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From Google to MySpace, the internet clicks in a world of change 15 years on The internet is entwined with contemporary life. Sites such as MySpace have ushered in a new world that has economic and political ramifications. Dewi Cooke August 26, 2006 THE man credited with the creation of the World Wide Web, Tim […]
Websites that changed the world
Amazon used to be a large river in South America – but that was before the world wide web. This month the web is 15 years old and in that short time it has revolutionised the way we live, from shopping to booking flights, writing blogs to listening to music. Here, the Observer’s Net specialist […]
Usenet Newsgroups Character
http://tinyurl.com/mxu7o or http://www.onenesschristian.org/trinity_is_antichrist_sermon.html
Cutoff Point for Emails
Computer TIP Determine a Cutoff Point for Emails We could name lots of things that get better with age but email wouldn’t be one of them. Its primary purpose is immediacy. As your messages get older, they lose immediacy and therefore their value. You might determine a cutoff point of 14, 30, or 60, days. […]
Right-wing ‘Zombie’ taunts foes on the web
Jo Chandler September 2, 2006 WHO is the Zombie behind zombietime.com? He claims to be a “photoblogger” who lives in San Francisco. For fun, he attends protests by people of opposite political inclinations to his own — the extreme left. He turns their placards against them, takes photographs and posts the images on his site. […]
Email elicits global sniggers
James Button, Europe Correspondent, London September 2, 2006 THE story of Lucy Gao — like that of London lawyer Claire Swire — is a cautionary tale for high-tech times. Two weeks ago Ms Gao, an intern at Citigroup bank in London, emailed instructions to her friends regarding her 21st birthday party at the Ritz Hotel. […]
Internet searches are giving away all of your secrets
GOOGLE TRACKED 1 September 2006 By Craig Mcqueen YOU probably weren’t aware of it, but there’s a spy in your living room and workplace. This spy knows a heck of a lot about you, even your most intimate thoughts. Here’s an example. In March this year, a Portuguese- American, living in Florida, was drinking heavily […]
Death to Caps Lock
By Michael Calore 13:00 PM Aug, 16, 2006 Is it time to permanently retire the Caps Lock key? Pieter Hintjens thinks so. Hintjens, the CEO of iMatix, has launched the Capsoff organization in a campaign urging hardware manufacturers to ditch the oft-abused and misused key. Hintjens’ plan is to build the entire infrastructure for the […]
Open Office
From a pastor/geek (August 2006): TRULY enlightened ones, whether they run around in a MAC or use a P(erfect)C(omputer) :o) might look into OpenOffice, a free download from http://www.openoffice.org. It’s a multiplatform, open-source, multi-lingual, multi operating system office suite roughly equivalent to Microsoft Office – with word processor, spreadsheet, multimedia presenter, graphics program and database. […]
Time’s 50 Coolest Websites
(Obviously U.S. – biassed… Look ’em up in Google) 50 Coolest Websites http://www.learnstuff.com/learn-about-some-of-the-coolest-websites/ How do we select our finalists? We evaluate hundreds of candidates ¯ ¿ ½some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. Many of this year’s choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to […]
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