He was not into programming.
He’s not sure if he would sell the site.
He may not even go back to Moscow.
What a mess. | Andrey Ternovskiy, a polite, excited and eager Russian high school student, scoured the Internet trying to find a Web site that allowed random video chats with strangers. When he realized a site like that didn’t exist, he decided to build it.Read more at bits.blogs.nytimes.com |
Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company. This feature is part of
SuperPower,
a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet. Read more at news.bbc.co.uk |
I think Yahoo should simply die a respectful death and go down in internet history with grace. | In a remarkably candid interview on CNBC, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz readily admits that she would accept offers for the company. |
Her exact words. “Absolutely,” she said. “Any company at the right price.” |
Despite the apparent confidence, Yahoo’s identity still remains a major unknown. CNBC asked Bartz what Yahoo is today – and she sadly didn’t really have a concrete answer. She said Yahoo is a place where people go to find information, but as for its current offerings she only said, “Now we have that content; we have that editorial presence.” Read more at thenextweb.com |
I haven’t read the whole thing yet, seems interesting and well written story.
| Could It Be That the Best Chance to Save a Young Family From Foreclosure is a 28-Year-Old Pakistani American Playright-slash-Attorney who Learned Bankruptcy Law on the Internet?
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| Wells Fargo, You Never Knew What Hit You. |
From time to time we’ll be posting full articles from the San Francisco Panorama. Wajahat Ali, the author of the following example, hoped that this article could reach readers all over the web—especially those who might not have found the story through our usual channels—so we’re presenting the entire article in both PDF and text-only form. This story, which is hilarious and reads like a thriller, concerns Ali’s efforts (as a self-taught, foreclosure attorney) to save a family from foreclosure. It’s a must-read, for anyone interested in how banks work—and don’t work. Read more at www.mcsweeneys.net |
The thing about Facebook and Twitter is that unlike earlier times on the Internet, these two companies have shaped the perception of people connected to each other more closely than ever before. Everyone is on-line on FB or Twitter or both!. Not that people were not connected earlier via email or email groups (and some exclusively still are), but FB and Twitter are humongous instant messenger type services where everyone perceives it as something where they know others are on (email does not give a perception that you are on and individual instant-messenger were always individual).
So as Facebook comes up with ideas on what to do with people who are dying on the internet, I think they should also come up with some special arrangements when people are born. I’m not talking about some FB application (I hate them and they are annoying). There is no denying that babies are being born on Facebook every day (it sounds weird but that is a truth). Facebook has announced that it will be giving friends and family the option to “memorialise” the profiles of members who have died. It follows some cases of members receiving updates about dead friends. If a user is reported as deceased, Facebook will remove sensitive information such as status updates and contacts. |
Government should take away the PCs from those who not only open these spam email but they go through the links in them. I mean you would have to be insane to do that. A peek into the world of spam affiliate networks has revealed that there is indeed a lot of money to be made by pushing all those Viagra and Cialis e-mails. Even if only a few people make purchases, it’s enough to make spamming worthwhile and guarantee that the rest of our inboxes will remain crowded. |
| Pharmaceutical spam can generate more than $4,000 per day in sales, confirming that spam continues to thrive because of those gullible few who click through and ruin it for the rest of us. And that’s not just an estimate: a security researcher from Sophos have combed through sales logs as part of his investigation into the growth of spam networks, noting that Russian affiliate partner networks—also known as “partnerka”—are responsible for some of the largest Canadian pharmacy spam businesses.Read more at arstechnica.com |
| Making real-time work is very complex at scale, and there’s a reason there are only two real-time blog search indexes (Google Blog Search and Technorati). The volume of data presents multiple challenges: the data becomes nearly irrelevant shortly after it appears (often within days and certainly within weeks — over 90% of all searches on Technorati are looking for something less than a month old); it’s much easier to spam* (Twitter is just beginning to experience this — just wait…); it’s hard to balance recency and relevancy together; and lastly, it’s expensive — spinning large quantities of data so it’s readily available to query is really expensive, and the entire live web is a really large place (Technorati only focuses on the blogosphere).Read more at www.jalichandra.com |
I like hulu because I can watch TV/movies online without feeling guilty. Guilty as in I am not watching illegal download or stream. Hulu is supported by entertainment companies and they have less intrusive Ads which users can tolerate based on the fact that the service is free. It reminds me of iPod phenomenon when pre-iPod everything was illegal and free and post iPod one can purchase with conveinence and cheap. At the end of the day, for most people, it is all about balancing the convenience and ethics in our everyday lives. Free is good as long as it is ethical and done with honesty. | From the very first day, we were maniacal in our belief that an opportunity existed to create an online video advertising service that delivered unusually strong value for advertisers while remaining true to important user principles. Read more at freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com |
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