Category Archives: Internet news

AOL releases 6 months worth of search data

Seems like AOL recently released tons of data (657k users worth) from their search engine. I haven’t had a chance to read much about it yet, or read into the data, but it’s 1) bad for those users – privacy implications, however 2) it’s pretty valuable stuff for search engine marketing. Here’s some links, and [...]

Open source movies

Making its way around the Internet recently – you may have seen it – is apparently the world’s first open source movie. It is available on DVD, but is of course free to download, and all the source files are also free to download: www.elephantsdream.org Now, it looks great. The designers/renderers/artists, whatever you call them, [...]

Microsoft shares down 11%…

Microsoft’s shares fell by 11% on Friday, and according to Stan Beer from IT Wire, it indicates that Microsoft no longer has confidence in itself. Every day we’re coming closer and closer to the reality of a big change at Microsoft. Soon enough, open source – cleverly backed by Google – will come through and [...]

15 year old pretends to be hired by Google

Pretty funny thing happened this afternoon – Tom Vendetta, a 15 year old kid from New Jersey in the US, pretented that he got employed by Google. Easy to do, but it went a bit of a distance and fooled quite a few people, until he posted his apology on his blog. Certainly a quick [...]

Google planning to offer online storage

Google is at it again, with a leaked document specifying some details of “GDrive” – an unlimited online storage facility. Notes accidentally made public on Google’s website said “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc)”. [...]