pictures versus words (viewzi and image-based searching)


April 24th, 2008

Tonight, thanks to Twitter 0-day information, I managed to snag an invite for beta-testing viewzi.com

Viewzi is a new and highly visual way to search that brings all your favorite stuff together in one place.
Oh, and it’s bolder, richer, and more fun. 

That is certainly true, as the whole interface is very nice and, after a quick-run through the different views offered, the purpose of each becomes immediately obvious. Picture searches, video searches, shopping searches or just plain’ old trying-to-find-some-information searches.

Therein, however, I feel there may be a minor problem. «Continue Reading»


tech news on yahoo


October 20th, 2007

Yahoo Tech News If that first item is something Yahoo considers Tech News, no wonder so many people are still technology-illiterate nowadays. Don’t even get me started on the hacker vs. cracker debacle, then.


YSlow - Firefox performance plugin


July 25th, 2007

Yahoo! has recently released a Firefox extension for measuring site performance. YSlow takes advantage of Firebug and gives your site a grade based on 13 criteria available on the Yahoo’s Developer portal.

NOTE: I know this site is not passing yet, I’ve made a few improvements since I first got a hold of the extension and might continue to do so. In all honesty, you would be surprised how many sites don’t quite get graded above C.