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The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is a great resource for looking at the history of a website. The Wayback Machine crawls the web and keeps a snapshot of a domain or website and it allows you to easily compare different snapshots. Using the Wayback Machine is like looking at the different digital archeological layers of a website’s design.

Using the Wayback Machine, I was able to dig up the original webpage hosted on google.com, yahoo.com, and facebook.com.

First Google Webpage
The first record webpage hosted at google.com is simple page with two links. The first link, Google Search Engine Prototype points to google.stanford.edu. The second link points to another version of the search engine at alpha.google.com.

Google’s Website Nov 11, 1998

The first archive webpage at google.com that resembles a search engine was recorded on December 2, 1998.

Google’s Website Dec 11, 1998

First Yahoo Webpage
The earliest archived webpage from yahoo.com was saved on October 17, 1996.

Yahoo’s Website Oct 20, 1996

First Facebook Webpage
Facebook uses a robots.txt that doesn’t allow the Wayback Machine to crawl the site and as such there are no achieved versions of the site.

Facebook Hates Robots

A lot has changed since I last listed my top WordPress plugins. Over the years I’ve been blogging and helping others set up their blogs, I’ve settled on the few must have WordPress plugins that are essential for any new blog.

Jetpack by WordPress
The company behind WordPress, Automattic, have compiled a collection of useful tools that is realized as the Jatpack by WordPress plugin. It’s really a plugin suite. Jetpack includes WordPress statistics right in your dashboard, social sharing widgets, WP.me short/tiny links, and other useful tools. In addition to all these features, Automattic is constantly added more add-ons and tools for this plugin.

Google Analytics
Even though it’s not been updated in a while, I still use Google Analytics so that I can track my sites’ visitors on Google Analytics. Even though the Jetpack by WordPress offers analytics, I’ve find Google Analytics to be more detailed in how it tracks visitors.

Google Sitemap Generator
Any plugin that helps search engines crawl your blog belongs in your toolbox. The Google Sitemap Generator does just that. This plugin creates a search engine friendly site map pointing out the most recent content on your site.

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
I’ve been using Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for years. I can’t even begin to describe how this plugin works, simple put it magically detects similar blog posts on your site and creates additional links to them in the footer section of your post. This is a great plugin that helps your readers discover other similar posts on your site.

WPtouch
Now that more and more of your visitors are coming to your site using their mobile devices, such as the iPhone or Android phones, you may want to use a plugin like WPtouch. WPtouch creates a mobile device friendly version of your site.

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe.

Software Development

• Software will rule the world.
• Software will inherit the earth.
• In the interwebs, beta is forever.
• The future is written in code.
• When you have no QA, everyone does QA.
• I breakpoint for bugs.
• Can’t say enough good things about jqPlot. It’s a great JavaScript charting library.
• Search term that popped up on my blog’s analytics dashboard: programming languages are like girlfriends: the new one is better because *you* are better
• I prefer “show me the source code” over “show me the money”
• No simple change ever ends up being so simple.
• Optimize for simplicity.
• I remember when developing in JavaScript was cool, then when it wasn’t, then it was cool again, back to not, … fast forward to now.
• How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? And … how many leaks does it take to crash your app?

Thought Leadership

• Seek out silver bullets instead of reaching out to golden hammers.
• The future is not in plastics, it’s in multicores.
• Delegate and defer.
• I have 99 problems and deferring and delegating them ain’t one.
• Brainstorming the perfect storm.
• “If you build it they will come” has been replaced with “test it, see if they will come, outsource it, and charge for it.”
• No one starts out as an expert.
• As a consumer, this is one concern I have with cloud/apps, that when they get updated you are forced into the upgrade no matter what.
• If every piece of software is in the cloud, there will not be any legacy apps, everything will be in ‘beta’ or dead.
• If you have writer’s block, put a stick of creative dynamite in it and light the fuse.
• Disrupt all the things.
• It is unfortunate that instead of finding the silver bullets people settle for a golden hammer.

Product Placement

• Google started out as a search engine but when they searched for revenue the top result was advertising.
• It has been reported that Google has applied for the TLD .lol in addition to .google and .youtube.
• Is Google a gTLD squatter? They have applied for 98 domains including .app, .lol, .dad, .foo, …
• The MLB and NFL should apply for .mlb and .nfl TLDs.
• I’ll be happy when Siri can monitor my heart rate, cholesterol, weight, and automatically schedules exercise as needed.
• Apple is not good at backward compatibility. I have a perfectly working second generation iPod Touch but a ton of the apps have stopped working.

Silicon Startup

• At some point in a company’s history it will be either be in one of the following stages: resurrected (IBM), zombie (Yahoo), dead (Kodak).
• In Silicon Valley, apps that attempt to make Silicon Valley nerds cool or popular get immediate funding.
• Fund raising is easier the pimping!
• If the bubbly flows day and night then we must be in a bubble.
• Pivots are to be the new sport at this Sumner Olympics.

