Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Notebook Lust
7 Aug 2006For those who capture the minutiae of their lives in a Moleskine or Rite in the Rain, I present the example to which we should all bow.
The Domesday Book is online.
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To quote the site:Â
“Domesday is our most famous and earliest surviving public record. It is a highly detailed survey and valuation of all the land [...]
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
2 May 2006Since it was launched yesterday, Sphere has been added to the GrabPERF system.
Standard two-word and one-word search performance graphs are available.
Technorati Tags: Sphere, blog search, search, GrabPERF, Web Performance
In: RANTING| Technology
1 May 2006Microsoft releases a new browser, and, of course, Live Search is the default search tool.
Google is pouting.Who do they think they are? Shut up and sit down.
New Microsoft Browser Raises Google’s Hackles
Microsoft, you have got me to say something that supports something you are doing. Ain’t viral marketing grand?
Now shut up and sit down.
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In: Life
3 Apr 2006I have been shopping around for a new, unlocked GSM phone. I live in the US, so these are not as readily available as they are in the rest of the civilized world.
The criteria I have can be summed up easily:
Candybar/brick: I have learned to hate flip phones
Tri-Band: 900/1800/1900 (no 850 for me!) for largest [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
27 Mar 2006Netcraft reported that World of Warcraft was having a wee bit o’ performance hell. [here]
Guess a few wizards are going through withdrawal right now.
Looks like Joi Ito, a serious World of Warcraft fiend, might have to mount up his troops for an all out assault on this one!
PS: Looks like it just staggered to life! [...]
In: Life| Technology
8 Mar 2006I heard (via TechCrunch and Om Malik and PubSub) that there is some … transition at PubSub.
Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for PubSub, because Bob Wyman was the first person to really notice and appreciate the things I was doing at GrabPERF. I wonder what the future holds for this team.
Frankly, [...]
In: Life| Technology| Web Performance
6 Mar 2006I just had a look at the list of domains that I own and realize thatI want/need to clean house. There are 3 domains that I want to keep,and 9 that I am looking to get rid of.
Domains that I want to unload include:
mod-deflate.net
mod-deflate.org
performancecore.org
performancecorps.org
performancefreaks.org
performanceguru.org
performanceindex.org
searchindex.org
webcaching.org
webcompression.org
webperformance.org
Currently asking $2,000 each for webperformance.org, webcaching.org, searchindex.org, performanceindex.org, and webcompression.org, and [...]
In: GrabPERF
28 Feb 2006Best of the Web Blog Search has been added to GrabPERF. Thanks to Scoble for the heads up.
Technorati Tags: BOTW, Best of the Web, blog search, GrabPERF
In: GrabPERF
19 Feb 2006If anyone wants to know why I am proud of GrabPERF, this graph should give you a clue.
Every hour, an aggregated value is produced for every test url. Counting up the Geometric Mean aggregations on a daily basis, the growth line is pretty amazing.
Doing a rough calculation, the system has grown from testing 40 urls [...]
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Web Performance
16 Nov 2005Scoble posted that Technorati just released a major update. [here]
Sifry and Kennedy have pulled one more rabbit out of the hat, just before GrabPERF goes off the air. Congrats guys.
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