Archive for November, 2010

Google AdSense Gets A Facelift

November 20, 2010

Google Adsense has followed its twin Google AdWords into the land of Ajax based UIs.

New Google AdSense

New Google AdSense

I guess I will give the new Google Adsense interface a try.

Silicon Valley: Socializing The Public’s Privacy…

November 19, 2010

Socialize public privacy then privatize and profit from the public’s loss of privacy – or at least try to.

This explains the social in Social Media.

I couldn’t have summarized the present state of the Venture Capital industry and the internet at large any better than if I were a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist.

Socialize Public Privacy

Socialize Public Privacy

Database Mining

November 18, 2010

He who mines the biggest database wins.

Database Mine

Database Mine

First Post From My iPad

November 17, 2010

Posting from my iPad appears to be significantly easier than from my laptop.

The One Language Google Can’t Translate Yet

November 16, 2010

While Google can translate 50 languages, there is still one language Google hasn’t yet been able to translate – the “Stomach” language.

35 Hours Of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute

November 15, 2010

From the Official YouTube blog:

Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you’ve increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute. That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day. If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), 35 hours a minute is the equivalent of over 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week. Another way to think about it is: if three of the major US networks were broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the last 60 years, they still wouldn’t have broadcast as much content as is uploaded to YouTube every 30 days.

YouTube: 35 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute

YouTube: 35 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute

How The Google Display Network Works

November 14, 2010

In this video learn how the Google Display Advertising Network works.

 

Robert Louis Stevenson Google Doodle

November 13, 2010

Google’s pirate-themed doodle today commemorates Robert Louis Stevenson’s birthday.

Robert Louis Stevension Google Doodle

Robert Louis Stevension Google Doodle

If the Scottish author known for “Treasure Island,” “Kidnapped” and other classics were still alive today, he’d be 160 years old.

Whoever Controls Twitter Controls The News

November 12, 2010

Apparently when I posted the above on Nielsen’s blog, it was either expunged or deleted so I will say it again here.

http://twitter.com/#!/mattmcgee/status/3142330387275776

 

Nuclear Follow Cost?

November 11, 2010

I noticed on my mobile a Twitter service called Follow Cost and thought I would check it out.

Follow Cost publishes a Twitter account’s average number of updates over time along with a recent updates number.

As you can see below, my average Tweets per day over the life of my Twitter account has been 13.72 Tweets a day while recently my Tweeting frequency has increased to 235.45 Tweets a day.

This in turn has caused Follow Cost to declare following me on Twitter to have a “Nuclear Follow Cost”.

Nuclear Follow Cost

Nuclear Follow Cost

FollowCost.com measures its Twitter following costs in units called Milliscobles.

The definition of a Milliscoble from FollowCost.com

Milliscoble

Milliscoble

With my recent updates score of 11101.1 milliscobles,  I don’t whether I should be alarmed or relieved.