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Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes

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Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO. Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes. Posted November 11, 2010. I’m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect. See the details below. Before I joined Google, I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self-tracking, laser scanners–basically any neat or unusual sensing device. That’s why I was so excited to hear about the Kinect. Which is a low-cost ($150) peripheral for the Xbox. The output from a Kinect includes:.

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Carter Cole's Blog: March 2011

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011. Google's little 404 page helper and dangers of soft 404s. Making sure your pages are returning proper http codes is important to your SEO efforts. ( especially with redirects. But another problem that can use up your crawl quota with googlebot is an infinite space problem. these pages can be driven from a database but are often soft 404s or pages that dont exist but still return a 200 code. The LizaMoon SQL Injection Attack. Ok so i ran into this SQL injection attack today and I ...

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Alpha Carter: October 2012

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Never send a human to do a computers job. Thursday, October 11, 2012. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States. First President to violate the War Powers Act. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. First President to arbi...

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Alpha Carter: February 2010

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Never send a human to do a computers job. Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Pingdom.com Free Monitoring and Social Uptime Graph. A while ago i started using Pingdom. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Pingdom.com Free Monitoring and Social Uptime Grap.

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Alpha Carter: September 2010

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Never send a human to do a computers job. Thursday, September 9, 2010. This is a VERY simple way to understand the tax cuts for the "rich". This is way old but with liberals trying for some class warfare against the "rich" people I think its a good little story i can point to try and explain how tax cuts work. How Taxes Work . . . This is a VERY simple way to understand the tax laws. Read on — it does make you think! The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four...

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Alpha Carter: April 2010

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Never send a human to do a computers job. Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Eat Fresh. for breakfast? A review of Subways new morning menu. Sunday, April 4, 2010. HTML 4.0 Special Characters - My Symbol Cheat Sheet. I use these all the time and alyase end up looking them up. now we have a cheat sheet. Rendering in Your Browser. Latin small f with hook=function=florin. Greek capital letter alpha. Greek capital letter beta. Greek capital letter gamma. Greek capital letter delta. Greek capital letter epsilon. Greek s...

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Alpha Carter: March 2010

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Never send a human to do a computers job. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Wordle - way cool word clouds that look really pretty in posts. I really like this tool it creates cool word graphics from RSS feeds or a word list whatever and has a bunch of options and fonts. i created this one based off the text from all my blog posts in 2009 (it broke trying to pull all of them). You should go try it out and create your own. post links in comments i want to see them :). Thursday, March 4, 2010. Setting up Social Media.

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Alpha Carter: October 2010

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Never send a human to do a computers job. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. This website turned out awesome. I really love the way this site came out. It runs its gallery from Picasca and allows the customer to change the pictures on the site from an easy to use web form. This type of dynamic stuff makes it possiable for me to do more projects because clients are able to manage their own sites and only call me when new functionality is required. I also got a nice referral letter. I met with Carter Cole. So he...

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Alpha Carter: November 2010

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Never send a human to do a computers job. Tuesday, November 16, 2010. Mint seems to have some security issues with email (also how to delete your account). This whole thing started out with me getting a couple emails like the one above (and reproduced here. Well looking who the email was addresses to it all looks right and has my correct address so i just went ahead and went into the settings and confirmed the deletion of my account. What are your interactions with mint.com? Sunday, November 14, 2010.

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Alpha Carter: July 2010

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Never send a human to do a computers job. Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Artificial Political Opposition bought on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Say, "Hi, I am calling to oppose bill S6873. My New York zip code is 10003. Thank you". They are paying for political opposition to the bill S6873 in New York. Which has to do with sub-leasing apartments and affects hotel rentals. You can specify different qualifications (like location) and yet the creator choose not to care about who or where they were from.