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Twitter is the new youtube!

What? Is shadi going crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up. Most people (including me) saw this as Google “getting into the video business,” and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation. But as we all know, making money from consumer driven video ain’t a cakewalk, and hosting that video is really, really expensive. So why did Google really buy YouTube? My answer, which of course looks brilliant given it’s 20/20 hindsight: YouTube was a massive search asset.

Latest Facebook Social Virus – codecsetup.exe – Google links

There is currently a new undetected facebook spam virus spreading around with the use of spoofing a google url and mimicking the youtube video sharing site.

Ten Questions about Google Chrome

Four years ago, I blogged about rumors that Google was working on a Web browser. I found them intriguing, as anyone would, but no such browser ever appeared, and Google became an enthusiastic Firefox booster. The blogosphere pretty much stopped pondering the possibility of a Google browser, and so did I. But now all has changed…

Beating Google?

Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your hair, drinking a cool beer while listening to Frank Sinatra and pondering how to change the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ?
Better search ? Too subjective. Better monetization ? After the fact. Better User Interface ? Will we know it [...]

Remote Mail Delivery for Google Apps and Postfix Mail Server

After stumbling upon this issue various times I’ve decided to finally resolve it.
The Issue:
If you have a domain hosted on a server, but you have setup Google Apps for your domain to use the Gmail style email system for your domain, then you might notice a problem with sending mail to your own domain.
The problem [...]