Today, the usual Google logo has been replaced by the ubiquitous black-and-white bar code design to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the first bar code patent. On October 7, 1952, inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver were granted the first patent for their invention. The only difference between the bar code we know today […]
Godaddy.com promotes their web site services all across the various media outlets. They even spent millions on a Super Bowl campaign in 2007. They claim that anyone can have a professional e-commerce web site for only pennies! Visiting godaddy.com reveals pages of smiling non-technical people, mostly attractive women, with bold face phrases such […]
Are you suddenly becoming aware of web sites like angieslist.com and craigslist.com? If so, you’re not alone. The craigslist.com site has been around over a decade now and remains a free “classifieds” service for local communities. Alternatively, angieslist.com is a paid premium referral and review service, which recently launched a major television […]
Satellite Internet service is the only option available for many rural Americans looking for a high speed broadband connection. Not so long ago DirecTV was the only game around, offering DirecPC satellite Internet. Today we have two choices, Hughes-Net (HughesNet) and a new upstart called Wild Blue (WildBlue). They both offer […]
What is a wiki you ask? Well, wiki is sometimes interpreted as the acronym (WIKI) for ‘what I know, is’, which describes the knowledge contribution, storage and exchange up to some point. Wiki software spawned from the concept of “open editing,” where visitors can create and edit any of the content, fostering knowledge collection, […]
Lazygirl of Geek Girl News writes, “With a Java -vs- PHP intro, ZDNet covers a Marc Andreessen speech, which actually goes farther in discussing many web technologies and a look at their future success. Key points are Zend PHP is succeeding over Sun Microsystems Java Server Pages due to the simplicity of PHP. […]
Once again eBay penalizes people who block known spam networks. eBay users who actively block unscrupulous advertising and spam sources in their firewall will find eBay functioning at only 50% for them. If you are blocking the bad doubleclick.net and akamai.net you will find eBay is broken for you, and eBay doesn’t […]