Funny spam email, June 2009

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Funny spam email, June 2009

Natural links are better than non-natural

I got a spam email that I thought about blogging about, but decided not to. Then they spammed me *again*. Sheesh

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Natural links are better than non-natural

30 days

30 days is enough time to build a habit.

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30 days

My review of the iPhone 3GS

Disclaimer: This post is entirely my personal opinion. I also own an HTC T-Mobile G1 , which runs Google’s Android operating system

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My review of the iPhone 3GS

How to read Persian (Farsi)

Google just added machine-translation of Persian (Farsi) : This means you can now translate any text from Persian into English and from English into Persian whether it’s a news story, a website, a blog, an email, a tweet or a Facebook message. The service is available free at http://translate.google.com . Is the translation going to be perfect

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Watch my site review session from Google I/O

At Google I/O a few weeks ago I did a site review session with fellow Google colleagues Brian White and Greg Grothaus. The video from that session is live now and I’ll include it below: About 38 minutes in, the session morphed into a general Q&A

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PageRank sculpting

People think about PageRank in lots of different ways. People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a page. Other people think of the web as an link matrix in which the value at position (i,j) indicates the presence of links from page i to page j.

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Android barcode scanner in 6 lines of Python code

After my last video about using a barcode scanner to add and search books in your library , I was feeling pretty happy. Bar code scanners are pretty cheap–mine cost about $65

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Search your bookshelf with a $65 barcode scanner

(Okay, if TechCrunch wrote about my video then I should probably at least do a blog post too.) Last year I suggested potential Summer of Code projects and one of my favorite suggestions was “How about a good open-source program to manage your book library? Something like the Delicious Library program, but that works with Linux?” In the blog comments, Colin Colehour left an excellent comment : “Matt, Cant you use Google Books to keep track of your book library at home? You can add books that you own to the my library list and then export that as an xml file and they have RSS feeds.” The suggestion was so obvious that I smacked my head.

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Search your bookshelf with a $65 barcode scanner