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Posts Tagged ‘structure-of-the-internet’

An Opera and Chrome Memory Usage Comparison Shot

By Giania • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Browsers

Hot: I realize that everyone’s probably already sick to death of hearing about Chrome, but I thought I’d chime in anyway. Here’s a memory usage shot of Chrome versus Opera. Click the image to see the big picture It’s not really a fair comparison, as the same things aren’t open, but I realized that with [...]



QED Group – Last.FM Topographical Map of Friend Compatibility

By Giania • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Edit! Commenter Jess rightly pointed out the fact that I neglected (which was rude of me and I apologize) to actually link to the place where this neat data visualization can be found! It’s from qed-portal.com. I don’t know about you but I love the fact that my friends listen to notably different stuff. [...]



URLtea Bites It Again

By Giania • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: Looks like I had spoken too soon about URLtea being back in it to win it. An astute commenter on my previous “URLTea Dead” post just tipped me off to the site being dead, again. Below is the text I got when visting the main site. Site Temporarily Unavailable We apologize for the inconvenience. [...]



URLTea dead?

By Giania • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Internet Toys

Hot: URLTea used to be my favorite URL shortening service. Emphasis on used to be. For (and I’m guessing here) I’d say the better part of a month, every time I have attempted to make a shortened URL or visit the site, it’s been coming up error, 404, you’re looking for what again? Does anyone [...]



Think For Myself? Don’t Mind if I Do!

By Giania • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: Fnord, Philosophy

Hot: It’s been a very Twitter-heavy weekend, as previous posts will demonstrate. I had a brief spat with some woman named Amanda Chapel because I had issues with the idea of arguing against the merits of internet culture on the internet. Particularly on such a limited platform such as Twitter. I really need to think [...]



Web App Day for RKNet!

By Giania • Mar 18th, 2008 • Category: Recursion

Hot: Today I put a click mapping app on RandomKitty.net. It will give me “heat maps” of where people click when they are on the main page of the blog. I may add it elsewhere, but the home page needs an overhaul before I do that. If you’d like to view the current heat map [...]



Mo’ Betta Blogging: Miraculous Twitter Find

By Giania • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Recursion

Hot: Let it never be said that Twitter is a useless web app. Thanks to Twitter friend doshdosh, I’ve discovered an article which may assist me in refining my goals for this website, such as they are, and increase readership and hopefully feedback as well. The article on problogger.net is titled From 0 to 2000+ [...]



Screw You Comcast

By Giania • Dec 10th, 2007 • Category: Fnord

Hot: Did it ever occur to you that I might work from home? I’m cancelling the minute I find a viable alternative. In the meantime? I’ll be checking this out.



Hey MOFOS! Time to De-lurk Already!

By Giania • Oct 3rd, 2007 • Category: Recursion

Hot: Hey kids! In conjunction with my desire to generate more user feedback here at the RKNet, I wish to take a moment to voice my support for The Great Mofo Delurk 2007. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some RSS. It allows me to read far more interesting articles per day than visiting [...]



Welcome To New Hampshire

By Giania • Sep 25th, 2007 • Category: Articles of Interest

Hot: A recent article on Slashdot caught my eye when it noted feedback from a New Hampshire resident complaining that the lack of high speed internet was preventing him from doing business, and also noted that his was not the only business affected by the lack of development in the state.