taha's blog

An engaging interview with Marissa Mayer, VP of Google.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/06/marissa-mayer-on-charlie-rose-the-f...

Google had a lawsuit on their hands because of their book scan project (entire content available, not just fair use). Now, Google released their site for the settlement they made with the author guild.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/11/google-book-settlement-site-is-up-p...

Google's claim site http://www.googlebooksettlement.com

For those of you interested in ICT policy here is an interesting investigative news story. GoDaddy (the biggest domain name company) uses "Standard Tactics LLC " to farm domains.

http://domainnamewire.com/2008/12/03/standard-tactics-llc-how-godaddy-pr...

The YouTube ratio has changed and old content is blackframed inside the new ratio now.

For those of you who were upset with http://www.muxtape.com closure just as I was, http://www.hypetape.com is here to keep you company!

Searching for some tech solution I always came across a site that had a high rank in Google and appeared in the first few results. The site got this ranking by buying a collection of lists, forum post, newsgroups, etc. In short they artificially boosted their ranking, and on the website itself you had to sign up to see the response to the question and worse yet, it constantly crashed my browser.

I always wanted to get rid of that site in the search result. Finally, way over due, its here - Google customized search.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7740815.stm

An interesting article about how google makes 88% of Mozilla Foundation's (FireFox) revenue

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/google-makes-up-88-percent-of-mozil...

Now with strike going into its 2nd week I finally got to many things on the To-Do list. Less yellow post-its on my wall - I hope I will be doing more blogging now being less busy.

Below is a tiny article I just read on techcrunch about open social turning 1.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/13/open-social-turns-one-my-how-youve-...

For you who don't know open social, it is a platform for social networking that was released by Google and adopted by all the Facebook-type social networks. Facebook was to support it but dropped it the night that open social was released.