internet

Get a Website's 'Spam' Rating [70 words]
Applied Bayesian Filters uses Spambayes e-mail filtering application to rate the 'spaminess' of a given website. You can even submit sites to train the Bayesian filter or access th...
echo3.net

This Feed is Moving [106 words]
Back when syndicated content was new I wrote some scraping programs to generate newsfeeds for sites that did not have them yet (see "Good Morning Silicon Valley Ate My Newsfeed"). ...
michaelthompson.org

Experimental: automating website content [193 words]
Phase I is simply an archived version of this blog but it will have other elements soon. The ultimate goal is to automatically construct a site perfectly optimized for search engin...
mygeeto.com

Vista Is the LAST Version of Windows [239 words]
Google has outpaced Microsoft in innovation from its inception and now Google continues to gain momementum while Microsoft slows down. It has taken Microsoft almost 5 years to prod...
techrepublic.com.com

Keyword Economics Based on Human Suffering? [589 words]
What are the economic factors that make some keywords cheap and others expensive? Supply and demand, obviously. If every one wants the top position for a given keyword then the pri...
www.google.com

Bush Site Blocked Access by Geographical Location [120 words]
The BBC, using data collected by Netcraft, reports that since Monday October 25th 2004, the official website of the Bush-Cheney campaign website (www.georgewbush.com) has been re...
www.opennetinitiative.net

Macromedia Flash Player Spyware Enabled [136 words]
United Virtualities's PIE helps combat this consumer behavior [of deleting cookies] by leveraging a feature in Flash MX called local shared objects. Flash MX is a Macromedia Inc. a...
www.internetweek.com

AOL Lays Off at Least 750 [562 words]
JLavezzo at Slashdot wrote "Several news sites are reporting that the United States' largest ISP has laid off 750 employees. My sources at AOL put the actual number at approximate...
slashdot.org

Weblog Leads to Firing [126 words]
"Until two weeks ago, Ellen Simonetti worked as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines, doing her best to project the image of a stewardess from a bygone era. But it is Ms. Simonet...
www.wired.com

pair.com tops Netcraft's "Most Reliable" List [7 words]
pair.com is a rock-solid hosting service....
news.netcraft.com

Good Morning Silicon Valley Ate My Newsfeed! [101 words]
Last year I got interested in news feeds but since a lot of the sites I visited didn't have them yet I wrote some scrapers in php and went merrily on my way... I don't know exactly...
slashdot.org

More Companies Like Google Needed [44 words]
"In a word, Google's goal is to do important stuff that matters to a lot of people. In pursuit of that goal, we've developed a set of values that drive our work, including one of o...
www.google.com

Semantic Web [67 words]
"The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by...
www.w3.org

Marquee [36 words]
Remember BLINK? This is worse. The <MARQUEE> tag defines a moving section of text, in a manner similar to a movie marquee. Marquee only works with text - images inside...
www.html-reference.com

Wayback Machine [13 words]
This site is in there although the pattern of updates is not consistent....
web.archive.org

Estimated Growth Rate of WWW [11 words]
1 billion people online by 2005 Information growth rate is 60 terabytes per day...
www.technologyreview.com

What the Internet Isn't [5 words]
in a nutshell list of 10.3...
www.worldofends.com

FreeBSD explained [5 words]
pedigree & comparison to Linux, GNU...
www.freebsd.org

GeoURL [4 words]
domain owners' physical location...
geourl.org

US-CERT [4 words]
National Cyber Alert System...
www.us-cert.gov

Web Browser Statistics [8 words]
1024x768 is now the most common screen resoultion...
www.mysql.com

If Microsoft Bought Google: Top 10 Implications [170 words]
10. Free worm with every search. 9. Google renamed "Microoosoooft." 8. Google becomes default search engine on all computers; attempts to use Yahoo! causes PCs to emit a pung...
www.fool.com

World Wide Web files posted on Internet Aug 6th, 1991 [15 words]
Tim Berners-Lee released files describing his experimental World Wide Web project on the Internet in 1991....
www.w3.org

Netcraft Internet Exploration Tools [26 words]
What's that site running? provides reports on a given site's OS, web server version, and uptime. Find that Site lists domain names containing your search string....
netcraft.com

Sick of Popup's? Switch to Netscape [41 words]
Netscape 7.02 setting prevents webpages from opening "unrequested windows" Netscape's Version 7.02 browsers allow you to stifle those nasty popup ad's simply by setting your...
www.ufaq.org

Happy Birthday Internet [38 words]
On the mailing list of the Internet Engineering Task Force, internet pioneer Bob Braden wrote: "The most logical date of origin of the internet is 1 January 1983, when the Arpanet ...
www.vnunet.com

Centralized System to Monitor the Internet [51 words]
A published report here in the United States says the Bush administration is likely to propose creation of a centralized system to monitor the Internet, in an effort to increase na...
www.voanews.com

More Freedom for the Web [80 words]
"A U.S. COURT has dismissed an attempt to force two newspapers based in the state of Connecticut to face defamation proceedings in the state of Virginia over articles posted on the...
www.infoworld.com

Identity Theft Ring Broken [68 words]
"A computer help-desk employee with access to sensitive passwords from banks and credit companies has been charged with stealing financial information on thousands of Americans in ...
www.washingtonpost.com

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse [110 words]
"Chilling Effects aims to support lawful online activity against the chill of unwarranted legal threats. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals ...
www.chillingeffects.org

China Blocks Google [67 words]
China appears to have blocked leading search engine Google, sparking speculation of a crackdown on Internet content viewed as subversive ahead of a Communist Party congress in Nove...
www.reuters.com

NIPC Keeps ISP's Alert [104 words]
The nascent National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) division of the FBI which describes its mission as a "national critical infrastructure threat assessment, warning, vuln...
www.infoworld.com

Is Your Site Viewable With Any Browser? [51 words]
Many websites are not displayed properly when viewed with browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. A common mistake is to omit a closing tag - without it, Netscape brows...
www.anybrowser.org

World Wide Knowledge Base [66 words]
It is difficult to imagine doing research without with the World Wide Web. In moments one can easily find a periodic table of the elements or a chronology of world history. Whi...
google.com