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Numetro Pwnd by h@x0rs

Took this screenshot of the Numetro homepage earlier today:

Posted to Ernst Kuschke (Weblog) by Ernst Kuschke on 08-17-2007
Toilet ISP

If you want wireless broadband at home (who doesn't?), consider flushing a fibre optic cable down your toilet. Seriously - Google tISP is a new innitiative from those inventive guys at Google. There are three innitial packages: Trickle The #2 Royal Flush Download speed (max) 8 Mbps(10X basic DSL) 16...

Posted to Ernst Kuschke (Weblog) by Ernst Kuschke on 04-02-2007
Google personalisation

Google has gone live with their "personalised experience". If you're signed in with your Google account, your search results will bring back results that are more suited to what you might be looking for. I have no idea how well it works - in fact I prefer getting objective- rather than personalised search...

Posted to Ernst Kuschke (Weblog) by Ernst Kuschke on 02-02-2007
Human-Computer Interaction

There are different kinds of humans, or users, and so there are different kinds of ways to interact with computers. The graphical user-interface was one of the greatest leaps in this field, and ever since, even though gradually advancing, we have made slow progress. This field is coming more to the fore...

Posted to Ernst Kuschke (Weblog) by Ernst Kuschke on 01-26-2007
New search technology

Check out haika (beta) : "hakia is building the Web's new "meaning-based" search engine with the sole purpose of improving search relevancy and interactivity, pushing the current boundaries of Web search. The benefits to the end user are search efficiency, richness of information, and time savings. The...

Posted to Ernst Kuschke (Weblog) by Ernst Kuschke on 01-18-2007
Search with a human face

Have a look at Miss Dewey , an interesting project by Microsoft. It utilises Flash to give Live search a (kinda sexy!) human face.

Posted to Ernst Kuschke (Weblog) by Ernst Kuschke on 11-07-2006
Internet speed

I'm unsure how our connectivity here at 24.com works, but my bandwidth from the office looks like this: That is good "speed" if you consider my location: South Africa. Most people down here have no internet access at the moment, and the ones who do access from home use mostly dial-up (which...

Posted to Ernst Kuschke (Weblog) by Ernst Kuschke on 11-06-2006
Agile life at Google

From a high level, Google's process probably does look like chaos to someone from a more traditional software development company. As a newcomer, some of the things that leap out at you include: - there are managers, sort of, but most of them code at least half-time, making them more like tech leads...

Posted to Ernst Kuschke (Weblog) by Ernst Kuschke on 10-20-2006

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