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Internet: Malware with 24h support services
So called Trojan and Malware kits have been around since quite some time and most of the people working with or on the Internet should by now have realized that the creation of Malware and spying on computers has developed into a full-fledged industry. And half-hearted security on web sites, corporate and private computers provides their share to the continuously growing size of bot networks together with operating systems that could sometimes best be described with the infamous term “unsafe at any speed”.
We’ve seen the first of these Malware kits in the 1990s - then targeted at so called script kids - but since these years of …
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Segway adds a social element to its gliders
Companies around the world - in an effort to create communities of users around their products - are picking up social networking approaches at a fast pace.
Earlier this month Segway has started to create a network and communications around their self-balancing scooters, allowing users to communicate, create groups, find like minded people around the world or just in their local area, discuss the latest news and share their experiences.
Like Nike and other consumer good companies, Segway with its “Segway Social” network is hoping to attract future buyers by providing them…
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Humor: Close Encounters of the Internet
A version of the famous scene from “Close Encounters” done by the SouthPark studios.
A giant Linksys router has arrived.
“…all right Internet, what do you want from us…“
Full episode available online.
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Cars: A hell of an accident
We’ve heard that some watch NASCAR races just for the accidents. Well here’s one to watch - Michael McDowell’s accident at the Texas Qualifying last Friday.
This is probably one of the worst NASCAR accidents we’ve seen ever, 185 - 190 miles on impact, flying through the air and then rolling across the track for a few hundred yards. The car looks like it went through the shredder and then - the guy just walks away.
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List of Lists: The 25 most valuable Blog properties
You might say - yet another list of top blogs. It is but it’s quite well done and based on potential advertising value and not only on number of hits per months.
While the author admits that it’s actually not possible to value the largest blogs appropriately, he nevertheless comes up with an interesting valuing approach - the amount a buyer might be willing to pay.
Only privately held blogs that are…
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Turn your web site into a graph
This great applet will turn your web site into a graph. You just need to enter an URL and the screens shows how the graph is dynamically build step by step.
The tool was created with…
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From our does it blend department : Is Digg.com going down tonight?
We were impressed how well their web site scaled to the ever increasing user numbers. And they’ve been adding features over features. But tonight it seems for the first time the site is going down on its knees.
While the servers still reply immediately to any ping or traceroute packets, the wait for pages has now…
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Humor: The 10.5 most stupidest captchas on the web
Captchas have been around now for a few years but still some web sites use them more as a Darwin award then a Turing test.
For them it seems that captchas help to keep traffic from annoying passers-by at a minimum.
Here is our collection of the funniest, most unusual or plain unusable captchas - 10.5 ways to assure that (”almost”) nobody will be able to access your web site….
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Data-Visualization: Country Codes of the World
Currently more than 260 top level domains are in use on the Internet. While the .com domain still remains the most popular, many country domains are now widely used as well.
On the map below each country is represented…
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Video: Twitter in Plain English
You might have seen some of Commoncraft’s paperwork in the past like for example “RSS in Plain English”, “Wikis” or “Blogs” in Plain English or “Social Bookmarking” explained in the same way.
Now they have added another animation to their series of basic explanatory videos called…
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