Posts Categorized: Websites

Cuil Sucks

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Ok. Cool…er Cuil. You’re not going to be a legitimate search engine until you strip raw HTML from your search results.

This Might Explain Why Twitter Is Down So Often

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Reblogging: Joyent published an article a month or so ago about how they scaled a facebook application to support millions of hits. The application, BumperSticker, simply serves out customized images to users — online bumper stickers. It’s not hard, not complex and processes around 20 to 27 million page views a day. That’s a good number by anyone’s standards.… Read more »

CushyCMS or FTP Client?

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CushyCMS is a new hosted Content Management System from Stateless Systems — the people who brought you bugMeNot.com, PDFMeNot.com and other similar services. It’s a dead simple CMS that requires no software install and no real programming knowledge. Found out about it via this Techcrunch post. I don’t like to make judgements about things I haven’t actually tried,… FTP Client?">Read more »

Facebook Fix Your News Feed, Seriously

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Seriously, 3 out of 5 of the items at the top of my facebook feed right now are from someone on my “Less About These Friends” list. Why can’t you just give me a list of updates in chronological order?! #End Mini-Rant

Autotrader.ca, Please Fix Your Search.

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Autotrader.ca your search is not very good! I just did a search for “all cars newer than 2000, between $2500 and $5000 excluding damaged vehicles, in descending order by Kms.” Sounds pretty complex when you write it out in English, but that should be a fairly straight-forward SQL query. Came across a couple of pretty serious problems there. Your… Read more »