That clunky but lovable monument to beginning-level Web design, Geocities, is going by the wayside. That’s a name that hasn’t been heard often in the last several years, but anyone who was doing anything on the Web in its early years knows about this service and has probably created something on it. Back before the [...]
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Latest Facebook lawsuit alleges site exists only to snoop on you and sell the information
Five users of Facebook recently filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that the true purpose of the site is to collect information about consumers “in the most innocuous way possible” and sell it to third parties. While it’s doubtful that the suit will gain much traction, the litigants’ analysis of the Facebook business model is [...]
Inauguration online: Web’s not up to replacing TV just yet
Just about everybody and his third cousin was offering live video feeds of the inauguration of President Barack Obama today. But being able to access and successfully view one of them involved a lot of searching, crashing, gnashing of teeth and cursing.
With extraordinarily high numbers of Internet users going online and visiting the same sites [...]