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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.From all the StumbleUpon shouts I received today two really intrigued me. They both led to articles covering a “hot” new release – another search engine is on the loose.
Cuil (pronounced “cool”) states that it “searches [...]

Of late I have noticed that there is a lot of negativity in not just my posts, but on the Web in general. This is not something that is pleasing or even interesting to me, but somehow a good number of my interesting people, startups and the Web in general appear shadowed these days. Why [...]

If you think about it we are all a product of so many variables, not the least of which is environment. Somehow we all intrinsically know this, but are so often distracted and obtuse as to just how much a hometown or place can be a part of us. For me personally, I know that [...]

As the search saga continues, rumor has it Microsoft is just about to announce it did a little shopping and acquired Powerset – one of the leaders in natural language search. On the other hand, Microsoft’s future plans of buying Yahoo’s search functionalities no longer seem dead and buried, as they’ve teamed up with [...]

Our end of the Internet, the information and networking side, has seen some interesting changes over the last year or so. One of the most predominant ones is in the way we are are driven to promote stories and those from within our networks. Social media sites other outlets were once fantastic resources for “getting [...]