Monthly Archives: October 2008

Tiny URL and search engines?

How does using a TinyURL affect ranking of content on search engines, anybody know? What I mean -- if I link to a story on my blog via Twitter, Identi.ca, et al, how does that affect the rank of the content for Google and others? Since it's not the original URL, does a search engine "know" [...]
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Getting set for day two at GSoC Mentor's Summit

Pardon the stream of consciousness. I'm still on East Coast time -- not much use in getting readjusted for a three-day stint in California -- so I've been awake since about 4 a.m. local time. (Nearly typed "lolcat time," which would be an interesting concept.) Psyched for today's summit. Yesterday was amazingly useful, and has given [...]
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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-25

On flight to ATL. Was delayed, many cranky people onboard, including crew. Fun! # Finally @ SFO #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-24

Yes, vendors are vital to open source: http://tinyurl.com/69bkp6 # Sigh. For some reason. The Novell Web site seems to think I need pages in Japanese. Yak shaving time. # Heading to Google Mentor Summit today. Should be full of win. # What is an acceptable number of updates per hour, and per day? I try not to update [...]
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Off to Mountain View

Going to Google's Mentor Summit this weekend, a get-together of mentors from the Google Summer of Code program. I'm attending as the openSUSE program rep -- I didn't mentor any students, but I was an overall program mentor. Looking forward to listening a lot this weekend and finding out what we can do better next [...]
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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-23

#openSUSE 11.1 beta 3 now available: http://tinyurl.com/5etrjf # R.E.M.'s "Document," is an excellent productivity album. # Bummer on the Rays game, but they have 6 more games to make it right. #
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Twitter Updates for 2008-10-22

Working on a pitch for college publications. # Excellent post by Andreas Jaeger about why #openSUSE releases on Thursday, and why dates sometimes slip: http://tinyurl.com/6zhzku #
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