LeBron James Suits Up For MSN
Charles Barkley proclaimed that he wasn’t a role model, nor did he want to be one. LeBron James, conversely, is choosing to embrace the influential position he holds as a direct result of his NBA superstardom.
The three-time all star for the Cleveland Cavaliers announced on Monday that he would be participating in a venture from MSN that will portray the basketball phenom’s journey from humble beginnings to athletic fame and fortune, all in a storybook format geared toward children and teens.
Larry Page, Google Look Into AI
Larry Page spoke before the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference on Friday, and he made some fairly standard remarks about working harder to solve humanity’s problems. One mildly interesting thing popped up, though: Page mentioned that Google is developing artificial intelligence.
What to Do When Your .com is Taken
Recently I setup a survey at SurveyMonkey trying to gauge people’s feelings and impressions on the top-level domains such as .com, .net., .biz and so on. I purposefully left off .gov and .edu top-level domains because you’re not supposed to be able to get them as a small business.
I thought I’d share this completely unscientific survey with you:
Question 1: Imagine you visit a new site. Please rank the following top-level domains on the overall impression they give you of the site and company. (One answer per domain, please.)
Bud.tv King Of Controversy
Earlier this year I wrote an article about Anheuser-Busch launching their online entertainment network called Bud.tv. In the article I mentioned that the company was concerned with installing an effective age verification system.
Alexa’s New Features
Most people know by now that Alexa is far from perfect, but it’s one of the only and best traffic ranking and monitoring tools available. On Friday they announced some new features:
* Geographic user report – See what percentage of users for a site comes from each country.
* Traffic rank by country – This one is interesting to actually see your site’s ranking in different countries.
MyBlogLog – A Honey pot for Spammers
There seem to be mixed feelings about MyBlogLog, the social networking service that Yahoo bought in January, and the one whose widget you can see in my sidebar, as well as the sidebars on lots of other blogs (it’s the one with a row of pictures of different readers who have visited my blog recently).
Text Size and Visit Length
I would not consider myself a "blind man" or a senior who needs the text size to be set at 24 points. Yet, I see that website owners forget that it’s a pain in the a** to read web copy especially if it’s in small text size.
Microsoft Applies For Anti-Phishing Patent
In a recent bevy of application disclosures, it was discovered that in September of last year, Microsoft applied for a patent regarding methodology for notifying Internet users whether or not a particular URL is associated with a list of known phishing sites.
We’ve all gotten the e-mails before. In what appears to be correspondence from a legitimate company, a letter comes across our respective e-mail client urging us to “verify our account information” by giving up the skinny on our bank accounts, credit cards, and social security numbers.
Mobile Company Offers Free Internet Calls
Challenger mobile, a global telecom service, has unveiled a feature that will speed the process of registering with the company.
When customers complete their one-page online registration and activate their account they will receive all the settings they need to start using the service via text message.
IBM Seeks PC Time For World Community Grid
A little CPU could go a long way toward making inroads on several medical research fronts, including cancer, muscular dystrophy, and AIDS, and IBM promotes its World Community Grid to help with that.