Yearly Archives: 2009

New Craigslist Search Features (by Jeremy Zawodny)

New Craigslist Search Features (by Jeremy Zawodny) – it’s great to see the work that Jeremy’s been doing. I’m most excited to see that I can now do decent boolean queries using ORing and phrases on Craigslist. I will definitely … Continue reading

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Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Fighting Duplication: Adding more arrows to your quiver

Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Fighting Duplication: Adding more arrows to your quiver – another item I meant to blog last week. It’s good to see the search engines finally agree on something that’s been needed for years.

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Official Gmail Blog: Four changes to Gmail contacts

Official Gmail Blog: Four changes to Gmail contacts – I meant to blog this a while back, but Gmail finally adding contact merging was infinitely needed. Glad to see it’s there.

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LendAround

LendAround – I got an email from LendAround, who saw my earlier comments on borrowing websites and gave me an invite to the beta site. Like many of the other applications out there, they are only used for a dedicated … Continue reading

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WhiteHouse.gov’s New Robots.txt

WhiteHouse.gov’s New Robots.txt – geeky, but this perfectly symbolizes the differences between the two administrations

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Welcome to the Washington State Department of Transportation

Welcome to the Washington State Department of Transportation – so just about all public institutions are far removed from those they serve. The WSDOT is a rare exception, and they do an excellent job. I read their blog, which is … Continue reading

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good design: laundry detergent

in response to those who thing I only (and always) critisize the design of everything, I present an example of something extremely well designed: the lids of liquid laundry detergent jugs. I would link to something, but I can’t seem … Continue reading

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the best thing that could have happened to newspapers…

…was the creation of the internet. The web’s been around well over a decade and practically every newspaper seems to still think it was the worst thing that could have happened to them. The important thing about newspapers – as … Continue reading

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