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Microsoft's internal ego trip with URL "shortener" binged.it

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Microsoft's internal ego trip with URL "shortener" binged.it

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 gone for the more popular Italian .it TLD and then stuck a longer name on the front. Binged.it Presumably as in “I just Binged it”. The thing is, although Microsoft has partnered with bit.ly (six characters), it has chosen to use a nine character name. Bitly and Google both use six, Facebook’s version fb.me is Read more »

A Piece of Internet History Disappears

by Franky Branckaute
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A Piece of Internet History Disappears

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 countries. The news was announced last month already, still this is a dinosaur in the deadpool. Not just a dinosaur, for many Lycos was where everything started: their first email account, their first online dating profile and even their first website (Tripod and Angelfire hosting). Shall we call today a _sad day_ for the internet? Read more »

The Best Online Flash Games

by Ryan
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The Best Online Flash Games

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 have some mindless fun. And Flash games do that for me. TechCult put together a list of the 150 Best Flash Games currently available. Lots of new gems on that list that I hadn’t seen before. What do you think of their list? Are there some great games they left out? Read more »

YouTube alternatives

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YouTube alternatives

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 annoying red message saying that the video has been removed or no longer available? Thanks to Michael Arrington from TechCrunch, you now have a small, yet reliable, list of alternatives for videos that infringe copyrights: Full length copies of well known TV shows and/or movies are readily available on a number of YouTube competitors. Watch, Read more »

The Truth About Wikipedia

by J. Angelo Racoma
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The Truth About Wikipedia

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 be, I still tried to make myself believe that it’s still good in terms of being a contributor-driven site, in that more or less anyone can simply click on the edit button and post his or her contibutions to any entry. That can’t be farther from the truth. That’s marketing for us, I guess. All Read more »

Online FPS Game In Shockwave

by jeremy
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Online FPS Game In Shockwave

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 that runs on your machine. You can also tell it how many bots to put in the game. The FAQ says that AI and network play are currently in development. UPDATE Apparently this was just a beta test and the software has now gone back into development. It was fun while it lasted. Read more »

Play Nintendo DS Online

by derek
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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 implements online play themselves. Read more »