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• Google Insights For Search, for advertisers and marketers

  Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

  Google launched a new product very useful for advertisers and marketers. It include a world heat map for the search volume and regional interest, the evolution for a specific search term and the top related and rising searches.
  With Google Insights For Search, it is possible to compare search volume trends across multiple [...]

• Delicious, version 2.0

  Friday, August 1st, 2008

  del.icio.us has just become Delicious. Faster and easier. And, I hope to be at least same useful as it was the previous version.
  Yahoo! blog lists some of the improved characteristics of the new web site: speed (new platform), search(faster, more powerful, smarter), design changed user interface, usability).
  They says that they [...]

• Obsolete results from Cuil

  Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

  I cannot explain to myself how that, if Cuil was launched some days ago, it shows results from web sites that are dead for more than a year ago.
  I just started a search for a very known keyword for me and I discovered that almost all of the results are links to web [...]

• Cuil, the new search engine

  Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

  Anna Patterson, the ex Google employer and one with a very important contribution in the development of the main search engine, decided to start a new search engine, which would provide better and more attractive results. She left Google and now she works with other prominent ex-Google employees, like Russell Power, [...]

• Google Knol, the paid Wikipedia

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Writers has now a good occasion to make profit. Google launched this week Google Knol, the user-generated encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. And every author can earn money from his work, depending on the hits of his articles
  Google official blog says that “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people [...]

• Today, important action of the Romanian police against phishing

  Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

  Today in the morning, very early, the Romanian police (DIICOT - the department for organized crime), in cooperation with FBI, started a very wide action against the identity thieves, especially in five counties known as the main headquarters of the thieves: Vâlcea, Teleorman, Sibiu, Hunedoara, and Bucharest.
  Phishing is a criminally fraudulent [...]

• Yahoo spurns Microsoft last offer

  Monday, July 14th, 2008

  Like I said in a previous post, the strategy of a big company like Microsoft to buy a big company like Yahoo!, cannot be based on a simple offer only. It takes into consideration multiple denies of the targeted company, and it can be foresee for several years, even 10 years, if [...]

• Share your site with Google Sites

  Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

  Official Google Blog announced the launch of the Google Sites for anyone to share information - team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, etc. Google Sites was previously used exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations, on their own domains.
  Now it is possible to [...]

• One more try for Microsoft to buy Yahoo

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  As I said in a previous post when everyone considered Microsoft gave up, it lost a battle, but not the war. Such a transaction is not a simple business deal, to make an offer and wait for an answer. It implies a very complex strategy over several years. So, a first [...]

• The digital Europe - i2010 Initiative

  Sunday, May 18th, 2008

  Preparing Europe’s digital future i2010 Mid-Term Review {SEC(2008) 470}
  INTRODUCTION

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to be a major driver of economic and social modernisation. Today, businesses in the EU devote 20% of investment to ICTs, and the sector accounts for 26% of overall research expenditure. Moreover, 60% of basic public services [...]

• Turn your site into a social network: Google Friend Connect

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Replacing the thousands of social networks with a single big social network? No, but a golden mine, maybe the best service of Google for me and my 287 web sites and tens of blogs, every one with its own users till now.
  So, from now on any of us can have his own social [...]

• You pay for domain name, Dreamhost register it for itself

  Friday, February 22nd, 2008

  I had 5 web hosting packages with Dreamhost, all of it including a free registration of a domain name. But they do not say the person that will be the registrant, and this way you will see later that it is not you the registrant, but Dreamhost, and they can whatever [...]

• Fusu, the Domain Stock Exchange for premium domain names

  Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

  I thought longtime ago for a stock exchange for domain names. As any other domainer. It is the perfect tool for the domain name market. An emerging market. Fusu did it.
  Domaining, as it is defined by Wikipedia, is the business of buying, selling, developing and monetizing Internet domain names.
  The [...]

• Dreamhost and the transfer of the domain names

  Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

  If you have domain names registered with Dreamhost ( New Dream Network LLC), take care that you can be in the same situation as me, having more domain names with Dreamhost, trying to transfer it to another registrar, and losing the domain names because they do not answer to you.
  I was [...]

• New Google’s version of Android SDK m5-rc14

  Thursday, February 14th, 2008

  Android SDK m5-rc14 is now available for download, with new and improved features:

  New user interface
  Layout animations
  Geo-coding
  New media codecs
  Updated Eclipse plug-in

  (Source: Android Developers Blog)

  The developers say that they are still missing the change of the telephony package. “We still cannot detect the ingoing/outgoing call number or send DTMF tones [...]

• Yahoo join the mobile market with oneConnect

  Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  If I’d had enough money I’d invest it right now in the mobile industry. It is a real explosion, many of the biggest Internet companies are interested now in this market.
  Yahoo announced on Tuesday the launch of a new services called oneConnect that will aggregate mobile [...]

• Dreamhost and the full power of the registrars

  Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

  So, let’s see shortly the problem for the readers that did not see my previous post:
  New Dream Network, LLC is a ICANN accredited registrar and, same time, a web hosting company.
  When I bought 5 web hosting packages from them, I registered with them 5 new domain names, the registration [...]

• Dreamhost, the nightmare web hosting and domain name registration service

  Sunday, February 10th, 2008

  Shortly: some years ago I started to use the Dreamhost web hosting service and now, after they closed my accounts without a reason, they refuse to charge back my money and to get me access to the domain names I registered with them.
  It was ok at the beginning, some years ago. [...]

• Google wants to stop domain tasting/kiting

  Sunday, January 27th, 2008

  As of Feb. 11, Google will penalize domain tasting and kiting, by blocking Google AdSense for domain names, stopping all domain tasting in its tracks for domain names that are less then five days old.
  According to Domain Tools, there are partners that Google had that generated as [...]

• A virtual romance

  Saturday, January 19th, 2008

  Karen has 15 years old, she is from South Africa and lives with her parents in Dubai. The other girl is from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and uses on Internet a boy name, Kevin.
  They become friends on Internet and, after a while, Kevin reveals to Karen that she is a girl, in fact. [...]