Archive for the 'The web' Category
Every day I turn on the radio, TV or read the news and all the headlines are credit crunch related. If it’s not the stock markets crashing, it’s the pound weakening or another bank being bailed out.
Reading the news is becoming quite tiresome and in many respects has a negative effect on many of [...]
Mozilla Firefox has received confirmation from Guinness World Records that they have now officially achieved the record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. On 18th June 2008 over 8 million people downloaded Firefox 3.
It all started on June 17th 2008, Firefox 3 Download Day. The idea was to [...]
Last week marked the 30th birthday of the first spam message being sent. It was sent on 1st May 1978 by Gary Thuerk, a marketing representative at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to around 400 users of ARPANET, the US government-run computer network that evolved into the Internet.
The message was met with an immediate negative [...]
I mentioned RSS feeds in the Quick guide to creating a web 2.0 site blog post. But, I have never really experienced them, and to be honest I personally thought they were a bit of a gimmick and pretty pointless.
So I decided to set myself the task of finding out what they are and [...]