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This is Dhiren Shingadia's blog about stuff that makes him tick. Here you'll find ramblings about web technology, design and occasional, superfluous, spatters of randomness.
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Some music trends
I was interested to see which music website or web application was the most popular out of all my current favourites: Is blip.fm slowly losing the battle? I also started researching DJ Shadow, apparently he’s quite big in Poland — I had no idea! Poszanowanie!
Posted in Digital Music, Digital Planning, Measurement Also tagged Digital Planning, google labs, market research, search insights, trends, web application; Leave a comment
People powered search vs. Algorithm powered search
For quite some time I have been sanity checking some of my searches in delicious. Basically everytime I do a search in Google, I replicate it in Delicious. I’ve been trying to see which of the two provide me with the most accurate search results, across a variety of search terms. Google launching Search Wiki [...]
Posted in Natural Search Optimisation (NSO), Social Media Also tagged human powered search, search alogorithm, search wiki, self organisation, tagging 1 Comment
Onebox – many results
Google’s Onebox search results get more intelligent and now keeps you up to date with the scores. It doesn’t stop at tennis though…
NRU
This is one of first the first branded apps I have seen for the G1. First glimpses of StreetView on Android were pretty amazing, and now NRU by Lastminute.Com Labs makes me worried. Why? Because I’m a loyal iPhone user who, might just cave when the G2 makes it to our shores next year. It [...]
Posted in Mobile, Technology Also tagged andriod, GPS, Mobile, mobile applications, ui design Leave a comment
Google going Social
I suppose none of us have been oblivious to the birth of Google Search Wiki in recent weeks, I’ve already heard lot’s of people say “hang on a sec, it’s not really a wiki”. Search Wiki at the moment serves a purpose for Google account holders, who want to annotate, customize and improve the quality [...]
Posted in Natural Search Optimisation (NSO), Social Media Also tagged friend connect, improving search, search wiki, social media, social search Leave a comment
Morality
I love reading Wired, every month the magazine is a good mix of technology, politics, science and other things from the town of Geeksville. I never really log-on to their website purely because I read so many blogs and tech websites, picking up an actual paper pub and flicking through it over a coffee [...]
Posted in Paid Search (SEM), Politics & Society Also tagged gambling policy, morality, wired 1 Comment
The Google Social Graph and beyond
Referring back to my earlier post about The Semantic Web, I mentioned that new build projects should utilise things such as Microformats and RDF. One of the main reasons for this was to provide people with better usability of social networks, enabling them to find existing friends easily on new social platforms and facilitate portable, [...]
Posted in Natural Search Optimisation (NSO), Semantic web, Social Media Also tagged foaf, google social graph, microformats, rdf, Semantic web, social media optimisation, xfn Leave a comment







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