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Google Overtakes Yahoo As Most-Visited Web Property
As if Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang didn’t have enough to worry about, Google has now overtaken Yahoo as the most-visited website property, according to comScore. April saw Google Sites attain the number one spot in the Top 50 U.S. Properties ranking for the first time in its history with a total audience of more than [...]
First Take and Analysis: CBS comes to CNet’s rescue
BS Corp on Thursday, May 15, unveiled plans to buy for nearly $1.8 billion Cnet Networks Inc, an online media company that has for months been under fire from activist investors. Terms of the deal call for the New York-based media giant to pay $11.50 per share, a premium of nearly 45% to San Francisco-based [...]
Video: Evilution Story
An animated classroom presentation debunking the lie of evolution.
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A letter from A.E. to Eric Gutkind goes on sale at Bloomsbury Auctions today (May 15th). The content of the letter mostly deals with Einstein's views on religion (Einstein pronounces himself rather unimpressed by the whole idea and rejects it as "childish"). Since his death in 1955, theists, atheists and many in between have engaged in an intellectual tug of war attempting to yank Albert over to their side of the God debate. There is real passion in their efforts to use Einstein as their champion, their expert witness, their proof that really smart people can also be really religious.
Research in Motion today introduced its slickest, speediest, most powerful, and most connected BlackBerry to date: the BlackBerry Bold 9000. Equipped with support for tri-band HSDPA and quad-band EDGE (which means that it will support the highest-speed GSM-family data networks wherever they are available worldwide), 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, stereo Bluetooth, and both assisted and autonomous GPS, [...]
Search giant Google wants to push forward with a new, improved form of image search that’s based on visual characteristics, not just text. Last week, two of the company’s scientists presented a paper outlining a system they’re calling VisualRank.
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- A digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu has made an amazing video for The Bird And The Bee's lovely song "Again & Again". The set? His Mac desktop. You sort of have to see it for yourself to understand; luckily, Dennis has dropped it on YouTube so that the world can see it in low-res glory: Innovative, and definitely cool. It doesn't seem to be an "official" video for the song...but if it isn't, it oughtta be. [Source: MacRumors forums] #
- I have been one of the early users of StumbleUpon, and I have seen the ups and downs of it. It is really heartening to read this: "Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. (At the time of this writing, it is at 4,994,826 registered users). That number is kind of meaningless because it counts anyone who has ever registered for the Website-rating and discovery service, and who may no longer use it. StumbleUpon, which is part of eBay, does not disclose how many active users it has." Full Story on TechCrunch #
- I installed WP 2.5 only last week, and this has me worried. Concerned. And to be honest, a bit scared too. What if I lose it all some day by accident? Should I revert to an older version? Will there be a patch out? Will it screw up all my plugin settings? Hmm... This will keep me worried for the next few hours, I know... From Big gotcha in WP 2.5: If you’re a self-hosted Wordpress user and have upgraded to WP2.5, you need to know there is a serious ‘gotcha’ in the revised sidebar widget building section. If you use text widgets to include custom HTML, javascript or other non-PHP code and want to make changes or add new ones then be very careful how you do it. #
- Demonoid (torrent tracker) was shutdown last fall. For those who don't already know, Demonoid is back up. Looks like they found a new host for the Web site and the tracker is functioning properly as well. For those with old accounts, all the old data has been saved. It's almost as if they never left." #
