So Google acquires DoubleClick for 3.1 billion dollars. There doesn’t seem to be any word on how this will integrate (or be kept separate) from AdWords/Adsense. I’m interested to know what their plans are.
Between Google Search, Google Analytics (on many websites), AdSense, and now DoubleClick, virtually all websites on the web have some [...]
According to Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is delayed until October. This was posted on Apple Hot News (though no permalink unfortunately meaning it will likely disappear:
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get [...]
Here is a little story from Appalachian State University about someone promoting Firefox. This guy seems pretty serious about his effort. And he’s a Freshman, so he’s still got time.
Recently there has been a fair amount of talk about bringing web applications off of the web and onto your desktop, or to put it in really simple terms: providing a bare-browser that has no UI but the site you visit. It sounds good, but I’m not convinced it’s quite workable, at least at [...]
I encountered this the other day. Firefox, Safari and Opera do what I expected and believe to be correct. I’m curious if anyone can explain this, or knows of a workaround that “doesn’t suck”. Take the following testcase:
HTML [Show Styled Code]:
< !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
<HTML lang="en">
<head>
<title>IE Table Border [...]
Is bacon considered red meat? I saw this on TV this morning wile flipping through the morning news. During some stock video of various red meats it was mixed in with mainly shots of beef. It comes from a pig, so I guess under the definition “anything from a mammal is red [...]
The Chase Freedom credit card isn’t bad (1% cash back, 3% on certain items). There is an unadvertised downside. While Chase doesn’t promote it very well, the card contains a tiny RFID chip. This allows you to pay for something using a contact-less terminal (no swiping). Just put your card near [...]
Some of my favorites for this year:
heise.de - Mozilla sues Microsoft over tabbed browsing.
WebKit - Switching to Trident (IE)
NASA - Americans Defeat Russians in First Space Quidditch Match.
CNet - Dalai Lama exiled to Second Life. Among other great fake story titles.
BBC - Sniff Screen Technology.
Google TiSP - Broadband via Your Toilet.
Gmail Paper - [...]
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