Right after Google released their new feature, the Google Instant, a student, Feross Aboukhadijeh,  made “Youtube Instant“, a tool that predicts what were you going to type and shows you the most relevant video for that keyword. His tool became popular immediately, being featured on a lot of big blogs and Twitter and has also been noticed by Chad Hurley, the YouTube CEO, who offered Feross a job. We don’t know if Feross accepted the job, because he’s already a student and Chad Hurley asked him to quit school, but I [...]

I’ve had this blog for more than 4 years now and I’ve never invested enough time in it, but this time I really want to turn it into something useful. I’ve written the first post on it on July 1st and I only have 213 posts since then, which makes me feel really bad. There are more reasons for this: I’ve been very busy with my others projects and blogs, but I’ve also been lazy. Also I have spend a lot of time reading, learning, researching and testing, which helped [...]

Google has officially release Google Instant a few days ago and I have been testing it a lot since then. Like always, people are split into two camps, the ones who love it and the ones who hate it. Currently, they haven’t been able to research it in depth, though they are confident it will be either good or bad, depending what camp are they in. My first impression is that it’s really useful and it might help both the users and webmasters, while hopefully it will bury spammers. Usually [...]

First I have to tell you that I want to learn something from everything I do, even if I do it for fun, and poker is one of those things. I have been playing poker on a daily basis for about one year and I have been learning a lot about it, though I still have a lot more to learn. While playing and learning, I found a few things that Poker and Marketing have in common. What I like at Poker is that luck doesn’t count very much and [...]

Kevin Rose has released the Digg v4 last month and most of the Power Users are mad about it. Along with them, there are probably thousands of other users who have expressed their indignation about the new Digg v4 works. And I do agree with them, because now users have no power and they also can’t submit stories, due to the new auto-import system. Now publishers just enter their feed URL into a field and all the articles or posts are published on Digg. Now users who worked years to [...]

I have always hated to depend on others and that’s why I’ve never got a job and I even stopped depending on my parents since I was 15. I really find this to be one of the things that can destabilize your life very much, because you always depend on others’ decisions. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t say not to get a job, but make sure to be one of the best in your domain, so if your boss decides he doesn’t need you anymore, then it will [...]

I have always considered that it doesn’t matter what you do, while you like what you are doing, especially when it has to do with your job. People always choose their job or college according to the medium wage of that niche, though they rarely think about what they really like, but is it really worth ? Is it worth doing all your life something you don’t like just hoping you’ll sometimes earn more ? I think you will not earn more than if you were doing something you like, [...]

Every day I meet people who complain their businesses go bankrupt, websites and businesses revenues decrease day by day and they don’t understand why, though the explanation is very simple. People usually get to a comfort level and believe they have everything they need, and it might be true, but there’s a problem. Reaching this comfort level keeps them from trying more, researching and evolving, which does kill a business. Let’s take Microsoft for example. Windows XP had something around 95% market share so they could just stop there, because [...]

It seems like Twitter really wants to earn money this year and they’ve already started with the Google and Microsoft deals, but now they will take the business into another direction, announcing the release of their own ad platform. Last year they’ve hired a CFO and now they are preparing their ad platform which will probably be all-different from all the current ad platforms we know, because Twitter has always done things the other way. Also their users aren’t used with ads, so they have to be careful, because people [...]

Twitter became one of the most popular social networking websites around and people are crazy to get as many followers as possible, which may sound right, because everyone wants to be heard and have his tweets read, though Twitter is not just about the numbers. If you’ve been using Twitter, then you should know how it works. The more people follow you, the more see what you’re tweeting, though the most important thing is how many of them care and how many really see your tweets. If you’re tweeting about [...]