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Digg surpasses Slashdot?

Looking at Alexa , we can definitely see a trend: Alexa might be contested , however. And, speaking of trends, Google Trends tells us a similar thing, this time with respect to Google search volume : slashdot digg Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:15 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

My top 10 tech predictions for 2006

Let's see how this game will play out: 1) Amazon will come up with more and more interesting stuff. I expect to be surprised. 2) Someone, probably Yahoo, will buy digg and memeorandum. These sites are hot. 3) In 2004, Google captured everyone's interest Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:32 AM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

How Hotmail works? - an interview with Phil Smoot

ACM Queue published an interesting interview with Phil Smoot. Phil is the person in charge of managing the development teams at Hotmail. Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:31 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Did you know that MySpace.com runs ASP.NET 2.0 on x64?

I found this quote interesting: The Internet Information Services 6.0 Web server featured in the OS has been enhanced with 64-bit support. This provides access to more memory and scalability for applications, Goldfarb said. "In high-performance scenarios, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 11:21 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

digg.com - the new Slashdot?

I just discovered digg.com a few days ago, and I am hooked. So far, it seems surprisingly good. IMHO, it is almost as good and even surpasses Slashdot in many aspects: traffic (although alexa.com might be misleading here), volume of posts, fresh news, Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:40 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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...but, in Soviet Russia, the web services use YOU!

Actually, in US too. No, I'm serious! The technique it's called Mechanical Turk , and its first form is developed by Amazon.com. The process is quite simple: 1) A large number of humans are going to that site. 2) They will be asked to do some work. 3) Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:53 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

Search-based toolbars ARE addictive

I used to play with both MSN and Google toolbars in parallel for a while now, but even if I had the convenient search box in the toolbar, I still used to go to a web-based search (Google until half year ago, now MSN search). I don't know why - as if my Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:49 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments
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How big is Hotmail?

Huge. Here is some data from a PDC Hotmail presentation : ~200 million active users 3.3 billion inbound emails a day 1.5 billion blocked at the router 1.0 billion deleted as spam (never hits the user's mailbox) 0.5 billion sent to the junk folder Over Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:41 PM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

The death of the A-list?

There are two important events that happened recently in the blogosphere: 1) The launch of http://www.memeorandum.com/ - a web site to automatically generate a summary of "what's hot" in the blogosphere, and 2) The widely expected launch of the first Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:42 PM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

The simplest search portal. Ever.

What? MSN with no ads? :-) http://www.start.com/developer [source: Scott's "SiteExperts" place ] Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 27, 2005 12:47 AM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

Creating life from scratch?

There is always "one more link" for today... This time - news about an old subject - how to create "life" by assembling genetic components. Here is the link . They're mixing, matching and stacking DNA's chemical components like microscopic Lego blocks Read More...
Posted Friday, August 19, 2005 4:46 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments
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New experimental pages from the MSN Search team

Someone just told me about two new pages from the MSN Search playground ( http://sandbox.msn.com ). The first page - http://www.start.com/1 - combines a very fast MSN search page with an online RSS reader. The original page is very small, almost 4K, and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:20 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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