Category: The World According to Xavier™

Cuil.com – How to not launch a search engine

This Monday a new search engine had premier. It’s called Cuil (pronounced “cool”) and is created by two former Google employees Amanda Patterson and Tom Costello. From the start they claim they have over 120 billion pages indexed: We’ve created the world’s biggest index, and we’ve also developed useful features …

No deal between Digg and Google

Looks like it’s not going to be any merger between Digg and Google because according to rumors Digg was notified on Tuesday or Friday that Google was not longer interested. According to TechCrunch Google was in the due diligence stage of the deal, where they “digg” 🙂 deep into Digg’s …

Twitter problems

Two days ago Twitter encountered some technical problems which caused people to lose followers. In some cases the number of followers where cut in half, in other cases almost all followers where lost. The problem is solved now and all followers are restored. As you can see on the graph …

Win another 700 EC

Now it’s time for another 700 EC contest here at XavierMedia.com. All you have to do is post a comment here in this post saying something more then just “Cool” or “Nice!”. On the 22nd of August the winner will be selected with a little help by random.org. Winner in …

Small Business Loans

Most of us trow in all the cash needed in our businesses, but sometimes that’s not enough and you need some extra working capital to complete your corporate expansion. It could be for example new computers for your high tech website or a much needed piece of equipment for your …

The rise of Problogger.net

I did a small comparisation of three of the best professional bloggers I know about: ShoeMoney.com, Problogger.net and JohnCow.com. The funny thing is that all three of them had less then 50 000 visitors a year ago and now, at least two of them 🙂 , got more then 200K …