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World Wide Web stories: 19 news summaries

Web Addresses Will Gain International Flavor

Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew domains, among others, will have support by 2010: ICANN

Oct 26, 09 5:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the biggest change ever to the system, Web domains will soon be available in the native scripts of Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, and other non-Latin-based languages. A proposal expected to be approved this week means “Internationalized Domain Names” could be up and running as soon as mid-2010. China and... More »

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China • Internet • Thailand • globalization • domain names • Chinese • Arabic • Internet domains • ICANN • World Wide Web • web domain • Hebrew • communications

OPINION

 Happy 40th, Internet (Maybe) 


Sep 2, 09 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Forty years ago, two UCLA scientists exchanged data via computers, arguably making today the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet. "It would be more accurate to say some important seeds of the Internet sprouted with that data transfer," writes Stephen Shankland on CNET, but no matter.... More »

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Iran • Internet • communication • UCLA • Myanmar • cloud computing • World Wide Web • e-commerce

 The Best of the Web 2009 

Time ranks top websites

Aug 24, 09 4:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Overwhelmed by the stream of new, powerful sites constantly emerging to suit every taste? Time picks 50 you should explore, if you haven’t already:
  • Etsy: “The long-haired, Birkenstocked love child of Amazon and eBay,” and the place to go online for handmade crafts, from housewares
... More »

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Internet • list • Flickr • website • Hulu • World Wide Web • Academic Earth

opinion


 Why Bing Is Better 

Helpful features make Microsoft's search engine more than a Google copy

Jul 8, 09 5:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's easy to mock Bing as Microsoft's latest attempt to rip off a competitor. Bloggers, in fact, have christened the search engine "But It's Not Google." That’s actually true, writes David Pogue in the New York Times. "In many ways, Bing is better." Here's how:... More »

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Google • Internet • Microsoft • web • search engine • World Wide Web • Bing

(Newser) - Facebook is graying, and the Web has already produced an outlet for youngsters fleeing the site to escape friend requests from—gasp!—their parents, Time reports. MyParentsJoinedFacebook.com collects horror stories of parental incursion into the once uniformly young realm of social networking. “No matter how embarrassing... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • children • parents • World Wide Web • etiquette • Twitter

(Newser) - Facebook is starting a pilot program to test a more user-friendly version of its sprawling privacy controls, CNET reports. The 40 different settings now occupy six separate pages, and are so complicated that many users ignore them completely. “These can add up and pile up and not be as... More »

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social networking • online advertising • Facebook • online privacy • privacy settings • website • Internet security • World Wide Web

tech review

 Firefox 3.5 Could 
 Upgrade the Whole Web 

New browser is faster and ready for HTML upgrade

Jun 30, 09 11:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Firefox, once lauded for “speed, stability, and customizability,” seemed lately to have fallen behind the competition—but with version 3.5, out today, it’s back and better than ever, writes Farhad Manjoo for Slate. The new version “adds a much-needed speed boost” alongside bug fixes. And... More »

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Internet • web browser • Internet Explorer • Safari • Firefox • speed • Mozilla • Opera • World Wide Web • HTML • Google Chrome

(Newser) - China darkened Google for 2 hours today over the site’s continued practice of returning results linking to foreign websites and “pornographic” content, the Financial Times reports. The Chinese government is unhappy that Google’s domestic website, Google.cn, allows users to search the entirety of the Internet. The... More »

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China • Google • Internet • pornography • search engine • World Wide Web • web censorship • foreign websites

TECH REVIEW

 Search Tools Tailored to You 

Surf Canyon and SearchWiki provide different methods to customize results

Jan 14, 09 2:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Two new tools aim to make your web searches more valuable—and while both succeed, differences in how Google’s SearchWiki and Surf Canyon operate will make the difference for users, Katherine Boehret writes in the Wall Street Journal. SearchWiki acts as a function of a Google account: While logged... More »

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Google • Internet • web browser • search engine • search • World Wide Web • Web browsing • Surf Canyon • SearchWiki

OPINION

Status Update: Everyone Else's Life Is More Exciting

Writer bemoans the constant barrage of jealousy from Facebook

Dec 26, 08 11:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Remember those holiday letters, the ones informing you of all the exciting things your friends did while you sat at home? Facebook brings you that jealousy 24/7, writes Patricia Beauchamp in the Washington Post. While she’s “wondering how much she could get for a box of gaucho pants... More »

