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Google: Now With Forum Detection
Today I noticed that google is now recognizing forum threads and returning related data in the search results. Note the “5 Posts – 4 Authors – Last Post: 18 Apr” Pretty cool.
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Boingo: The Best $10 I’ve Ever Spent
Last week I was stuck at O’hare overnight. I noticed a bunch of large signs proclaiming “free wi-fi terminal wide.” Upon trying to connect to the internet, I discovered that these hotspots were run by boingo and only “free” for customers of certain telcos. While I feel that wifi is an amenity that should always…
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4 Interesting Things
Caught up on my RSS feeds today, found some interesting bits & bobs I thought I’d share. Pepsi embarks on $1.2B rebranding effort Looks a little weird, I’ll reserve my final judgement once I see some packaging. via brand new Banksy opens a faux pets store in NYC – thnx Ron …complete with mechanical…
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The Best iPhone App – Taskbar Notifier
In my opinion, the single greatest omission from the iPhone has got to be the lack of global notifications. Every other phone I’ve owned in the past 6 years has had an icon for thing like new sms and missed calls, visible from every menu. The iPhone does not. Taskbar Notifier fixes this. It adds…
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It’s working
My 5 Reasons Tim Hortons Sucks article is showing up as #2 on Google (on average), for the keywords “tim hortons sucks.”