Karmona`s Pragmatic Blog

We have launched the Delver alpha an hour ago…
F5 on the monitors and statistics, geeee what a rush!!!

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/delver_launches_social_search.php#more

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/15/delvers-social-graph-search-engine-now-open-to-all/

http://mashable.com/2008/07/15/delver-alpha/

http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/15/delver-opens-social-powered-search-to-the-public/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9991378-2.html?tag=blog.1

http://it.themarker.com/tmit/article/3975

http://www.sunherald.com/prnewswire/story/685777.html

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Dunbar’s number is the supposed cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable social relationships.
In a 1992 article, Dunbar used the correlation observed for non-human primates* to predict a social group size for humans and using a “simple” regression equation on data for 38 primate genera, Dunbar predicted a human “mean group size” of 150 (with 95% confidence interval of 100 to 230).

Dunbar’s Friends is my definition (and trademark ;-) to those few “real”, trusted and known people in your huge** online social network***.

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* Primatologists have noted that, due to their highly social nature, non-human primates have to maintain personal contact with the other members of their social group, usually through grooming (and not “poking” as you might be expecting :-). The number of social group members a primate can track appears to be limited by the volume of the neocortex region of their brain.

** Did you know that Robert Scoble is following 21,060 people in Twitter, 2,992 in FriendFeed and only 71 “lousy” friends in Flickr…

*** Social Network for Dummies - Lee and Sachi LeFever (a.k.a. the CommonCraft’s family :) have created a wonderful video explaining social network in plain English.

I have just finished two “dirty” politics* books and while looking for more… ;-) I have reached this lovely “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” notice at Amazon.com and later I even got blamed** to be a bot…???


Cnet says, “Based on last quarter’s revenue of $4.13 billion, a full-scale global outage would cost Amazon more than $31,000 per minute on average” (!!!)


Amazons, are you there???




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* The Prince by Machiavelli & Joseph Fouché - The Portrait of a Politician by Stefan Zweig

** “You have been denied access to this feature because we believe you violated the terms, conditions, rules, guidelines or policies of our site in the past. If you believe we have taken this action in error, you may contact us at ad-help-us@amazon.com.”

Due to the increasing demand (~300% in the last week) for I18N support in my blog, I decided to take action.

My pragmatic ROIDB (ROI Driven Blogging) approach brought the Google-Translate-Widget to the left pane of my blog with ~20 minute copy-paste work (this post included).

I almost tripled my blog exposure from 350 Million (English) Internet users to 1 Billion* internet users (85% of the world internet users) and I also hit the pareto princple (80/20) jackpot on the way :-)

But… I can’t really use the “I don’t have enough traffic due to I18N readiness” excuse anymore and the 3 people that allegedly asked for I18N support only wanted to “help” with my desist Nigerian cousin will arrangement so I am not so sure it was worth it after all…

Feel free to get a taste of this I18N perfection using my new left-pane state-of-the-art translator widget and with my personal favorite Spanish Blog Flavor

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* 365 English + 184 Chinese (!!!) + 101 Spanish + 86 Japanese + 59 French + 58 German + 47 Portuguese + 34 Korean + 31 Italian + 28 Arabic = ~1 Billion Internet users (Based on internetworldstats.com statistics)

Wikipedia is one of the best online tools (and my personal favorite) with over 1.8 million articles about everything you always wanted to know but was afraid to ask…

but Wikipedia is also the biggest online bureaucracy with very impressive set of regulations, policies and guidelines which will make Max Weber turn in his grave twice; This bureaucracy is governed by unfriendly-easy-trigger-not-too-smart-enforcement intendant bots and WikiLawyerians which make the average Pragmatic Wikipedia editor turn around and leave Wikipedia to the bots (dogs)

P.S. (I)

I think I am on to a new web conspiracy: “Google is a Wikipedia subsidiary” - You surely experience the trend yourself e.g.
* Try to Google: ‘World Wide Web‘, ‘England‘, ‘Mars‘ and even ‘God‘
* Wikipedia climbed to the 8th traffic rank (Based on Alexa lateset traffic details)

P.S. (II)

I really liked this Wikipedia rule since it reminded me of my early childhood ;-)

“The three-revert rule (often referred to as 3RR) is a policy that applies to all Wikipedians, and is intended to prevent edit warring - An editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, on a single page within a 24-hour period. A revert means undoing the actions of another editor, whether involving the same or different material each time. Any editor who breaches the rule may be blocked from editing for up to 24 hours in the first instance, and longer for repeated or aggravated violations.”

P.S. (III) 

I am thinking (day dreaming) about writing my own little vicious Wikipedia bot someday - I shall call him… Mini-Me!

During the weekend I have finished the book “Born on a Blue Day” by Daniel Tammet

This unique first-person story opens a window into the mind of a 27-year-old autistic savant with Asperger’s syndrome.

Daniel is capable of incredible feats of memorization and mental calculation. Besides being able to effortlessly multiply and divide huge sums in his head with the speed and accuracy of a computer; Daniel, learned Icelandic in a single week and recited the number Pi up to the 22,514 digit, breaking the European record (3-14-2004 Pi Day)

Daniel also experiences synesthesia which is an unusual neurological syndrome that enables him to experience numbers and words as shapes, colors, textures and motions.

