Posted by Jane CoplandThe first time I ever accessed the Internet was from my mother’s work computer in late 1995. I was eleven years old and her homepage was set to Yahoo. I can’t really remember what it looked like, but Googling (oh, I hate the irony too) "Yahoo in 1995" produced a post by […]
Posted by rebeccaDanny Sullivan’s lovely wife, Lorna Harris (who once lent me a hat and gloves when Danny took me to see Stonehenge on an especially cold, windy day), recently created Boudica, a social news site for women.
The site is pretty new and is currently in Beta testing mode, but I thought I’d give […]
Posted by Dr. PeteOne of the frustrations of doing SEO for large websites is the fact that Google makes it very difficult to see more than a small part of the search index. Even in Webmaster Tools, Google’s index search is built on the same mechanics as its web search, which only lets you see […]
Posted by Danny DoverIt is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social media websites use algorithms to utilize user data.
Although humans […]