Thursday March 31, 2005

Clearly Yahoo!360 demonstrates Yahoo!'s competency: building a relationship with its users. All of the web mail, 'My Yahoo!' and 'Yahoo! Groups' user features are basically good personalized outward looking experiences with (more or less) single sign-on. Contrast this with Google's user features: the disconnected islands of GMail, Orkut and Blogger each have separate identities and user populations.

360 adds to Y!'s feature set social networking, blogging and integrates with (some) other Y! features seamlessly. I anticipate seeing Flickr and other innovative features making their way into this soon enough. So it's transforming from a personalized outward looking platform to one for personalized networking. Google's core competency seems to be stuck at "sooner or later, we're indexing everything" -- not that that's a bad thing. Unlocking the world's accumulated knowledge is cool.

So while I don't know if I agree that Yahoo! has overtaken Google, they're both clearly magnifying what they're good at lately. And I'm sure the Googlers aren't sitting still, they've got some smarty pants people there. In the meantime, Yahoo! clearly knows mores about providing a platform for people.

Wednesday March 30, 2005

I am the ripper
Man a locomotion
Mind love american
Style

Tuesday March 29, 2005

I'm looking forward to subscribing to a tag to follow specific types of events and seeing what EVDB does to identify important events.

Monday March 28, 2005

There was almost a Homebrew Computer Club feel (not that I was there but I can imagine the ambient excitement and ferment) to the mix of people who turned for RoboGames 2005. This is the event formerly known as robolympics and it was heaps 'o fun!

In a future time Children will work together To build a giant cyborg Robot Parade Robot Parade Wave the flags that the robots made Robot Parade Robot Parade Robots obey what the children say There's electric cars There's electric trains Here comes a robot with electric brains Robot Parade Robot Parade Wave the flags that the robots made Robot Parade Robot Parade Robots obey what the children say		Boy versus Robot The boy has a better CPU but the robot has a blue samurai sword that lights up!
I took a few pictures. This is the kind of endeavor I could imagine sucking up all of my time. For now, I'm content to take an aloof armchair interest in robotics.

Sunday March 27, 2005

The comment about Technorati's robots.txt is correct. There are no rules there for the tag pages there but in the tag pages themselves have instructed the googlebot with nofollow, this is in the markup:

<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow" />

Wednesday March 16, 2005

The recent interest Technorati has taken in web spam has perhaps inspired the divine. Note the recent appearance of http://jesus-the-lord.blogspot.com/ but linking to it without nofollow is most certainly a sin.