Google doesn’t trust us with our search queries anymore
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Rants, Web products | 4 Comments »A trend I've noticed lately is that Google selectively ignores and "reimagines" my search terms. (actually, it also habitually drops my search entirely. There are bugs in both the new Google toolbar, and a bug in iGoogle that goes back at ...
PCMag.com top 20 job sites
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Web products | No Comments »PC Magazine listed its top 20 job sites today. There were three Monster sites on there: Monster (#11), Trovix (#17) and USAJobs (#19, although they don't appear to be in any particular order). The bit I noticed of course was: Trovix's free ...
I love data – part 3
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Bay Area, Gadgets, Personal, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »I noticed tonight that the GPS error on my running watch means that when I look at the data in aggregate, it creates quite a nice heat map of my favourite runs. I might try and figure out a way to ...
I love data – part 2
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Gadgets, Travel, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »Recently I took my Garmin Forerunner GPS watch with me and left it switched on while I had a helicopter ride with Sundance Helicopters to visit the Grand Canyon. Exporting the data to Google Earth allows me to recreate in ...
The difficulty of simple design – part 2
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 Posted in Design, Usability, Web products | No Comments »In my last post about design simplicity, I touched on the difficulties involved in what does and doesn't make the cut for a design. Recently I noticed a forum post where one of the developers behind Plex (a really amazing media ...
