BIT320 Remix: internet Archives

Texas to get broadband over its power lines

two texas companies plan to offer high-speed internet over the power grid

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

Firefox Victory

Microsoft's IE7 will adapt the RSS icon - in response to the growing preference for Firefox over IE

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

High Web traffic means sales

Walmart, Amazon, eBay and Apple post big online holiday sales - based on predictions using amount of traffic between retail sites and shipping sites

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

This article praises Walmart.com, Amazon, Apple and eBay for high online holiday sales. It’s interesting because actual results aren’t released until January, but predictions are made based on the amount of traffic between these sites and their shipping sites. If web users are browsing items and clicking on links to ship, they’re probably buying. Online shopping is predicted to grow about 24% this holiday season. That doesn’t surprise me, but I don’t think I’ll be included in that statistic. During the rest of the year, I do sometimes appreciate the convenience of online shopping - even though actually seeing/touching my purchase is a lot more fun. But during the holidays - I think it’s more than seeing the items, it’s actually experiencing the stores. What’s Christmas shopping without all the decorations and music surrounding you at the mall? That’s my opinion - and I’m sure it isn’t shared by all, especially those who hate the crowds more than they love the atmosphere.

The article makes a good point about a different use for online retail sites: research.

…retailers such as Target Corp. and Best Buy Co. may be coming up short in terms of converting traffic into Web sales. It was not clear, however, if this was due to some other dynamic — whether shoppers were simply looking at products online that they would later buy in stores, for example.

I do this all the time - and it can really make your trip to the store easier. Especially when you have to learn a significant amount about the purchase before you buy - like computers or other electronics.

In jb's blog, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Texas utility to offer Net access over power lines

Reuse is the best answer. Harnessing what we already have.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

How To Integrate a Database with AJAX

AJAX with PHP and mySQL - a high-octane-solution

In del.icio.us/mridge, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

A New Blog from WWW Founder Tim Berners-Lee and a Bit of WWW History

A new blog posted by WWW founder Dr. Tim Berners-Lee

In del.icio.us/mridge, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

» Structured blogging–what's in it for users?

Standardized blogging - not a good thing. Unlike other standardized things like RSS/XML

In del.icio.us/mridge, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

TypePad Goes Down, Bloggers Bothered

Bloggers are bothered by service interuptions - another sign blogging has become more than a "fad"

In del.icio.us/mridge, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

Classroom Blogging

Another nay-sayer turned on to the blogging world

In del.icio.us/mridge, 12/20/2005 | Original | Archive

In Texas, 'Net's power trip

Texas utility to provide Internet over power lines

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Tech giants' tough market

Big tech companies shuffle their assets

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Icahn's issue with Google

Icahn seeks to derail Google as partner of AOL

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20051215/tc_zd/167516;_ylt=Ao_9PXHXyJw1eXYauHorjtEjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

Microsoft has extended an olive branch in announcing on Wednesday on the Team RSS Blog that it will adopt the same orange RSS icon used in Mozilla Corporation's Firefox browser

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Microsoft Kills Mac Internet Explorer

Microsoft will stop supporting the Mac version of Internet Explorer at the end of 2005

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Best companies at turning web traffic into purchases

Best companies for getting buys out of web visitors are wal-mart, ebay, amazon, and apple computer

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

TXU to Provide Internet Over Power Lines

The utility TXU Corp. said Monday it will offer high-speed Internet service over power lines to several million Texans as part of a $150 million project aimed at improving its ability to monitor the power grid.

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Web Sites Let Users Send E-Mail to Future

In the year 2009, on the 25th of April, a man named Greg is supposed to get an e-mail

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Server Side Up

In a recent post by Shady she comments,

“We would input information for a retailer through the web and it wouldn’t show up, out of the 5 - 10 times we tried to input, 2 or 3 would actually go through and show up on the website. It wouldn’t work, and then it would work, and then it wouldn’t work.”

Supermatt adds to Shady’s comments with,

“We have had similar issues were our code partly works, but never inconsistency when we update data. Although we have not inserted much today.”

