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Online Clothing Sales Surpass Computers for the First Time; To Hit $22.1B in 2007
Americans last year spent more online on clothing than they did on computers for the first time in history, according to the first part of The State of Retailing Online 2007 report by Shop.org and Forrester Research. The report found the apparel, accessories and footwear category reached $18.3 billion in 2006 and is expected to hit $22.1 billion in 2007. 

Gartner Says 80% of Active Internet Users Will Have A Second Life 
By the end of 2011, 80% of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a “second life”, but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner, Inc.

User-Generated Content No.1 Threat to Media and Entertainment Industry: Accenture Survey
Media and entertainment executives see the growing ability and eagerness of individuals to create their own content as one of the biggest threats to their business, according to a recent Accenture survey. 

Click Fraud Rate Rises to 14.8% in First Quarter
The pay-per-click (PPC) industry average click fraud rate jumped to 14.8% for 1Q07 from 14.2% in 4Q06, according to Click Forensics. The average click fraud rate was 13.8% for 3Q06, 14.1% for 2Q06, and 13.7% from 1Q06.

Worldwide Rankings of Top Web Properties for February 2007: comScore
comScore reported the February 2007 worldwide rankings of top Web properties from its World Metrix service, based on unique visitors.  Microsoft and Google sites attarcted over half a billion unique users in February, followed closely by Yahoo with 459 million unique users worldwide.

US Online Travel Sales to Reach $146 Billion: eMarketer
US online consumer travel sales - airline, hotel, rental car, cruise and vacation package reservations - will reach $94 billion this year, up 19% over 2006, according to eMarketer estimates. Sales will remain strong to hit $146 billion by 2010, although growth rates will steadily decline.

Love Online Video: 100 Million Americans Streamed Video Content Online
While Americans still love their TVs for watching television programming and DVDs, at the end of 2006, 58% of Americans age 12 or older with Internet access had streamed some form of video content online, according to Ipsos Insight from MOTION - the company’s biannual study of digital video behaviors. 

RIAA's Legal Steamroller May Grind to Halt
Last year, in the first file-sharing lawsuit ever to go to trial, Jammie Thomas was found liable for sharing two dozen songs -- and the judge ordered her to pay $222,000 to Capitol Records. Now, that judge has admitted that he made a "manifest error" during the trial, and Thomas may get another day in court.

Verizon Snags $678M Deal to Overhaul DHS Network
Verizon Business has won a massive government contract to deploy and manage a global IP network for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The contract is for a cool $678.5 million over 10 years, and to bank the bucks, Verizon will act as the primary service provider under the DHS OneNet program, an advanced next-generation network effort designed to consolidate multiple legacy networks into a new, secure IP network.

Orange to Peddle iPhone in Eastern Europe, Africa
Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has signed a new deal with Apple to offer the iPhone to its customers in several parts of Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. The company already has an exclusive deal with Apple to sell the phone in France. The Orange deal follows a series of hookups with several other carriers around the world who signed contracts to sell the iPhone.

B2B in a Web 2.0 World, Part 2: Social Media Marketing
Corporate social networking ... channel communities ... enterprise social software applications -- the business of business has entered the Web 2.0 world, and there's no going back. Business-to-consumer e-commerce has been fully engaged by Marketing 2.0/SMM, and now it's business-to-business' turn.

Cox Throttles, AT&T Flip-Flops, MacBook Finds Itself
If you're tired of picking on Comcast for the way it throttles back peer-to-peer traffic, you can now direct your angry gaze to Cox Communications. Cox does the same thing, according to researchers at the Max Planck institute. In fact, it's one of three ISPs they caught engaging in P2P management.

Who Is Facebook Trying to Protect?
Google and Facebook have been at each other's throats in recent days over Friend Connect, Google's platform for mirroring your social networking data around the Web. Apparently, Facebook doesn't like the fact that Friend Connect does exactly what it's designed to do.

