It happens everyday. A blog is started, the blogger gets excited, he/she posts for a few days, perhaps several times a day, then….nothing. There are countless “dead” blogs out there. Perhaps the biggest location for “dead blogs”, is Blogspot.com. It’s free, so there’s little loss for failing to update. Take this one, for example. No [...]
Just what society needed. It’s strange and cheesy, to say the least. This $35 toaster can burn a smiley face, flower, heart, snowflake, and other similar images, onto your toast for you. I guess I’ll ask the inevitable question: What’s the purpose? You’re going to spend $35 on a toaster, for it to burn a [...]
Yahoo! Inc., has announced it will acquire online ad exchange Right Media. Yahoo! will pay $680 million for the acquisition, with $340 million [...]
Myspace China launched today, and not surprisingly, it looks exactly like the US’s Myspace (in Chinese, of course). Search Engine Journal reports that it is connected to the global database, meaning you can login to the Chinese version, with your US user info. Leaves you to wonder how much traffic and users the site will [...]
The British version of Ancestry.com, Ancestry.co.uk, has posted the names and profiles of the 100,000 plus slaves, who were registered in Barbados, then a British colony, in 1834. However, Ancestry says it isn’t done, yet. By late this year, probably December, the site will have records posted on over 3 million slaves, from over 700 [...]