Without knowing exactly what you were inserting I can’t say for sure, but I would bet that you were running into problems with non-escaped characters. With many databases, characters such as apostrophes and quotes can cause an insert statement to fault. This occurs because of the coding language uses these characters to delimit statements and so when it encounters when of these characters in your statement, it thinks it has reached the end of the statement and the insert fails. So when inserting things such as apostrophes, ampersands, quotes and such use HTML ASCII codes such as ” or &. Or escape the characters with a \ as in \&.

In Matt's Musings, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

RSS Specifications and RSS Feeds

Information related to RSS and XML, including software, newsreaders, specifications, content syndication, and the history of rss.

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Servering Inconsistancies

So, as we were wrapping up our project 2 and just trying to our last minute testing to make sure everything works and we ran into some inconsistancies.

We would input information for a retailer through the web and it wouldn’t show up, out of the 5 - 10 times we tried to input, 2 or 3 would actually go through and show up on the website. It wouldn’t work, and then it would work, and then it wouldn’t work. We couldn’t decide if it was our code’s problem or as we recently discovered at bud’s office, could be a server issue. What does everyone else think? Does anyone else run into the same problems?

In Shady Waters, 12/19/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Start-up sues Microsoft

Mobile e-mail start-up sues Microsoft

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/17/2005 | Original | Archive

Right on the Wiki

So a few people were talking about Wikipedia and the possible lies behind it since it its a user populated database. Sorry I couldn’t find the post for some reason, our tag cloud and the number of posts we have in totally is extremely large -_-

But I ran across an article in the NYtimes, a science journal, Nature says that Wiki

is about as accurate in covering scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica

And that the problems regarding incorrect information is actually very rare.

students got into a debate about the integrity of Wiki because many students use it now for research projects and what not. How much can you trust this or any source on the internet. I’ve found Wiki to be wrong on certain things but for the most part it is a detailed source and most of the time I try to get other sources that back it up or take it with a grain of salt.

In Shady Waters, 12/16/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Science Journal: Wikipedia Pretty Accurate

Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that relies on volunteers to pen nearly 4 million articles, is about as accurate in covering scientific topics as Encyclopedia Britannica, the journal Nature wrote in an online article published Wednesday.

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/15/2005 | Original | Archive

Will video kill phone star?

See eye to eye with video calls

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/15/2005 | Original | Archive

MTV's new musical URGE

MTV, Microsoft to develop online service

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/14/2005 | Original | Archive

Stock scam at fingertips

Stock-fraud scam uses text messages

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/14/2005 | Original | Archive

Bloglines

Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install -- simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

Brilliant Button Maker by LucaZappa.com

Make buttons, easily

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

FreeTechBooks.com - Free computer science and programming books

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine

Another social bookmarking engine. Looks interesting, I like the interface

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

Let’s see some ID, please - The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com

The end of anonymity on the Internet

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

An Introduction to Activism on the Internet

A strange input and post information page

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

Emily Change eHub

eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media s

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

CyberJournalist.net

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

YouSendIt | Email large files quickly, securely, and easily!

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet

The Web is learning new tricks every day. These surprising sites and services will help you solve problems and save time

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

InternetFrog.com:

The Internet Frog has many tools for webmasters, domain owners, network administrators, and website developers.

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

Webopedia

The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions.

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

outfoxed| Personalize your Internet

Outfoxed uses your network of trusted friends and experts to help you find the good stuff and avoid the bad. (And a lot more, too.)

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/13/2005 | Original | Archive

10 Most looked up words

10 Most looked up words in online dictionaries on the internet

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

A problem with Firefox? (Gasp!)

I’m not too happy about this, either. Firefox is among my top five favorite new things of 2005. (I know, it’s older than that, but I was a little late.) Anyway, we’ve been blogging about Firefox plug-in issues while using computers at the Bschool. With Firefox on the brain, I came across this brief article about the new version 1.5. It seems that Firefox is susceptible to a certain type of history file contained on bad websites. The file causes Firefox to freeze up upon start until the file is deleted.

Don’t worry fellow fans - the security threat is low and doesn’t open up systems to bigger attacks. The file can be removed and there are ways of dealing with this issue, published by both Mozilla and other sources.

Does anyone have 1.5 yet? It’s only a few days old, right?

