is lanuched by weekendr.com.

Wired Finally Gets Its Website Back

From business2blog:

After years without its own Website, Wired magazine (or, rather, its parent company, Conde Nast) is buying back Wired News for $25 million. Back during the bubble years, Wired had sold the news site to Lycos for $83 million. So it's as if Lycos was borrowing the site for the past seven years and is now returning it like a used car and taking whatever cash it can get for it. (Albeit, it's a nice used car—the folks over at Wired News cover their beat well given their up-till-now limited resources).

Although the site continued to host the magazine's content throughout the years, it wasn't controlled by Wired—which in turn was contractually barred from doing anything else online. The deal will overturn this bizarre and (to Wired editor Chris Anderson) frustrating situation. But you can bet that the real impetus behind the deal is that online advertising is finally becoming a viable source of revenues for major media companies like our competitors over at Conde Nast (as well as us over here at Time Inc.), and the one of the few ad sources that is actually growing.

ActiveCollab

ActiveCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool

Habbo Hotel

Habbo Hotel is a virtual world similar to Cyworld, Hive7 and Gaia Online.

3000 Singles, Speed Dating

Amazing:

Over 3,000 singles have pre registered to attendthis massive speed dating event in a town of only 150,000 people


About Plentyoffish.com
Markus Frind started Plentyoffish.com in 2003 as a free dating site, and as a way to teach himself ASP programming. The site gets over 200,000 logins every day and received 3.2 million unique visitors in June 2006. It is the #3 dating website in Canada and #6 in USA for May 2006 (see www.OnlinePersonalsWatch.com).

And here is ranking for dating sites.