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Origami - new gadget from Microsoft

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Microsoft released a teaser for their new Origami project, a Flash video can be seen at http://www.origamiproject.com/1/.
Could it be a gadget, perhaps an iPod killer? You can only guess what it is. But it’s certainly a hardware device, as Robert Scoble says: “I do know that Origami is the code-name for a new kind of […]

New MSDN Search (Alpha)

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

If you use the MSDN library as much as I do, you’ll be happy to find that the new MSDN search returns more accurate results and has a cleaner interface: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/search.

New layout for Google.com

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Rumours say that Google is experimenting with a new layout. Among other things, there’s a column on the left side that probably shows the relevancy of the search results in different searches (News, Images, Groups, etc.)

Google Top Searches in 2005

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

If you’re curious to see what the top Google searches were for the year 2005, check out Google Zeitgeist.
Google.com - Top Gainers of 2005
1. Myspace
2. Ares
3. Baidu
4. wikipedia
5. orkut
6. iTunes
7. Sky News
8. World of Warcraft
9. Green Day
10. Leonardo da Vinci
Google News - Top Searches in 2005
1. Janet Jackson
2. Hurricane Katrina
3. tsunami
4. xbox 360
5. […]

The million dollar homepage

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep tonight, because of this: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com. You may have seen this before - it’s a page selling pixels for $1 each. You can put whatever you want on your pixel(s). It doesn’t do anything else. Yet, the creator of this page made $827,200 until now.
I saw similar websites […]