Day 2: We visited a bunch of tech companies in silicon valley: google, yahoo, eBay, ea, cisco, sun, intel, facebook, and of course, apple. After that we went to Santa Cruz to the beach and boardwalk. We had a fantastic dinner out on the wharf.
In Response to: Google rumored to be developing own router, also mowing own lawn, doing own laundry
Somewhere inside of Google there is a building, and inside that building there is an office the size of a small house, and inside that office there is a man… with power. This man had an idea to optimize more daily internet traffic in a single day than any nerd can pull in his lifetime. “Let’s develop our own router,” he said. And much like when God said, “Let there be light,” there was a new router.
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If the rumor is true, this won’t be the first time that Google has had its hand in hardware development, and certainly won’t be the last. Apparently for the internet giant to even consider designing it’s own routers means that the merch they are getting from Juniper networks just isn’t cutting it. And while Juniper’s stock may fall even at the speculation, hopefully GOOG will take a jump. Either way, only time will tell if this is actually true or not. |
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I just upgraded my install of wordpress to the newest version, 2.7. I had been sitting on version 2.5 for a while and figured it was time to make the change. In the past I was always hesitant to upgrade simply because I’m paranoid of losing all my work. Yes, it can be backup up prior to upgrading, and believe me, I do. But this takes a significant amount of time and it seems that every time I do it, a new version of wordpress surfaces and I get the notification that it’s time to upgrade once again. I knew that 2.7 was going to bring some nice changes to the admin panel, but I wasn’t expecting this. Simply put, it’s phenomenal, and it looks phenomenal.
It reminds me of the switch from Windows XP to Vista. Remember how amazed we were at how good Vista looked? The difference here is that the new version of wordpress doesn’t suck… at all. And Vista, well, did (suck) (a lot) (more than I expected). Anyway, if you’re a fellow blogger and you are still using wordpress version 2 point anything other smaller than 7, it’s time to upgrade, my friend. Added in version 2.7 is support for Gears. (Correction: One of my readers pointed out that support for Gears was added in version 2.6 (thanks kenny)). I know very little about Gears at this point, but you can bet I will be doing some research. All I know is that Gears is another Google enterprise, that makes web-based applications (such as the wp-admin panel) much faster by caching parts of those applications locally. The result? A wordpress admin panel that not only looks fantastic, but also has significant speed improvements over previous versions.
Any questions or comments… well, you know what to do.
The following report shows the number of indexed pages that Xtego has as of December 9th, 2008 for the corresponding search engines. It’s not much. But it’s getting there.
227 – Google
80 – Yahoo
185 – AltaVista
190 – AllTheWeb
I decided yesterday that I really want to push to monetize my blog. Okay good plan. But how? Well for those of you aren’t reading this as a facebook note, you’ve probably noticed that my stories now have a fair number of Google ads around them. (No more then 3 per page. I read the agreement, Google.) I’ve been using Google adsense for years now. I’ve embedded some of the ads onto past Xtego conglomerations. And I’ve had adsense in place on this blog since its conception. Xtego also employees a Google Search. (search.xtego.com). For my fellow bloggers out there who don’t use adsense yet, I highly recommend it. All ads on your page will be relevant to the content of that page. So people that hit your site based on a search, see ads for that same search. It’s pretty wild.
So… if you start seeing more geeky reviews and nerdy how-to’s, well, deal. Cause that’s what draws the hits.
