Their April Fool’s Day joke…. http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html The technology behind Google’s great results As a Google user, you’re familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find...
The “Bert is Evil” web site has been taken down. For the uninitiated, there’s an archived version of it at: http://www.spacecat.com/bert/bert.htm Anyway, apparently this all peaked this past October when some pro-Taliban protesters downloaded a...
Bad week for Napster. Their re-launch is still on hold because the labels still won’t play ball, and now their exit strategy is being foiled thanks to a seed investor squabble. Probably at stake is the severe penalty that Napster investors will pay in the...
AOL has reversed the decision I reported a year ago [1] to force AOL employees to use AOL email, probably as a result of internal revolt (or is that disgust?). A tangent — who the hell uses the word: “e-mail” still? -Ian. [1]...
This is the guy who bilked John Travolta, Greta Van Susteren and a bunch of William Morris Agency guys out of millions. He also seeded Earthlink. -Ian.
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
