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Knowns and unknowns of the 2012 presidential elections — [LINK]

“We gather information from a variety of sources (some of which are themselves information aggregators), including prediction markets, polls, web search, social activity, games, and historical precedent, and combine it together to produce a Consensus Prediction that is as unbiased, … Continue reading

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Do webpages with higher PageRank rank higher than webpages with lower PageRank? — [VIDEO]

[Download this post to watch the video if your feed reader does not show it to you.] SEO Moz: Midas Oracle’s homepage is proud to have a PageRank of 6/10.

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New York Times is going to fail, big time. — [CHART]

Too expensive. More.

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Great interview of WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg

The interviewer asks all the good questions.

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BetFair apologizes to Niall O’Connor… and the other traders affected by the site outage.

BetFair Forum: Betfair would like to apologise for the unplanned site outage that occurred earlier this afternoon [Monday, January 25, 2010]. The cause of this problem is currently being investigated by our technical team. A list of affected markets will … Continue reading

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Why David Pennock and Jed Christiansen should be thankful to Google

Because Google Webmaster Central Tool helps webmasters determine whether their site(s) has/have been hacked. Awesome.

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Google Commerce Search + Google Checkout = a shopping cart for your site

Google Commerce Search + Google Checkout = a shopping cart for your site http://www.google.com/commercesearch/

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How do traders like (or dislike) the new Hollywood Stock Exchange?

Hollywood Stock Exchange Don’t expect Alex Kirtland to ask the tough and harsh questions, of course. (Our good friend Alex sells web usability services. His goal is to make friends.) The main bit of criticism seems to be that the … Continue reading

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