For the last 72 hours, I have spent a good amount of time on discovering the inner workings of pay-to-bid auctions, and Swoopo in particular. I must be one of the early inquirers into the subject, as there is still no wikipedia article or reference to this novel auction method (or I am just inept [...]

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I wonder why there is no comScore-like coverage in blog world. While RSS is extremely suitable to run advanced analytics on it, there is little offered for publishers and consumers to understand the leaders and readership drivers in this space. One good, but not impressive, information source is Google Reader’s reading trends section. For the [...]

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This is a follow-up to Cem Sertoglu’s post on Turkish Online News, dated July 28th, 2009. Some resources say there are 26 million internet users in Turkey, making it 14th largest internet population in the world. Yet, that wouldn’t be enough to justify the following result from Google Insights. The table is a snapshot from [...]

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Nobody knows for sure how and why the first soccer league was founded. But one theory, further supported by Spaniards’ big success in the realm, suggests that a Spanish king liked the idea as he thought the league will attract the attention of citizens and leave the king the valuable space to manage the country [...]

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A few days ago, I switched to Sophos Antivirus, as Stanford is providing to its students for free, from BitDefender. Then, I found this YouTube clip from Sophos. When you type "remove" in Google.co.uk, the Suggest feature gives you the following suggestions: "Remove norton" – 6,850,000 results "Remove mcafee" – 380,000 results "Remove avg" – [...]

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