Virtualization: Savings Are Not Guaranteed
Virtualization is one of the most significant hot-button topics in enterprise today. Linux server virtualization has allowed enterprises to leverage resources more efficiently. It also is giving CIOs and IT managers a tool to address growing corporate concerns over environmental issues and rising energy costs.

Bear Stearns: Are the Directors at Risk?
The recent fall and near collapse of Bear Stearns has been breathtaking. What has caused this once great company to flirt with becoming a penny stock? Will there be stockholders' suits for this remarkable collapse of value? Management of Bear Stearns decided to ride the mortgage-backed securities boom at the worst time.

Yahoo's Bostock Bristles at Icahn's Intervention
Yahoo fired back Thursday at activist investor Carl Icahn, claiming he misunderstood the talks the company had with Microsoft and that its board of directors, not Icahn, was looking out for shareholders. The letter from Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock came hours after Icahn unveiled his proposed candidates to replace Yahoo's board and take control of the Sunnyvale, Calif., company.

Blockbuster Credits Turnaround Strategy for Q1 Profit
Blockbuster said Thursday it swung to a first-quarter profit on lower expenses and improved domestic sales, bolstering the movie rental company chairman's belief that a turnaround plan is working. The Dallas-based chain said its earnings after preferred dividends totaled 42.6 million, or 20 cents per share, in the three months ended April 6.

Software to Save the Contact Center, Part 2
The call center, as an entity, has often been tasked with "making more with less." Customer expectations are rising, labor costs are rising, competition is rising. So what's going down? Budgets, frequently. However, in the past, companies could rely on a high degree of spending from consumers and businesses.

Study: Cox, Comcast Play Traffic Cop Day and Night
Cox Communications is actively blocking BitTorrent file-sharing users from enjoying unfettered Internet services, according to a new study based on more than 8,000 Internet users. Like Comcast, which was the first major cable Internet service provider to be outed for throttling peer-to-peer data, Cox says it interferes with the traffic to ensure quality service for all of its customers.

What does it Take to Develop Cross-Platform Applications
You need to develop an application which can stretch across both the hardware and operating system boundaries as well as satisfy your concerns about the protection of your code. It needs to be fast, reliable and above all portable.    Now you need to decide which one of the numerous programming languages will fit your needs. This article attempts to discuss a few options that do exist as well as some of the pitfalls. This article is in process....

The Power and The Promise of PHP: Article I
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is an HTML - embedded scripting language with much of its syntax borrowed from C, Java and Perl. Intimidating as it may seem, PHP does not reflect the difficulty or knowledge needed as with many of these languages. This is the first article in a series of PHP articles which will only be found on Linuxdig.com. Speak It

RFC Request for Comments
The "Request for Comments" document series are a set of technical and organizational notes about the internet. The RFC's define oftenly the structure or protocols of operational environments. Examples include the inner workings of the TCP/IP protocol and connection information for IMAP, SMTP and POP. If you are a programmer or would like to further your knowledge about how the internet works, then you should to read the Request for Comments. Speak It

Do you love coffee?
If you love coffee and you love your computer, then why not integrate the two of them together. Programmers and Geeks you now have a system case to unite around, finally, someone has brought unity to the computer industry. The Ultimate System Case  Speak It

The Magic of Php
Over the next week, I will discuss the power of PHP and what it can do for you. PHP is a popular cross platform scripting languarge which was built with the web developer in mind, while still maintaining the power needed for non web related backend server / scripting operations.So stay tuned. Speak It

Speech Now Available on LinuxDig
Co-developed with Rob Hall at www. impossibilities.com a new Dynamic spewch system which is currently in Beta Testing. This is only available on this page of the website.. Rob is currently further developing the Flash Version which will be available at www.impossibilities.comSpeak it!

