Archive for October, 2006
October 14th, 2006 | 
Author: British international striker Wayne Rooney has won ownership of a Web site in his name. Rooney, a soccer star who plays for Manchester United, won exclusive rights to domain name waynerooney.com after proving his name was a registered trademark, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said.
The website at the above address appears to hastily deleted all of it’s content as of today. In the source code there are still adverts but they don’t display on the page. There’s also JavaScript for navigation that doesn’t display on the page.
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Ok I”m certinley not a huge fan of Microsoft windows by any means. But I’ve administered Macs and PC’s before and one of the only good things I can honestly say about Windows based PC’s is that they beat Macs in every single category except for the cute keyboard category of course.
A certian pet peeve of mine is that it really burns me up when people lie to my face, even if it is an advertisement. So you can imagine that those mac adverts (“Hello, I’m a Mac” . . .) really just burn me up. So I was delighted to see these ad parodies:
Why would someone want to put plain text over an image? For the search engines! They treat any text near the top of the page as far more important and far more telling when it comes to determining what a page is actually about. Therefore in struggle between search engine optimization and web design or the battle between eye appealing sites and sites that get indexed properly by the search engines, every one wants their targeted keyphrases at the top of the page in a heading tag and they want a nice image at the top of the page as well.
Amsterdam has the world’s busiest Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be free.
At a time when the neutrality of the Internet is at stake, and Internet service providers (ISPs) are moving to prioritize their premium traffic, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange is a reminder that the Internet was built on the principle of the unrestricted exchange of ideas and information.
“Anything goes unless it’s forbidden”, was our motto from the beginning. We added a few rules later on, but any unnecessary organizing is being prevented,” said Rob Blokzijl from Nikhef, the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics in the Netherlands.
It shares this spirit with the designers of the Internet who decided that all data packets were created equal, and with Tim Berners-Lee who developed the World Wide Web at the Swiss particle physics lab
CERN as a universal and neutral platform.
Indeed, the debate over “net neutrality” is one of the biggest issues facing the Web today on both sides of the Atlantic, pitting big cable and phone companies against Internet powerhouses like Google Inc.
At issue is whether broadband providers should be allowed to create “toll booths” that would charge Internet companies to move content along fast broadband lines, a move critics say would restrict the freedom of the Web.
ASM-IX is a not-for profit structure, just how the Internet itself was conceived. The first Web server outside CERN was running at Nikhef, showing that physicists need collaborative networks because expensive machines are elsewhere.
Too bad it’s not like this in America whuh?