All Entries Tagged With: "MSN"
On Microsoft, Google and Fear
Yesterday’s news regarding Microsoft’s offer to buy out Yahoo shouldn’t surprise anyone. LiveSearch is almost irrelevant as a search engine, and MSN has seen declining traffic in the latter half of 2007. Yahoo, if not the most used search engine, is still the number one stop on the internet, edging out Google in overall traffic, [...]
The top 5 Free Email Notification Programs
Hope you had a good weekend. Here’s another episode in our free software reviews saga, and this time on free email notifiers.
Not so long ago, I used to have a single email account besides the one I have at work. Unfortunately, those days are over and today I had a hard time trying to remember [...]
Major Companies, The Vatican And Governments Busted By Wikipedia Scanner
As some of you might know I’m running two other sites, www.fifa2008news.com and fm2008news.com. Both of these sites feature latest news about two football or soccer video games. They even have news that can’t be found anywhere else on the internet, since both games have their roots in Europe, I get the information before the [...]
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, [...]
Has RSS Usage Killed Off Personal Homepages?
This time last year personal homepages were all the rage, with both big players like Google, MSN and Yahoo! and also small players like netvibes and pageflakes all frantically developing services.
However, it’s rare these days to see any interesting stories break about personal homepages. I wonder, is this because RSS readers have stolen their [...]
Save Time Reading Connected – Subscribe Now!
The best and quickest way to stay up to date with the latest posts on Connected Internet is to subscribe by RSS.
If you are new to RSS and its benefits then for a brilliant quick summary check out www.WhatIsRSS.com.
Every reader is different so I’ve setup several options for keeping up with the latest posts and [...]
Why Is Yahoo’s Search Bot Constantly Crawling My Site?
I like to keep an eye on my ‘Who’s Online‘ page which can be quite informative and a very quick way of gauging how much traffic I’m getting.
One thing I’ve noticed is that Yahoo’s Search Bot is constantly crawling my site, and that there are always multiple instances running at the same time. Does anyone [...]
Connect Google Talk to AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo!
I’m not sure why anyone would want to do this, given that there are perfectly good services like Trillian out there, but following these instructions will allow Google Talk to connect to AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo!
Out of curiosity I had a go at setting it all up but I gave up halfway through.
Google Voice/IM Service Using Jabber To Launch Soon?
It seems that there may be some truth to the rumours that Google is looking into building a IM/VoIP client. The domain talk.google.com is live and directs to www.google.com/talk/ which gives a 404 error.I’m expecting a service using Jabber similar to AOL’s allowing Google’s messenger to communicate with all the other big services – [...]
See Who Is Linking To Your pPosts – Try TalkDigger
Kevin Burton alerted me to another linking/citation service from PubSub which I didn’t realise was available. The PubSub service is quite cool and is well laid out – here’s PubSub’s profile for Connected Internet.However, it was frustrating yet again to see that PubSub have picked up sites other linking tools like Technorati and IceRocket [...]
Personalised Homepages – Not Cool Anymore?
After watching the channel 9 video which includes a demo of the upcoming Microsoft Start project it made me realise that portals don’t seem to be investing a lot of effort into allowing users to personalise their homepages anymore.
In the late 90s this was all the rage and offering personalisation was seen to be important [...]
Wavigo Adds Skype To Its All-in-one Instant Messenger
I think this is a first. Wavigo has added Skype support to its IM client which already supports AIM, MSN and Yahoo!
I’ve never come across Wavigo before and I hope their client is better than their website which is awful. I’m going to give it a go though. I already use Trillian [...]