In jb's blog, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

CNN.com - Web site focuses on happy news - Dec 12, 2005

happynews.com only prints good news - founded by PageWise, Inc chief executive Byron Reese - learn the good news that they won't tell you on TV

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

HappyNews.com - All The News That's Fun To Print

only good news welcome here - all good news website

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Man apologizes about fake Wiki bio

I recently made a post about how a man found himeslf to be party to the assassination a Robert Kennedy in a Wiki bio. The author of the bio has apologized to him and his excuse was,

“I didn’t think twice about just leaving it there because I didn’t think anyone would ever take it seriously for more than a few seconds”

It was intended to be a joke between him and a co-worker. It’s still hard to believe that a site that gets 10’s of millions of viewers a month would have questions about credibility. The falsely accused man said that because of this and many incidents as such, he fears that we’re soon going to get goverment regulation over th internet. Is that something that we really want?

In The Blogstar, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Town decked with wireless

Arizona town will go wall-to-wall wireless

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Now there's HappyNews

Website takes a happy approach to the news

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo makes tasty deal

Yahoo acquires social network del.icio.us

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Author apologizes for fake Wikipedia biography

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Wikipedia becomes Internet force, faces crisis - Yahoo! News

Really not that surprised! People can post their own things on here.

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Ariz. Town Will Go Wall-To-Wall Wireless - Yahoo! News

Ann Arbor should seriously do this

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

rest/ahah - Microformats

AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript). It involves using XMLHTTPRequest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHTTP) to retrieve (X)HTML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML)

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Gmail File Space

Gmail File Space (gspace) v0.1: This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (2 GB) for file storage. It acts as a remote machine. You can transfer files between your hard drive and gmail. This is similar to "Gmail Drive" on windows platform. Your gm

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Apples To Oranges - CSS For Bar Graphs

Having a working knowledge of XHTML and CSS when developing applications is a big help in knowing what can be done client-side and what should be generated server-side.

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

What time is it?

Click anywhere on the map to see what the local time is

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Google Analytics

Get Stats about your Site

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Thunderbird -- Reclaim your inbox

Get Thunderbird it has an RSS reader

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

NewsIsFree: Your Personal News Portal

Use RSS feeds to create your new portal

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Blogdigger : RSS / Atom Search Engine - Search Blogs

Search RSS feeds

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Domain name '.eu' open for business

Now people within the European Union can use .eu instead of a global one like '.com' or one of a specific country like '.fr'

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 12/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Pluging in your Fire Fox

Does anyone else find that the firefox in the Bschool always needs plug ins to run certain sites? What are the plug ins for and why aren’t they already installed? I run the sites on my computer back and how and I never have problems?

Bud talked about how the business school freezes programs on their computers because the more you mess with them makes all sorts of complications, but still….can we keep updated so that we can view sites in firefox? I always have to switch to explore when I want to view certain sites and that’s inconvinient and make me wonder why I use firefox at school.

In Shady Waters, 12/08/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Study: 1 in 4 targeted in phishing scams

About one in four Internet users are hit with e-mail scams every month that try to lure sensitive personal information from unsuspecting consumers, a study says.

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Gartner: CIOs should prepare for 'second' Internet

During the next year, chief information officers (CIO) should pay acute attention to how technologies such as blogging and podcasting will affect their businesses and be ready for innovation with those technologies by their competitors, Gartner analysts s

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Study: Google users wealthier, more Net savvy

U.S. residents who prefer Google’s search engine tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online, a new study has found.

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/07/2005 | Original | Archive

Report: Bad Web Registrations Abound

More than 5 percent of Internet address names issued in the United States are registered using "patently false" contact information, making it difficult or impossible to contact the sites' owners, according to report submitted to Congress.

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/07/2005 | Original | Archive

It's online, but is it true?

How useful is Wikipedia, really?

In del.icio.us/tigerlily23, 12/07/2005 | Original | Archive

It’s online, but is it true?

Someone made a post awhile back saying how sites are using their blogs as post for everyone to view on their actual website. The question was then raised about how they appreiciate the interest of being on the site, but should they really be considered a reliable source on the subject on hand. A similar discovery has been made with Wikipedia Encyclopedia’s site. B/c they allow anonymous users to add encyclopedia entries and update entries by others people have started to question the accurancy of the info. In fact recently found errors written about himself falsely insinuated he was party to Robert Kennedy’s assassination. He was Kennedy’s administrative assistant in the early 1960s, and his pallbearer. The article here suggest that “any place where the general public is allowed to freely express their opinion without having any sort of prior approval from authority — it is dangerous.” That being said, how are we to determine what information is trustworthy or not?

