Saturday, December 17, 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

Google Trends for "Kolaveri" Compared with "Rebecca Black"

Will history repeat? Or, as they say, rhyme? Too early to tell. We'll see.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=kolaveri%2C+rebecca+black&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2011&sort=0

For those who don't know what Google Trends is, here is some information on that from their site:

With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.


www.google.com
Google Trends provides insights into broad search patterns. Please keep in mind that several approximations are used when computing these results.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Interoperability Nirvana Achieved

Interesting. Right now in front of me:
- a MacBook Pro
- running Windows 7 (via Bootcamp)
- running Internet Explorer in one window
- Google Chrome in another window
- IE window contains a web app running on Windows Azure
- the Windows Azure app is running java code
- the Chrome window contains another app running on Amazon web services
- the AWS app is running C# code on a Windows VM
- the Azure app is crawling the content in the AWS app

Everything works together, while maintaining their own distinct personalities.