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		<title>Bing as a Search Engine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the minor annoyances with the introduction with Bing is that all the tools currently used has to be updated (assuming of course you care about MSN/Live/Bing for your work). The sad reality of all this is that Google Analytics has yet to update its system to include Bing as a standard search engine&#8211;even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/06/06/bing-search-engine/</link>
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		<title>Bada-Bing Bombs ☠</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to see effectiveness of &#8220;Google Bombs&#8221; still on-going on other engines? Take a look at Microsoft&#8217;s new Bing and type in some of the usual (now hidden Googlebombs) ones like &#8220;French Military Victories&#8221; or &#8220;Miserable Failure&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/06/05/bada-bing-bombs/</link>
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		<title>Google Officially Launches Free Music Site in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google officially launched its free music site in China where any Chinese user can download free Chinese music from Chinese artists signed by Sony Music, Warner Music, EMI and Universal Music. This noted as an actual effort considering that Baidu offered free music that for awhile has hurt Google&#8217;s search market share:
Lee Kai-Fu, president of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/03/30/google-officially-launches-free-music-site-in-china/</link>
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		<title>Google Analytics Quirks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With any program there will be quirks that one has to learn either through trial and error or just common usage and Google Analytics has some of these aspect as well.

Visits / Entrances: Visits are mostly used within the Traffic Sources section whereas Entrances are used within the Content section. The quirk about these two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/03/12/google-analytics-quirks/</link>
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		<title>Unique TV Ad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TV advertisements may be in a state of flux nowadays, but that does not mean TV ads are getting less interesting:

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		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/03/04/unique-tv-ad/</link>
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		<title>Brands are not the Solution to the Internet Cesspool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet has been envisioned as many different aspects since the beginning; starting as an information educational network to an almost anything goes libertarian world. As it has become adopted across the world, various governmental organizations have tried, some with success and some without, to dictate domestic rules across the Internet.
Governmental organizations are not alone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/02/15/google-brands-internet-cesspool/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Star Trek&#8221; Enterprise Producer&#8217;s Apologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have noted my dissatisfaction before with the awfulness of Enterprise; enough so that I always called it &#8220;quasi-Star Trek&#8221; due to the many violations of Star Trek canon. Producer Brannon Braga apologized for the horrible ending of Enterprise noting that it did not even live up to his own expectations for what he wanted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/02/11/enterprise-producer-apology/</link>
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		<title>Amazing Technology With Prosthetic Arm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The technology today continue to advance towards some really amazing abilities with robotics and bio-mechanical (mind-controlling) abilities such as this video with people being able to mentally control a prosthetic arm. Unfortunately am unable to embed it, so you will have to click on the link above to actually watch the video which I found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/02/11/amazing-technology-with-prosthetic-arm/</link>
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		<title>Geek Social Aptitude Test 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I am not a geek (I am certainly a nerd), but I thought I would take this test, Geek Social Aptitude Test 2.0, anyway with the score below:

You Scored a 16 Out Of 50
You wear a &#8220;Can&#8217;t sleep, clowns will eat me&#8221; shirt you bought at Hot Topic, but you rarely have trouble [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/02/05/geek-social-aptitude-test-20/</link>
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		<title>Another Google Suggest / Trends Prank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google got tricked again today first with Google Suggest, then with Google Trends (more or less inter-related) with the phrase, &#8220;I am extremely terrified of Chinese people,&#8221; first broken here:

At one point the phrase got up to position 24 with 10% of the searches coming from Providence, Rhode Island (#1 by cities).
These phrases show up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/02/05/google-suggest-trends-prank/</link>
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		<title>Ecommerce and Google Analytics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick note that if you want to learn a quick way to use advanced segments within Google Analytics for eCommerce, I strongly suggest heading over to the Google Analytics Blog.
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		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/02/05/ecommerce-google-analytics/</link>
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		<title>Google, Digital TV, and Television&#8217;s Advertising Savior?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google, knowing that digital TV will become mandatory within the US removing the ability to use all analog TVs without converters, has introduced a digital video recorder that can report for Google TV ads into Google AdWords.
Through a partnership with Dish Networks, the tool monitors time-shifted data from DVRs to give advertisers insight into how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/02/03/google-digital-tv/</link>
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		<title>Ads That Watch You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Get ready for a more &#8220;Minority Report&#8221; world as new public ads could actually be watching you and changing the ad based on who is looking at the ad:
&#8220;Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long. The makers of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/02/03/ads-that-watch-you/</link>
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		<title>Did the Zipingpu Dam Trigger the Sichuan Quake?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating article by The Telegraph about the possibility that the new Zipingpu Dam actually helped to trigger the horrendous Sichuan quake.
The 511ft-high Zipingpu dam holds 315 million tonnes of water and lies just    550 yards from the fault line, and three miles from the epicentre, of the    Sichuan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/02/03/zipingpu-dam-sichuan-quake/</link>
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		<title>Doing A Googlebomb? Keep it Quiet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As evident by the latest Googlebomb, &#8220;cheerful achievement&#8221; that went to the White House website, Googlebombs still work. Previously, as Danny Sullivan somewhat inaccurately noted, Google tried to &#8220;defuse&#8221; Googlebombing through an algorithm. Google did not kill or defuse Googlebombing, but instead minimized the impact over the long-run (one has to really fine-tune what Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/01/26/googlebomb-keep-it-quiet/</link>
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		<title>China Game Licensing and Investment Forum, Shanghai, April 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are in or around Shanghai and work in the gaming industry, take consideration into the upcoming event:
“China Game Licensing and Investment Forum 2009”, a B2B event, will be held in Shanghai, China in April 2009. The B2B event is a platform for Chinese online and casual game developers to present their products in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/01/21/china-game-licensing-investment-forum-shanghai/</link>
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		<title>Avinash&#8217;s Web Analytics Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I forgot to mention this previously, but wanted to point out that even for someone like myself who is very into web analytics and is always thinking about how to use analytics for my clients, that even I learned a few tips (or inspired some as well) from the videos on Avinash&#8217;s post about some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/01/21/avinash-web-analytics-tips/</link>
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		<title>The White House Government Website Design is Better Than Yours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your first thought of President Barack Obama&#8217;s new White House website change is the above title of this post or even a &#8220;Wow! That looks nice,&#8221; it is time to update the look of your company&#8217;s website. Within an hour of Obama&#8217;s inauguration, the White House website underwent a whole site redesign to look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/01/20/white-house-government-website-design/</link>
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		<title>Building Shanghai Out of Poker Chips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beautifully made image of Shanghai (and Chongming island) out of poker chips:

The author is Liu Jianhua and more can be found over on artnet.
My personal favorite is the &#8220;Reflection in Water&#8221; of Shanghai as well:

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		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/01/20/poker-chip-shanghai/</link>
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		<title>Mapping International Power Usage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Worldmapper has some unique views of mapping data and probably the most interesting one to me was through international power usage by type. The data is based back in 2002 or 2001, but still interesting to note the differences between hydroelectic power, oil power, gas power, coal power, and nuclear power:
Hydroelectric

Oil

Gas

Coal

Nuclear

Fascinating to see which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.micahfk.com/blog/2009/01/19/mapping-international-power-usage/</link>
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