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Wait listing for Google App Engine

TechCrunch announced Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine so I jumped over to http://code.google.com/appengine to register, but I’ve been added to a waitlist. Reading more I see only 10,000 developers were initially allowed to register, I wonder how long that took to fill up.

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When is a website useless?

Well this is one way. Time Magazine has so much advertising garbage, the page on my Macbook shows only 16 words of meaningful article text on the page. Those being almost rather useless as well:

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New addition to my blog

You may have noticed some icons besides any web links such as [This][1]. I have added [Snap Shots][2] to my site. I first noticed it on [www.techcrunch.com][3] and after some analysis saw the potential.

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Learning SEO the painful way

Indeed I have a goal of launching a consolidated site of my online presence at ronaldbradford.com at some time soon, and even now I have found I’ve made some SEO 101 mistakes, just in my testing site, and my temporary placeholder.

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Correctly handling redirects

I’m in the process of consolidating all my work scattered across the WWW to www.ronaldbradford.com As part of the process I was originally redirecting this to my present blog but I was not doing it the correct way.

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Sleeping in Perl for less then a second

E.g. to sleep to 100 ms. select(undef, undef, undef, 0.1);

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Another new Google Maps feature – Terrain

So checking Google Maps in the past few days and I see yet another new button, this one [Terrain]

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Google Maps at Halloween

If you didn’t spot it Google Maps – Street View had a Halloween icon. You can see it clearly below as I dragged it over a clear space.

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The Hatchery July Event

Wednesday night I attended my second [Hatchery][1] event. The Hatchery is an opportunity for organizations and clever individuals seeking venture capital to make a proposal in a formal panel process with venture capitalists.

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Truemors, Tumors, Dribble

I was sent this email. _ http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/06/by_the_numbers_.html By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen – Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 I have had my flatmate talk about it a lot in the past day.

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Google Street View Camera

There has been plenty of news about [Google Maps Street View][1] that I blogged about recently. I wanted to know how they do it, well here is how they do it.

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