There have been a few pairs of rolled eyes online today as people discuss Microsoft’s (currently internal only) URL shortening service. It’s not surprising, following Google’s use of the goo.gl domain name, that Microsoft might use something based on its Bing search engine, but while Google keeps it nice, short and from Greenland, Microsoft has [...]
Microsoft's internal ego trip with URL "shortener" binged.it
Posted on January 18, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
A Piece of Internet History Disappears
Posted on February 16, 2009 Written by Leave a Comment
No that’s not Michael Arrington’s dog I want to discuss! Those among us who have reached their ’30s, or especially Europeans, might remember the dog, Lycos’ dog. Today this ‘pre-Web 1.0′ portal, which started as a search engine in 1994/1995 and was the worldwide most visited website in 1999, has shut down in several European [...]
The Best Online Flash Games
Posted on January 19, 2009 Written by 1 Comment
I’m a sucker for addictive flash games. I don’t know about you, but I think the best video games are almost always simple and fun. Flash games tend to have both qualities. Now, I know that Flash games often don’t have much depth. But that’s ok for me. I just like to jump in and [...]
YouTube alternatives
Posted on April 4, 2007 Written by Leave a Comment
Even though YouTube is undoubtedly the most popular Video site on the internet, there have been times in which I wish there were an alternative, or some changes made to to it. How many times have you clicked on a video you really wanted to see from some search results only to stumble upon an [...]
The Truth About Wikipedia
Posted on May 28, 2006 Written by 19 Comments
Has Wikipedia signed its own death sentence? If you’ve always thought that Wikipedia was this great bastion of Web 2.0-edness, with ideas of the site being the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, you’ve probably thought wrong all this time. While I’ve always had an inkling that Wikipedia was probably not what it markets itself to [...]
Online FPS Game In Shockwave
Posted on March 9, 2005 Written by 35 Comments
This was not what I needed to find while at work. A highly addictive first person shooter written in Shockwave. Very “Unreal Tournament-like” in the look and feel of it. You can even customize what keys are used to control the movements, the mouse sensitivity, the view bob…basically everything you could set in an FPS [...]
Play Nintendo DS Online
Posted on December 4, 2004 Written by 302 Comments
XLink Kai, the people that brought online play to the Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2, have already partially got internet tunneling working for the Nintendo DS. It’s in the very beginning stages at the moment so it’s not something that just anyone can do, but it looks like it will be possible, even if Nintendo never [...]