Google human searchers

Interesting that Google uses a substantial number of human searchers to ensure that its results continue to be of high quality. How could you open source the data deriving from this kind of process? Not part of Google’s business model, but good for anyone else...

Three phases of Twitter

Interesting graph plotting followers vs Tweet volume. Looks like there are three clear phases: 1) use it to tweet a “what is this for” message and then nothing, 2) put a few updates a day on (from a blog maybe) and 3) a fairly steady ramp up after 800...

Fake tilt-shift photos

Given that you can do this online, I guessed that there must be instructions for doing it yourself.

My Phone

Useful Windows Mobile backup / sync service from Microsoft. Why not have your stuff backed up somewhere else, given that 200Mb is free?

Alpha Easter Eggs

Who knew that a computational engine could have a sense of humour? I liked the “Human discourse: additional functionality for this topic is under development” when asking it “Are you a robot?”. It was vaguely useful when trying to assess the...