What is Linux?
A Quick look at Linux for those who have lead a penguin free life. This article is currently being edited. If you should read this article at anytime during this phase, please feel free to send questions or suggestions now and they will be added to the final product.Speak It

Run Multiple O/S and protect your data With VMWare
This article is a kind of part 2 to the "Run Multiple O/S Concurrently with VMWare" article I wrote previously. This article discusses some other uses besides using VMWare for multiple operating systems. Speak It

Run Multiple O/S Concurrently with VMWare
VMWare allows users to install and run concurrent multiple operating systems on top of an host O/S. In this article I will discuss performance issues, additional information, tips, and a real world example of Win 2k , Red Hat 7.3 Linux and Win XP.... (Updated 07-15-2002 9pm - Performance test at bottom of page)Speak It

Test your systems memory with Memtest86
Memtest86 is not only the perfect way to verify that your system's memory is error free, but Memtest86 is even better when tweaking your bios / overclocking and determining your memory is up to the task.

Dual Monitor ATI Radeon LE 64 Meg In Linux XFree 4.20
Dual Monitor Support with the ATI Radeon 8500 is enough to make anyone very happy. In this article I have included a configuration file you can use and also installation/testing information which will get you up in just 5-15 minutes if all goes well. If your running RedHat 7.3, and your fairly confident in Linux, you'll be up and running in 2. (Update July 13 2002)

ATI Radeon 8500 VIdeo Card
One of ATI newest video cards the Radeon 8500 LE 64 meg is a MONSTER. To be Plain and simple, it cranks. Under Windows XP it drives dual monitors in standard 2d mode at blazing speeds. Speak It

CSS Browser Error Campaign
Developing HTML for the web can be quite the daunting process. Numerous browsers support their own set of rules and then decide which of the W3c standards they will follow. Conquering this problem has been every web developers dream, but of course, a dream it shall remain. Speak It

Articles to Come
WU-FTP Security Webmin Ati Radeon on the Linux Platform MSI Motherboard AMD XP 2000 Processor VMWARE Linux VMWARE Windows Redundancy MySql Red Hat 7.3 Speak It

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Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator now available

Collaborative Real-Time Content Delivery

Discount Shopping Made Easy

Personal Electroencephalogram

Radio Frequency Identification for Pedestrian Navigational Assistance

A Book Exchange of Infinite Proportion

Google Tips and Tricks

Spatially Enhanced Presence Management

Make Phone Calls from your Sharp Zaurus PDA

Mark Birbeck on RDFa
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Annevk on HTML5
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Martha Rotter on Moms Building Games
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Brian Suda on 2D barcodes
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FOAF Images
Back in 2002 I submitted four cute faces as my entry in the informal FOAF icon competition. Now those images are pretty ubuquitous but somewhere in the intervening years and server moves the page I maintained linking to them disappeared. With a nudge from danbri I put together a new page to serve as [...]

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5
I finally made the upgrade. Some things might be a bit wonky around here, especially as I converted all my categories to tags. Expect some broken links and feel free to comment here if you spot anything missing. On the plus side, I added a new Sitemap-style page

Cloud Security
Just came across a new blog called Cloud Security by Craig Balding that looks to have a lot of potential. Cloud computing is definately the trend du jour and we need more discussion and information around the security of cloud services. Wonder if it’s this Craig Balding? One for the subscription list…

The Terrible And Tragic Tale Of Brian The Snail
While clearing out some old papers and files I’ve carried around with me since I left University, I came across this poem that my friend Dominic Taylor wrote for me. It’s based on a true story, an event that occurred to me in early 1991. I thought the poem had been lost forever, so I [...]

links for 2008-04-17
The charmed dot-com life of Jeff Bezos - Apr. 15, 2008 “If anything, Amazon demonstrates how a cutting-edge Internet company - of all things - can succeed slowly. The trick is taking a million tiny steps - and quickly learning from your missteps.” (tags: amazon profile business) Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes (tags: humour)

SearchDay: Google Sitelinks - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Google Sitelinks - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Training Your Search Marketing Employees; Taguchi Sucks for Landing Page Testing; and more.

