Topic: WEB - on December 28, 2006 at 12:19:00 PM CET
50 Coolest Websites
How do we select our finalists? We evaluate hundreds of candidates—some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. Many of this year's choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, share or discuss all manners of media, from blog posts to video clips
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Topic: WEB - on December 26, 2006 at 11:17:00 AM CET
The World's Most Beautiful Women Bloggers of 2006
The World's most beautiful women bloggers of 2006 [English vlogs only]
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Topic: WEB - on December 26, 2006 at 11:15:00 AM CET
2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards
Welcome to Wired News' 2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards program. You, the readers, have sent us your picks for the lamest quotes from or about the world of technology during this eventful year. We have selected the "best" of those and present them to you now.
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Topic: WEB - on December 25, 2006 at 3:07:00 PM CET
Is it OK to go online on Christmas Day?
What are you doing reading this - haven't you got anything better to do, on this of all days? Do you, as the great poet said, know it's Christmastime at all?
I hate to leap to conclusions about anyone, but I say, from what I know of you, that you're an unsociable Scrooge, creeping away from the jolly throng singing carols around the tree, to check your e-mails, browse aimlessly, gorge on humbugs and skulk. You're probably not even wearing your paper crown.
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Topic: WEB - on December 21, 2006 at 3:03:00 PM CET
The new 100 most useful sites
Two years ago most Britons didn't have broadband and Web 2.0 was barely a twinkle in a developer's eye. Things have changed - as our cream of the crop for 2006 shows
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Topic: WEB - on December 21, 2006 at 2:48:00 PM CET
2007 Web Predictions
In this post we look forward to 2007 and ruminate on what trends will be important over the coming year.
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Topic: WEB - on December 21, 2006 at 2:01:00 PM CET
Siemens says sets network speed record
Siemens said in a statement it had processed data using exclusively electrical means at 107 gigabits per second -- roughly two full DVDs per second -- and sent it over a single optical fiber channel in a 100 mile-long (161-kilometre) U.S. network, the first time outside of a laboratory.
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Topic: WEB - on December 18, 2006 at 10:30:00 AM CET
All about Asian emoticons (^_^)
The Smileys(Emoticons) are used very often in the sentences of e-mails. They started in USA where the internet had also started of course. In Japan, the Smileys(Emoticons) grew in different manner from U.S.A. Now, there are several kinds of them.
Apparently, Japanese Smileys(Emoticons) are read vertically whilewestern Smileys(Emoticons) are read hosizontally. And Japanese Smileys have more variation than eastern ons. I think the reason is that while American(alphabet) letters in computer are 1 byte, Japanese letters in computer are 2 bytes, so Japanese letters can have more characters. And also, Japanese sentences contain Chinese characters which are phonograms, so it is easier to express and recognize something graphic with letters for Japanese people.
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Topic: WEB - on December 15, 2006 at 1:12:00 PM CET
The 15 Best Places to Waste Time on the Web
It's first thing in the morning and you're at the office. You're sipping your coffee and sifting through e-mail, but you're not quite ready to delve into the real work of the day. So what are you gonna do? Fire up your Web browser and distract yourself by wasting time on the Internet.
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Topic: WEB - on December 13, 2006 at 2:59:00 PM CET
Firefox 3 (on a development branch) passing the Acid2 test
Mozilla has officially released the first public alpha build of Firefox 3.0. Codenamed Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 includes the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine which leverages the open-source Cairo rendering framework and features heavily refactored reflow algorithms that improve Firefox layout functionality and resolve some long-standing CSS bugs.
The reflow improvements in Gecko 1.9 (included in the latest Gran Paradiso nightly build, but not the alpha release) finally enable Firefox to pass the Acid 2 test, a CSS test case developed by the Web Standards Project to illuminate flaws in HTML/CSS rendering engines.
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Topic: WEB - on December 13, 2006 at 10:10:00 AM CET
The Pirate Bay Bans ISP In Protest Move
As I mentioned in the morning reboot, Swedish website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has decided to block the Swedish ISP Perspektiv Broadband’s users from accessing the TPB’s website. The move comes in response to ISP Perspektiv’s decision to block its users from accessing the Russian website, allofmp3.com.
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Topic: WEB - on December 10, 2006 at 12:51:00 PM CET
YouTube allows users to record directly to site
YouTube quietly added a new feature today to its popular user-generated video site today called Quick Capture, which allows users to record video directly to YouTube from webcams plugged into their computers. This new feature eliminates steps in the process of producing video content, making it easier than ever to publish videos to the web.
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