It’s been a bad week for Alex Tew, the young British mind behind the MillionDollarHomepage. Lessons in greed are never fun. After Russian (reportedly) extortionist cyber-terrorists crashed his site for six days with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the highest bidder for the final 1,000 ad pixels is threatening a lawsuit seeking almost every last dime Tew has made on the site.
One Million Facts On MSN Search
The MSN Search team did something more remarkable than plug in about a million more facts into the Instant Answers feature set: they updated their blog!
Million Dollar Homepage Falls To DDoS
Lots of outages have hit the now-legendary Million Dollar Homepage site, and have been blamed on a massive distributed denial of service attack.
World Of Warcraft Cracks 5 Million
Blizzard Entertainment, creators of some of the most popular games ever to hit the computer, announced on Monday their “World of Warcraft” game hit 5 million players worldwide. The top-selling, subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) took off a year ago and has been incredibly successful.
The Google Algorithm: 400 Million Variables
A century ago (well, ok, 1999) an article on Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s new company described the nascent Google as a search engine that (gasp) just searches.
Apple: 19 Days, 1 Million Videos Sold
The iTunes Music Store proved Steve Jobs right, in demonstrating demand for legal video downloads that have now topped a million in number.
Digg Unearths $2.8 Million In VC Cash
The online service where users vote, or digg’, news stories to move them up in the rankings has received funding from Omidyar Network.
Firefox hits 100 Million Downloads
Computer weekly carried the news about it today. FireFox now has 8% of the market. Hardly surprising that Internet Explorer remains dominant since it is issued with Windows and every configured PC ever shipped. But this 8% is significant to webmasters everywhere.
Firefox Tops 100 Million With Google’s Help
The open source browser that has made a dent in Internet Explorer’s market share recently reached the 100 million milestone. Almost a year after its release, the Firefox browser was downloaded for the 100 millionth time on Wednesday, the Mozilla Foundation said.
VeriSign Pays $2.3 Million For Weblogs.com
The Weblogs.com site shows a list of currently updated blogs, and allows blog owners to ping others to alert them of new updates.