Archive for December, 2006

Search engines and the Semantic Web (the so called web 3.0)

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

What does the future hold for the World Wide Web? In just 15 years, we have gone from using text-based web browsers and reading Usenet to interactive (AJAX, Flash etc.) web sites and large online social networks. The World Wide Web is growing at a fast rate having grown to ...

The Internet is not big enough for all the nerds

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

According to Internet World Stats, well over 1 billion people have online access participating in a multi-billion dollar economy that barely existed just 10 years ago. You would think that there is enough money for everyone to profit. And yet, all I read these days around the blogosphere is nothing ...

Google refuses to prosecute alleged click-fraudster

Monday, December 4th, 2006

BusinessWeek's Ben Elgin has written a very interesting article titled The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case describing how Google refused to provide the necessary evidence to prosecute Michael Anthony Bradley from Oak Park, California, who in 2004 tried to blackmail Google. Specifically, Mr. Bradley met with Google engineers and demonstrated ...

JS-Kit: a simple method for adding comments to any page on your web site

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Lev Walkin has published a nice little JavaScript script that allows any webmaster to add comments to any page on a web site using no more than a single line of code. Lev developed the script to help his wife add a comments section to her sites. The script works by ...

Blogger posting from Google Docs and Spreadsheets

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

I don’t know how long this has been possible, but I was updating one of my blog on Blogger and after publishing I notice a message informing me that I can now post directly from Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets application. This is rather useful because now you can write your ...