WizbangTech: October 2006 Archives

Confidential Google Research on YouTube

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 25, 2006

Okay, so it's not funny. I got it from YouTube, what do you expect?... [Full Story]

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Happy Fifth Birthday iPod!

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 23, 2006

October 23rd of 2001, the iPod was released to the world, and has grown to be the 800-pound-gorilla of the mp3 player market. This after starting as a Mac OS-only piece of hardware, and the ringing endorsement from /. No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. I still have... [Full Story]

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Internet Explorer 7

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 19, 2006

According to IEBlog, we got the Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. And by "we," I mean "ya'll," as I don't use Windows XP, but have fun with that. I'll be over here on my Mac, trying desperately how to make sites work in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer... [Full Story]

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Now the iPod has a MySpace page

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 17, 2006

I wouldn't believe it either, had I not seen it on TUAW. Just what a person would need to bash Apple, the iPod, and MySpace, and the users thereof. Oh, and there's a pink one. There's a green one as well, but I'm more offended by the pink one.... [Full Story]

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OUTRAGE! Apple insults Muslims!

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 11, 2006 · Comments (1)

Okay, I doubt we're in for some riots and mass iPod burnings, but some muslims are upset that Apple is directly insulting islam. Something about having having a bar and how it is referred to as an "Apple Mecca." So, yeah, see a bunch of drunken Veritech fighters espousing... [Full Story]

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What the Google/YouTube merger means to you

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 9, 2006

In a couple of words, not much. To Google? A whole lot. It was confirmed, today, that Google shelled out $1.65 billion for YouTube. I'll be the first one to say it: October 9, 2006, was the day that Google stopped being the best company on the planet. Either you're... [Full Story]

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Google to buy YouTube?

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 6, 2006

Oh, I just give up. Whilst trying to not talk about Google, yet again this week, I found me a nice little story about Windows Vista RC2 is now available to technical beta testers and how it could be released any day now...or not...when the start reality that every day... [Full Story]

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Google Code Search new, adds password-finding

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 5, 2006

Okay, so maybe that's a little unfair of a title, but it's getting old feeling sorry for dumb people who upload passwords. Yeah, people uploaded passwords to Google Code. Um, maybe I should explain. Today, Google Code added a search function. So, now, you can search all the code for... [Full Story]

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Matt Cutts explains PageRank

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 3, 2006

Last week, I got asked what the big deal about PageRank changing was. I said it was because it only changes every few months. Turns out I was wrong, but I had no way of verifying one way or the other. Matt Cutts, the guy who works at Google, and... [Full Story]

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Big story of the day: Digg can be bought

Posted by John Stansbury · Published: October 2, 2006

User/Submitter™ is a Digg-buying service for people interesting in getting mass Diggs for their submitted stories. I found out about this from Read/Write Web, where the writer was not too happy about the concept: I guess this is a sign of the times - a site dedicated to gaming digg,... [Full Story]

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