News Corp. and Microsoft are working on a deal that might take News Corp. content off of Google and put it exclusively on Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. That means that if you do a Google search, content from a News Corp. outlet, such as The Wall Street Journal or Fox News, would not show up. [...]
It is surprising that so many celebrities and public figures are accessible through a simple online message service like Twitter. If you are a fan, Ashton Kutcher is just a tweet away. Last night, I started following Elizabeth Taylor (Dame Elizabeth Taylor). Under any other circumstances, it would be considered “stalking” to say that I [...]
Thanks to news hound Johnathan Lyman’s nooze for nose, or whatever, it seems that Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” are really a bunch of geeks. Included here is investigative video from a Portland Oregon tv station uncovering the geek squad charging people for computer repairs that weren’t even necessary. Like for example, a power cord that [...]
To hear Barry Diller speak on the topic of the future of Internet content, you’d almost swear it was the voice of Old Man Potter, the cruel banker in the classic Christmas movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive officer of IAC, said Web users will have to pay for what [...]
Yahoo! is leveling all communities in GeoCities. Effective October 26th, GeoCities will be no more. Yahoo! is warning everyone in any of the GeoCities communities to move their files to Yahoo! Web Hosting. GeoCities is an old, free, ad-based web-hosting service, purchased by Yahoo! a couple years back. Yahoo! began encroaching on the sites with [...]
I find the oddest and sometimes the most thought provoking stuff just looking around on the internet. Sometimes it’s like a big library; sometimes it’s like a trash can. While doing some research on economic predictions for 2009, I came across a lot of search results about “The Summer of Hell 2009.” I have now [...]
