This article is a must for people who was had a “web presence” 10 or more years ago: http://www.comedycentral.com/tosh.0/2009/10/26/goodbye-geocities/ Sometimes it’s nice to look back at how things were and see all the progress that’s been made since then. When I think at how my homepage looked in 1996 and compare it to the web …
Tag: it & technology
Quote of the Day
So The Pirate Bay has executed the Web 2.0 business plan to perfection: give someone else’s stuff away for free – then find a bigger idiot to buy the company. […] in the case of Web 2.0, companies go from “pre-revenue” to “post-revenue” without any revenue in between. That’s where you need a bigger idiot. …
Definition of the Day – Web 2.0
Q: Web 2.0 – are we speaking from hindsight when we try to define it? A: We are speaking from no sight at all. “Web 2.0” is a catch word coined by Tim O’Reilly who was trying to sell books for his publishing company. In my opinion, it was the saddest moment of O’Reillys careeer …
Windows Vista Bonus
Windows Vista demand is so strong that Dell is offering a Windows Vista Bonus to its customers. What is it? It’s the option to have Windows XP pre-installed, of course! 🙂
A new way to collect email addresses to spam?
I’m starting to suspect that spammers try to collect and verify email addresses from PAD files using bogus sites as honeypots. In fact, lately I’ve received several mails which are all based on the same template: Hello, my name is John, and I am an associate of SITEURL Briefly, here is what we do. We …