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The end of the internet is at hand - seriously

May 16, 2008 – 11:00 pm

I know we have sites like LOLcats.com and icanhascheezburger.com and a myriad of other equally goofy sites that have cutesy captions but I think the end of the world is coming - or at least the Internet with the arrival of .. are you ready …. are you sitting down?
I present to you - LOLScobles
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By Steven Hodson |

The slippery slope of free

May 16, 2008 – 9:46 pm

It is human nature - we love getting stuff for free. We love getting free stuff so much that we either don’t see or don’t care about the strings that come attached with all this free stuff. At the center of this freeconomy of course is the ever growing Google with more free products [...]

By Steven Hodson |

$1 Billion to fight child pornography

May 16, 2008 – 4:53 pm

Every once in awhile governments do actually come out with something that is totally worth expending billions of dollars and huge amounts of manpower on in order to fix things that are the scourge of our society. Today Dominic Rivera of The Inquisitr (Duncan Riley’s excellent new blog) has a post about how the [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Miscellaneous |

Silverlight gets ported to Linux - Welcome Moonlight

May 14, 2008 – 8:32 pm

While everyone seems to be positioning themselves around Adobe AIR for delivering Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) there is another player in the same space that goes by the name of Microsoft. Microsoft released it’s newest version of Silverlight (2.0) back in November of last year. As usual there were cries from the non Windows [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Microsoft, Software |

I tried really I did but Gmail still sucks

May 13, 2008 – 4:00 pm

For the past week or so I have been trying to let all this Web 2.0 goodness rub off on me and been using Gmail - the poster child web mail application for the movement. Sure I had tried it in the past but after a day or two left it in the corner [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Google, Software |

A supposition that could have far ranging effects

May 13, 2008 – 1:57 am

I took a bit of a break from sitting in front of the computer to watch a bit of television with my wife and read a little bit when out of nowhere really something got me thinking along a totally different line. I am not sure exactly what spark the thought but it went [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Miscellaneous |

It’s about respect

May 9, 2008 – 5:27 pm

Since the very first web pages links have been the backbone of how we travel around the web and how we keep track of things that interest us. With Google they have become a commodity as they are the basis of how Google calculates their Page Rank for every site or blog in their [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging |

RSSMeme working on an API

May 9, 2008 – 3:56 pm

I just got an email from Benjamin Golub the man behind RSSMeme which is an aggregator for Google Shared Feeds. In the email he lets me know that he is doing an overhaul to RSSmeme which will include the availability of an API for developers to use to access RSSmeme data. AS well he [...]

By Steven Hodson |