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Unfamiliarity stems demand for 'soft' search
News Search providers focusing more closely on churning contextualized results, but adoption remains niche for now due to lack of user understanding, say analysts.
Tags: Web 2.0, Search, Internet advertising, Semantic Web, Site, Search Result, Search Technology, Internet, analyst, Search
No buying sprees ahead for social networks?
News Consolidation will be part and parcel of still maturing social networking, but content partnerships and alliances may be way forward, say industry watchers.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Personal applications, MySpace, Site, International Data Corp., digital content, social networking, monetization
Hacker site claims breach of third security firm Web site in a week
News HackersBlog breaches Web site of F-Secure in string of attacks on security firm sites.
Tags: Hacking, Web sites, Security, Site, F-Secure Corp., Database, Bitdefender, SQL, SQL Injection, security company
Mirroring Web sites with wget
Techguide Vincent Danen demonstrates the basics of wget for mirroring entire Web sites.
Tags: Open source, Mirroring, Security, FTP site, HTML page, Wget, Site, Vincent Danen, exploit code, researcher
Hollywood hunts The Pirate Bay; site down again
News Sources say lawyers in Sweden working for copyright owners are tracking down whoever provides bandwidth to The Pirate Bay and then forcing them to cut off service.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Digital rights management (DRM), Site, Web 2.0, Web sites, BitTorrent, Blackout, attorney, Ukraine
In Philippines, free ads site tops them all
Blogs Last September, just after typhoon Ketsana (locally known as "Ondoy") razed the Philippines, veteran IT chronicler Jim A...
Yahoo!7 buys totaltravel.com
News Microsoft and Seven Network's joint venture Yahoo!7 has just acquired totaltravel.com to gain a foothold in the online travel market.
Tags: Web 2.0, E-commerce, Site, TV, Spokesperson, Accommodation, Australia, acquisition, Web 2.0, E-commerce
Pirate Bay suffers outage, site back up
News The controversial BitTorrent search engine goes down for at least three hours the day after the site's ISP reportedly cut off service.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Web 2.0, search engine, Site, CBS Interactive Inc., Entertainment Company, BitTorrent, entertainment, Internet Service, Pirate Bay
Facebook provides free tool for translating sites
News Translations for Facebook Connect allows Web developers to tap technology that has been used to translate the social network itself into 65 languages.
Tags: Web 2.0, Site, Web Site, single sign-on, authentication, Google OpenSocial, Lee, Web 2.0, board, Facebook
Inclusiveness without boundaries leads to poor project execution
Techguide Missed deadlines, poorly thought out requirements, and a lack of leadership are enough to doom any project. Benny Sisko shares his experience of having to take control of a project gone wrong.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Web sites, Site, content management system, CIO, job, marketing, leadership, Web Site
Twitter on the blink again, no word on cause
News Following two outages, the microblogging site appears to be undergoing another technical hiccup--feeds have stopped updating.
Tags: Web 2.0, Twitter, Site, RFC, denial of service, Web 2.0
Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites
News Closure of Pirate Bay led to temporary 300 percent increase in the number of file-sharing Web sites, says McAfee.
Tags: Peer to peer, Piracy, Open Source, Site, BitTorrent, P2P, security company, McAfee Inc., File-sharing, Internet Service Provider
Private-sale shopping sites are hot
News Saddled with unsold merchandise amid the recession, makers of luxury goods are selling their wares through members-only shopping sites.
Tags: Business plans, Business development/management, E-business, Shopping Site, GSI Commerce Inc., home furnishing, Business, Business plans, Vente-Privee.com, Site
Ads--the new malware delivery format
News "Scareware" and other malicious content are sneaking onto high-profile Web sites via ad delivery systems that are not secure, experts say.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Malware, Site, e-mail, New York Times Co., trojan horse, ad network, Web Site, Web
Trend Micro launches new security tracking tool
News New product provides IT administrators with detailed information about who on the network is doing what, when and from where.
Tags: Business applications, PC security, Data security, Malware, Security, Site, Trend Micro Inc., Tool, social networking, e-mail