SearchDay: Delving into SearchMonkey
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Delving into SearchMonkey; Ask.com to Acquire Dictionary.com; Keeping SEO Staff Motivated; and more.

SearchDay: Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Branding is Dead; Long Live SEO; Google's Superiority Complex; Emotional Motivators in Landing Page Optimization; and more.

SearchDay: Don't Hire a Butcher to do a Baker's Job
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Don't Hire a Butcher to do a Baker's Job; Small Business Owners Need Twitter and LinkedIn; Syndicated Versus Pure Search Referrals; and more.

SearchDay: Google AdWords Editor a Great Tool for Content
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Google AdWords Editor a Great Tool for Content; Google Friend Connect to Make Advanced Social Features Easily Available; Google on Spam; and more.

SearchDay: Yahoo Rejects Microsoft: Worst Decision Ever?
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Yahoo Rejects Microsoft: Worst Decision Ever?; Optimization by Numbers; Black, White, and Blue All Over; and more.

SearchDay: A Seat at the Table for Web Analytics
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: A Seat at the Table for Web Analytics; Giving Links Away; SEM/SEO Events to Attend; and more.

SearchDay: Microsoft Feels Out Social Network Acquisition
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: About Face(book): Microsoft Feels Out Social Network Acquisition; Why PPC Lead Gen Campaigns Miss Volume Targets; 100 Million Theoretical Dollars; and more.

SearchDay: Conducting a Redirect Audit on Your Web Site
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Conducting a Redirect Audit on Your Web Site; CEO Tells Wall St. Why He Invests in SEO; Convincing the Executive Team to Invest in SEO; and more.

SearchDay: Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Offer; Yahoo Responds
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Double Conversions in One Month; Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Offer; Cinco de Mayo; and more.

Storefront Service IRUN Integrates with eBay
Merchants who want to run their own Web shop in addition to selling on eBay should take a look at IRUN, a full-featured hosted Web site builder.

eBay Watch: Feedback Updates, New Shipping Rules
EBay (again) clarifies changes to the feedback system, the auction giant opens the doors to its Playground and new shipping requirements are announced.

Craigslist Files eBay Countersuit: Divest Now
Craigslist filed a countersuit alleging eBay used its minority stake in Craigslist to steal its corporate trade secrets.

Vendio Lifts the Veil on eBay Competitor Strategy
Vendio's Competitive Seller Research tool lets eBay vendors scope out top sellers' secrets to success.

USPS Rate-Change Tips for E-tailers
New shipping rates take hold today, but it's not all bad news, as volume and online postal discounts are available.

The Tangled Web of PCI Compliance, Are You Ready?
New e-commerce security requirements for payment processing are vague enough to leave everyone wondering what to do, as the June 30 deadline approaches. We offer compliance strategies for different budgets.

Where's the Money in User-Generated Content?
Are social networking sites ever going to reap big sales for e-tailers? Media executives discuss the topic as the phenom goes from fad to trend to mainstream.

MySpace Meets eBay, Yahoo
MySpace social network will let users share their public profile information, such as pictures, videos, and text, across the Web.

eBay Watch: Spring Discounts, Mobile Selling Tools
The auction giant offers seller savings with Spring promotions, drops eBay Live for 2009, tests buyer rewards. Plus, cell phone selling tools.

Amazon Takes Issue with NY Online Tax Law
The online retailer mounts a constitutional challenge to the controversial state law that aims to clamp down on collecting Internet sales taxes.

HP Drags Down Dow
HP investors are worried about the company's plans to buy EDS — and with good reason.

Jeff Raikes to Head Gates' Huge Charity
Patty Stonesifer, current head of the Gates Foundation, will hand off the CEO role.

HP's Busy Week
With an acquisition of EDS in the works and quarterly earnings coming out, HP promises to be the biggest newsmaker in the tech sector this week.

Techs Dodge Financial Fallout
Another debacle in the financial sector had little effect on the tech sector Friday, as a number of strong earnings reports limited losses.

