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28Aug/100

HOT New Web Service, SquareLeaf

I'm going to make it a regular thing here of me writing about a new web site or service which I find useful or interesting from the web. For the first of such articles I'm going to write about a new web service which I find very useful called SquareLeaf.

Square Leaf

In the most simplest sense, Square Leaf is Post-It Notes in a web interface. You're basically given a white-board in which you can place different colored notes on it with whatever you like. Laundry list, errands, shopping list, etc etc. Whatever you'd like.

I'm a big fan of efficiency and project management and by utilizing SquareLeaf the right way makes handling those two very much easier.

It's missing a lot of features I wish it had (like, text colors, sizes, fonts, etc etc), and I hope they're at least working on these, but it's very useful already, indeed.

Bottom line:
SquareLeaf is the Post-It Notes I always wished I had.

16Jun/070

AOL Leak Exclusive Links to Online Searchable Databases!!

Originally Posted: Aug. 8, 2006
I'm sure many of you heard about the whole "AOL Releasing Personal Search Queries" fiasco by now. Well, if you haven't I'll sum it up here. Yesterday, it was reported that AOL stupidly released over 20 million search records from over 500,000 AOL users. This of course violates several privacy laws and caused a huge outbreak of hesteria and mayham across the internet yesterday.
Well, what's so "exclusive" about this post I'm writing to you right now you ask? Many people and developers got their hands on that data which AOL released, of course...and a lot of them have already produced mechanisms to search through the data and analyze it for seo purposes. Drooling yet?? Want to see a few of the sites made already?? Well, I'm not selfish so I'll release a few. ENJOY!!

"This is the web interface to AOL's 500K user search logs which was released, and later retracted."
AOL Search Database
Web Search Data [AJAX Version]
I'll link you to more as I find them. Say thank you now! :)

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