“I was born on January 31, 1979 — a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, because the date is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number 9 or the sound of loud voices arguing. I like my birth date; because of the way I’m able to visualize most of the numbers in it as smooth and round shapes, similar to pebbles on a beach. That’s because they are prime numbers: 31, 19, 197, 97, 79 and 1979 are all divisible only by themselves and 1. I can recognize every prime up to 9,973 by their “pebble-like” quality. It’s just the way my brain works.”

“The number 11 is friendly and 5 is loud, whereas 4 is both shy and quiet — it’s my favorite number, perhaps because it reminds me of myself. Some are big — 23, 667, 1,179 — while others are small: 6, 13, 581. Some are beautiful, like 333, and some are ugly, like 289″

“One of the most common questions I was asked … was: Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like The Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.“

Daniel stated in his book that it wasn’t easy to find enough (digits) Pi in the web, so inspired from his book, I have created an online “backup”* for the first 10 million digits of Pi @ http://pi.karmona.com

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749

44592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306

64709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110

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* During August 1995, Dr.Takahashi and Dr. Y.Kanada have managed to calculate pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits (current world record) using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo - The University ftp server was Daniel’s (& my backup) source…

Three Month ago, I have started a “quest” to find out what is blogging all about.

“Quest” status:

1. Open a Blog – Done
2. Make a “meaningful” post weekly – Done (Did I really say “meaningful”???)
3. Register blog to every blog community in the $%#^ing Internet – In progress… (a.k.a. the “slow”, right widgets pane in my blog)
4. Survey bloggers – Just started*
5. …

* So… I started to survey bloggers using an (empty) community @ bumpzee** & small group @ blogcatalog** and these are the kind people who helped me in my quest until now:

• Gerry @ http://www.planetearthpeaceparty.com/ (a.k.a. The Peace Guy :-)
• Tony @ http://www.113dir.com/info & http://www.weightlossinfo.us/blog (Good luck with your residual income… ;-)
• Parisukat @ PARISUKAT.COM
• Katrina @ http://t-shirts-around.blogspot.com

Stay Tuned….

Google Trends (a.k.a. my experiment - part II)

• Hiroshi Osaka
• Rumspringa (Google it…)
• Army Ten-Miler
• Moti Karmona (Yea right ;-)
• Semingo (Soon…)

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** 13-10-2007 (quick update) - I have deleted the “blogsphere” communities since I have decided it isn’t a pragmatic quest - it was consuming too much of my valuable time…

*** Experimental Post ***

Unique “foreign” languages support in Google:

Elmer Fudd, Hacker, Klingon!, Pig Latin and Swedish Chef…

Google Search Hacks

The most comprehensive Google Hacking Database I have stumble upon is located @ http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb.php and my personal favorites are:

• password | passcode | “your password is” filetype:log
• “phpMyAdmin” “running on” inurl:”main.php”
• “login: *” “password: *” filetype:xls

Google “Internals”

• Google robots.txt (Checkout closely this huge list of disallows… ;-) and sitemap.xml
• A Tribute to google Moms @ http://www.google.com/moms/ (???)
• Misspellings statistics on Britney Spears @ http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html (a.k.a. did you look for “pritney spears” :-)
• “answer to life, the universe, and everything” answer from Google

Google Trends

I have decided to start a little experiment with Google Trends - I will state the 5 hottest google trends in my next posts to see if it gets the searching crowd into my blog… I promise to keep you updated with my findings.
Here it goes:

• Anna Nicole Smith’s “Death Photo” (did you see it?)
  
• LG Verizon Voyager (a.k.a. the iPhone killer)
  
• Sputnik Anniversary (50th anniversary!)
• Cabbit (WTF is Cabbit?)
• Borscht Belt (Ha?)
  

Good Luck!

“The size of the Web is 800 million pages, and the biggest search engine only covers about 16% of it.”
(Lawrence and Giles, 8 July 1999)

For various reasons (e.g. script/dynamic/unlinked/limited-access/non-html content) the indexed web is only a portion of the world wide web and later studies want further claiming that the deep (un-indexed/unknown) web is ~500 times larger than the indexed web!

So… What is the size of the internet?

Well, how many pages are there?

According to boutell.com guesstimate we have ~ 29.7 billion indexed pages on the World Wide Web (updated to Feb. 2007)
http://worldwidewebsize.com suggest a ~22.34 billion indexed pages (Sep. 2007)
and I used a simple Google search for “or | -or +*” and got about 17,340,000,000 documents estimation from Google…

=> We are left out with nice round guesstimate average of 20 billion indexed pages.

Now, multiplying it with an average page size of 70K (based on my experience, utexas.edu and optimizationweek.com)

= ~1300* Tera = ~1.3 Peta of known/indexed web which might hide a ~600 Peta of deeper web…

The Ostrich - IP Discovery Tool @ http://eview.co.il

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Anonymous surfing service @ http://anonymouse.org

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The Blind Ostrich @ http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://eview.co.il

1+1=3 (!!!)