آسمان: November 2005

Google Vs. Yahoo

Re: Amir's Post on Google.

Blogger: Yahoo My Web 2.0
Froogle: Yahoo Shopping
Gmail: Yahoo Mail
Adsense, AdWords: dude, do you really think yahoo can't do that?
Alerts: Yahoo Alerts
Analytics: not a problem.
Answers: Ask Yahoo does it free.
Base: has already become a porn portal!
Google Book Search: has copyright issues.
Google Compute: comon!
Google Desktop: Yahoo Desktop.
Google Directory which is similiar to Yahoo’s and dmoz’s services, letting you search by category.
Google Groups: Yahoo Groups.
Google Homepage: My Yahoo! and it's so much better.
Google Image Search: Yahoo Image Search.
Google Labs: Yahoo Next.
Google Local: Yahoo Local.
Google Maps: Yahoo Map. more powerful.
Google Mobile: Yahoo was supporint WAP years ago when google was not even born!
Google Movie: you should be ashamed to compare this lame service to Yahoo Movies.
Google News: Yahoo News
Google Reader: My Yahoo!
Google Suggest: Yahoo Instant Search.
Google Talk: Yahoo Messenger.
Google Toolbar: Yahoo Toolbar
Google Code: Yahoo Developer Network.
Google Web Accelerator supposedly helps load web pages faster, but there have been security and privacy issues raised about this application.: ok i wont say anything else.
Google Web Search: Yahoo My Web 2.0 Search. try "time in toronto", or "weather" or anything that makes sense.
Orkut: is this something to be proud of? ok, Yahoo Personals or Yahoo 360.
Google Sitemap: Yahoo Site Explorer
Google Send to Phone, Google SMS: Yahoo Mobile

the services that Yahoo does not have (or i couldnt find):
Hello,Picasa,Google Catalogs,Google Deskbar,Google Earth,Google Ridefinder,Google Scholar,Google Store,Google Video

honestly only picasa, Earth and Video are important. i have never used the others in my life. but Yahoo has some really great stuff that Google does not have:

Ones that i frequently use (and you should too):
Flickr
Yahoo Bookmarks
Yahoo Calendar
Yahoo Notepad
Yahoo Briefcase
Yahoo Photoes
Yahoo Sports
Yahoo Address Book

Some New stuff:
Upcoming.org
My Yahoo! Ticker
Yahoo Research
Yahoo Mindset
Yahoo Music Engine an alternative to iTunes and other players.
Yahoo Podcasts the best Podcast Directory.

and a lot more in here.

i'm neither a yahoo fan nor google enemy. i think their competition works for us. but let's not forget yahoo has been in this business for a long time and is not going to lose this easily. in fact i think it's not going to lose anytime. they are doing some great job buying new companies, doing partnership with others and so on. (hiring Kevin Sites, new deal with Tivo...) also there are still so many great Yahoo services that Google does not have. so let's not get carried away.

Et tu, Canada?

Canadian ISP blocking iTunes store/podcasts?
A reader writes, "A very short thread on Apple's website notes that Rogers/Shaw ISPs in Canada are blocking podcast downloads because of a policy against multiple downloads."

Over the past month Rogers (ISP) in Canada has put some software on their networks that prevents activity for BitTorrents, P2P, IRC, and also along with that is a rule that if you are trying to download a large media file from more then 1 server it will be dropped. When you download a Podcast from iTunes it downloads that file from multiple servers in the background (I confirmed this by watching my cable modem logs). As soon as it tries to use more than 2 different servers for the download, it just stops. That's the reason why Podcast downloads stop at random places - it's the point where a 2nd server is involved in the download. The same issue causes timeouts and cut-offs in the iTunes music store.

Here is the problem - when anyone calls Rogers about the problem they say it is either a router, firewall or Apple problem and they shrug you off.

Hundreds or thousands of people in Canada can no longer get Podcasts or purchase music from the iTunes Music store. This is BAD. Please, Apple, contact Rogers and sort it out. So many people have called Rogers with no luck.

via Boing Boing

fuck probability.
fuck every instructor that tries to look nice and then screws the students on the exam.
fuck any university that forces its students to take courses other than their program of study.

yeah yeah i'm angry. i havent slept in 3 days and now this fucking probability course is going to waste it all.

Pillow-fight mob in Toronto's Dundas Square this Sunday, 2PM

via Boing Boing
Update: it was fun! there are some photoes here and here.