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Geekpedia.com downtime caused by resource abuse

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

If you experienced problems accessing Geekpedia.com, Geekshout.com, Dotnetonweb.com or Redmondtimes.com that’s because the server where I host these websites had web access disabled for them. The cause, as my host (Site5) says, is “Resource Abuse”, and I quote:
This site was generating a load of +70 on the server which immediately dropped to below 4 when […]

April Fools: Spoof your MSN search results

Friday, March 31st, 2006

You can spoof your own search results on MSN Search at MSNSearchSpoof.com. Enter details about the character you want to spoof, and get a link to the search results. Like I did:
http://www.mymsnsearch.com/results.aspx?q=Andrei+Pociu&FORM=UbIcQrPpLGZE.

Gadget-loving Andrei Pociu starts riot after making airport security line wait hours while his gadgets are inspected
A riot of angry passengers in O’Hare Airport […]

Signup for the Yahoo! Mail beta

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

I’m not a big fan of Yahoo’s email service, but in case you want to check out their new version which uses AJAX to make the interface similar to GMail, and has RSS feeds, you can sign-up for the beta at http://surveylink.yahoo.com/wix/p0473306.aspx with your Yahoo email address.
You are now 100% officially on the waiting list […]

New Live.com shows the power of Ajax

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Live.com was updated recently. There’s a new interface, new features and improved search engine: Windows Live Search, which is supposed to replace MSN Search.
What’s amazing is the overall user experience which Microsoft managed to achieve using Ajax on Live.com.

Street-level view from Virtual Earth

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

They’ve done it this time . As if the aerial view of Microsoft Virtual Earth was not enough, now they created street-level view, where you can actually see photos of the streets when browsing through the map.
Since this is just a prototype, only Seattle and San Francisco are available at the time: http://preview.local.live.com/. You […]