Net Neutrality Addressed By Ask A Ninja Via BoingBoing, a pretty good explanation of net neutrality for those who might not be familiar with it. Plus, the best quote ever: “That’s what the Internet is all about – people in funny hats making things that people like.” Perhaps Terry Semel should have watched this to …
.XXX Domains Not Going To Happen Via the Register: “Plans for an area of the internet dedicated to pornography were killed last night in a vote by overseeing organisation ICANN. n a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult …
694 Million People Are Online That’s probably give or take a few hundred thousand (but who’s counting). This via Son of a Pitch; Comscore reports that “that 694 million people, age 15+, used the Internet worldwide from all locations in March 2006, representing 14 percent of the world’s total population within this age group.” More …
Internet Explorer 7 Beta Now Available for Download According to the official IE Blog, Internet Explorer 7 Beta is now available. More from the site: “We acted on a lot of the feedback and bug reports from the previous public releases. In particular, I feel good about changes we made based on reports from web …
Windows Live Mail Has Four-Month Expiration Date From Inside Microsoft, Windows Live mail accounts will have a four-month expiration date; meaning, if you go away for four months your account will automatically be deleted. Gmail has a nine month expiration date, which for me begs two questions: why can’t Microsoft mimic this, and how did …
ABC.com Offering Full Episodes of Desperate Housewives & Lost With CBS partnering finding a partner in Google Video, then deciding to bypass Google Video by offering downloads of Survivor via their website, and then partnering with Yahoo to offer a web version of 60 Minutes, it’s time for other netowrks to step up with some …
DirtyColin.com Crashes From Server Load, Not Colin Farrell’s Legal Team For those of you following controversial web sites selling the home movies of celebrities, the AP is reporting that DirtyColin.com has been ‘shut down’ by Colin Farrell’s legal team. This, however may not be the case as the site’s owners are claiming that server drain …
BBC Opens News Archives Online The BBC has announced that they are opening up their news archives for their users in the domestic market and would be providing the digital versions of some of the biggest news events of last four decades on the Internet. Under this rollout, BBC has released around 80 news clips …
NSA Gives New Meaning to ‘Spyware’ Politics don’t usually appear on this blog because of a variety of differing views at The Kelsey Group (and in most cases it’s not relevant to what we’re writing about). But I must say the National Security Agency has given new meaning to the idea of “spyware.” And the …
Is Microsoft Getting More Customer-Centric? In the Microsoft/Google conflict, it’s sometimes intriguing to look at the big picture. Here’s one person’s view of that big picture. In the book, “The Customer-Centered Enterprise: How IBM and Other World-Class Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results by Putting Customers First” by Harvey Thompson of IBM, Microsoft was rated at the …
