Weblog of Fernando Reig Matthies

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Andrew Hitchcock, a 20-year-old student at the University of Washington, got the ball rolling by posting Google Analytics statistics on visitors to his Web site. Of the users originating from Microsoft’s domain who reached Hitchcock’s site via a search engine, 80 percent came through Google. Only 20 percent used a Microsoft search engine (either MSN’s or the Live.com’s).

It’s really not surprising to me that Microsoft employees use Google Search instead of MSN’s Search.

I’m not suprised either that Yahoo workers used their own engine 68.9 percent of the time, Google’s 29.8 percent of the time.

And last but not least, it doesn’t surprise that Google’s workers use their own search tools 100% of the time.

Via TechWeb

The more I work with other languages like python and ruby I like their way how they work on problems. While PHP is very forgiving on errors, it is weak on the debugging side. It was missing a simple to use interactive shell for years.

Python and Ruby have their ipython and iruby shell which give you a direct way to interact with the objects. No need to write a script and execute it afterwards.

Download at Jan Knseschke’s Site.

Google

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings — including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords — across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

Daring Fireball

This is better synching — for free — than Safari users get for $99/year from .Mac.

Just recently switched from Firefox to Camino as it has a cleaner, simpler OS X interface and in my opnion speedier than Firefox. But this extension is really a killer app… I mean a killer extension.

Via Daring Fireball

Edge Interview with Tim O’Reilly:

Edge: What are your thoughts on digital rights management, and how do you see DRM being managed in the near future?

Tim O’Reilly: There’s a couple of different layers to that question: What do I think is actually going to happen? I have no clue. What I believe should happen and what the indicators suggest will happen is very different …. I believe that loose DRM really works. I believe that a good DRM package will let people set any policy they want, but a wise policy is to make it as minimal as possible.

For example, I recently read a blog entry about Apple versus Sony. Sony’s music DRM was very strong, and led to a lot of user restriction. With iTunes, Apple made DRM relatively invisible (there is DRM there, but it’s not very hard to get around) and has ended up selling a billion dollars worth of songs.

Somebody responded to the blog entry, and wrote, “DRM is like taking your cat to the vet. It’s not like taking a dog to the vet. When you take a dog to the vet you hold him tight, and when you take a cat you better hold him loosely or he’ll claw you.” That’s a nice metaphor for how people need to think about DRM.

Mixes in: digg.com, del.icio.us, furl.net, flickr.com, reddit.com, tailrank.com, fark.com, youtube.com, news.google.com, news.yahoo.com, newsvine.com, video.google.com, shoutwire.com, slashdot.org, wired.com, odeo.com, your pop, nowpublic.com and metafilter.com

Shake over ice and serve…