Archive for the ‘Webware’ Category

Microsoft + Yahoo = One kick ass ad network!

01 February 2008 - By Ahson Rafiq - Filled in News, Webware
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Apparently microsoft made a 44 point something billion offer to yahoo, people are concentrating on what would happen to yahoo as a search engine but what about the adnetworks?
Yahoo has the highest payouts and Microsoft provides the hihgest ROI that i know of, if msft buys out yahoo and they form an ad network that [...]

The Visual Dictionary - What Google thinks the English Language Looks Like.

19 January 2008 - By TimK - Filled in Webware
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Researchers have used the eponymous search engine, Google, to define in images what the English language looks like (and apparently it looks like a Jackson Pollack painting.) The study has used images from the search engine and ranking computer technology to collect the most commonly associated images fro each word of the English language. [...]

CEA’s Ban Gizmondo for inappropriate behaviour at CES

12 January 2008 - By Ahson Rafiq - Filled in Webware
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Watch the video at Gizmondo

This was quite unexpected, Reps from Gizmondo pulled an odd stunt at CES 2008 where they closed all the flat screen displays on all shows using a TV-B-Gone IR remote, which was kinda funny but mostly just mean and wasted so many people’s time and for this the CEA has banned [...]

Second Life Bans Banking

10 January 2008 - By TimK - Filled in News, Webware
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Second Life (no thanks, it already feels like I’m trying to live more than my fair share of lives) suffers from the credit crunch. OK the global economy is in trouble, money is pouring out of the investing markets and the banks have stopped lending to each other, on top of all this the [...]

Mozilla vs IE, the gloves come off

07 January 2008 - By TimK - Filled in Webware
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Viral, viral, viral. First we get a monkey drumming along to Phil Collins, which, it has to be said was pretty cool, but the latest viral to hit the browsers comes from a far more interesting source, and could have far wider reaching consequences from the legal department at Microsoft. Mozilla, the creators of Firefox [...]

WikiaSearch Will Launch This Month

04 January 2008 - By Mary Stage - Filled in News, Webware
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Yes the long awaited arrival of the WikiaSearch will officially be on January 7th 2008 as predicted by Jimbo Wales late last month.
I recently made a post here on BlueVerse that brought up the question of when they would launch, so I thought it only fitting to let our readers know when the exact date [...]

Otavo: The Search Engine With an Intention

29 December 2007 - By Mary Stage - Filled in Blogging, News, Webware
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While Otavo has been called the intention engine, you may not know the reasons why. Otavo is quite simply a social bookmarking site where users can collaborate on a search project together or on their own. It’s a great community of members and staff who are more than ready to help you [...]