Microsoft: EC Fine Is Not Fine
The company will go to the mat over the European Commission's $1.35 billion fine.

Technical Analysis: Stocks at Support
The Dow and S&P could find support near here.

Investors Name Their Price on Priceline
Investors fed up with the daily flood of bad news from the financial sector might do well to look at Priceline.com.

Stocks Plunge on Financial, Inflation Worries
Rising oil prices and renewed banking fears outshone better than expected results from Cisco on Wednesday.

Technical Analysis: Correction Time
How deep will the pullback go? Hopefully not much further.

Cisco: U.S. Market Is Soft
Cisco is still growing its business overall and remains optimistic about future growth.

Cisco Comes Through
Cisco Systems atoned for a difficult quarter three months ago with better than expected results late Tuesday, while Yahoo gained on hopes that a deal with Microsoft can still be reached.

Is Microsoft Weaker After Failed Takeover Bid?
Microsoft is going home empty handed from its skirmish with Yahoo's Jerry Yang, but has the company been hurt or just biding its time?

Big Money and Open Source May Not Compute
UPDATED: Open source has the adherents and the contributors, but what about the income? Patience, say the developers.

Yahoo's Fall Upends Stocks
Yahoo shares plunged Monday on news that Microsoft is abandoning its takeover bid for the company — but the surprise is that it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Yahoo's Next Moves
With the Microsoft deal apparently over and its stock taking a pounding, what's ahead for Yahoo?

Ballmer Throws In the Towel on Yahoo Bid
In a surprise move, Microsoft's CEO withdraws his offer for search provider Yahoo, citing economic differences.

Lawmakers Urge Conditions on XM-Sirius
Key congressmen call on FCC chairman to take a long look at consumer harm in review of the satellite radio merger.

Sun Sinks Tech Stocks
A steep plunge in shares of Sun Microsystems outweighed a better than expected jobs report on Friday.

Technical Analysis: Bulls Push On
The major indexes are making progress against some tough levels here.

Chips Sales Grew 3.8 Percent in Q1 2008
Some may think the world is getting 'flatter', but chip sales are not. International markets are more than offsetting the sputtering US economy.

MySpace Wins Record $230M Suit Against Spammer
It's a landmark victory as a California court awards the social networking site staggering damages against a spammer.

FTC Tightens Up CAN-SPAM Rules
After three years of mulling public comments, the federal agency revises its antispam regulations.

Q&A: Jules Polonetsky, Chief Privacy Officer, AOL
AOL's top privacy watchdog talks about how online data collection really works, balancing data and consumer privacy, and the government's role.

PayPal Prepping Next-Gen Platform
Please don't think we compete with Visa. We're much different, the payment company says.

Will Mobile Ads Finally Get Their Due?
At an FTC town hall meeting, ad experts consider when sophisticated mobile applications will hit the mainstream in the United States.

Is Video Advertising Ready For The Web?
With uncertainty clouding rich-media ads on the Web, Interactive Advertising Bureau introduces guidelines for common formats for online video placements.

Is Microsoft Weaker After Failed Takeover Bid?
Microsoft is going home empty handed from its skirmish with Yahoo's Jerry Yang, but has the company been hurt or just biding its time?

Ballmer Throws In the Towel on Yahoo Bid
In a surprise move, Microsoft's CEO withdraws his offer for search provider Yahoo, citing economic differences.

The Tangled Web of PCI Compliance
New e-commerce security requirements are vague enough to leave everyone wondering what to do.

Amazon Sues New York Over Internet Tax
The online retailer mounts a constitutional challenge to the controversial state law that aims to clamp down on collecting Internet sales taxes.

All Eyes on Time Warner, AOL as Profits Fall
A sweeping overhaul at its AOL unit can't help offset sagging earnings at the media conglomerate, which plans to spin off its cable group.

Tellme to BlackBerry: Listen Up
The Microsoft subsidiary targets BlackBerry for 'on-the-go' information services.

