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Category: Internet

  • Why did the chicken cross the road? Prequel

    Those of you who read my little History (or historiogrpahic) exercise about the old “Why did the chicken cross the road?” joke may remember that did not succeed moving back in time very far because of the limitations of Internet search engines. So, I was concluding that the story was older than 1981. After that,…

  • Statistics for the RSS feed

    I recently checked the log files for my web site roumazeilles.net and I stopped to look at the share of the different tools used by the users of the RSS feeds of the site: my Yahoo! 3.8% * NetVibes.com 3.8% Google 11.5% BlogLines 3.9% NewsGator 3.5% MoreOver 4.6% * Technorati 6.9% * Firefox 34.6% Opera…

  • RSS feed: Now in full glory

    It’s decided! I just set my RSS feeds to “full content”. These feeds allow some people already to browse quickly the contents of the web site without even being connected and allow to be automatically informed of new posts and changes straight from their browsers of some news/feeds aggregating sites likeBlogLines, MyYahoo!, Google, etc. Good…

  • Free online Photoshop

    Adobe has been observing the desktop application market and specifically seen Google challenging Microsoft with its online Google desktop suite (spreadsheet, text processor, agenda, etc.). They determined that they want to go the same way in order to ensure a bright future for the Photoshop line. Currently, Adobe has already split its market niche between…

  • Internet loves UK Internet users

    Internet loves UK Internet users

    More precisely, according to an eMarketer market study, the companies advertising on the Internet are rushing to be in front of the English and French Internet users. Much more than for Italian, Spanish and German users. The exact origin of this difference is not well explained, but the advertising companies probably believe more in these…

  • Free Kareem

    Free Kareem

    Amnesty International

  • Ridiculed scammers

    For once, a scammer let us smile (though against his will). Let’s smile. Today, it is the 419 scammers that have been baited by an Internet user who decided to have fun with them and convinced them that he would give a lot of money to people who would recreate famous scenes from movies or…

  • The most expensive ads on Google

    Google sells advertising. There is some of it on my web site pages. Normally, as a web site owner, I don’t really look at the price ads are sold (I don’t buy ads to publicize and market my web site). But, nonetheless, I was curious about the price ads are sold to Google customers. More…

  • DRM: EMI says No, Warner says Yes

    The music industry is a large ship that moves slowly. But when they saw the arrival of the Internet, most of this industry decided to jump onto technical measures to close and protect the music they produce in order to protect their rights: Hence the Digital Rights Management (DRM). Today, things did not really change,…