Delicious 2.0 finally released after the looong wait!
Several BIG changes I noted:
Domain name changed to delicious.com - Personally, I like del.icio.us more, and I thought that was a smart idea.
It is Quicker - The single-page-loading-time has been reduced dramatically.
I haven’t found any news about their new infrastructure yet, but it is definitely better than before. 
It is sexier - The new design is clean and shiny. But, the font size is a bit small and may not be classified as easy-to-read.
It has a Search - Wow! I like the search facility, which is quick and accurate. I think they are using a caching system rather than real-time database queries, otherwise it can’t be that quick.
Not using Content Delivery Network (CDN) ? - On Yahoo’s Best Practices for Speeding Up your Web Site, they suggest to use CDN to reduce response times for across multiple, geographically dispersed servers. But, Delicious 2.0 is not using that technique.
Jason
Cuil is so brave that they labeled themselves as Google-killer.
I like it and I think their launch was very successful in terms of broadcasting their messages, which have been posting onto many media giants, including PC World, TechCrunch, Time, Yahoo!, CNET, Mashable etc.
Unfortunately, cuil went offline just few hours after the over-heated launch. But, that is always a good problem to have. (I hope we could have that problem when bizroof was launched. 
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I have to be honest that scalability and relevance are the 2 main problems for cuil at the moment. However, they have successfully created a BIG index, which I believe is the hardest part for searching engines.
Some suggestions
It is not an easy job at all to startup brand new search engines and compete with Google, Yahoo and MSN, even with $33M funding.
So…… maybe one of the followings could help……
- Open Source - Get some help from all the developers on the planet. (Firefox is a good example in the web browsers industry)
- Human Editing - Go a little bit further and keep in mind that you guys have got a fabulous indexing system. Wikipedia and DMOZ are successful, aren’t they?
Good luck, Cuil, and we will give you a hand if you need.
Have you noticed there were some changes in the Google PageRank toolbar during this weekend (July 25th and 26th 2008)? I have seen some changes of many sites PR, especially for new sites. It has been 150 days since the last Toolbar PR export (February 26th 2008), but I am not sure weather it is a major update or just a minor tweak this time.
Jason
Well, we launched Bizroof CRM 3 days ago, and here is all the stats so far! We don’t hide; we don’t lie; and we want to share.
Report One - Usage
- 754 registered users
- 43 pending invitations sent by all existed users
- 16,870 contacts (people + organizations)
- 7,506 events
- 1.87 GB files
- 108,212 notes
- 93,002 tags
Report Two - Hits & Page views
- 8.1 GB Bandwidth (Total Traffic)
- 232,849 Hits
- 13.89 Hits/Visit
Report Three - Web Server Requests
| 3261866 |
200 OK |
| 27 |
206 Partial content |
| 79 |
301 Document moved permanently |
| 135 |
302 Document found elsewhere |
| 1315310 |
304 Not modified since last retrieval |
| 16 |
400 Bad request |
| 11 |
404 Document not found |
| 5 |
408 Request timeout |
Report Four - Client Browsers
- FF3.0 - 4.4%
- FF2.0 - 31.3%
- FF1.5 - 0.2%
- IE8.0 - 0.01%
- IE7.0 - 27.2%
- IE6.0 - 26.1%
- Safari - 4%