Cox Shells Out $300M to Cash In on Vertical Web Ads
The media kingpin grabs Adify in a shift into the potentially lucrative space of building vertical ad networks.

AOL to Open VoIP APIs
On the heels of Open AIM, AOL is now planning to open its pay-per-minute Call Out service to developers.

AOL Touts Turnaround Success After Record Traffic
With steady growth in visitors and page views to its redesigned properties, the Internet pioneer claims its transformation is paying off.

Google Display Ads in Your Pocket
Search giant joins the great migration as advertisers look to the mobile device.

Amazon Tops Expectations on Soaring Sales
Driven by strong growth in electronics and general merchandise, Amazon posts healthy first-quarter results.

Yahoo Hits Estimates, Gives No Ground on Microsoft
While the software giant's ultimatum looms, Yahoo executives said its transformation strategy is working following a solid quarter.

Six Apart Doubles Down on Monetizing Blogs
Blogging software provider expands into services business as it expands ad network.

Google Makes Good
Despite concerns over sagging click rates and economic worries, the Internet titan posts another bang-up quarter.

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Google overtakes Yahoo as most-visited U.S. Web site
InfoWorld May 16 2008 11:23PM GMT

Indictment puts Internet pranksters on notice
CNN May 16 2008 8:22PM GMT

AT&T reverses one-iPhone policy
CNET News.com May 16 2008 7:02PM GMT

Fujitsu tackles e-paper's slow screen speed
InfoWorld May 16 2008 2:39PM GMT

Yahoo teams with WPP on digital ads
Fortune May 16 2008 1:31PM GMT

Yahoo rebuffs plan to oust board
BBC May 16 2008 10:58AM GMT

Yahoo! strikes back at Icahn
The Register May 16 2008 10:54AM GMT

Google Translate speaks in (more) tongues
The Register May 16 2008 9:12AM GMT

ICAHN VS. YAHOO
SiliconValley.com May 16 2008 8:47AM GMT

CBS in Deal to Buy CNet to Increase Online Ads
New York Times May 16 2008 5:06AM GMT

Yahoos Chairman Disputes Icahns Accusations
New York Times May 16 2008 5:06AM GMT

Icahn Proposes Dissident Slate of Yahoo Directors
New York Times May 16 2008 1:35AM GMT

Yahoo tells Icahn that its own board knows best
InfoWorld May 16 2008 1:02AM GMT

Yahoo responds to Icahn
InfoWorld May 16 2008 12:03AM GMT

DNS trouble knocks NSA off Internet
InfoWorld May 15 2008 9:45PM GMT

Yahoo opens up Search Monkey
InfoWorld May 15 2008 9:15PM GMT

How to stand out on the Internet
Fortune May 15 2008 7:54PM GMT

The Amazon loses its minister
The Economist May 15 2008 7:02PM GMT

AOL to open its mail sites to third-party applications
InfoWorld May 15 2008 6:45PM GMT

Yahoo Search Monkey opens to all developers
InfoWorld May 15 2008 6:45PM GMT

EBay seller pleads guilty to software piracy charges
InfoWorld May 15 2008 6:13PM GMT

Microsoft-Yahoo again?: Investor Icahn tries to oust Yahoo board
Salon May 15 2008 5:35PM GMT

Carl Icahn's letter to Yahoo's board
Fortune May 15 2008 4:38PM GMT

Ask.com Buys Owner of Dictionary.com
New York Times May 15 2008 4:22PM GMT

Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?
ZDNet May 15 2008 4:15PM GMT

Mary Jo Foley: Is Microsoft still interested in Yahoo?
ZDNet May 15 2008 4:15PM GMT

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
ZDNet May 15 2008 4:15PM GMT

Yahoo! faces battle for the board
The Register May 15 2008 4:13PM GMT

Icahn takes on Yahoo board
InfoWorld May 15 2008 3:21PM GMT

Yahoo in faceoff with Icahn
Fortune May 15 2008 2:59PM GMT