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Where are we this week children? That’s right, we are in Norway.
I’ve just come back from a couple of days in Oslo. The meeting was good, and I spent the afternoon on the waterfront, drinking beer, and proofing some new documentation. Good way to spend a Friday!
Amazon launch A9 for searching. No Doctor in sight.
On Wednesday, I read about the launch of Amazon’s new A9 search service so, of course, I had to go geekwise and try searching on the word ‘musak‘ to find this site nicely up the rankings. Why did I waste a few minutes doing that?
In addition, I searched on some other terms which would link to some of my sites and found a pointer to an entry I made at The Mirror Project. It seems the picture was chosen by a guest curator to be included in the Real Smooth Shave collection. In turn, that reminds me I have a new image to post there.
That Bloglines service gets better each week.
I have mentioned Bloglines before (here and here, for example). Since I acquired a broadband connection this kind of web service is all the more useful, and I have discovered many interesting personal sites because of it.
Earlier in the week, I received the news that they have now introduced a daypop-like service which lists the most popular links in the sites Bloglines sees daily. Nothing too new (although I suspect there’s a ton of clever code beneath it). What is nice is that you can reduce the listing based only on the sites you track. You can, therefore, see the most popular links by people who you actively read. This is brilliant because it should really highlight connections between the vast mix of sites I dip into over time.
Looking at today’s mix, however, doesn’t highlight any overlaps! Perhaps the collection of sites that I read are very different from each other. I don’t know if that is good or bad.