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Quick Links 22/05/07
A few good posts that are worth reading on your lunchbreak
A good article on Google’s recent moves to shutdown MFA sites
More Bad News For AllofMP3.com
Amazon Gets Tough With Zilo
How To Fix VLC Media Player In Vista
Wi-Fi Health Fears Are ‘Unproven’
Five Of The Best Game Speedruns Ever
Western Digital Launches 250GB Notebook Drive
How Many Feeds Do You Read? Here Are My Top 10 Feeds
Towards the end of last week and over the weekend I didn’t really get a chance to clear out my feeds in Google Reader, due to going out a lot, my router dying and also building a HTPC over the weekend.
Yesterday morning I was faced with hundreds of unread items. Before doing what I [...]
Bill Gates To Be The Next Billionaire In Space?
According to Engadget a Russian cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station claims that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is planning on spending a few million to be the next Billionaire to take a trip up into Space.
If Bill does splash out the £25m for the trip he will be joining fellow Microsoft Billionaire Charles Simonyi, 58, [...]
Quick Links: 03/04/07
Good start to the week so far with no unread items in Google Reader:
Making The Most Of Meta Description Tags
Rosetta@Home Folding Coming To Xbox 360?
Web Ad Spend Overtakes Newspapers
Create A Functional Footer
Orange Puts The Beeb In Your Pocket
‘Commuter’ Skis Down London Tube Escalator
I actually saw this headline in Google Reader from the BBC, but it’s only when I saw the video on The Register that I realised how insane this was. This YouTube video features Norwegian Peter Olenick skiing down Europe’s longest escalator, all 300ft of it, at Angel Tube station in London.
After watching it a [...]
When Was The Last Time You Brought A Newspaper?
The net was flooded over the weekend with various stories writing the epitaph of the humble newspaper. I actually can’t remember the last time I brought a newspaper it’s been so long. When I was growing up I never brought a daily newspaper, but I think that was because my brother was always [...]
26Mar2007 | Everton | 13 comments | Continued
What Progress Has Google Made With Youtube In The Last 6 Months?
Many pundits predicted when Google acquired Youtube that a number of distribution deals would be signed with major content houses which would legitimise the service and allow Youtube to serve Google adverts alongside videos.
However, 6 months later very few deals have materialised and the big news this month instead has been Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit, [...]
BBC Suspends £150m BBC Jam Education Site
The BBC suspended operation of its £150m children’s education site, BBC Jam, last week after complaints were made to the European Commission that the site unfairly effects the commercial market for similar content. The site, which provides free educational content for children in the 5-to-16 age group, will no longer be accessible from Tuesday.
18Mar2007 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
Quick Links 17-03-07
Way behind with my feed reading but came across lots of interesting stories yesterday:
SoundArt - Speakers Become Works Of Art: I’d love to put these in my pad
Indian Students Told To Put Down The Internet And Get A Life: Are You Listening Ajay?
Microsoft Hits ‘Cybersquatters’
Revenge Of More Windows Vista Tips
Speed Up [...]
Blue Peter Added To List Of TV Shows Faking Phoneline Winners
I first read that Blue Peter, one the foundations of British Society has been implicated in the growing TV show fake phoneline scandal on The Register. At first I thought it was a spoof story, but it’s on the BBC so it must be true. Apparently a technical problem meant viewers calling for [...]
15Mar2007 | Everton | 0 comments | ContinuedSubscribe Now!
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