The global economic crunch seems to have really jolted the internet landscape. A couple months ago, Rupert Murdoch of Newscorp announced that the era of the free news delivery is coming to an end. And “news” is nothing more than a simplified way of saying “information that shapes our world”. With the Internet being little more than [...]
Another dissapointment is Failblog.org. A once funny and quick moving site is now painful to puruse. They should be paying US to surf through their website full of endless ads, popups and video ads. It seems suddenly that popup ads are making their way back, and many successful website businesses have found it acceptable once again [...]
The domain name calling out a website’s web address, also called a URL, is about to become multilingual as we first reported last week. AP writer Kelly Olsen reports that as early as November 16th 2009, we may start to see the use of non-latin scripts such as Korean, Chinese and Arabic. The decision by [...]
It seems Big Brother may be coming to the Blogsphere. Proposed FTC guidelines can be found here. While existing FTC rules already ban deceptive and unfair business practices. These new proposed guidelines aim to clarify the law and for the first time, specifically include bloggers, which they define loosely as anyone writing a personal journal online. If these [...]