Google IO

• Facebook has nearly double the amount of users than there are Android devices.
• Google is demoing Jelly Bean (Android OS 4.1) but still the most common Android version in new phones is around 2.3.
• The one feature I really want on Android OS is the ability to easily take a screenshot or screencast from my device.
• Android is still playing catchup to iOS. The audience doesn’t even know when to applaud. #awkward
• Wow… Jelly Bean has a built it Siri clone. #tailgating
• “Smarts phones are only as smart as its users.”
• Android is the perfect stalking device. I knows your appointments, your routes, your schedule, you contacts, your preferences
• What the towel covered stool in the middle of the stage at? Seems cheap way to reveal the new Nexus 7 tablet.
• “I read this so many times I don’t know what will be exiting to you”
• Asus is making the Nexus 7 tablet.
• The crowd don’t seem as excited as you would think for the big reveal on the Nexus 7 tablet.
• Still waiting for the killer, must have, innovative features available in Nexus 7 tablet.
• “Video is stunning in Nexus 7, you can see the individual hair in Ron Swanson’s mustache.” – #awkward
• Nexus Que?
• Sergey looks like Larry, Larry Ellison.
• yeah, woo who – Sergey Brin.
• The police and military industrial complex are going to love Google’s Project Glass.
• Google Project Glass available to US-based IO attendees for $1500. Not intended for consumers. Shipping early next year.
• Android Developer Pack: Galaxy Nexus phone, Nexus 7 tablet, Nexus Q. #oprahmoment

ICANN, the organization that regulates domain names, has allowed organizations and individuals to apply for new generic Top Level Domains (gTLD). A Top Level Domain (TLD) is the a domain extension such as .com or .org used by millions of websites. In addition to .com and .org there are country specific TLDs such as .co.uk, .fr, and .mx. ICANN has nearly 2,000 applications for new gTLDs. ICANN has released to the public gTLD application information such as the newly proposed domain extension and the applying company. For example, Google has applied for nearly 100 domain extensions including for .app, .youtube, .goog, .plus, and many more. Google clearly can afford the $185,000/application fee.

I downloaded the data, played around with it and generated some graphs to help me visualize the new land rush for domains. Please note that I discounted and removed a few gTLD applications for non-latin domains.

The first chart shows that nearly 50% of the new domain extension originated from North America. North American and Europe combine make up over 80% while African organization only applied for roughly 1% of proposed new domain extensions.

The following chart shows that a large number of the new proposed generic domain extension are under five characters long but there are a few that are up to eighteen characters in length.

The following graph shows the most popular proposed domain extensions. For example, thirteen different individuals or organizations applied for the .app TLD, eleven for .inc and .home, ten for .art, etc. This chart shows only domains with five or more applications.

As previously noted, Google applied for nearly 100 domain extensions… 98 to be exact under Charleston Road Registry Inc. Top Level Domain Holding Limited registered 68 gTLDs followed by Amazon with 65. Apple doesn’t appear in this chart because this graph shows application organizations with more than ten domain extension applications.

I also wanted to graph the number of applications per primary contact and found out that a single individual, Daniel Schindler, has filed for three hundred domain extensions. Looking at the data, each of the applications submitted by Mr. Schindler are for distinct legal entities.

So who is the real domain squatter? ICANN will be squatting on nearly $400 million because of the $185k/application fee. Another question is, how will a flood of new gTLDs affect the value of current domains? And perhaps most importantly, how will the private organizations use and restrict access to these domain extensions?

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe.

Software Development

• The future is written in code, probably in JavaScript.
• Remember when the best way to debug JavaScript was to use alerts and document.write?
• Software is the new alchemy.
• When fixing a bug, the coding of the solution is the easiest part, but not necessarily the most import.
• TLDs I would like to see: .app, .js, .rb, .py, .twt, .lol, .anon, .beer, .bit, .woot
• If you would see this code I’ve working with you would think it had dyslexia.
• Just Do It: Refactor it. Abstract it. Centralize it. Generalize it.
• Software development is a team sport for people that were most likely not good at sports.
• Working Code > Perfect Code
• Never assume, always test.
• Trust no cloud.
• Don’t be eval().

Thought Leadership

• Seek out silver bullets instead of reaching out to golden hammers.
• Quality is something you engineer for.
• The first thing you create should be quality itself.
• When you have no QA, everyone does QA.
• When you feel like there are no options, there are still options.
• Inspiration comes in all shapes and sizes.
• Simple ideas can go a long way.
• There is often no quick solutions to deep problems.
• If you are going to dream, might as well dream big.
• I eat top priorities for breakfast.
• When you get new top priorities that displace the top priorities you received hours prior and didn’t get to because of previous priorities.
• Sometimes you have to up your game, other times you have to up your competition. If you don’t lose much you might be in the minor leagues.

