Hugh Fletcher

Personalization of Google Results Creates a Huge Advertising Opportunity

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Amazing observation of last night's Pontiac ad during the Super Bowl. To instead tell people to go to your site through Google to maximize personalized search instead of a direct link is a great way to push yourself in future search results for the same user. Guess I need to get me back at the top for http://www.google.com/search?q=hugh+fletcher.

YouTube - Senator Franken's Q & A with Brian Roberts, Jeff Zucker, and Dr. Mark Cooper

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You know I can't see why anyone would think letting Comcast buy NBC is a good idea with these two tools at the helm. And Democrat or not, Al Franken for President!

Man allegedly pretends to be U.S. Marshall, kidnaps woman and has her deported to the Philippines

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Is it this easy? I could deport a bunch of people if so...

Monster buys Yahoo's HotJobs for $225 million

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Piece by piece until nothing is left...

HipHop for PHP: Move Fast

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For those that have said PHP is dead, the largest PHP deployment site on the internet just showed you up. The ability to cut your computing/server usage up to half is a great breakthrough. Glad to see Facebook pick up the support for PHP where Yahoo left off.

Google Integrates Your Friends' Social Content in Your Search Results [Search Techniques]

Last April Google launched a new Profiles service designed to give you more control over how your name shows up in search results. Now they're taking that information, mashing it up with your...

How to Use Google Docs Folders as Labels

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The one reason I never embraced Google docs because of (what appears to be) it's lack for a labeling system that is otherwise in used in every other Google app. Apparently with a little know how, it's available in docs too.

Named Scopes with CodeIgniter

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This is a really interesting way of using your models in CodeIgniter, or in any framework really. The usefulness of models in some apps is debatable, especially in smaller projects, but Jamie's method of chaining with named scopes can allow you to set a very flexible model that would be highly reusable. His suggestion of extending it with a base model that includes your basic CRUD functions is on spot too. Did I mention Jamie is just 15 years old? Smart kid.

Peppermint Bear Shooter

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The gummy bear has to pack a punch in the end. Will have to try sometime.

Google Voice Is Coming Back To The iPhone Via The Browser, Thanks To VoiceCentral

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This is amazing and an example of Google determination's to improvise and adapt. The innovators beating the innovators. I am strongly thinking of dropping my iphone and moving to android for two reasons, and the lack of ability to use Google voice on the iphone is one of them.

Last summer, when Apple pulled third-party Google Voice applications from the App Store, one of them was VoiceCentral. Apple’s subsequent rejection of the official Google Voice app spurred an FCC investigation, but Google Voice never made it to the app store and none of the other apps ever made it back in.

Intersect - HTML Template (8 in 1 skins) (Business)

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Slick complete(mostly) layout. Not impressed with the background colors used but looks as if that is easily changeable. No formatting for comments either.

Intersect is a bold, striking html template with various layouts, colors and easy for modification. This theme is ready to get a site up an running out of the box. It is easy to customize and is configured for easy skinning.

Time Management Tips for the Busy Freelance Designer | Fuel Your Creativity

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I had just recently began to think that I should block my time in advance to help manage my time better, seems I was on the right track.

How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery

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Currently pricing a project using a cart that needs to be PHP4. Never done a cart from scratch so this was going to be the one unknown.

CodeIgniter is an open source PHP web application framework with a lot of features. Recently, thanks to the latest update, a new feature was added to this framework, called the Cart Class. In this tutorial, we’re going to take advantage of this new class, and write a shopping cart system, with a touch of jQuery added in.

Best Man Rigs Newlyweds’ Bed To Tweet During Sex. Not Kidding.

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Funny stuff

When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend’s wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding though, that’s another story.

Srirangan » Blog Archive » Enterprise adoption: Does HTML5 stand a chance against Flash technologies?

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Not entirely sure I agree with the author on this, all though it's nice to see a pro-flash(flex) article in the flash vs html5 debate. Html5 is in it's infancy and not completely adopted by all browsers. It's no where near being a contemporary use for web apps. To compare the two is like comparing apples and oranges. Do a comparison in 5 years, the fight will be more fair.

But having worked with Flex for nearly three years and being familiar with what the Flash platform does offer, there was not much in HTML5 that got me really excited.

In fact I am going to stick my neck out and make a series of claims and eventually conclude that the benefits of choosing Adobe Flex today completely overshadow HTML5.