As with any Wordpress Blog and pretty much any other blog or news website projectroon.co.uk has an RSS Feed and if you look closely at the source of this RSS feed you may notice a new element
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What is this? Well currently most Feed Aggregators will poll selected RSS feeds and check if there are any [...]
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Many of you here are either involved with the marketing of a web site for another company or operate a web site or blog of your own. For either case, being able to immediately see if a page is cached by Google would be invaluable. That’s exactly what the Google Cache Checker extension [...]
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Internet dominator Google have come up with a 5 step approach to building sustainable and eco-friendly data centers.
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and supporting this traffic requires lots of computers. We strive to offer [...]
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Cloud computing’ is a term used to describe a situation where applications are based on web servers and accessed through internet connections, rather than being installed on clients. This leads to a new business model of subscription-based applications, generally known as ’software as a service’ (SaaS) but dubbed by Microsoft as ’software plus services.
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Inspired by an article in NYT about Google becoming a media company, I decided that something had to be done. So I created a way to Search with Google without getting results from Google sites such as Knol, Blogger and YouTube.
Timo Paloheimo has built the search engine using Google’s Custom Search Engine and has filtered [...]
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I spend the majority of my time developing web software in PHP, so it’s good to see PHP dominating over the other web languages. The only contender is Java, but a comparison using Google Trends isn’t really fair as the results would incorporate searches for the coffee company, or even the island…
Anyway, I [...]
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Following the re-organisation of this site I have also got rid of the embedded Gallery2 which, whilst being an amazing piece of software, worried me about the future of my photos. It occured to me that the gallery requires a lot of space, and my current host wouldn’t be able to provide that space as [...]
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The interesting question is why a company that claims to know how to program would pay anything for Yahoo, much less a P/E ratio of more than 60.
Google unseated Yahoo at a cost of about $20 million in financing, simply by being effective software developers and tasteful interface designers. We can infer from this offer [...]
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Is Google getting too big for our good – and even its own? The American search engine is under simultaneous investigation by the US and European anti-trust authorities. Both are probing whether its acquisition of DoubleClick, whose technology puts adverts on the web, is against the public interest. It would make Google dominant in internet [...]
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