Twitter’s new lists may be just as important to Twitter (and Google) to help give an idea of who people are, essentially asking people to “tag” their followers. The two main things that could help add relevance to Google’s search in the near future are: Number listed: If someone’s on a lot of lists, then others must think they’re...
Read more →Google’s uses a bunch of things to decide what pages are most relevant whenever you search, one of the most important being links. It relies heavily on things like number of links pointing to you, age of links, the anchor text of links, and a bunch of details in between. On Twitter the rules are different. It’s all moving...
Read more →When Google launched social search not too long ago, something must have been brewing at the Googleplex. A good step, but it really didn’t seem that useful. But now Google’s into realtime search. In the past Google sometimes had a tough time with time-sensitive information due to the way it ranked pages based so heavily on links and age....
Read more →In July our friend Dale Zak organized the iPhone Hackathon for Chairty at the Hub, an event to bring together a team to ponder some iPhone app ideas, pick some to build and sell with profits going to charities. Well, we’re proud to announce that we’ve all been working away to start up Apps 4 Good Inc., an organization...
Read more →Movember has come to an end. Overall Team Hub Halifax raised over $1,000 and surely created a lot of awareness. All-in-all we had fun doing it, too. Thanks to everyone who donated, helped out, and supported us and the team! But remember, gents (and ladies with gents), we didn’t just do this for the looks: 1 in 6 men...
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