Got that hacking jones, but can’t find anyone to hack with? Head on over to JustHackIt, a site aimed at developers that launched last night. It is a place for developers to find each other, work on projects, and maybe even start a company. Developers can post projects they want to do and search through postings from other hackers.
The site describes itself this way:
Read more »What's in a Web mail address? If you happen to be iamthegreatest@gmail.com, for example, will people think you a narcissist? And if they do, will they be right?
Scientists at the University of Leipzig have taken a close look at these questions, and yes, they say, people really do judge others based on the e-mail addresses they choose. What's more interesting, however, is that these judgments tend to be right.
Read more »The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ''.com,'' making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system.
Read more »Despite being ensnared in legal proceedings with the MPAA, isoHunt is continuing to grow. Adding fuel to the ’significant non-infringing use’ argument is their latest partnership, with the Creative Commons music distribution site Jamendo.
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New figures suggest that 92.3 per cent of all email sent globally during the first three months of 2008 was spam.
The data from Sophos also indicated that 23,300 new spam-related web pages were created every day during the period, or one about every three seconds.
For the first time Turkey’s contribution to the global spam problem puts it in the top three offending countries.
Compromised computers in Turkey are now responsible for relaying 5.9 per cent of the world's junk email, compared to 3.8 per cent in the final quarter of 2007.
Read more »In yet another gimmicky attempt to revitalize sagging box office sales, NTT Communications Corp will be installing fragrance-releasing equipment (think: giant Glade Plug-Ins) in several Japanese theaters that mixes different herbs and oils to create aromas that supposedly enhance key on-screen plot elements. According to Kyodo News, NTT "will use the Internet" to synchronize the scent generators -- which are located under what we assume to be more-pricey "aroma premium seats" -- during seven scenes of the multi-theater April 22nd premier.
Read more »The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness.
The bill targets pro-anorexia websites and publications that encourage girls and young women to starve themselves.
It will affect websites, fashion houses, magazines and advertisers.
If approved by France's upper house, those found to have encouraged severe weight loss could be fined up to 45,000 euros and face three years in prison.
Read more »Yahoo Inc. will begin showing homemade videos on its online photo-sharing site, Flickr, in a long-anticipated move that may be too late to lure most people away from the Internet's dominant video channel, Google Inc.'s YouTube.
Flickr's video technology, to debut late Tuesday, represents the latest example of Yahoo trying to catch up to Google in a crucial battleground.
The Webby Film & Video Awards today unveiled a slate of nominees ranging from cult comedy series to political parodies to mainstream news, reflecting a changing media landscape where Web-based upstarts go head-to-head with big media companies.
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