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Archive for August, 2006

The Ultimate Insult

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

I was going through the “Movers and Shakers” for Alexa and this was an entry:
http://ie7.com +1800% change (that’s the vistation rate by Alexa members)
Click it, you will laugh, very loud indeed. Someone was very quick off the mark in the domain name purchase for this one. Very clever! I won’t say anymore - I don’t [...]

Google Adds Advisories to Search

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Well it is nice to see that search companies are doing something to fight malware.
Google now redirects you to a warning page should you click on a link that is the source of malware. Advising that “WARNING - The site you are about to visit may harm your computer!“. You can decide to go ahead [...]

Edinburgh Fringe Festival on TPN

Friday, August 4th, 2006

It is the time of year again when we all get a bit silly and partake in Edinburgh Fringe Festival again. Partake you say, I can hear you wondering from here how you might do that. Well I am glad that you asked.
We have here on The Podcast Network, but one faithful reporter on the [...]

Review of ZOHO Polls

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

This is a two fold post. One to let you know about a service called ZOHO Polls and the other is to survey what bit-rate and sample rate you use for encoding podcasts (should you be a podcaster).
ZOHO is a great service where you can design a poll add tags and post it to the [...]

Dell Number Three Up In Smoke

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

We reported on the podcast some time back that apple laptops were a bit of a worry in the "spontaneous combustion" department. But it appears that Dell have more to worry about.
Seems the latest in a line of laptops from Dell has burst into flames. Originally there was speculation that the lithium batteries are to [...]

Digg Profile for Sale

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

It had to happen. We talked a bit in show number 013 about the whole Netscape - Digg war that appears to be ragging. If you have listened to the show you would also know that Netscape has offered the top "Diggers" on Digg $1000 a month to swap to Netscape.
Some enterprising soul on Digg [...]

50 Million Blogs

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Now that is a milestone! Technorati is now tracking over 50,000,000 Blogs. Just a bit of trivia for you.
I am not sure when the massive creation rate for blogs will finish or slow down but it is showing no signs of doing so anytime soon. The challenge for a lot of people is sifting through [...]

The Global Geek Podcast #013

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

The Global Geek Podcast #013 (MP3 - 37.5MB - 54:39min)
DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST HERE

Before anybody asks, no number 13 was not lucky for us it was the opposite. However I have managed to dredge some semblance of a decent podcast from the ashes and lay it here before you. This is for you Alex; yes there [...]