In The Blogstar, 12/07/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

AOL off the selling block

Microsoft, Google still in talks with AOL

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/07/2005 | Original | Archive

CNN Pipeline

CNN now offers a new service, called CNN Pipeline, in which they broadcast multiple simultaneous feeds of live news stories. The user can choose between different stories at the same time. This service costs $2.95 a month or $24.95 per year.

Today, for example an someone could have used it to watch the 9/11 Commision or the Saddam trial. This is a good service to have once you start working full time for a living, as you want to know whats happening, but can’t get to a tv.

In musings of william h, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Harmonica site

Tutorials on how to play the harmonica

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive

Wikipedia Tightens Submission Rules - Yahoo! News

Probably smart since I've seen a lot of papers quoting Wikipedia!

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive

.xxx domain

I agree with Zee that internet pornography and other adult sites will not be eradicated. Therefore, it does make sense to make the .xxx domains. A major benefit that I see is that parents can set preferences so children can’t visit .xxx websites. When I was growing up, it was easy as could be to search ‘adult’ sites as there was no way for parents to filter them. This at least gives parents a way to filter the content, so children can navigate the web without seeing things that they shouldn’t see and without the need for a parent to be watching over their child’s shoulder. Thus, the child will feel more freedom.

It also gives people that want to view these sites with a way of categorizing them. I suppor this as well. If people are going to look at ‘adult’ sites, they might as well be able to find them quickly and efficiently. That doesn’t hurt anyone.

What do you think about this possible move to adding .xxx domains.

In musings of william h, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

New browser named Flock enhances online creativity

New take on browsing

In del.icio.us/mridge, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive

Job seekers should edit what they place on their blogs

More ways for a potential employer to find out information about you

In del.icio.us/mridge, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive

The Used Book Connection

My website/business that I created, but needs to be renewed

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 12/04/2005 | Original | Archive

E-mail glitch hits MSN, Hotmail users

Emails were delayed from being sent due to increase in email traffic, partially caused by a virus that sent out a lot of mail

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 12/04/2005 | Original | Archive

AOL sued over billing

Lawsuit: AOL cheats customers with illegal billing

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/04/2005 | Original | Archive

IE flaw gooses Google

IE flaw lets intruders into Google Desktop

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/04/2005 | Original | Archive

AOL accused of illegally billing subscribers

AOL in trouble for creating secondary accounts for users without their consent

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 12/04/2005 | Original | Archive

Digital Music News

Pretty Interesting website on Digital Music Going-Ons

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 12/04/2005 | Original | Archive

.xxx Domain

ICANN postponed approval of the .xxx Domain proposed by the online adult entertainment industry. This article is pretty interesting in that it outlines the benefits and misconceptions people have about the domain. The online pornography industry is not going anywhere as long as they have the First Amendment under their belt. So to cut down on children’s accessibility to the websites and decrease the spam involved, an organized structure must be put into effect.

Now I don’t know what this does for those advocating for the removal of such websites. An approval of the domain would increase the amount of websites and show that ICANN is supportive of the content on these websites. This is also tricky. Even though I feel as though all this should be put away, I know that in reality that this is not possible. So instead of fighting a lost cause, why not improve the bad aspects of it?

In zee124, 12/04/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.

In del.icio.us/hiccups, 12/03/2005 | Original | Archive

Oh Wireless, Oh Wireless for everyone!

I ran across a really interesting article talking about the rebuilding of New Orleans. They are going to put wireless in the city, starting in the city center and french quarter and then slowly work its way out. They are placing points on top of the street lamps so that the signal will be faster. This is mainly to jump start the city back up and bridge the digital divide for low income families.

I know that there have also been talk of wireless also in the Seattle area and Ann Arbor, but I haven’t seen anything. I think this is going to be an interesting area in the future, not only because of the technology applications but the consequences that will come about, intended and unintended of having the ability to access the internet anywhere anytime. One such consequence is that the internet providors are complaining because it is the state governments entering the market in providing wireless.

And even at the sametime, wireless is provided so freely, if a family cannot afford to spend money on a computer that has wireless….the real question is, what’s the point then?

In Shady Waters, 12/01/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

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