BLADAM - December 2004

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Happy Holidays!

May your holidays and coming years be filled with good friends, warm times, and peace.

- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 10:16 Permalink
- Filed under Society
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Hmm… I wonder if there’s any correlation here?

[...] [Cisco] paid $650,000 to book the rock legend, according to Web logger Robert Scoble. Cisco spokeswoman Abbey Smith would not discuss how much the company spent but said the expense was justified.

"We wanted to recognize and thank our employees," she said. "They have not received raises for the last four years."

- From a CNET article, detailing companies' holiday parties this year.

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- Blathered by Adam on Monday, December 20, 2004 at 1:56 Permalink
- Filed under Society • Workplace
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Fire these branding and advertising folks

Friend: "I checked out Blinx like you said but it's this site in German!?"
Me: "B-L-I-N-K-X. Interesting product, moronic name."

What were the folks behind Blinkx thinking? For what was undoubtedly slated to be a word-of-mouth product, why would any semi-intelligent marketing/branding person give their offering a name that could be so easily mistaken for something else?

Pop quiz (and don't peek back at the earlier paragraph)... what was their product named again?
A) Blinx
B) Blinkx
C) Blinks
D) Blinkz

The right answer is B. The other right answer is: fire the person who named that product.

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- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, December 19, 2004 at 22:35 Permalink
- Filed under Business and consumers • Marketing and advertising
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Next Google acquisition: Flickr + Picasa 2.0 = Fotoogle

Okay, so I'm kidding about the Fotoogle name (yuck!), but -- mark my un-insider words -- Google is going to buy community photo service Flickr or perhaps Fotki early next year and integrate it tightly with the upcoming Picasa 2.0.

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- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, December 19, 2004 at 0:06 Permalink
- Filed under Geekery • Photography • Google
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Monday is coming up.

Argh.

(But I like Flickr!)

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 22:23 Permalink
- Filed under Wackiness
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“Google Suggest” service—Now Google reads minds

Try out the Google Suggest tool, a new Google feature currently in the Labs.

I've long been amazed at the computational power and speed of Google, but this real time demonstration of the company's muscle is simply astounding.

How is this latest offering useful? From my perspective, it will come most in handy with searches in the following contexts:
- Names
- Narrowing down from general to specific topics
- Webmaster on-the-fly search engine optimization efforts (finding / measuring most-searched phrases)

I'm curious to hear from my readers on this one. What are other ways in which this new Google service will be particularly useful... or especially fun / entertaining?

[Yes, I admit, I'm a bit embarrassed that I'm so often gushing about Google stuff... but this particularly offering is just too cool to ignore, IMHO :D]

Edited to add:
- 12/10/04 11:02am: Forgot to give credit to Waxy.org (specifically their links page) for the heads-up!

- Blathered by Adam on Friday, December 10, 2004 at 10:54 Permalink
- Filed under Geekery • Tips • Google
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Google classifies sex abuse as Entertainment

Ah, the perils of relying on automated classification!

Mind you, I think Google News is quite impressive and useful overall; I'm just pointing out the blip above as example of how automated technologies can cause situations that are either particularly incongruous or even uncomfortable.

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, December 5, 2004 at 18:58 Permalink
- Filed under Geekery • Wackiness • Google
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Canada: “Show us your tits!” (and naughty bits)

Oh Canada!
A fleshy tribute written by yours truly

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Canada has a shortage of boobs
The inflatable kind, like inner tubes
They've auditioned hot strippers from far off lands
Inspectors coo-coo'ing "Oh, you're in good hands!"

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- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, December 5, 2004 at 18:21 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness • Society • Politics
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The magic number for the moment is 46. Neato.

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