Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
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Can Cuil rival Google at search?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Most talks in Tech town since yesterday are sure to include a mention to Cuil. Pronounced “cool”, a newly launched search engine, built and founded by former Google employees. Cuil claims to be indexing more of the web than any of its rivals, including Google. It also promises an innovative approach to searching, unlike any [...]
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The Internet is growing
Friday, June 27th, 2008
It is now official. Big changes are coming the Internet’s way, after ICANN the Internet’s regulatory authority has decided in a unanimous vote to expand the number of top-level domains (.com, .net, .org etc) to a potentially unlimited number. Among other decisions in a Paris, France meeting, is that the ICANN will consider and implement [...]
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Get your photo on the cover of a magazine!
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
A friend pointed to the direction of MagMyPic the other day. A fun, free service, where you can upload any of your photos and make it appear on the cover of a magazine! You can then save the cover image and use it anywhere. On your blog, myspace, or even on your wall…
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New lower “g” Google favicon… what were they thinking?
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Google went right ahead and changed their favicon from the familiar, blue, upper case “G”, to a lower case, lighter blue “g” with a grey-transparent gradient background…
WHY!?
First thought when I noticed that, was my browser had been hijacked and that I was at a phishing site or fraudulent Google imitator. I think that might have [...] -
Nomao - a bee at all your favorite spots!
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I recently discovered Nomao. A brilliant service, described by its makers as “The web 2.0 recommendation service of places and events”. A cool way of pointing out your favorite spots on the map, recommending places and events.
It makes use of Google Maps, and there’s lots of cool stuff you can do there. These include embedding [...]
