Those guys from MIT have done it again. YouOS is an amazingly cool web OS that actually seems to work properly! Here’s what they say about it: YouOS is a web operating system that lets you run diverse applications within a web browser. Small applications like sticky notes or clocks. Large applications like word processing, [...]
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YouOS – Truly bringing the desktop to the web
July 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Coding & Web Development, Cool Geeky Stuff, Internet
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Make A Million Dollars In 4 Months!
December 30th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Internet
It seems it still is possible to get rich quick with almost no work and a good idea: If you have an envious streak, you probably shouldn’t read this. Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a [...]
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Wanna Get Into Internet Porn? Well Here’s Your Chance!
December 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Internet
For those of you interested it seems that someone is selling of an entire internet porn company on eBay: This company has strong ties to dozens of veteran Adult Entertainment directors, producers, editors, talent and much more, and we will be more than glad to introduce you to all of them. Including those involved in [...]
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Broadband Via Airships Tested
October 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet
In what is a romantic mix of 30s jetsetting and the modern internet, the BBC reports of tests of broadband via airships: The latest broadband delivery system has seen researchers looking to the skies to provide super-fast internet access via airships. Airships in the stratosphere beaming back broadband capable of speeds up to 120Mbps may [...]
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Happy Birthday IMDB!
October 17th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet
Today IMDB is 15 years old: 15 years ago this week (Oct 17th, exactly) the Internet Movie Database, in essence, took shape. In those 15 years we have enjoyed the camaraderie and marveled at the efforts of hundreds of thousands of participants with the site. It is due to everyone’s hard work, attention to detail, [...]
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Google Is Where Microsoft Was 20 Years Ago
October 1st, 2005 · No Comments · Google, Internet, Microsoft
An interesting piece on Informationweek points out that Google is now where Microsoft was 20 years ago: According to “The Google Legacy,” history is about to repeat itself. Microsoft today is where IBM was years ago. And Google is in a position to do to Bill Gates what he did to IBM. The result could [...]
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Tim O’Reilly (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)
October 1st, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Internet
Wired has an interesting piece on O’Reilly mogul, Tim O’Reilly: Tim O’Reilly likes to walk in the dark. Sometimes after dinner he’ll head down the long dirt pathway outside his rambling farmhouse in Sebastopol, California, a post-hippie enclave between wine country and the Pacific Ocean. No flashlight. And on this particular overcast night, with rain [...]
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All Is Not Well in SuicideGirls Land
September 28th, 2005 · 7 Comments · Internet
Wired reports that popular alternative porn site suicidegirls.com is not all it purports: A group of angry ex-models is bashing the SuicideGirls alt-porn empire, saying its embrace of the tattoo and nipple-ring set hides a world of exploitation and male domination. The women are spreading their allegations through the blogosphere, raising the hackles of the [...]
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Podcasting Gold Rush Is On
September 27th, 2005 · No Comments · Internet
Wired reports of the recent popularity of podcasts and how they are actually making money: The podosphere may be virgin terrain for the online world, but already the race is on to figure out whether there’s any real money to be made through the new medium. Consider the vast variety of approaches that have cropped [...]
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Slashdot Finally Switches To Valid HTML
September 22nd, 2005 · No Comments · Internet
For all of you in the demographic of a demographic who atually read it and care, Slashdot has finally updated it’s site to use valid HTML: After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full complement of CSS. While there [...]
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