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My first five Dollar Bill

Yesterday I got my hands on my very first Lincoln (five dollars) bill, they seem much more older and used than Euro banknotes. As I had already made a Euro note serial number validation algorithm in PHP I thought: “why don’t I do the same for dollar bills?”.

Five Dollars (Front)

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Managing your online business with Google

Google Logo

Ok it’s been a long time since I last posted something here so this time I’ll be talking about something that if done right can save you a lot of time and hopefully improve your online business by 200%.

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Why is Jimbo Wales smiling?

I’ve scanned this nice article about Jimbo Wales (the founder of Wikipedia) I read on ExecutiveDigest today (sorry, only Portuguese).

Jimbo Wales Smiling

Jimbo Wales Smiling

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Peter Norvig builds Palindrome

Peter Norvig, the director of search quality at Google wrote a program to generate the World’s Longest Palindrome that has about 17,259 words.

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Cyc - Who killed JFK?

Watch this Google Tech Talk named “Computers versus Common Sense” for some insight about Cyc and “universal common knowledge computers”.

Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.

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Google didn’t buy YouTube

Apparently Google didn’t buy YouTube, check this out. :P

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Solitaire Players of the World Unite!

Dr. Luis van Ahn presented in his fantastic Google Tech Talk Video called Human Computation (he speaks very fast sometimes in this video).

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Google & Microsoft have been working hard…

Today, I was googling for SEO and I found a couple of new services from Google like Google Gears (the counter back for Adobe Apollo?) and Google Maps Street View, here is a video:


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