From the monthly archives:

May 2006

splogs are evil

by Pete Abilla May 31, 2006

several of my post have been content-hijacked by splogs. i wrote recently about the ebiquity study on splogs at The University of Maryland — some great research going on there. i followed that post with a splog experiment that you can read about here. i’m still waiting to see how many splog bots hijack my [...]

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shmula splog bait: young women playing texas hold ‘em without insurance

by Pete Abilla May 30, 2006

i’ve always wondered what happens when men taking v1agra viagra or cialis get in a bus accident without car insurance enroute to an aruba carribean vacation while playing texas hold ‘em in the casino by the taj majal in las vegas next door to the las vegas hotel that was recently purchased with a mortgage [...]

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google earth and mazda

by Pete Abilla May 30, 2006

google and mazda joined together to form the earthsearch contest, where contestants will use google earth to find 7 mazda cx-7′s located somewhere in the world.  this is pretty ingenious of google.  best of luck to the contestants.

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when bad things happen to good blogs

by Pete Abilla May 29, 2006

update: i failed to include the url for the ebiquity research group study on the splogosphere. here it is — read it: it’s really good stuff! i am amazed at the innovative research going on with the ebiquity guys. one really phenomenal piece of research is their work on splogs. what are splogs? before i [...]

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abc’s lost == tv 2.0

by Pete Abilla May 25, 2006

the season 2 finale of lost was last night. it was so good. talk about cliffhanger — there was a bombardment — no, an onslaught of new information and, as a consequence, raises even more questions. entertaining? very much so. the really interesting thing about lost, aside from the material, is how it is viraly [...]

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debating with geeky greg

by Pete Abilla May 24, 2006

i had a nice exchange with greg yesterday. i really enjoy reading his blog and, his post yesterday, was very interesting. he and i exchanged a few times and all of it can be read on his blog. he is also a former amazonian, which carries for me a kindred-type-of-coolness since i also came from [...]

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how much is your blog worth?

by Pete Abilla May 23, 2006

in october 2005, aol bought weblogs for a rumored $25 – $40 million. this deal made many wonder the following: how does one valuate a blog? tristan louis does a nice analysis of that deal and attempts to rationalize the cost per inbound link into the weblogs empire. he uses the technorati ratings and data. [...]

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google video ads

by Pete Abilla May 23, 2006

google announced that they will be releasing a new pay-per-click video ad product today. initially, i thought that this would be a cool thing. but, on second thought, i’m not sure. for advertisers, this may or may not be a good thing. to produce a video is not trivial; it’s easier than it used to [...]

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fun with patents : hole in my pants

by Pete Abilla May 22, 2006

while searching the us patent office website recently, i came across patent 4619004. this is a patent for pants with a hole in the crotch. interesting. apparently, Pants include an air ventilation panel at the crotch area in which a panel is provided with a net yarn cloth sewn to its back surface. A plurality [...]

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