Archive | November, 2008

Google’s SEO Starter Guide – How to improve your website

13 Nov

Brandon Falls from Google Search Quality Team, wrote on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog the following lines: Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, “What are some simple ways that I can improve my website’s performance in Google?” There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a [...]

Google Flu Trends – Google Uses Searches to Track Flu’s Spread

12 Nov

It stands to reason that people who are “starting to come down with something” often take the opportunity to search for information on what ails them, even before they discuss their symptoms with a healthcare professional. Who gets more of those searches than anyone? Google, of course. [ReadWriteWeb] Google offers a new service called Google [...]

Do you need a problem to solve?

11 Nov

Three guys from Switzerland have found a new business model: They create problems for their customers. You might know the film called “The Game” where Michael Douglas as a bored but rich investment banker gets involved in a kind of game. The three guys from Switzerland make a lot of money with their project called [...]

[university] – Mathematical Analysis T1 Exam

10 Nov

Tomorrow I will write the first mathematical analyis exam for this term. By now I solved all the exercise sheets and I think that I am well prepared. Need to pass this lecture this year since it is the last term of my undergraduate studies. Professor Grabner presented us this video about the mathematical analyis: [...]

[video] – CNN for Holodeck

5 Nov

CNN yesterday used holograms for interviews in their broadcast on the presedential election 2008. The journalist Jessica Yellin was beamed from Chicago to the CNN studio, New York where Wolf Blitzer was speaking with her virtual hologram. Very interesting technique which shows where new media is moving. (via webstandard.at)