Internet: The Top 10 lies of Web 2.0

The Technology Chronicles at SFGate.com have a nice short write up with their opinion on Web 2.0. They have created a list of Top 10 lies of the Web 2.0 that contains the following:

1. We learned our lesson last time.
2. This is not a bubble.
3. It’s all about community and sharing.
4. Online advertising will pay [...]

Technorati: State of the Blogosphere, October-2006

Yesterday Technorati founder Dave Sifry has released his highly popular Blogosphere report for the 3rd quarter of 2006.
He sees the medium of web logs further maturing but still going strong with about 100,000 new blogs being created daily.
The report also shows that the integration of blogs and traditional media sites like those of major newspapers [...]

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?

Let’s [...]

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 [...]

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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Internet: Finding the most watched advertising videos

While many just switch to another channel when a block of advertisements starts on TV, others seemingly can’t get enough of it. And we’re talking dozens of million views here…
All-time-high winner Sony Bravia not only made it to the front-page news, got millions of views on the top download sites, it even got its [...]

PayPal: HP adds PayPal as payment option

You can tell that a new solution has become mainstream when key market players announce publicly that they will use it.
Yesterday worldwide number 1 computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has announced that it now is offering PayPal as a new payment option in their online stores. With the agreement, the HP Home & Home Office Store [...]

Internet: Make the web a safer place and provide firewall data

With more and more people using ADSL broadband and always on Internet connections, we believe it might be time for a little reminder. Support the SANS Internet Storm Center and provide firewall logs to the DShield database.

The Internet Storm Center (ISC) is an initiative of the SANS Institute, one of the most reputable computer [...]