Do you still believe the “Do no evil” Google mantra? Do you think Google Book Search, the AOL deal, and Larry and Sergey’s 767 point to Google losing it’s pristine morality and turning over to the dark side?
Now you can discover what the world thinks and contribute your own opinion. Head over to Google: Evil or Not? and vote with your mouse. Every day, the site presents you with a selection of relevant news snippets and, for each one of them, you can select the level of Google evilness, or lack thereof, that is suggested by it. Let the collective wisdom of the Web decide whether Google is evil or not!
Alright, it’s a silly little app, but it could be fun. It’s also my first application developed with Ruby on Rails and it’s fully Web 2.0 compliant, uses RSS and Ajax and leverages the power of the community. What more could you ask? 
Pardon the horribly twisted title, but I just realized that it’s been a little more than one year since I’ve resumed blogging, with a new domain and a renovated resolve to keep it up seriously. My first post was on Jan 4th, 2005, so I’m eight days late in celebrating, but that’s not important.
For most of 2005 I wasn’t attracting much traffic, but things started to pick up well at the beginning of November, probably due to an update of Google’s index. I can now count on 600 average daily visitors, excluding feed readers, of whom I have no idea how many there are. I seem to remember that a few years ago, when I started blogging for the first time, attracting visitors was much easier, as there was probably much less competition around.
Anyway, it’s been a good year for blogging and the perspective on 2006 looks brighter still.
Published by ugo on January 12, 2006
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Tunatic is a nifty little app that listens on your microphone and connects to a server to identify the song that it is listening to. While this might be useful for the times when you’re hearing a song on the radio or the TV and can’t make out what the song name or artist is, it can also become mildly addictive, as you throw at it more and more songs to see which ones it recognizes and which ones it doesn’t.
I have to admit it’s pretty good at guessing most songs, which makes it even more addictive, even though it failed to recognize a classic like Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung”.
I wonder what the business model is. It’s true that when a song is recognized, you can click on the little arrow at the right to open a page with some affiliate links, but I’m not sure this will be enough to cover bandwidth costs if it ever becomes successful.
In any case, kudos to Sylvain Demongeot. Tunatic is a cool idea that has been brilliantly executed.
Via Torsten.
