Game of Internets House Sigils [Pictures]
Presented without comment. [Source: Caldwell Tanner – College Humor]
Category Archives: Web
Lessons to learn from the Spamhaus-Cyberbunker battle
Believe some media sources and yesterday saw the entire Internet ground to a crawl by a spectacular cyberfight. It’s a story that’s been overhyped, but the incident does highlight a technical flaw that’s very open to abuse. The story involved a sustained attack of Spamhaus, an organization that maintains a blacklist of servers believed to […]
Goodbye Google Reader: A Musical Ode to the Soon to be Defunct RSS Reader [Video]
http://youtu.be/RC9hbVe7r4s That’s it, I’m going to cry now. No more Google reader starting July 1st. I felt like I should do something to say Goodbye to Google Reader so I decided to make this song. Hope you enjoy it :) [Hitreach | Via MUO]
Internet Party: Why Nobody Gets Anything Done On The Web [Video]
LOL @ Google + Youtube and Bing forwarding its search requests to Google. [Cracked]
eBay: Google advertising largely a waste of money
Research by eBay suggests paying to advertise on Google only works in limited circumstances and even then the effect isn’t massive. It also suggests that for established brands at least, slashing the ad spend causes little damage. The company intentionally suspended its advertising for a trial period, save for in several regions used as a […]
Facebook Likes more revealing than you think
What you “like” on Facebook can predict your demographics and personality according to a Cambridge University study. The authors go as far as to say these links could be misused by oppressive regimes. The study involved asking 58,000 US volunteers to provide their demographic information, allow access to the list of pages they had “liked” […]
Facebook Is Going to Blow Up Your News Feed
Facebook is to change the way its News Feed feature works, replacing it with multiple feeds organized by content type. It could make the site easier to use, but such a drastic change is likely to upset many users, at least at first. The change, expected to be unveiled tomorrow, has been described as the […]
Online Bath Shower Curtains
Now you too can pretend that you’re an online star thanks to this Youtube-inspired bath shower curtain! And there’s a Facebook-themed one too! [Youtube-Inpired Bath Shower Curtain | Facebook-Inspired Bath Shower Curtain]
Facebook Shortcuts Cheat Sheet for Windows and OSX [Pictures]
[Source: Social Bakers | Via MUO]
Entire web is just “19 clicks” wide
A new study suggests that it should take just nineteen clicks to get from any randomly selected web page to any other web page. And if that reminds you of a Kevin Bacon meme, you won’t be surprised to know it’s human behavior as much as technology that makes this so. The claim comes from […]