Internet: Reporters without Borders 2006 List of “Internet Black-Holes”

To initiate their 24-hour online demo against Internet censorship the international campaign organization Reporters without Borders has published their 2006 list of “Internet Black holes” - countries that censor and don’t provide free access to the Internet.
Everyone is invited to connect to the Reporter without Borders website between 11 a.m. on 7 November and 11 [...]

Gaming Digg or is anybody actually looking at the posts?

After quite some discussions the last days on Digg power users dominating the front page stories at Digg we today stumbled over something rather strange. How can people rate a story when they can’t even access it? And how does a story that nobody can access make it to the front page with high numbers?

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Put your message into orbit! Buy ad space on MIT satellite

A group of students at MIT and Georgia Tech are trying to raise money for their space mission by selling advertising on the spacecraft to companies and individuals. To allow sponsor to bid for advertising space on the satellite they have last week opened the YourNameIntoSpace.org web site.
The program is an initiative of the Massachusetts [...]

USD 20,000 Flash game development contest

The popular gamer web site AddictingGames has opened a flash game development contest with over USD 20,000 in prize money, plus promotion of the winners on the AddictingGames site.
All games submissions must be new games and you must own the rights. They have to be authored in Flash and must be under 3 megs [...]

Weekend activity: Have Fun with Ms. Dewey

You can say a lot about Ms. Dewey the Flash interface that Microsoft has put up to promote its Live Search web site.
It might be tacky, completely useless for a search engine, they could have chosen a different girl, a complete waste of time. It’s fun - maybe not for longer than a few [...]

Microsoft / Novell: Are Windows and Linux becoming buddies?

Yesterday the two CEOs of Microsoft and Novell in a joint press conference told the public that they have agreed on a set of broad business and technical collaborations …to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft(R) products work better together…
The two companies also agreed to provide [...]

Gadget: Silkscreened CDRs and DVDs

US company 5inch offers pre-designed silkscreened CDRs and DVDs together with equally unique cases.
Custom designs and sets are also available.
Packs of 10s are about USD 13. Have a look at their shop.

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Web: 100 million web sites milestone reached

Internet monitoring company Netcraft today reported that there are now more than 100 million web sites on the Internet. This is an increase of about 3.5 million sites since last month and the Internet continues its strong growth seen throughout 2006.
Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year together [...]

Internet: Web Technology Family Tree

Those who want to see how all the web “buzz words” and technologies fit together should have a look at Modern Life is Rubbish’s “family tree” of common web technologies.

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Research: What people actually need and want from technology

Technology-related products and services will increasingly be shaped by 12 underlying principles, or “technology values”. These values - such as simplicity, efficiency, and personalization - represent the characteristics that consumers will look for in products, services, and technologies over the next 10 to 15 years. This is the conclusion of a new study from the [...]