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Quora, Faithless and Stats Reports

May 19

Posted by Andrew Machado in Personal, Technology | 8,874 Comments

As I mentioned last week I’m going to try and do one of these posts every week.

1.  Quora

I’ve covered Quora before.  I think their search is fantastic.  This week I’ve found myself late at night asking questions and getting answers to things I’ve always wondered from Search Engine Optimization to debating Instrumental Groups.  Well this week I asked a question to the community if Firefox would have Double Digit Marketshare in 3 to 5 years.  Within a day I had received countless replies from the current CEO of Mozilla John Lilly to the Co-Founder Blake Ross.  It was a pretty “magical” experience to have people directly related to the product responding, but was even crazier was TechCrunch found the question and wrote a story about it…sadly not giving me credit :(

2.  Faithless

The new Faithless CD dropped yesterday titled “The Dance“.  It’s pretty terrible.  I’m really dissapointed how a group can make so many epic songs then release something as derivative as this.  Luckily the lead single is great.

3. We are finally mailing stats reports to user of the Apture Search Bar.
What is cool about this is delivered to our customers every week is a detailed report showing them pageviews, popular queries, share numbers and engagement provided from Apture.  We’ve gotten lots of praise and only one complaint…make it less wide :)
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If you haven’t signed up your site for the Apture Search Bar what are you waiting for?

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The Game, Keane and Apture Extends it’s reach

May 13

Posted by Andrew Machado in Personal | 10,597 Comments

I’m going to try and do one of these every week I’ll be covering everything from technology to music from around the internet.

1.  Dewey’s interviews with The Game

My buddy Dewey interviewed the rapper Game and its a fantastic piece covering everything from making music to beating Brandon Jennings at basketball.

2.  Got the new Keane album

Always been a big fan of Keane and their latest album Night Train is a bit of change for the band adding guest appearances and the sound shifting.  You can watch the latest video Stop for a Minute below.

3.  Apture going live on a wealth of new sites
We recently launched the Apture Search Bar on Macnn, iPodnn, Electronista and CyclingTips. I’ve pasted shots of their bars below and man are they pretty.
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I’m Excited in November #2 Colts vs. Patriots

Nov 17

Posted by Andrew Machado in Personal | 9,785 Comments

I’ve been documenting throughout the month ten things that I’m really excited about.

#2 New England Patriots vs. Indianapolis Colts

I was so pumped for this game. So many questions to answer. Can the Colts survive a banged up secondary and put up enough points to stop Tom Brady? Can Tom and his team of studs kick the habit of losing to the Colts.

Well after 60 minutes, 702 passing yards, 69 points and one of the most controversial plays in the last 5 years not many questions were answered.  It was 4th down and two yards to go.  You’d expect the Patriots to punt the ball knowing they are up 6 points and a little over two minutes to go in the game.  Let Peyton Manning beat you.  Nope not today The Patriots go for it on their own 29 yard line and don’t get the first down.  Peyton marches his team down and scores with 13 seconds left on the clock.  It reminded me of playing Madden Football online.  You always go for it, because who cares.  Apparently Bill Belichick has played one to many games himself.

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#3 I’m excited about in November “Reality Killed The Video Star”

Nov 10

Posted by Andrew Machado in Personal | 10,842 Comments

Over the last few days I’ve been writing about what I’m excited about in November.

#3 Robbie William’s new album “Reality Killed The Video Star”

If you haven’t heard of Robbie Williams I’m not surprised. He’s huge across the pond, but in the United States not many know who he is. He’s sold over 70 million albums and is returning after getting sober with his new CD.
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It will be interesting to see if he can return to form considering Eminem has been unable since getting Sober.  He’s enlisted super producer Trevor Horn who is famous for not only writing Video Killed the Radio Star, but also bringing Seal out of homeless ness and into Heidi Klum’s arms. Check out his latest single below and the album is available everywhere as of today.  He’s already moved 85,000 physical units in one day in the United Kingdom.


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