Geoff Jones

Spurred by reading this on CNET “he heard Google’s Marissa Mayer whisper that in these times of infinite woe, more people were googling “recipes” than “restaurants.” I thought I would give it a try using Google Trends, and for the UK it seems correct:-

As you can see there a been a definite reduction for the [...]

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After reading the excellent post “Overnight success takes a long time” by Paul Buchheit on the history of gmail it stirred my memory into why I use gmail. The answer is this prominent  button:
Before gmail came along. Spam was a real problem for me, as you can see from the last  10 MINUTES worth hitting [...]

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Interesting talk by Andy Hopper tonight on Computing the future.
I especially liked his comments on setting projects for his PhD students. they have to be more advanced than what Google or Microsoft are doing but not totally science fiction stuff – A hard job these days I reckon.
Other interesting points was that 2-3% of the [...]

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Google ads for Poker – American viewers please look away
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Just looking at my Google Analytic figures for the past 30 days:-
Looks like Google has a bit of a monopoly to me!
The real reason for looking at my analytics was to see if the link Steve Pavlina gave me has made any difference to my readership.
Looks like about 160+ folks wandered over to see my [...]

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I originally discovered Steve Pavlina’s blog when searching for public speaking, several years ago using Google. His blog led me to Toastmasters which I then discovered met in a hotel literally 100 yards from where I live in the UK!.
Since then I have followed his experiments with great interest using his blog as a model [...]

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I get an enormous number of 404 errors on this site (269 in last 10 hours), they stem mainly from when I migrated the old blogger posts to wordpress. On blogger the post url’s ended with .html when I transferred them to Wordpress the .html was stripped off
So now if you click on [...]

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Very bad news from Twitter,. Twitters USP here in the UK was the ability to send & receive tweets by SMS (Text messaging) as of today, with no warning whatsoever, they have cut of receiving updates here in the UK by text.
Their so called UK number, actually its a number based in the Isle of [...]

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Decided to look at my Google web history. Here are the sad graphs of my life with Google:-

It says my total number of Google searches is 12,418 with its first entry in March 2006 (14 searches a day on average). Interesting to see the winter peaks and Summer lows. I like the peaks at 6pm [...]

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