Product Placement

• I remember that about two years ago I tweeted that RIM should have been renamed RIP. I got a lot of flack then, I don’t thin I will now.
• What does it mean when 7 out or the top 10 free apps from the Play marketplace are from Google?
• Posted in my iPhone: iPhone is a blood gadget. #rareearth #minerals
• I would like Apple to make a dual touch screen phone… Where on screen slides out to give you double the screen real estate.
• The way I described the recent partial eclipse.. Like the world had a giant Instagram filter on.
• Transformers, GI Joe, Snurfs, and now Battleship… What other 80′s toy/cartoon will be renamed as a movie? Hungry Hungry Hippos?
• VMware is hilarious, they sent me email for a Mother’s Day sale on VMware Fusion. Yes, that’s exactly what my mom wants for Mother’s Day!
• The Angry Birds franchise has been so successful that I’ve thought about creating a mobile game, how about Mildly Irritated Donkeys?
• Everyone should be Photoshop literate.
• I can’t wait until American Idol relaunches with a more appropriate name, Auto-tune Idol.
• I don’t do anything against the ToS but I’m so paranoid about Google disabling my account, I have a separate accounts for each service I use

Randumb

• NASA has found a space lake that has “140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans.” Imagine, deep space/ocean fishing.
• Water is a key ingredient of life, imagine the space tuna that can be found in this space lake, trillions of times larger than our oceans.
• You are not a battery of negative energy, don’t store, hold, or consume bad energy.
• If I am going to have an imaginary friend I am going to sleep with it.. Imaginary friend with benefits.
• Truth is simple, peoples reasoning for the truth is what is complicated.
• When I’m constipated, instead of taking a laxative I eat McDonald’s food.
• We have the technology to make everything dead simple.
• Warning in allergy medication: Do not use if you have an allergic reaction to this product or any of its ingredients.
• As a futurist I am disappointed with what the future has become.
• You got to find yourself by doing something rather waiting for something.
• By definition, anything that is viral is a fad.
• Too much of nothing is never enough.

FB IPO

• Zuckerborg may go down in history as having scammed everyone he met… She scammed his classmates, co-founder, users, and now investors…
• In Zuck we don’t trust.
• Zuck really fooled everyone, the Winklevii, Saverin, users, competitors, wall street bankers, institutional investors, …
• Classic FB/Zuck… Days after the IPO there are already lawsuits regarding impropriety, irregular, and illegal activities.
• Facebook wants to make organ donation social. I Like your new liver.
• When Zuckerborg dies, he wants to be buried with a hoodie.
• Will Zuck have a second act? Facebook wont last 5 years on likes alone.
• I’ve never paid for sex or likes. #facebook #IPO
• I’m unfriending Facebook.

From time to time I just blast tweets about software development, project planning, team dynamics, or whatever else comes to mind. Here is a synopsis of recent tweets and rants. If you want to follow the conversation follow me at techknow and/or juixe.

Software Development

• Too often I’ve seen code that made me lose my lunch.
• Sometimes source code is like the sausage factory where you don’t want to look what goes into an application.
• One developer’s corner case is another user’s daily workflow.
• Application logs are like money, you can always use more… Unfortunately they are like pennies, the more you have the more difficult it is.
• Fix the problem, not the symptom. Some developers prefer to fix the symptom because they don’t know how to find the root cause itself.

Team Leadership

• It is important to lead the way and then immediately get out of the way.
• If it doesn’t make sense to me it is because you are not explaining it correctly.
• Everyone has a right to their opinions but not everyone’s opinion is right.
• Great ideas don’t belong to any one person. Great ideas are not unique to anyone. Great ideas stand on their own.
• If you are safe in your comfort zone you’ll never be in the zone.
• Even when I think outside the box, I am still in the zone.
• There are no easy answers without hard choices.
• It’s one thing to make sense and a completely different thing to be clear.
• There are some things in life that are not meant for you to understand but to accept.

Product Placement

• Things Apple should buy: Evernote, app TLD, Square, and my blog.
• The Notes app on the iPhone badly needs an to support the undo and redo feature.
• The new Google+ is the new New Coke.
• If Google would have invented Polaroid, the film would be free but full of ads and a copy would be uploaded to the cloud.
• Some of Google’s UI often looks and feels like the uncanny valley of design, it has a plastic aspect to it.
• My other Tumblr is a Moleskine.
• So much of the content I see in Pinterest seems to come from Tumblr…
• Instagram has no ads, only available on mobile, Android support just added, not profitable, no web presence… Obviously worth $1 billion.
• Instead of paying a billion in cash and stock why didn’t Facebook just pay a billion in Facebook Credits and likes.
• Silicon Valley back of the envelop valuation math: Tumblr + Camera+ > Instagram therefore Tumblr + Camera+ = $10,000,000,000++.
• I don’t understand @McDonalds economics… A whole McChicken sandwich costs $1 but ask for an extra BBQ sauce and you get charged $0.50.

Silicon Angels

• Is it possible for the whole of Silicon Valley to jump the shark? If and when it does there will be a large splash.
• Silicon Valley valuations are relative to previous largest valuation.
• The Internet is paved with high valuations.
• Frothyness is the new truthyness.
• Frothy does a body good.

Randumb

• I want to see the world in HD.
• What do we want? Our way. When do we want it. All the time.
• If someone says something that is factually untrue, it doesn’t mean they lied… It means you lied to yourself by believing it. #truth
• One persons guest house is a other persons mansion.
• Some people build walls, others bridges, I build BS radar detection systems.
• Retweet, reblog, repin, remix, rinse, and repeat!
• I think in numbers.
• All language is a metaphor.
• Trolls shall inherit the earth.