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[30 May 2009 | 2 Comments | ]
Google Friend Connect: A traffic booster

I’ve never had the pleasure of counting myself among the Alexa elite (as a matter of fact, this blog holds a humble 8763rd place – among sites Norwegians visit). Never paid much attention to search engine optimisation, commenting wildly on other bloggers’ posts for requital traffic, unless I should, for other reasons, but I do appreciate frequent visitors and love the input you provide, unless you’re up to no good, that is.
In short, my insignificances are indeed highly insignificant, in the big picture that is the blogosphere, but I cherish …

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[21 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
Impressive free simulation

The Kiwi software development company Dinther Product Design launched the first version of its free ship simulation, Ships, the other day, which leverages on the browser-based Google Earth plugin as the primary graphics engine, according to the Google Earth Blog.
First of all, let me point out that I was never much of a gamer, save for a brief Amiga period some 20 years ago, but this one actually had me impressed. Not so much by the game’s features and functionality perhaps as by its availability, as a free of charge …

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[24 Sep 2008 | One Comment | ]
My next mobile is an Android

There can be no doubt. After seeing a brief walk-through of Google’s Android platform, I know, with something very close to a 100 percent certainty, that my next mobile is very likely to be an Android. German (US-based) T-Mobile launched their HTC-manufactured G1 yesterday, sporting Google’s brand new, Linux-based Android platform, and I have to tell You: For my purposes this beats the crap out of Apple’s latest iPhone. An absolute must-have if you’re depending on net-based applications in your everyday life, which I do. But I can tell you …