I was reading up on some new books over the weekend and came up googling some Google Pagerank Patent stuff.

There’s some interesting stuff including the Google Pagerank Algorithm on Wikipedia. Check out the Method for scoring documents in a linked database by Lawrence Page if you haven’t yet. I think this is the original document. This is got to be the sum of Computer Algorithm class at Stanford. It’s very interesting.

I remember reading somethin’ like this back in college while taking a Computer Algorithms course. Of course, that was one of my favorite computer textbooks called, “Computer Algorithms“. I highly recommended it. I bet this patent will be in future college textbooks soon…

If you check out the citations from the Method for scoring documents in a linked database patent, you will see a lot of citations to actual Computer Algorithms stuff such as Graphs employing clusters, Technique for drawing directed graphs, and Method and system of routing messages in a distributed search network to name a few. Well, I am sure this is way more complicated than just an algorithm, but then, it still breaks down to a simple algorithm in the end. (Did i say simple? Well, all algorithms should break down to 1s and 0s…)

Think about how many stuff are actually involved in making this PageRank, what a masterpiece…(wasn’t that a Master’s Project? Oh wait, it’s a Ph.D Project…too bad Tiger lost the Masters…)
Anyways, this is freakin’ great… the best part, check out this quote:

Larry Page never finished his Ph.D because of the great success of his Google search engine. It was started in 1998 and grew rapidly every year since its beginnings. Page and Brin started with their own funds, and that of their friends and family but the site quickly outgrew their own available resources. They eventually received private investments through Stanford to fund the rapid growth of up to 20% per month.

Yey, this rocks!

Cool, now you can call 1-800-GOOG-411 to say what you need and wait for Google to call you back. This is tight since I don’t like callin’ 411 that much. Plus, it’s FREE!

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Check out this cool water ripple effect howto for photoshop.

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Cool, here’s an instructable that shows you how to zap stuff at 120,000 volts!

It’s Frankenstein time. Who doesn’t enjoy the smell of ozone and the snap of a big fat spark?
The dome is rotating due to vibration
Although a Van De Graff generator has recently been posted I decided to post mine based on it’s substantial differences.

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The Google phone is supposed to be coming some time soon (hopefully) in the near future. We are having a contest for $100 US via Paypal for best Google Phone ideas.
Kinda like the iPhone but we are giving back some of the small amount of money we made through advertisements.
Just send your iPhone design to: max at zedomax dot com. The winner will be announced on May 5th, 2007, on Cinco De Mayo (Also Children’s day in Korea). We will post your Google Phone idea on our site and link to your blog (if you have one). Need ideas? Check out the iPhone concepts.

Are you a graphic designer?  Send us your best shot of what Google Phone will look like!

Here’s a cool way to spend your summer and get paid if you are into open source projects! Wordpress is among the projects that were accepted by Google. It seems like Google just has too much money to give away, why not take advantage of it?

Looking for something fun to do this summer? All college and university students around the world are invited to apply to get paid $4,500 USD to work on your favorite open source project this summer. WordPress is among the 131 accepted to Google Summer of Code, of more than 300 projects that applied

We have eight committed volunteers who are enthusiastic to mentor, learn, and make WordPress a little better in the process.

Check out our ideas for projects, or propose your own. You must apply
by March 24. Good luck!

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We have a new website called OnEarthTravel.com. It’s a website or a blog about travel. My girlfriend’s brother,Bodin, is running this site because he is so into travel.

It seems like we are making a new site every week. Our lives are getting busier and busier and I can’t remember last time hitting a golf ball anymore. Regardless,
we will just have to keep diggin’ along.

Make sure to check out all our other sites when you are bored:

• Wagg.It - Blog Social Networking site
• StinkyWorld.com -Social Networking site about collecting the stinkiest news in the world
• BEDzine.com -Blog about beds
• SLEEPzine.com - Blog about sleep
• MATTRESSzine.com - Blog about mattress
• DaBomb.tv -Blog that collects “da bomb” videos from Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Break, you name it
• SF Blogg - Blog about things to do in San Francisco (I’ve had no sleep so I am not really doing this blog right now, but maybe in the future when I can rest…)
• Zedomax Korea - We just opened a new Zedomax just for the Korean audience that my friends over there are going to run.
• Wagthis.com - An experimental social networking site we made before Wagg.It. We just gave up running it now because it’s so slow but who knows…

Well, hopefully we don’t make any more sites, otherwise we will blog 24/7.

What do we tell each other when not blogging?

Answer is simple.

“Why are you not blogging? You should be blogging!”

That’s right, we’ve gone crazy blogging our minds out we even bought some cheap tables and some nice chairs from IKEA to keep blogging.

So if you are not blogging, you should be.

Our new sweet setup at our apartment is going to be a great blogging platform. We can see Golden Gate bridge from our window here. (Well, we see some “parts” of the Golden gate bridge due to the big ass trees hanging by Lincoln Park Golf course. We will have to take some pictures and update our About page soon. (The worst thing is to live in front of a public golf course and never go play…but we do have a good reason…we are blogging.)

We are starting a Zedomax Blog Network.  If you want to join us, let us know.  The only requirement is that you have to put all of our sites on our blogroll.
We will put you on our blogrolls too on all our sites.  Oh, also your blog needs to be about a different topic than what we have.

For example, we don’t have a food blog or celebrity blog…

Wow, check out this new Silverbrook Memjet prototype 60 ppm inkjet printer that does 60 color prints per minute! That is 3 times faster than most $5000 to $1000 color laser printers.

A $200 desktop printer with a color printing speed of 60 A4 pages per minute is just one of the revolutionary new devices promised by Silverbrook Research, a company which holds more than 1400 patents, but has never released a product. Analysts from leading printer market research firm, Lyra Research Inc, showed this video of a prototype inkjet printer in operation today, and say they have personally examined it and verified that it is real.

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