Web hosting is such a good, renewable business model that even big search engines offer it. The web hosting industry is huge. Choosing a good web host is such a preoccupation with some people, that they spend entire days or weeks drifting from one review site to another, chatting with web host chat operators, or [...]
Imagine if each poor kid in the developing world had access to computers. That’s what the OLPC project hopes to achieve. For those who have not heard about it, OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a project to manufacture cheap laptops to be used by poor children in developing countries. They’ve come up with a [...]
Google is finally moving away from being just a search engine to a content provider with Knol, their Wikipedia-like encyclopedia. The main difference between Knol and Wikipedia, is (in the case of Knol), highlighting and financially rewarding the invited authors (whomsoever gets chosen), with a portion of the ad revenue share. I would describe Knol [...]
There is an ongoing poll at Mashable which the guys named the Open Web Awards. It’s described as ” A contest to find the best sites on the Web.” I thought it looked interesting to see the results, so I spent some time voting. Although many good sites were not in the nominee list, it [...]
I just came across this news video clip, and I found it really charming and weird. At first I thought it was some robotic mouse, but upon closer inspection, it really is - a REAL mouse!
Somethin’ different.
The cat and mouse in that video were just too adorable, lol. The cat looks really confused, while the [...]
WidgetBucks has finally come round to realizing that non US/Canada traffic is after all, still lucrative enough not to be ignored. So, they’re now paying for that traffic with CPM ads. After being lambasted last month for seemingly not paying out to non US publishers, this appears to be their latest work around.
It (finally) seems [...]
