Amy Rhoads Blog

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Retro Keyboard March 6, 2007

Filed under: sites to check out — amyrhoads @ 7:43 am

This keyboard is tight. I love the retro style. This would be a neat concept to decorate an office space. I give this guy two thumbs up for his creativity.

For the impatient, scroll down to the bottom and see the finished product.

http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml

 

cRANKy.com January 16, 2007

Filed under: sites to check out — amyrhoads @ 7:12 pm

cRANKy.com is billed as the first age-relevant search engine that targets people in the 50+ demographic to help deliver the most relevant results for people in this category. Cranky.com applied a “50-plus lens to every query” therefore allowing results based on search technology as well as reviews and ratings.

After visitng a site, you are asked to rate it. The combonation of these ratings, your opinions and suggestions determine how the search enging ranks. They have more features like free blogs, only 4 relevant results per page to help with simplicity and navigation, expert reviews of pages to help relevancy etc…. This will be a neat concept to see evolve.

According to cRANKy.com, here are the top 10 most searched terms for the day so far IN order ;)

  1. sex
  2. work from home
  3. jobs after retirement
  4. brain builders
  5. make new friends
  6. reiki
  7. body mass index
  8. arthritis
  9. elderhostel
  10. blogs