Today on the "Jason Nation"…

Jason asked his followers to compare Powerset v. Google v. Google with a Wikipedia search set (i.e. Rubik’s Cube)

I choose "How to solve the rubik’s cube"

Powerset gave me some really good results; however, the screen was full of text and it was hard to figure out what the result was really giving me
Once you clicked on the result you got a pretty good article

Next, I went on to Google… the results were good, plus you got a screen shot of the video you would likely see if you clicked on the link

The last place I went was Google.com with a "site:wikipedia.com"
As you can see, the result was nothing at all

In my opinion, Powerset has a long way to go and since there are so many search engines out there, it needs to ramp up it’s results!

UPDATE:

I made a mistake in my search query with wikipedia.  I put in wikipedia.com instead of wikipedia.org.  Here are the results.  Sorry.

As you may have read in my Google App’d it’s engine, Microsoft XP lost it’s connection and Jason was Sick (of it) - Part 2, my workstation took a major dump earlier this week.

Well, that was the second part of my week starting off with a bang!

On Sunday, when I was going to do my weekly webcast (as seen on YouTube).  I decided to do something different… UStream it and record at the same time via my channel; however, the recording failed and I basically spent 20 minutes talking to myself :(      So, now I have to wait to get my workstation back in business before I can start up again.

In the mean time, I am writing these 3 blog posts to make up for my missing webcast… that will resume next week.

Here is what I was going to talk about:

1. The Jason Nation takes off
   1. Jason Calacanis was sick this weekend and didn’t show up to speak to his fans over the weekend (via UStream)… many many folks were very sad :(    Luckily, he has a good number of followers to him to watch over him they IRC chat room to tell the fans his was not available
2. I created a new area called: http://mahalo.connectedgeek.net/ it is a Mashup of information I have collected about Mahalo and now it has a BLOG associated with it
3. In conjunction with the BLOG (#2), I created a Google Sites, it has a wiki-type of make up: http://sites.google.com/a/connectedgeek.net/my-mahalo-mashup/Home
4. A fellow IRC chatter ‘pcnerd37′, created this Unofficial Mahalo Podcast… it sounds like it going to take off: http://unofficialmahalopodcast.com/
5. As you may or may not know Veronica Belmont of Mahalo Daily is moving on bigger and better pastures… we wish her well
6. One of the Jason Nation IRC chatters got this great idea for a Jason Nation logo… here is example of one: http://www.jroller.com/shareme/entry/just_for_fun_jasonnation_logo
7. I have noticed that Mahalo is making a lot of changes (i.e. Mahalo Follow Toolbar version 3.5.10, they added a Delete Link underneath your Tags on your recommended links page, and the "Add Favorite Things" (which does not work right now.

Well, that is all I have for now… more to follow

Until then!

Mahalo

On Monday, I had an issue with Microsoft XP SP3.  I installed it on my workstation about a month ago.  It seemed to be a nice addition, since it seemed to speed things up a bit.  Now anyone knows that XP can be dog slow, especially if you have a ton a of stuff on your workstation.  Anyway, on Monday, I tried to open my Remote Desktop Connection to access one of my servers and this is the error I received! 

OMG!!  WTF!!!  RDP/MSTSC is 75% of my life… I was like, what do I do now???  Well, I did what any good IS person would do is…
1) reboot = failed
2) try and find the uninstall for RDP client = failed
3) uninstall SP3 = failed (at least for my workstation)

I did the next best thing… repair XP… well that made it worse! My network adapter got completely hosed…………GRRRRRRR

So, reluctantly, I backed up my workstation and RELOADED it

Here I am typing away on my newly reloaded workstation…

THANKS MICROSOFT!!!

Yes it happened, Google made it’s BIG Table official!

I was able to see them announce it live from qik.com, where Robert Scoble was streaming it live via his cell phone.  Check out his stream here: http://qik.com/scobleizer
Hanging out with geeks before Google’s announcement
Part I, Google introduces App Engine
Part II, Google introduces App Engine
Part III, Google introduces App Engine
Part IV, Google introduces App Engine

Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure.
Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.
Check out the video

Google Campfire One - Google App Engine

According to Google, only 10,000 beta users were able to get an invitation… I got one, check it out though: http://code.google.com/appengine/