Yesterday, my Fitbit app finally turned into Google Health. Overnight, healthy routines I’d built up by logging my food and tracking my daily calorie burn over nearly a decade were upended. I hope the new Google Health app will quickly restore what was lost. In the meantime, I’ve been looking at alternatives that can work…
Thirty years ago, I published my first guide to search engines called The Webmaster’s Guide To Search Engines. For the anniversary, I dug up the old HTML files from my archives, dusted them off, and have made them available for anyone interested in what the search engine landscape was like back then. I’ve made some…
Ahead of next week’s FTC workshop on journalism and the internet, I gave an informal briefing to several people from the FTC about the differences between how search engines, aggregators and news blogs all gather content automatically and through human editing. They seemed to find it useful, so I thought I’d share it more widely…
The Access Provider Disk Report was a site run by Danny Sullivan from August 1995 through April 1996 that reported on the disks that online access providers sent to him. What? See, kids, back in the old web days, internet providers sent software disks to build their subscriber base. The disks let you access the “walled…