I thought that my anger over poorly designed web sites was based on my spending every day maintaining and designing them, that I’d become like a chef who has no tolerance for junk food. That may be part of it, but apparently everybody gets upset at bad web sites and experiences “mouse rage syndrome” visiting [...]
Internet now helpful to relationships
Well-known studies have showed that TV directly causes social disengagement and bad moods.
However, Internet is used for many social purposes — email, newsgroups, chat rooms, etc.
In 1998, Kraut et al. showed a correlation between Internet use and declines in social relationships and isolation,
Greater use of the Internet was also associated with small, but statistically significant [...]
Google efforts reasonable against click fraud
Internet Facts and SEO
In February 2005, Google, Yahoo, and Time Warner. were sued by Lane’s Gifts & Collectibles in a class-action lawsuit over click fraud. The company alleged that Google and the other companies had been improperly billing for pay-per-click ads that were not viewed by legitimate potential customers. The case was settled earlier this year and as [...]
Collaborative Publishing on the Web
According to Hsing Wei’s Masters Project for the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University)
“The Hype vs. Reality vs. What People Value: Emerging Collaborative News Models and the Future of Newsâ€
There is much confusion over the hype vs. reality of collaborative news and interactive technology’s impact. What is out there? How should the emergence [...]
File name fandango
You may develop your website on a Mac but chances are that it will be hosted on some other form of Unix server. BSD and Linux are the most common, and most of us don’t know or really care as long as the site works. But not knowing what operating system hosts our pages can [...]
MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites
Today Hitwise issued a press release reporting that for the first time, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. To put MySpace’s growth in perspective, if we look back to July 2004 myspace.com represented only .1% of all Internet visits. This time last year myspace.com [...]
1 in 6 use Firefox
Tech Web’s Gregg Keizer reports that the Firefox web browser has reached a market share of 1 in 6 while Internet Explorer continues to lose ground.
Amsterdam-based OneStat reported that Firefox now accounts for 12.9 percent of browsers used worldwide, and 15.8 percent of those used in the U.S. Microsoft’s IE, meanwhile, fell to 83.1 [...]