Something that amazes me on Twitter, is that regular humans (non-
programmers) are fine with, even good at adding little markup tags in tweets. So now that we have seen that the masses are cool with adding little tags and markup to freeform content, we should embrace it!
Since Facebook is the leading social network, they should also support a markup syntax in comments & status updates because it is useful for humans and computer programs. Continue reading →
As of today, there is no way to explicitly have Google index only certain parts of a single Webpage. I am writing this post in order to show my need for partial page indexing support and to discuss a few possible solutions for this today. 
My need for this stems from the Personalization of WebPages, a feature that makes the web better for people. I hope that this post can create discussion between us and maybe someone from Google will be kind enough chime in and provide us with guidelines on how to design websites where we want Google to ignore parts of a WebPage in their index.
In my home office, I have a headless server running Windows
Server 2008 with iTunes 8 installed. This machine is where I store all of my music, photos, videos, and other entertainment related files. The interesting thing is that I also use this server to wirelessly broadcast my iTunes music digitally to my kick-ass home studio setup (a Benchmark DAC1, Coleman Audio M3, Quested Powered F11As, and a REL Subwoofer). The setup that I am about to describe should work equally as well for those of you who have any kind of audio playback equipment that has an optical audio input.
Recently, I had the great honor of being asked by Google to present at Google I/O 2009. Here is the story of my journey including: how to get noticed by Google, getting invited to present at Google I/O, practicing the presentation with my Google contact, the hours leading up to the presentation, the presentation itself, and the after party! I have included some behind the scenes photos and videos as well.
Hi, I'm Jon Kragh a Programmer & Entrepreneur.
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