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Top US domains by traffic in October 2008
Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 6.17% 2. mail.yahoo.com 4.7% 3. www.myspace.com 3.91% 4. www.yahoo.com 3.78% 5. mail.live.com 1.94% 6. www.ebay.com 1.56% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.49% 8. www.facebook.com 1.24% 9. www.msn.com 1.17% ...
Human hair to feed plants?
You all know that agricultural crop production relies on fertilizers, such as composted waste materials. But I bet you wouldn't have thought to add human hair to animal manure to produce better and greener fertilizers. Yet, a study done by Mississippi State University researchers has shown that human hair, 'combined...
Ocean science may hold key to predicting our future climate
A new assessment from NOAA indicates that while human activity and greenhouse gases may be altering the earth climate, to be able to predict future regional climate we will need to understand the oceans better. Said a NOAA scientist: "Improving predictions of regional sea-surface temperatures will be...
Nokia Email unable to connect issue solved on my new Nokia N85
After seeing my buddy Rafe's OLED display on the new Samsung I7710 S60 device I pulled the trigger on a new Nokia N85 when the North American versions became available last week. I found a decent deal at Newegg and trust them so I placed my order and to my...
Google and the "stupid name startup" rollercoaster
Google has no doubt revolutionised how we use the Internet. We don't bother typing anything into the address bar anymore, and many of us don't use their favourites/bookmarks as much as they should do. Nowadays, we load up our browser and search for everything we need. Because Google UK is...
Which sites will make the IE8 Compatibility Hall of Shame?
According to Microsoft, a release candidate of Internet Explorer 8 is just around the corner, and with it comes an urgent call to web designers to get their act together and tweak their sites so they'll render properly under the new browser. Back in August, I began...
Product update - Compuware’s Changepoint 2009
No Functionality Cutbacks for 2009 unlike client spending Lately, I've written a lot about several PSA professional services automation and PPM project portfolio management vendors. While I've discussed a number of vendors like OpenAir, CA Clarity, QuickArrow and Oracle nee Primavera nee Evolve, I haven't discussed one...
That Vudu voodoo
Open source has swept away most gatekeepers in the software sphere, so that even Microsoft must dance to its tune. Enter the worlds of content and mobility, however, and gatekeepers still hold sway. Watching open source batter against these fortresses will be one of the great stories of 2009. by...
Breaking: Apple to pull out of Macworld Expo after January
Apple tonight issued a press release announcing that this January will be the company's last year participating in Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. The other surprise in the release is that Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing – not Steve Jobs...
E-petitions give e-voices for e-democracy and e-revolution
A petition, right from the heart of the University of Kent where I currently study, is attempting to persuade the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, away from new immigration laws targeting international students entering UK universities. Whilst the topic itself is a controversial one;...
Dissertation cheats: the dark, corrupt slice of the Internet
The Internet is slowly becoming a rubbish tip for junk, useless information, knitting patterns and videos of blind Scottish men being hit in the nuts with a baseball. Because nothing on the web really ever disappears, we can see into the looking glass of the past. Over the last few...
A telescope in a cubic kilometer of ice
University of Delaware UD scientists and engineers are currently working at South Pole under very harsh conditions. This research team is one of the many other ones working on the construction of IceCube, the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. When it...
From portal to platform: Yahoo's push via the inbox
One of Yahoo's most valuable properties is its web mail service, which has more members and gets more traffic than mail services provided by Google, MSN and AOL. Yahoo Mail was once part of the portal, another offering along side things like photo services, stock portfolios, alerts and other services...
Google Friend Connect now available to the masses
This program has been in private beta for a while now -- but just recently it was opened up for everyone to use. Friend Connect is an extremely simple way to make any website you have a bit more social -- people that "join" your site (which I...
Best practices group formed for IT data center managers
Struggling to marry your company's environmental concerns with the right IT management philosophies? The Business Performance Management Forum BPM Forum and Rackable Systems have started a new "thought leadership" program, Think Eco-Logical, to help companies share ideas and data that can serve as the foundation for industry best practices. ...
