Saturday, August 27, 2005

Site-specific Related Results

Dave O’Neill has made a screenshot of the site-specific related results Google was showing him when he entered [Veronica Mars].

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MSN Beta Redesigned

Wow. Whatever Microsoft’s showing off at Beta.msn.com, it looks bad (and worse in Firefox)... and throws JavaScript errors. See the screenshot in case they remove or change it. [Via Gary Price.]

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Positive Questions

Bert Decker, who blogs about communication, gives this example of how asking a question in a positive way works. A soldier serving at a chow line wanted to test the power of positive thinking, so he asked the first hundred soldiers:

“You don’t want a bowl of apricots do you?” 90% said NO.

The next 100 he changed his tactic, same question, different phrasing:
“Would you like a bowl of apricots?” 50% said YES.

Then, the clincher:
“Would you like one or two bowls of apricots?” 40% said 2, 50% said 1, and ONLY 10% SAID NO.

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Real Name (TM)

Cool. Amazon trademarked Real Name ™ (it’s a badge worn by reviewers who don’t use a Made Up ™ nick, and just as nifty as Amazon’s 1-click patent). I’ve decided to change my forum form to celebrate.

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Google Tattoo

Look at this: someone tattoed “Google” on his arm (either that, or it’s photoshopped).

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Wikifiction on E-Paper

Biz Stone, who works at Google, proposes – as he puts it – a “crazy idea”:

“A real book made out of paper and all the rest of it; but it’s coated with e-ink and has a wireless receiver in the spine that activates when the book is closed.

The story inside the book is collectively edited online just like Wikipedia. The on-board receiver picks up the signal and the e-ink makes the necessary edits. The result is a kind of living book. The story changes over time. So if you want to find out how the version of the story you are reading *right now* ends then you’d better not put the book down. It’s like magic.”

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Matt Cutts on Dashes vs Underscores

So should you use dashes or underscores in URLs? Dashes, of course – even a Googler says so (plus, they are visible when underlined, and if you have auto-linking instead of HTML, the right keywords will be attached, too).

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Star Wars ASCII Art Movie

A long time ago, in a galaxy made up of letters only...

If you go to the command line (in Windows, Start -> Run) and enter [telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl], you can see the original Star Wars movie in ASCII art. [Thanks Srikanth in the forum.]

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