An entry in the wiki site Take Back the Web points to 15 people who changed the Internet. These are personalities that pioneered some of the most popular and widely used properties on the web.
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In a landmark move, ICANN has approved the introduction of a whole range of new names introduced to the Internet’s addressing system.
Continue reading ‘ICANN to open tons of new top level Domain Names’
As a country that leads in worldwide internet speeds, it’s a surprise that a Japanese Internet Service Provider will put bandwidth limits on its subscribers. Only shows that despite the very fast and cheap DSL connectivity, consumers will still abuse the service.
This was just texted to me by a contact from Globe — that their Visibility plans are now available in prepaid — a move that directly competes with SmartBro Prepaid. This is on top of their postpaid GV 799 and GV 999 plans I reported earlier.
Since I was in high school, I’ve been a fan of the Guinness Book of World Records. In the last couple of years though, I haven’t bought a single copy because most of the stuff are already available online. Still, sometimes it’s more pleasant to sit and and read a book than to stare at the LCD screen. So, during a recent visit to the National Book Store, I grabbed a hardbound copy of the 2008 edition.
Continue reading ‘Guinness World Records 2008 & Internet Record Breakers’
McAfee reveals that the most dangerous websites are those hosted on “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China) and “.info” (information) domains. Dangerous — meaning, malicious malware sites or just plain old spammy sites.
Continue reading ‘McAfee: .HK, .CN and .INFO domains most dangerous’
Xoom, an online payment facility, sent out notices about 2 days ago that it will disable its Merchant Payment Interface after August 1, 2008 and suggests all users to remove links to such payment landing pages.
Continue reading ‘Xoom to disable Merchant Payment Interface’
It’s no contest that .com domains are the most popular ones today — over 71 million of them registered as of February 2008. We might also think that the .net domains will come in second. Well, according to EuropeRegistry, it looks like Germany’s country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) has surpassed the dotNet TLD to get the second place globally.
Alexa just announced they’ve changed to a new algorithm in computing the web rankings. Previously, Alexa only relies on its toolbar to gather site usage data to perform web rankings. They’ve added more sources now to improve the metrics but have not revealed what these are.
Or some semblance thereof. If you’ve watched the recent advert on Colgate’s Fresh Confidence online video contest, you’ll realize they’re pushing the website to attract the millions of Filipino YouTubers.
Continue reading ‘Colgate-Palmolive tries viral video campaign’
Having owned the domain name Pizza.com since 1994, Chris Clark finally sold it in an auction and ended up with $2.6 Million. Generic domains still raking in tons of money.
Been getting a lot of reports about blogger’s copyrighted photos or pictures being used and broadcasted on TV or printed on the newspaper without attribution or credit. It seems though that this practice is becoming more rampant nowadays especially when people can get them via Google Image search fairly easy.
Continue reading ‘Tips when your Copyrighted Materials appear on Print or TV’
Sen. Loren Legarda is slowly becoming the Philippine’s anti-pron czar (or is it czarina?). Report from GMANews.tv last week that a complaint from a concerned citizen alerted her office about the website serving as a repository of lewd materials similar to boybastos.com.
Yesterday, I had a short 15-minute one-on-one interview with reps from eBay South East Asia who flew in from their regional headquarters in Singapore to answer some questions for the media on eBay’s expansion in the Philippines.
Continue reading ‘On eBay & Paypal’s presence in the Philippines’
At least 3 bloggers have already asked me about the ongoing landrush of .asia domains — what i think about it or am I interested to join the rush. Surprisingly, this has been on my radar for months now but haven’t gotten much interest.
The recent Paypal withdrawal feature got everybody thrilled especially that bank fees are practically free for amounts greater than Php7,000 (and it’s only Php50 if less than that.) Never mind the lower exchange rates as that’s the only way banks benefit from this setup with eBay/Paypal.
Continue reading ‘The mysterious Php200 Paypal Withdrawal Fee’
It’s finally out and about. Microsoft has raised a bid to buy out search portal Yahoo! for a reported $44.6 Billion at $31 per share (compared to $19+ before the announcement). It’s not a hostile take-over, something Yahoo Executive Boards are considering, though not a friendly one either. Let me get back to my last year’s question — Is Yahoo a Good Buy for Microsoft?
A reader emails in and points to a new site he accidentally stumbled while mis-typing Freindster instead of Friendster (a popular social networking site in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia).
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