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AP cracks down on aggregators. Watch out, Google.

AP cracks down on aggregators. Watch out, Google.AP loves to own rights to all the news articles.LOL!AP is cold war and freedom fightersAP is some guy in the basement of a church.RE: AP cracks down on aggregators. Watch out, Google.Uh, AP content is licensed to Google. Just look at any...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

Putin allies building a pro-Kremlin network of blogs, news sites

Putin allies building a pro-Kremlin network of blogs, news sitesWhy its differentIt's basically the same issue of whether a groundswell of blogger support for some candidate actually turns out to be funded indirectly by the candidate. Think Swiftboat. If the govt wants to put out a message, thats fine. But...

Tags: Blogging, Putin ally, pro-Kremlin, pro-Kremlin network, Putin, news site, blog, network

Discussion threads 2007-10-30

Propeller.com - Netscape's digg-experiment lives on

Despite being given notice of eviction at Netscape.com, AOL's social news site -- the so-called "Digg-clone" started by Jason Calacanis -- will soon get a new name and new home at Propeller.com. Talk of the "dead pool" was a little premature it seems. Having...

Tags: Netscape Communications Corp., News Site, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Google fights fines for not posting Belgian ruling

Google fights fines for not posting Belgian rulingCome on Google, be unMSand comply with your fine, before it grows daily and what's up with keeping history off your localized site. Come on Google, clean up the spaghetti legal rangling.Google should just quit using the sites that complainThe news sites...

Tags: news site, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-20

News site Digg digs deeper

News site Digg digs deeperNO DIGG !!!lol ... this is a good idea, maybe one day inteh future i'll register, i've just seen it a waste of highly valuable time-wasting-time, to join in teh digger's club...

Tags: News Site

Discussion threads 2006-06-23

Google cherry picks the best

Google News is cherry picking, it picks the best stories, and it picks the very best, and most valuable part of a news story: the headline, the first paragraph, and often, an accompanying photograph. As journalists we are taught to write an inverted triangle. We write news stories assuming that...

Tags: news site, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-05-17

Traffic to Israeli news sites up 63-172%

Number of unique visitors to news sites increased by 63% to 172% on January 5th 2006, the day following Israeli Prime Minister's stroke and hospitalisation, Nielsen//NetRatings found. January 5th saw the highest number of unique visitors to Israeli news sites since Nielsen//NetRatings started measuring online activity in Israel in 2003....

Tags: news site, news section

Blog posts 2006-01-16

Most popular news sites in June 2005: Yahoo! News, MSNBC, CNN, AOL News

Associated Press quotes Nielsen//NetRatings data on most popular news sites. In June 2005 Yahoo! News was the top news site with 24.9 mln visits, folloed by MSNBC (23.8 mln), CNN (21.4 mln), AOL News (17.4 mln), Gannett Newspapers (11.4 mln), New York Times (11.2 mln), Internet Broadcasting (10.9 mln), Knight...

Tags: News, news site

Blog posts 2005-07-25

26.2% of traffic to news sites originates from other news sites

26.2% of traffic to news sites originates from other news sitesNot surprisingActually, this statistic doesn't surprise me at all. The way the Web works entails so much jumping from site to site, that it seems natural to find news from another news site.Good to see you've ported your site over...

Tags: Channel management, news site

Discussion threads 2005-06-21

26.2% of traffic to news sites originates from other news sites

According to Hitwise, 26.2% of all visits to news and media Web sites originated from another news site (both print and non-print affiliated) in May 2005. 18.8% of visits to print-affiliated news sites came directly from search engines and directories. 9.0% from entertainment sites. 7.2% from Web e-mail services. The...

Tags: news site

Blog posts 2005-06-21

Google personalizes news site

Google personalizes news siteIt's pretty niceI've been playing around with it all morning and it seems to work well. The site still lacks the aesthetics that characterize Yahoo's and AOL's websites, but Google has never really been about "pretty."I would like to see Google provide a personal portal page...

Tags: Portals, Web technology, Google Inc., news site

Discussion threads 2005-03-10

Nerd news site woos IT execs

Nerd news site woos IT execsSlashdot: News for turds, stuff that splatters.Oh yeah, and BSD is dead. ;)More like Trashdot"As part of the revamp, OSTG will work to lure new mainstream readers. "We're going to do some aggressive outreach to build traffic,""I hope that aggressive outreach includes getting rid of...

Tags: information technology, Nerd news site, Nerd, news site, Trashdot

Discussion threads 2004-07-29

Additional Resources

Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU

Editors' note: This review is part of our holiday 2009 retail desktop and laptop review roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores. There's something to be said for simplicity. The Dell Inspiron i1545-4374PBU might not look like much and its limited supply...

Tags: Notebooks, Keyboards, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-11-07

SEEdit Pro 1.8.0 (Mac)

With SEEdit's fast and powerful Editor Toolbox, insertion of code and classes are always just one click away. SEEdit's handy advanced Tag Editor also handles CSS classes and Javascript functions. Other powerful features to assist professionals and hobbyists worldwide include Tidy Checker for standards-compliant code, the Quick CSS Tool for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Insertion, Sven E Olsson, SEEdit, Insert RSS Item Tool, CSS, Xhtml, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-07

Toshiba Satellite T135-S1309

Sometimes, it takes a good retail excursion to find a deal that isn't otherwise possible. Case in point: the Toshiba T135. While we have already reviewed two different versions of Toshiba's Windows 7 entry to the thin-and-light laptop landscape, we were pleasantly surprised by this retail-only configuration. This is not...

Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, Toshiba Corp., Toshiba Satellite

Product reviews 2009-11-06

MSN in June 2009 (Gallery: The past and future of MSN)

The original MSNWasn't the original MSN a dial-up service like AOL? I'm a little fuzzy, but I seem to remember it being touted as an Internet killer, and it was a service, not simply a web site. Anybody remember?You are correct, it was a fee based service thatallowed you to...

Tags: MSN

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

IronKey reveals new, ultra-secure D200 USB flash drives

Another bad designIf I can lose the cap and damage the connector, it's not secure. Why would anybody make a flash drive with a separate cap any more? I'll continue to wait for a secure drive with a good physical design that operates reliably with NO software installation on host...

Tags: Flash memory, IronKey, D200 USB flash drive, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Malwarebytes accuses rival of software theft

Malwarebytes claims IObit stole from its database of malware samples that its software uses to detect malware on customer computers. Malwarebytes is accusing China-based computer security firm IObit of intellectual property theft, but IObit denied the allegations and said there were problems with its malware submission site....

Tags: Software, Malware, Malwarebytes, IObit, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Viruses And Worms, Security, Management, copyright, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Elinor Mills CNET News

News items 2009-11-03

GOP will present a health care bill

Good startGood work Dana. This blog is not biased to the left (we'll see how you fare in the talkbacks though).There's of course still the question why you put politics on this IT tech site."ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals. Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IT Pros, health care, No., Pelosi, GOP

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

A1 Sitemap Generator 2.0.2 (Windows)

Help search engines crawl and index your Web site with HTML, RSS, and XML sitemaps as defined by Google XML sitemaps protocol including video, mobile and news XML sitemaps. Near-endless Web site scanning options. Configure amount of simultaneous connections to use. Supports crawler filters, nofollow, robots.txt, custom connection and read...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Micro-Sys, Web Site Development, XML, Web Technology, CSS, Channel Management, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Scripting Languages, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-03