Jun
21

How Twitter is Changing the World of Professional Poker

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Poker players bluffing opponents at the table and via tweets?

Snippet:

Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He’s in a $10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of Poker and he just sent out a Tweet. "Still in 10k split," he said. "Didn’t sleep much but feel OK…." Is that an intimate look inside the minute by minute, high-stakes life of a poker veteran – or is that a head-trip of a bluff intended to make his opponents think he could be slow on his game today?

Jun
14

Fear Grips Google, Sergey Orders Bing Study

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Google’s interest is no doubt peaked piqued given all the buzz over Bing. I admit, Bing brings a couple of things to the table that Google doesn’t, though GOOG needn’t worry about losing significant share any time soon.

NY Post has the story.

Apr
05

Google Earth Pixel Art!

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We’ve all heard of, or even had dead pixels on the digital displays of various electronic devices we use on a daily basis.  And, I can say with near certainty that most people don’t want that.  I know that the small gaps on my nintendo DS drive me crazy whenever I use it.  However, an ingenious Dutch artist, Helmut Smits, thought of an entertaining idea for the upcoming image scanning in his area for use in Google Earth.  He cut out an 82 x 82 cm square of grass in an open field, so that when that area is scanned from the height of 1km, it would look just like a dead pixel in the image.  I’d love to be a fly on the wall in Google HQ when they see that and wonder if their equipment is bad ;)

I’ll keep an eye on the area, and update this post when the image is available!

Mar
13

FuzzFind – A Unique Meta-Search Engine

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What’s FuzzFind?

FuzzFind is a web search mashup that combines the power of the leading search engines and social bookmarking sites to make it easier for you to locate and identify the most relevant information. All results are grouped together and sorted according to the search engine rankings plus the popularity of the sites according to the social bookmarking community.

As  you can see in the user interface screenshot above, you can tune the search results for various search engines by moving a slider left or right based on your personal preferences. This is cool and I’d love to see more engines included hear like Stumbleupon for instance. Or to do an image and video search as well.

I’m looking forward to see more like this, so far I’m liking what I’m seeing.

Feb
23

Wall Street Fighter 4

Here’s a new take on Street Fighter to help alleviate those Wall Street meltdown blues we’ve all been suffering from recently. It originates from a fresh young video crew in Hong Kong, visit them at CBFresh.