 Web 3.0: user-generated networks? January 17, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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European researchers took the concepts of Web 2.0, like user-generated content and social networking, into the real world. They hope to create user-generated physical networks so internets could be set up, ... | |
ACID Scans Web for Pirated Multimedia April 05, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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The Virage division of Autonomy has developed search technology that can scan the Web for pirated video and multimedia clips. | |
 Free Music Service to Compete with iTunes October 15, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Universal Music plans to launch a new mobile music service where all songs will be free, according to a recent article in BusinessWeek. To be called "Total Music," the concept would include iPod alternatives ... | |
 Google Plans 2008 Launch of Enhanced Web Hosting December 04, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Google plans to launch Google Sites in 2008. The initial plan is to enhance Google Apps and Google Page Creator features by using JotSpot for collaboration tools. The new enhanced features may set up a possible ... | |
 Networking: Is that bank's URL legitimate? May 01, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Computer-security professionals at the weekend were working on what is being described as a just-emerging IT problem -- the kind which, if the pros are correct, potentially could imperil all e-commerce across ... | |
Study: Users mistakenly trust higher positioned results in Google searches August 21, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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An eye tracking experiment published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication revealed that college student internet users have an inherent trust in Google's ability to rank results by their true relevance ... | |
Why the Web tells us what we already know January 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The Internet is not the font of all knowledge, despite the plethora of information available at your fingertips. | |
Study Finds Men More Than Women Share Creative Work Online June 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A Northwestern University study finds that men are more likely to share their creative work online than women despite the fact that women and men engage in creative activities at essentially equal rates. | |
Has Digg Dug a Legal Hole for Itself? May 04, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Call it the Internet's version of a bloodless coup. A revolt by users of Digg.com led the administrators of the Web site to reverse a decision to remove stories containing code used to circumvent digital rights management ... | |
Security breach at Los Alamos June 15, 2007 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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The Los Alamos, N.M., National Laboratory reportedly breached national security by sending classified nuclear weapons information over the Internet. | |
U.S., British hackers face the music May 10, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Only two days after U.S. federal authorities sentenced a 21-year-old to five years in prison for hacking computers, the British government ruled that one of its citizens should be extradited to the United States for hacking ... | |
Shopping with a sense of humor? woot! June 16, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Not many shopping Web sites will call you a "poor, naive, deluded little fool" to your face. But then again, not many shopping Web sites are as irreverent as woot.com. | |
Experts discuss MySpace issues May 26, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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MIT and University of California experts recently discussed the role of social networking sites like MySpace, the forces fuelling proposed new restrictions for such youth sites and the effects of limiting participation in ... | |
Online world as important to Internet users as real world? November 29, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Is the online world as important to Internet users as the real world? Large numbers of Internet users hold such strong views about their online communities that they compare the value of their online world to their real-world ... | |
Clicks on sponsored links lower than previously reported but show growth potential August 22, 2007 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Sponsored links are a money maker for search engines, but a Penn State study using a search engine's transaction log indicates consumers click on sponsored listings fewer than two times out of every 10 searches, a rate which ... | |
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