RSS Awareness Day

Today is RSS Awareness Day. What is that all about? It is simple: a day to spread the word about the RSS and feed formats, and to get more people using it. As of today just 5 to 7 percent of the Internet users are actively using RSS. That is a shame given the usefulness of that tool.

Daniel Scocco on May 1, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | 2 Comments

5 Terrific (and Unusual) Twitter Uses

As growing social sites like Facebook and MySpace collapse under their own weight, drowning users in never-ending streams of “Pirate Ninja Hug For Cancer!” applications, the high-tech haiku of Twitter is gaining ground. With 140 characters to answer the question “What are you doing?”, the service has soared from simple status messages to a global information network. Here we look at five uber-uses people have put twitter to.

Luke on April 30, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | 25 Comments

Google is The Most Powerful Brand Around the World

The sky is the limit, what can I say.

The revelation comes from a research company called Millward Brown. Here is a quote from The Guardian:

Daniel Scocco on April 21, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

The 101 Most Useful Websites

I came across this list a couple of weeks ago, but it is a really interesting one so I will share it with you guys. Basically the Telegraph (a British newspaper) compiled a list with the 101 most useful websites around the net, divided into technology, entertainment, advice, house and home, social, shopping and travel.

Daniel Scocco on April 15, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | 1 Comment

Intel Touts Mobile Internet Devices As The Panacea For Mobile Internet Access

At its recently concluded developer forum in China, Intel showcased to the world its new processor architecture - Atom (formerly called Silverthorne). And to go with this new processor and chip-set are a slew of devices that fill the (also newly) created niche of devices halfway between a high end cell phone and an ultra-mobile PC. Called Mobile Internet Devices, Intel envisions these devices as the ideal solutions for people with the need to access the internet but are constrained by the limited display area and battery life of mobile phones.

Arun on April 11, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

“You have three weeks to decide”, Microsoft Tells Yahoo

The largest acquisition in the history of Microsoft entered round 2 as it gave Yahoo’s board a 3 week timeline to start negotations. In the worst case, Microsoft would have to take the deal to Yahoo’s shareholders directly.

Arun on April 8, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

Internet Scams Hit Record High

As the new users get used to how the Internet works one would expect that the scammers’ profits would go down, right? Apparently that is not true. The reason, perhaps, is the fact that the number of new users that enter the web every year is larger that the number of users that get a clue of what is going on….

Daniel Scocco on April 5, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

April’s Fool on the Internet

I must confess that before I started working full time on the Internet, April’s fool was not a big deal for me. Sure we would make some pranks in school, but that was it, after 30 minutes we had already forgotten it.

The Internet, on the other hand, is fertile ground for all sorts of jokes, pranks and creative ideas when the first hour of April 1st hits the clock. Instead of doing one ourselves, though, we will just paste a collection of links to some of the most interesting pranks that we came across, check them out!

Daniel Scocco on April 1, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

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