If you use a little thing called “The Internet” you probably heard about the launch of Firefox 3. Mozilla successfully set a very high world record for most downloads in a single day (8,002,530 to be precise). They plugged their new features and bragged about how version 3 would leave all other browsers in the […]
In the following video presentation, Kevin Kelly, publisher of the Whole Earth Review and exec editor at WIRED, shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what’s coming in the next 5,000 days? Enjoy the show!
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] In what is sure to be a public relations embarrassment for Google, their Street View car was stopped by British police in the centre of Bradford a few days back – for driving in the bus lane. At first they didn’t stop and the police had to put their […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] In what goes to prove that the British really do have a sense of humour, it has been recommended that a government committee be set up to protect Internet users from nasty people online such as abusive bloggers. Hey you…..f**king read this OK? I’m putting a lot of damn […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] It seems that a deadly computer virus is doing the rounds again, this time using emails containing references to the FBI and Facebook to entice people to open it up and install it. The email subject line is “F.B.I. vs. Facebook” and the email has a link about an […]
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By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A man who saw his whole life laid out in a fake Facebook profile has won his libel case against a former friend in the High Court in London. Mathew Firsht was awarded a total of 22,000 pounds ($43,500) after a judge ruled that Grant Raphael had libelled Firsht […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Gmail has introduced the ability for its users to access their email through a secure “https” connection. Previously, if you wanted to access Gmail through a https connection, you had to use a Greasemonkey script or Gina Trapani’s Better Gmail Firefox extension. But now Gmail has integrated it right […]
When you say “scripting language” these days, most programmers think of Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, ASP, or JavaScript. But the history of scripting languages starts much earlier than any of these. The Early Days: JCL At least as early as 1964, programmers realized that having to do everything in code, including copying files, was too tedious. […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Knol – Google’s equivalent of Wikipedia – has today finally gone live. Should Wikipedia be quaking in their boots? Well not quite yet. I’m sure Jimbo Wales hasn’t broken a sweat up to now and isn’t likely to for quite some time with his 116 million users a month. […]