ICANN Once Again Shoots Down .xxx TLD
Published Friday, April 06, 2007 by Technology Monster.| The proposal to create a.xxx top-level domain for porn and adult content has been rejected by ICANN several times, as the group recognizes that it really isn't a very good idea. ICANN has again rejected the proposal, saying the company behind it hadn't adequately addressed previous concerns about how content in the TLD would be policed. |
Google Gobbles JotSpot
Published Wednesday, April 04, 2007 by Technology Monster.| Search giant Google has bought yet another hot startup that had hoped to be one of the next big things (and no doubt still does). I haven't yet talked to Joe, but here's what he has to say on the Google blog: It was pretty apparent that Google shared our vision for how groups of people can create, manage and share information online. It also shows all the more that Google is dead serious about creating a comprehensive suite of online business applications. |
Google Apps: More Than Meets the Eye?
Published by Technology Monster.| It looks like Google Apps for Your Domain soon will come outta beta with a paid version for enterprises. The one thing I wanted to explore in the story I just wrote, but didn't manage to do, is what else Google has in mind with Apps. A lot of folks wonder if Google Apps is simply a way for the search giant to divine more information on users, so it can better target ads--which is, of course, Google's main business. I'm just not sure exactly how they'd do that through Google Apps. |
Buying Content To Free It Is Not The Answer
Published Monday, October 23, 2006 by Technology Monster.| The email suggests that Wales is in contact with just such a person or group, who is willing to donate $100 million worth of content to some sort of public domain. Rather than spend $100 million to put some small segment of content into the public domain, why not spend that $100 million to educate people on ways that intellectual property needs to be reformed, or on better educating people about the harm that intellectual property monopolies can cause? |
No, I Don't Think Anyone Believes Boycottwalmart.com Is Actually A Wal-Mart Site
Published Friday, October 20, 2006 by Technology Monster.| You would think, by now, that big companies around the world would recognize that it's perfectly legal, and not at all a trademark violation, to just own a so-called "sucks site" that expresses displeasure with the way someone (or a group of people) have been treated by a company. After all, there are plenty of cases showing that it's perfectly legal to have such a site, so long as it's pretty clear that the site is not officially associated with the company. |
What's your .tel?
Published Sunday, October 01, 2006 by Technology Monster.| A company called telnic wants to shake up the way we share contact information, by creating a new kind of web address for storing your name, phone numbers and address. And I'm sure it wouldn't be long before people started buying names only to sell them for a profit, much like cyber-squatters do today. Telnic plans to sell.tel addresses, if the proposal gets the approval of ICANN, but there's no info yet on how much a.tel address would cost. |
What's your .tel?
Published Friday, September 15, 2006 by Technology Monster.| A company called telnic wants to shake up the way we share contact information, by creating a new kind of web address for storing your name, phone numbers and address. And I'm sure it wouldn't be long before people started buying names only to sell them for a profit, much like cyber-squatters do today. Telnic plans to sell.tel addresses, if the proposal gets the approval of ICANN, but there's no info yet on how much a.tel address would cost. |
Google Vs. Microsoft, For Real
Published Wednesday, September 13, 2006 by Technology Monster.| So Google's moving forcefully at last into the business software market, at least in a test version. Later, Google plans to offer a paid version that likely would be more attractive to larger businesses. Which raises an interesting possibility: Would Google consider letting outside developers offer their services on this platform, so companies could finely customize their online office applications not just with Google's own apps but from others as well? |
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