RSS Usage and CTR DataJuly 24th, 2005 Tuesday is the most active day in RSS; Saturday least active. - Our initial observations of the data point to Tuesday being the most active day for viewership, feed retrieval and click-throughs.
Microsoft Yahoo Merger Finally a Reality?April 30th, 2008 Months after Microsoft announced its intention to buy Yahoo, it appears they are finally coming together. Microsoft appears to be willing to raise the price to 32-33$ per share while Yahoo board would be satisfied with $35.
FireFox Rises to 10% Market Share WorldwideNovember 4th, 2005 More than 10% of net users are going online with the Firefox browser according to analysis firm One Stat. In US it has higher shares of 14%.
Text-Link-Ads Hacked?March 10th, 2006 Text-Link-Ads provide links on websites. It appears it has been hacked.
Google Sports a New Table Based LookMarch 17th, 2006 Google appeared with a new look today for Indians (google.co.in). It sports a three column look with flexible center content column.
Digg Down?June 26th, 2006 Digg, the popular technology news site, appears to crumble under its own popularity. For quite sometime I am unable to access digg site.
Calling Card of Nigerian ScammersJanuary 7th, 2008 You can safely delete any messages contains with:
"correspondence may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met"
This appears to be an often repeated phrase of nigerian scammers these days and is worth searching for in content of your emails for direct deletion (nuke).
Sedo Appears to be Hacking into My AccountNovember 4th, 2005 I realized that all my feeds in artima have been, without my knowledge, replaced with a sedo site, a domain squatter, with my domain name as a query in their script. Either they have hacked into my Artima account or they found some loophole in Artima site which they exploited to increase their page rank and effectively disabling all my feeds.
Free Forum Software (PHP, MySQL); Alternative to phpBBFebruary 21st, 2006 I stumbled upon Simple Machines Forum, from Simple Machines, which appears to be an excellent software and competitor to phpBB forum software which I use. It supports hierarchical representation of categories unlike phpBB.
FriendFeed Favors 9 Elites To Gain Maximum Followers?July 7th, 2008 Allen from CenterNetworks made a startling discovery. It appears FriendFeed show the same 9 friendfeed users as default every time a new users signs-up.
How to Hide Blogger NavBar (Top Navigation Bar)January 13th, 2009 Are you one of those with the new blogger beta? Still searching how to hide the blogger navbar? You known its a cross to bear for your visitors. Well, let me tell you that the new beta blogger uses different CSS tags.
Why is My Google AdSense eCPM Tanking?July 9th, 2007 It appears Google is heavily compensating for my increased traffic with significantly lower eCPM these days. It is about 60% of what it was a month or two back.
Akismet Overloaded (Down?) & Slowing Blog...August 26th, 2007 I got over 2000 comments in my moderation queue, all spam. I was testing Akismet and it appears it is overloaded for quite sometime now and putting literally every comment in moderation queue (happens when it fails or when the connectivity to Akismet fails).
Internet Explorer Gaining over Firefox in my MicrocosmDecember 22nd, 2005 On this website Internet Explorer users have snatched back their majority share. Internet Explorer users comprise 49.08 % of total users.
Neat Three Column WordPress Theme - AlexifiedMarch 10th, 2006 Alex has released his first ever wordpress theme - Alexified. The alexified theme looks beautiful and clean.
July 5th, 2005 at 8:06 am
excellent article today: nytimes.com on media that mentions pheedo.