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Disappointed in Google

February 5, 2008 – 12:38 pm

Last Friday, I had the chance to hear CMU SCS Ph.D. alum, and president of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee speak on the building Google China and what it means to do business in China versus the United States. It reminded me of the fact that what we accept for “The Internet” — Amazon, eBay, [...]

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Google Street View Stops for a Bite

January 30, 2008 – 11:48 am

I was looking for a store in the South Hills of Pittsburgh a few weeks ago and wanted to make sure that I found the store okay, enter Google Street View. I popped up the location into Google Maps and started looking around. Yech, it was pretty far off. However, I did [...]

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Google Adsense XSLT Trickery

January 18, 2006 – 10:36 pm

Recently I’ve been getting lots of hits for my MythTV on Ubuntu Athlon64 writeup. I’m talking several hundred a
day. This generates a decent amount of traffic over my little cable modem line.
Realizing that I now had a product people wanted, I was off to try and
“monetize” that. Where do I go? [...]

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Hurricane Rita and Google Earth

September 22, 2005 – 11:58 am

Like many people, I’m morbidly watching the upcoming disaster in south east Texas.
I decided that now would be the time to play with Google Earth
to see what it can do. I’ve been pretty impressed. Here’s a snapshot of what
I just did:

Projected Path of Hurricane Rita overlaid on Google Earth

I’ve also posted a Hurricane [...]

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