The Minority Report

Thank you for being one of our valued customers. We are writing to you today to make a very sad announcement. BeamItDown Software and the iFlow Reader will cease operations as of May 31, 2011. We absolutely do not want to do this, but Apple has made it completely impossible for anyone but Apple to [...]

Here’s the setup: Since I’m about a month away from being done with University and entering the programmer workforce, I’ve taken to asking my classmates what type of starting salaries they’re getting at their first jobs. The Programmer Salary Taboo and…..the money shot: To put my money where my mouth is, here’s some information on [...]

This got me thinking. Google is not God. Google is a fixture and now must filter new search technology and roll it out slowly. The key is not to know Google, but to be there before Google is. Google follows the internet. Google follow internet technology. Google follows what people do. Google can’t do it [...]

I don’t know why exactly I wanted to see the Google Trends today but the above gem showed upthe above gem showed up. I don’t remember exactly but I learned something in Psychology 101, Correlation does not imply causationW, but I don’t care I’m running with it, Easter causes gonorrhea. Why else would there be [...]

There has been quite some buzz about the Chrome touch UI lately. Following our initial report from March 20, Cnet recently uncovered more evidence that Chrome (OS) will be getting a touch tablet version and now we are seeing a screenshot (?) of the onscreen keyboard. Oh, and Google has quietly reduced the page load [...]

A few days ago, I blogged about the effort of Austin Sendek of UC Davis to get the SI people to recognize “Hella” as the nomenclature for 10^24 power. It would seem that some of the nerds over at Google agree! If you want to find out what 1 hellameter is click here. Please support [...]

I think this is unfortunate and sad for both parties however, Eric Schmidt needs to get on the right side of the privacy issue. Eric Schmidt might advocate for making information “even more open and accessible,” but not when it comes to his mistresses. We’re told the Google CEO’s aggressive lawyers brought down ex-girlfriend Kate [...]

This is an old trick and I wish I could remember the name for it but check THIS part of the trick out!! The Minority Report The link is: http://www.target.com/gp/search/183-6976899-0507622?field-keywords=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theminorityreport.org&url=index%3Dtarget%26search-alias%3Dtgt-index Old trick… Link juice for all! Huzzah!! If you have ever worked on improving a website’s ranking Google you know that there are rules you [...]

If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all [...]

We’ve been pushing for the death of Internet Explorer 6 here for some time. So it’s with great joy that I see Google pushing the death with this banner on YouTube. Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing [...]

I take back any marginally bad thing I ever said about Michael Gray. Thank you for putting this thought so freaking succinctly or at least bringing it to my attention and in turn to the attention of at least 2 other people. If you are into SEO, whitehat, blackhat or otherwise, think about this for [...]

I found this clip browsing my statistics and am glad I’m not the only one that thinks this. Personally I am not sold on the fact that NoFollow really means Google, Yahoo or any other engine won’t follow the link. In fact, I may be just wishful in my thinking, but I believe many NoFollow [...]

Google Image Search just keeps getting better. Searching by color?? Cool. We covered the Google Image Search imagesize search option in late January and here it is 3 months later and another excellent hack. Anyone know the HTML hex code for nude? The option that lets you filter images by the predominant color has been [...]

David Leonhardt, another genius SEO/Internet marketer, posted this discussion on his blog, SEO Marketing Express, today. How many of the following coding elements would you have known if you had not seen them here: The “abbr” tag The “acronym” tag The “address” tag The “base” tag The “bdo” tag Exactly. These are all HTML 4 [...]

Yes…I have NADD (Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder, so let me apologize up front that I’m currently fixated on the topic of free roomba’s. I’m not going to set the whole thing up again, so if you want to see how this started, click on Free Roomba Attracts Cheap Bastards to get most of the story. [...]