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Web Browsers: Vulnerability comparison between IE and Firefox

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The “Washington Post” has an interesting comparison of security vulnerabilities for the two most used web browsers – Internet Explorer and Firefox. The report states that during 2006 Internet Explorer was unsafe for 284 days while Firefox was unsafe for only 9 days. To calculate the unsafe periods the report uses statistics on how long it took…

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Second Life: Finally some useful numbers and it’s 20,000 not 2 Millions

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Linden Labs Second Life really had it the last days. First the press stops praying and hyping and gets a bit more critical – see this “Boing Boing” article to name just one – and then their whole system came to a halt yesterday and is now slowly coming back up again. But what we were really waiting for and couldn’t find was that someone puts that whole hype back in line – so we provide you the figures ourselves…
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…We think its time to get back to real life and see “Second Life” as what it is – just one of many online games with some success. On the charts with the Asian figures alone you would have problems to plot the numbers for Second Life as they are so much smaller than even those from games with medium success. And that’s after all the hype and massive increase in user numbers for Second Life…

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Map yourself on the Internet

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The web site map-o-net has created a nice tool to show your or other IP addresses on a fractal chart. Great idea to visualize unused addresses as green grass…

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Comedy: Viral Learning Center

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Just what we were all waiting for. A bogus DeVry like school that teaches John Doe how to make a successful viral video. Techniques and topics include…

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Search Engines: Pageranks and the Incredible Lightness Of Being

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Yahoo has just released its “Top searches of 2006″ list, leaving us with the impression that people are using it only to find information on Brittney, Shakira or Paris Hilton…
…Recently the “American Mathematical Society” has featured an article with an in-depth explanation of the type of mathematical operations behind Google’s search engine pagerank. The story with the title…
…Encourage by the article we had a look how our so far most popular story (Top 10 time waster games) is ranked with Google. It turned out that Duvet-Dayz.com has a pagerank of 3 (out of more then 1 million pages)…

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Create a Kaleidoscope from (your) web site images

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This Kaleidoscope generator automatically creates animated Kaleidoscopes from web site images. Very impressive results. Just enter a URL and watch…

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