GooFresh, the Google date-based search engine. Oh yeah! Goofresh is a way to search for sites added today, yesterday, within the last seven days, or last 30 days.
The World Summit on the Information Society
The World Summit on the Information Society – Geneva 2003 is the first of two world gatherings by Head of States, Executive heads from United Nations agencies, industry leaders, national …
Deprecate www.
A website No-WWW.org has been set up to encourage not to use the www. in domain names, naming them as a deprecative feature which server administrators should make redundant in …
6-Webs that describe user interation on the Web
Bill Joy an executive, founder and chief scientist of Sun Microsystems, Inc. has written an interesting article titled, Why One Web Won’t Do, which looks his “6 Webs” that define …
A quote from Umberto Eco’s 1996 lecture, From Internet to Gutenberg
Even if it were true that today visual communication overwhelms written communication, the problem is not to oppose written to visual communication. The problem is how to improve both. Reference: …
Teens & young adults watch more Web than Television
NBC reports that Teenagers & Young adults are online longer than on Television per week. In addition: The American Academy of Paediatrics has published a report of possible negative health …
The SARS Art Project
Whilst reading BoingBoing a few weeks ago I came across a little project Xeni Jardin started alongside some of the other folks at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and …
Google Limit
Ok, Google is big and Google is beautiful. That’s why we use it as our preferred search engine (don’t we?!?). But Google doesn’t know everything and just because Google can’t …
EU Domains
The EU-appointed registrar for .eu domains is EURid, an amalgamation of a Swedish, a Belgian and an Italian registrar. The .eu TLD (top level domain) is seen as a counterpart …
How internet users currently search
E-Marketer comments that nearly 30% of worldwide Internet users type two word phrases into search engines when searching online and that over 24% use three word phrases when searching. The …
Vic Hayes' vision of Wireless in the future
An interesting article-interview with Vic Hayes the Dutch engineer who is graced with inventing the standards that make Wi-Fi (802.11b) among others, such as the new 802.11g (Airport Extreme) a …
The business-legal step by iTunes
Everywhere I look there seems to be an article, blog post or review of the new Apple iTunes version and the Music Store. Here is an interesting article, which looked …
The Googlewacking homepage
A friend of mine Emma mentioned the coined term Googlewhack over dinner the other night. Here is the official website by Gary Stock, who is credited for coining the word.
Future fears to Innovate
Wired post an interesting article by Leander Kahney titled, Futurist Fears End of Innovation, which comments on the talk by Howard Rheingold at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and his …
Differences between Meta-data and traditional CMS websites
There is a great article in Boxes and Arrows this week, which explains the idea behind ontologies in the Semantic Web, which is being pushed by Tim Berners-Lee. The article …