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News items, Blog posts relating to Web Technology
Top US domains by traffic in October 2008
Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 6.17% 2. mail.yahoo.com 4.7% 3. www.myspace.com 3.91% 4. www.yahoo.com 3.78% 5. mail.live.com 1.94% 6. www.ebay.com 1.56% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.49% 8. www.facebook.com 1.24% 9. www.msn.com 1.17% ...
Human hair to feed plants?
You all know that agricultural crop production relies on fertilizers, such as composted waste materials. But I bet you wouldn't have thought to add human hair to animal manure to produce better and greener fertilizers. Yet, a study done by Mississippi State University researchers has shown that human hair, 'combined...
Ocean science may hold key to predicting our future climate
A new assessment from NOAA indicates that while human activity and greenhouse gases may be altering the earth climate, to be able to predict future regional climate we will need to understand the oceans better. Said a NOAA scientist: "Improving predictions of regional sea-surface temperatures will be...
Nokia Email unable to connect issue solved on my new Nokia N85
After seeing my buddy Rafe's OLED display on the new Samsung I7710 S60 device I pulled the trigger on a new Nokia N85 when the North American versions became available last week. I found a decent deal at Newegg and trust them so I placed my order and to my...
Google and the "stupid name startup" rollercoaster
Google has no doubt revolutionised how we use the Internet. We don't bother typing anything into the address bar anymore, and many of us don't use their favourites/bookmarks as much as they should do. Nowadays, we load up our browser and search for everything we need. Because Google UK is...
Which sites will make the IE8 Compatibility Hall of Shame?
According to Microsoft, a release candidate of Internet Explorer 8 is just around the corner, and with it comes an urgent call to web designers to get their act together and tweak their sites so they'll render properly under the new browser. Back in August, I began...
Product update - Compuware’s Changepoint 2009
No Functionality Cutbacks for 2009 unlike client spending Lately, I've written a lot about several PSA professional services automation and PPM project portfolio management vendors. While I've discussed a number of vendors like OpenAir, CA Clarity, QuickArrow and Oracle nee Primavera nee Evolve, I haven't discussed one...
That Vudu voodoo
Open source has swept away most gatekeepers in the software sphere, so that even Microsoft must dance to its tune. Enter the worlds of content and mobility, however, and gatekeepers still hold sway. Watching open source batter against these fortresses will be one of the great stories of 2009. by...
Breaking: Apple to pull out of Macworld Expo after January
Apple tonight issued a press release announcing that this January will be the company's last year participating in Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. The other surprise in the release is that Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing – not Steve Jobs...
E-petitions give e-voices for e-democracy and e-revolution
A petition, right from the heart of the University of Kent where I currently study, is attempting to persuade the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, away from new immigration laws targeting international students entering UK universities. Whilst the topic itself is a controversial one;...
Dissertation cheats: the dark, corrupt slice of the Internet
The Internet is slowly becoming a rubbish tip for junk, useless information, knitting patterns and videos of blind Scottish men being hit in the nuts with a baseball. Because nothing on the web really ever disappears, we can see into the looking glass of the past. Over the last few...
A telescope in a cubic kilometer of ice
University of Delaware UD scientists and engineers are currently working at South Pole under very harsh conditions. This research team is one of the many other ones working on the construction of IceCube, the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. When it...
From portal to platform: Yahoo's push via the inbox
One of Yahoo's most valuable properties is its web mail service, which has more members and gets more traffic than mail services provided by Google, MSN and AOL. Yahoo Mail was once part of the portal, another offering along side things like photo services, stock portfolios, alerts and other services...
Google Friend Connect now available to the masses
This program has been in private beta for a while now -- but just recently it was opened up for everyone to use. Friend Connect is an extremely simple way to make any website you have a bit more social -- people that "join" your site (which I...
Best practices group formed for IT data center managers
Struggling to marry your company's environmental concerns with the right IT management philosophies? The Business Performance Management Forum BPM Forum and Rackable Systems have started a new "thought leadership" program, Think Eco-Logical, to help companies share ideas and data that can serve as the foundation for industry best practices. ...
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