Entries tagged as yahoo
Saturday, March 17. 2012
Status quo of my web usage, II
Changes during the recent months:
- Deleted accounts
- Gowalla (meanwhile shut down by FB)
- Foursquare
- FootFeed (that combined the above two)
- FB (after 8 months of deactivation)
- FriendFeed
- Flickr and Yahoo—I had already abandoned Flickr in 2010 and moved to SmugMug last year, but now I also deleted ...
- ... SmugMug, haven’t really dived into it, using Google+ as photo showroom
- PicPlz (only possible via mail to support), using Google+ for random pics
- Last.fm (never used)
- Blip.fm (rarely used)
- Posterous (never used)
- Flattr, had abandoned it in 2010, was too expensive
- Not (yet) deleted
- Brightkite, service was deactivated for weeks, site meanwhile unreachable
- Tupalo, maybe give another chance
- PayPal, closing didn’t work for days due to a “temporary communication problem”—at least I removed critical data
- eBay, not sure if I really don’t need it anymore
- Soup.io, another platform for devotedly wasting one’s time
- Other considerations
- Might set Twitter to private soon, only using it passively
Friday, August 21. 2009
Google found me
CODE:
# grep q=stephan.paukner.cc /var/log/apache2/access.log
74.125.75.1 - - [19/Aug/2009:22:27:50 +0200]
"GET /gallery/d/3633-3/clouds.flv HTTP/1.1"
200 24576 "http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=
stephan.paukner.cc" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909
Firefox/1.5.0.7"
# whois 74.125.75.1 | grep Name:
OrgName: Google Inc.
NetName: GOOGLE
OrgTechName: Google Inc.
Interesting that a Google guy/gal uses an ancient Firefox on an ancient crappy OS (Win XP). Testing purposes? And interesting also that this was a targeted search.
Apropos, I tried to re-establish Yahoo! as my default interface to the web. It turned out to not deliver the results that I expected, but Google did. Another argument against Yahoo! is that they’re flirting with Microsoft; too bad that Yahoo! 0wns Flickr.
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