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social networking • Internet • MySpace • privacy • Facebook • website • World Wide Web

Domain Name Bug Worries Web Providers

Firms race to fix flaw in Internet's architecture before crooks find it

Jul 30, 08 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - ISPs worldwide are racing to patch a flaw in the design of the Internet that could allow criminals to steal personal and financial details of Web users by diverting them to fake sites. The flaw resides in the procedures of the Domain Name System, which translates URLs into numerical Internet... More »

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Internet • Microsoft • domain names • Internet security • ISP • DNS • World Wide Web

Web Whizzes Renovate Rickety Sites to Flip for Profit

Real-estate 'turn-over' tactics move to Internet

Jul 29, 08 4:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Web entrepreneurs are taking a page from the real-estate book: they’re buying badly designed websites cheaply, fixing them up, and selling them at a profit. Website sales on eBay and similar sites have soared in the past few months, with many site-flippers happy to sell for just a few... More »

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Internet • business • website • Internet advertising • World Wide Web

FTC Rejects
Call for Internet Privacy Law

Google, others want
ad guidelines; feds
favor self-regulation

Jul 9, 08 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - An federal official testifying at a Senate hearing today shot down calls for a federal law to regulate websites that track users' data for advertising purposes. The FTC doesn't think it's necessary to place a rule on the books—one that could quickly become obsolete—and instead encouraged "meaningful,... More »

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Google • Microsoft • online advertising • FTC • World Wide Web • Internet privacy

Domain-Name Rule Change 'Brand Owner's Nightmare'

Firms must guard against squatters

Jul 1, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The decision of an internet oversight body to allow more domain names opens the playing field to cybersquatters—who register domain names in the hopes someone else will have to purchase them later, BusinessWeek reports. No more is it a matter of simply .com or .net: Squatters may now buy... More »

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Internet • domain names • ICANN • World Wide Web • infringement • web domain

Pakistan Bans Access to YouTube

Anti-Islamic video
prompts government crackdown

Feb 24, 08 4:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan has blocked the country’s YouTube access over anti-Islamic videos on the site, the AP reports. One official conceded that a particular video offended authorities: a trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch legislator Geert Wilders. The filmmaker has said that his piece paints Islam as a fascist religion... More »

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YouTube • Pakistan • World Wide Web • Pakistan Telecommunications Authority • Internet censorship

AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Browser

Service provider throwing weight behind Mozilla, Firefox

Dec 28, 07 7:14 PM CST
(Newser) - AOL today announced that it will discontinue support and development of its Netscape Navigator browser, a program that first introduced many to the Internet when it launched 13 years ago. But, CNET's Stephen Shankland writes, Microsoft's Internet Explorer ate into market share for Netscape, which was bought by AOL—which... More »

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Internet • AOL • web browser • Firefox • Netscape • World Wide Web

Standardization Stifling Change: Web Designers

W3C brokered 'browser wars' but now seen as roadblock to change

Dec 20, 07 11:56 PM CST
(Newser) - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been the Web's governing body since the "Wild West" days of the mid-90s. It helped end the Netscape/Explorer "browser wars", but  Web designers today are worried that the body's standards management process has slowed the pace of change down to dial-up... More »

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technology • Internet • web browser • website • regulation • W3C • World Wide Web • web standards

Facebook to Join Google's 'OpenSocial' Alliance?

Site might be ready to give up its proprietary approach for new standard

Nov 2, 07 4:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The day after MySpace announced it was joining a Google-led alliance meant to let applications written for one social networking site be used on others, it looks like lone outsider Facebook could join up, too. That's according to Fortune Magazine, which reported that Facebook and Google representatives met yesterday and... More »

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social networking • Google • Internet • MySpace • Facebook • open standards • OpenSocial • World Wide Web

How to Survive the Email Onslaught

Salon surveys advice for those losing the battle with their deluged inboxes

Jul 13, 07 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A spate of new survival manuals is addressing the problem of swamped inboxes, writes Salon's Scott Rosenberg. But how does one navigate through the sea of attachments, spam, and forwarded off-color jokes? Most experts agree on striving for emptiness: delete ruthlessly. More »

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Google • Internet • email • Gmail • inbox • web • World Wide Web • computer • etiquette

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