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First I want to thank one of readers for sending us the Google WiFi link yesterday, he helped us be one of the first few sites to post the information which resulted in one of our higher traffic days around here. More info is on the street tonight. Those of you that took the time to read the FAQ which
Feedburner has a nice service but the question remains why would 100,000 people trust a third party to update and maintain the lifeblood of the one single document that connects most sites to their readership. The trend is quite shocking. The second question I raise and I will admit Feedburner has some cool tools the question I as is why
I found some information tonight that made my mouth fall open in disbelief. I have been hammering away at you folks for a while on Fair Use and talking about the evils of the DMCA. Little did I realize the extent to which companies are pushing agendas forward to take us back to the stone ages. Thanks to Doc Searls
Over the past 3 months I have personally had to send 14 messages and letters to hosting providers over sites that were Spam Blogs aka SPLOGS and have them shutdown to them outright stealing my content with that content filled with links to porn, male performance pill etc.. Thus far I have been able to get 9 of the 11
Opera web browser for Mac, PC, Linux and more is now free. No more ad banners and no more license fee. This is a great browser and now that it’s free it’s even better. To download it and check out all the features in Opera, head over to their website.
Apple(R) today announced a significant update to .Mac, the membership-based online service that combines the simplicity and elegance of the Macintosh(R) with the power of the Internet to facilitate group communication and make sharing, storing and protecting digital photos and videos easier than ever. New features include: .Mac Groups, a service that helps members communicate, coordinate schedules and stay in sync with private groups of friends or colleagues; an updated version of .Mac Backup software that makes it easy for members to archive their iLife(R) and other important files; a four-fold increase in combined iDisk and email storage to 1GB for individuals and 2GB for families; and full French and German localization. Pricing remains the same.
I swear podcast portals are launching on a hourly basis. The latest one that I found tonight is Big Contact have not dug into it. Looked around for a contact e-mail and could not find one. If you all are watching please change my RSS feed to the following on channel 278 to https://www.geeknewscentral.com/podcast.xml thats the dedicated podcast feed. [Big
This is a quick 45 minute show to get us back in the traditional time frame and show length. Something happened on Sunday and not everyone got their newsletters as the program we used had something funny occur. Needless to say we hope these get out tonight ok. Sponsor: Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes see our Promo Code
I found a referal in my logs today that pointed me at a web login page, that was titled "TechDirt InfoAdvisor". Is techdirt sampling the web for specific information they are looking for to build information for stories or what does that site do. If anyone has the scoop on this I am very interested in what that service is
Update: Loomia not Hijacking Feeds! It appears that the Loomia site was not hijacking feeds, what was happening was their crawler was finding other sites that had hijacked podcast feeds and indexed them. Which makes me even more mad, not a Loomia but at these other sites. This goes to show you what can happen when a rss portal launches
Looks like Google is getting ready to roll out WiFi service the question is where, and how much will it cost or will it be free and destroy all the economic models of companies that are charging ridiculous prices for WiFi in large cities. We know Goggle has been buying up broadband capacity so it looks to me like they
A quick glance at a new website dontbuyjunk.com looks pretty promising. [dontbuyjunk.com]
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