Google Scores large over Overture
Google and Ask Jeeves have inked a deal that allows Ask Jeeves to provide listings using Googles search engine. The big loser in this is Overture the pay for clicks king. [Source NewsFactor]
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2002
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Do you know your online publishing rights
Do you have your own web site. Do you have information on that site that can cause discomfort to other companies. If you are a independent publisher or a small business you may by without even knowing it infringe on someone's legitimate copywrite. Several on-line sites have have recently been told to remove content or to change their site design.
For Font Fans and Web Authors of all kinds
Two freeware tools: an Internet Explorer Spell Checker and a Font Management tool.
Site you will want to bookmark
Imagine it is 1 year in the future and you download a upgrade to your favorite MP3 ripping program only to find out they have incorporated technology that forces you to register with the federal govt then pay the RIAA a $100.00 advance to listen to the ripped song 10 times. It even has a new device that makes you
Your wife is going to love this product release!
Well couch potatoes get ready for the next version of Windows XP not only will you not have to get off your couch to surf the net but you can use that familiar male dominated device the remote control. On a sidenote my wife would loose her mind if I purchased this.. Guranteed to make divorce lawyers rich. [Source MSNBC]
Check your Browser for Parasites
I have always wondered if in the middle of some click crazy late night surfing if I had ever clicked on a link that dumped some tracking software on my computer. The following site checks your browser not sure how good it really is. Give it a whirl and let me know if it finds anything. [and.doxdesk.com]
Webmaster Resource Site
Slackers Guide -Web Development Tutorials for Normal People with Little Patience and Big Ideas. Including: XHTML Crash Course XHTML will soon be a standard for web page authoring. [www.slackerhtml.com]
DRM what does it really mean
Digital rights "management" is a nice way of saying digital rights "control" or digital rights "revocation." NewsForge has a great article on this issue.
Fair Use advocates told to shut the hell up!
You go to a public meeting expecting to be heard and Big Brother tells you to be quiet. You need to read the full story! [The Register Reports] "Advocates trying to speak for regular Internet users were basically told to sit down and shut up during a "public" workshop on digital rights management dominated by IT heavyweights and Big Hollywood
Site of the Week! “Save Internet Radio
This site sums up all the rants and screams I have been warning you about over the fate of Internet Radio and the nightmare webcasters are going thru. I Highly recomend you take the 90 second tour on there site and get involved. www.saveinternetradio.org
Regular On-Air Radio Station may save the day “NOT”
It appears that not only are the dedicated webcasters feeling the pinch so are the regular radio stations that are also broadcasting there programs on the net. Those that are will now be faced with a double payment and I am sure they do not like that as they only pay a percentage of gross income now to the RIAA.
Soap Box Time
I am as big a mouth as they come when it comes to talking up technology and I from time to time like to really stick my neck out. I am working on a document that I am going to take around to my closest neighbors and try to get a community network going. This is nothing new many apartment
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