What is going on - the results seem uncharacteristically out of date.

Yesterday we hit Digg’s frontpage, and got at least a dozen blogs with PR1+ linking to it. And what does Blog Search see? nothing since August 10.

Rather odd.

When I first launched this blog, I made a concentrated effort to blog daily. Whatever it was, some tech stuff had to be mentioned.

Along the way I got side tracked and got too ‘busy’ for this blog. So while I still posted occasionally, it lost the luster it had originally.

Lately I’ve got two things going my way:
1. We all need to throw our thoughts out there. Alas my fiancee is not one to appreciate a taxonomy generated from user-tags associated with categories. This is my outlet
2. A lot of people have a feeling of connection with iBegin and other projects of ours due to this voice. Be it progress, strategy, and even struggles - it seems like many appreciate it.

RSS growth has stalled around 300. While I was actively blogging it was going at a clip that made me content - with my on/off behaviour, it has flat-lined.

So - time to resuscitate this puppy. Time to get that feed-count up. If you want me to specifically talk about something - let me know.

And nothing says web 3.0 like a trademark.

Found this little nugget on a post about Flowchart.com. Nevermind the selective positive reviews - web 3.0?

For all of the naming garbage that is web 2.0 and web 3.0, arguably web 3.0 is about relationships and connections - semantic knowledge (meta data) from underlying information. The easiest way to visualize it? Flowcharts.

I find this as bad taste as things come - I look forward to seeing it enforced.

We just had our 500th (now a total of 501) comments from 162 posts (including filler ones by me).

Just wanted to thank the readers for making this an two-way conversation - not me just spouting out inanity.

I’ll update this post later (in the middle of a business deal) with some of the more popular posts.

A side project we did a long-long time ago was Local Moa - a very simple New Zealand local-search.

We haven’t updated it since day one (we will definitely be re-visiting it sometime soon).

What is interesting is that the # of contacts has gone up, and today alone we received four. Traffic has gone up, and now does about 425 unique visitors a day.

Not a lot really. But - The population of New Zealand is 4.11 million (according to the CIA). In that context, we reach 0.01% of the country’s population, every day

With a total investment under 20 hours, in a month we reach roughly 0.20% of the country’s population. I think thats pretty cool.

I’m only doing this because I find Aaron and his FindBuffalo.com so interesting

I’m gonna partially cheat and pull out five from my about page:

1. I’ve spent an average of 16 months in any one residence. Shortest was roughly 3 months, longest was roughly four years.
2. I created a sponsorship at the University of Toronto while still a student. It took over a year to happen because the person in scholarships thought I was pulling a prank and refused to listen to me (seriously - I even ended up going to the dean). It was only after she left that anything happened (I initiated this in my third year, and it was formed and paid for in the fourth year).
3. My family’s diversity is … unique. Our ethnicity is Kashmiri (the piece of land that India and Pakistan keep fighting over), and I am a Canadian citizen. My brother is married to a Vietnamese who converted to Islam. My older sister is married to an Indian Hindu. I am engaged to an American Christian (I myself am a Muslim). Smorgasboard of cultures!
4. I used to be a damn good soccer defender (center fullback). Then I destroyed my knee, and now I can’t even jog for 5 minutes without it tightening up.
5. I was Yantis’ righthand man in the MMO space. Every single one of his acquisitions were driven by me, from $1000 to $100,000+ I caused Sony/Blizzard/etc massive headaches without them knowing who I was Which was fine by me.
6. I was born left-handed, but my parents ‘encouraged’ me to use my left hand. I write using my righthand, have much more control with my right, but simple physical tasks (opening up a jar, turning the knob, etc) - I use my left. Even trying to use my right makes me uncomfortable.
7. I have two dogs - one is a diminutive 9lb (he was a runt), and the other weighs more than my fiancee.
8. I miss the bums of Toronto. Weird for sure, but they do (entertaining) nutty stuff. It makes life interesting.

This is post #100. A total of 293 comments, and 2,304 spam comments. 211 subscribers.

Just a status update.

None of my sites have broken this mark, so it feels good. From my previous post on why Google is #1, that same site has been hit 100k times in one day:

Easy explanation: Its indexing is faster and smarter

Case in point: tracking spider hits for a PR7 site with 1+ million pages:

Just compare those numbers. Yahoo! has over 5000 links to the index page - and yet it can’t even crawl 100 pages in a day?

That’s only half the story. How about the intelligence of the crawling (the following image is hits to the index page by the search engine spiders):

Yahoo! and MSN are obsessed with the frontpage - Google checks it out a few times a day.

Google’s spider isn’t just better - its far smarter.

Update: At the end of the day, Googlebot clocked in 68,162 hits, Yahoo 37 (5 to the index page), and MSN 4.

Update 2: Just broke the 100k mark.

I just wanted to point this out …

I keep seeing those damn ads where they talk about how they spend 10000 engineering hours to improve the best-in-class-awesome-towing-capacity-insane-fuel-efficiency truck.

But is it all that impressive?

Based on 40 hours a week, the average employee (working at 50 weeks a year) works for 2000 hours. So when it comes to 10000 hours, really you had five employees work on this.

When you have thousands of employees, five just isn’t impressive.