Tag Archive for 'Web'

Internet Viral Marketing

Published by Alix on November 2, 2007 in PHP, Projects, SEO and Web. 1 Comment

As you may have noticed I’ve been away (more of awaaaay) from this blog for quite some time now, the reasons for this are:

  1. Time is short (and money too, who would have thought he?…).
  2. I’ve been getting so many SPAM comments and few or none friendly comments.

Anyway, I’ve been custom web developing for 4 or 5 clients and I’ve this feeling that I’m getting old (I’m twenty now - not a teen anymore =\) and all my ideas and projects are losing towards my clients projects, so I’ve decided that after this I’m out - no more freelance jobs, just my own, at my own way. Things with my web hosting company have also been turning out just great, we have reached the Top 10 (yeah that’s right :) ) here in Portugal, and we have been receiving some selling offers - of course we haven’t accepted any of them.

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Data Mining Books & Amazon

Published by Alix on August 24, 2007 in Books, Data Mining and Web. 0 Comments

Today my very first Amazon order just arrived: Intelligent Data Analysis - a Data Mining book that I saw at Kurt Thearling personal website. I’m really into learning Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, I find it quite an interesting (and useful) subject.

Intelligent Data Analysis - Front Cover Intelligent Data Analysis - Back Cover

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Managing your online business with Google

Published by Alix on August 12, 2007 in Google, Software and Web. 2 Comments

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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The New 7 Wonders of the World

Published by Alix on July 7, 2007 in About and Web. 9 Comments

Today, the New Seven Wonders of the World will be elected, in Lisbon.

The New Seven Wonders of the World is a proposed revision of the Seven Wonders of the World, organized by a Swiss corporation called New Open World Corporation (NOWC). The selection is being made by free and paid votes, through telephone or online. The first vote is free to registered members and additional votes may be purchased through a payment to NOWC.

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Get Rich - The Illegal Way

Published by Alix on June 29, 2007 in Security and Web. 9 Comments

This is a guide in how one could easily get dirty money - and probably caught by the cops - exploiting security vulnerabilities in e-banking systems.

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Why is Jimbo Wales smiling?

Published by Alix on June 20, 2007 in Google, SEO and Web. 4 Comments

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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Cyc - Who killed JFK?

Published by Alix on June 15, 2007 in Algorithms, Data Mining, Google, Software and Web. 0 Comments

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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PHP Friendly Password Generator

Published by Alix on June 14, 2007 in Algorithms, PHP and Web. 7 Comments

Today I’ll be sharing an algorithm that I use quite a lot, for generating passwords that are easily memorable and spelled - one may also call this type of passwords mnemonic passwords.

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Solitaire Players of the World Unite!

Published by Alix on June 8, 2007 in Algorithms, Google, Software and Web. 1 Comment

Chris Anderson wrote a very interesting article about human spare cycles, following the idea of 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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The Internet is for Porn

Published by Alix on June 3, 2007 in Web. 2 Comments

Check out this video I saw on shoemoney.com: