xbox is king

Interesting channel check about xbox as king of the console market. We'll see how it all shakes out once the PS3 is out. I noticed that there are already people waiting to buy anyting until that comes out.

What is interesting is the games, clearly EA has the sports market wrapped up and Halo rules the roost for FPS.

My buddy running this site thinks the info is very cool. It's is a nice data point going into Christmas and one to keep track of.

Interesting Stuff over at The Channel Checkers

A good friend has a cool idea for doing "channel checks" into different verticals, giving insight into trends before public companies disclose. As you can imagine if the model and technology work it could be very interesting. It's very early in the process, however he's posted some channel checks over at The Channel Checkers.
Channel Checks are nothing new and there are a bunch of companies doing it, however he's got a novel approach and new way to get information in a way that is more efficient than the traditional.

We'll see what happens, but at least the posts are interesting to read.

Does Yahoo's crawl do a better job on a Google property?

My co-worker, dspain ,just added me to the Ehlist  -" The Eh List collects statistics about your blog from all around the blogosphere".  I found it to be very interesting.....

I'm using blogger, a Google property, and it looks as if Yahoo has better info about my blog.  On the surface it seems like Yahoo has a deeper crawl and better stats because of this.  I would assume that, because blogger is a Google property, Google would know more about my posts.  What does this mean for my Adwords?  Not that it's a big deal I don't really care, but it poses a bigger question.

If Google doesn't know about 34 of my posts, how am I getting the most relevant ads and what does that mean for my click through.  Simply because I used to work at Alexa, I know that the depth of the Google crawl has always been suspect, but this is very interesting.  I know that the blogosphere has led to an exponential growth of web pages to keep up with, but you would think that Google would at least have a good inventory of it's own properties.

ehlist pic

technorati tags:crawl, google, yahoo, alexa, blogger

Cool way to Visualize info

When thinking about how to display way too much info, we all have this problem, I ran across this little gem. A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

also check out my delicious map

technorati tags:visual, data, mindmap

del.icio.us having search issues

not sure if they're having a problem or what, but I can't find anything right now on delicious.

deliciousproblem

technorati tags:delicious, issue, search

Not to bad

We've worked real hard for a long time, hopefully this will help with our growth:

Discovery Mining Closes $3.2 Million E-Discovery Strategic Partnership

I'm pretty proud of our company, making something with just good old fashioned hard work.

technorati tags:discovery, mining, funding, investment

I'm on the bandwagon

I recently bought a Powerbook and am now fully on the Mac Bandwagon.  In no time I had everything sync'd from the iMac and was blazing away.  I decided to get a refurbished Powerbook over the MacBook Pro because of the overheating thing.  I've got a few friends who say that they get so hot they can't sit them on their laps.  I'm waiting for them to work out the kinks then maybe I'll upgrade, however I'm pretty happy with the Powerbook.

One other thing that wasn't apparent when I was trying out ruby on rails, Textmate is a great text editor and is a must have for anyone tinkering around.

technorati tags:mac, powerbook, textmate