Tag: WEBSITE

MySpace -- wait, what? yes -- lost more than 10 million users in a matter of weeks. ComScore reported the drop came in a single month, between January and February. The fall follows a larger trend; the social network has bled some 50 million users in the last year. The timing has a bit of chicken/egg feel to it, these numbers come right on the heels of January's massive layoffs, when nearly ...

Web security firm OpenDNS has just released its annual list of the most blacklisted sites across homes, businesses and schools. And, perhaps not surprisingly, Facebook came out on top. OpenDNS' 2010 report on 'Web Content Filtering and Phishing' (PDF) shows that a full 14.2-percent of networks using the company's services have blacklisted Facebook, 9.9-percent blocked access to MySpace, and ...

Marijuana enthusiasts have never exactly been known for their lightning-quick speed, but as Californians prepare to vote on a measure that would legalize the drug, many have been rushing to the Internet to secure themselves marijuana-related domain names. The logic behind the rush is pretty straightforward: legalized weed constituting a brand new kind of marijuana industry. And a new marijuana ...

We all have our own favorite sites to consult for the latest movie, music or video game releases. With a cleanly designed site called 'When it Drops,' though, Web surfers can now find all this information with one click of a mouse. Each week, When it Drops gives a snapshot of the latest movies, DVDs, albums, books and video games to hit the market that week, as well as the products released the ...

You think you know the Internet. You can dart from one page to another with the greatest of ease, and are supremely confident in your search engine acumen. But what if your digital field of vision suddenly shrank? What if you found yourself hermetically trapped on one measly website, and you had to worm your way to a completely different page at the other end of the Web? That's exactly the ...

Share What began as a noble British endeavor has just come down in an inglorious blaze of abuse. As Reuters reports, the U.K.'s Treasury has decided to pull its interactive 'Spending Challenge' website, after users smeared the site with weird suggestions and tirades against ethnic minorities. The challenge, which was put in place by finance minister George Osborne, was created with the intent of ...

Playboy, which has somehow (mostly) defied the magazine apocalypse facing the rest of the print industry, has just announced a new site called The Smoking Jacket that will feature "safe for work" content. We presume that means nipples will get a cover-up via leather and/or lace, but that bosoms won't fail to appear entirely on the site -- an obvious bid to recapture the young male audience stolen ...

The Webbys are where viral video creators and Web entrepreneurs get to rub elbows with the likes of Al Gore and Isabella Rossellini. The winners of the 2010 Webby Awards, which will be held on June 14th, have already been announced, and we can't say we're surprised by many of the choices. Roger Ebert will be receiving an award for "raising the bar for online journalism," and the committee ...

As you probably know, computers were once solely the purview of nerds. Those with pocket protectors, glasses, and very few friends spent the '80s sitting in front of bulky beige boxes named PC Jr. or Apple II. 'How I Met Your Motherboard' celebrates those heady days by collecting stories and photos of people's earliest computing memories. The tales collected speak of love affairs started with now ...

Planning lunch or meals with friends can be a royal pain. Nobody can agree on when or where, and, without fail, someone is always forgotten in the shuffle of invite e-mails and text messages. That's where Lunchwalla comes in. The pitch is simple: choose who to invite, select some restaurant options (easier said than done), set the time and day, and hit send. The people you've invited will then ...

Rate My Professors is regarded by some college students as a bible when it comes to picking classes. The basic premise of the academia-based site involves students issuing virtual judgment of professors on a scale of one to five, in categories such as ease of grading, helpfulness and clarity of instruction. There is also room for free form comments and the opportunity to mark a professor as ...

When a person goes missing, closure is one comfort that families seek. Unfortunately, it's not easy to solve a missing person case, but a new online database could change the process. According to an Associated Press report, a government site called NamUs (Name Us) could help identify the 40,000 sets of unidentified remains in the U.S. -- if only law-enforcement agencies will get on board. ...

Apparently there aren't enough outlets online for venting your rage and frustrations. Blogs, forums, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, all of these things are good. But one company though it could better facilitate online anger and created Ventnation, a site completely dedicated to the art of complaining. Ventnation is a place where people can post rants about whatever it is that's driving them nuts ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/07/22/bizarre-virtual-restaurant-air-yakiniku-a-huge-success/'; Proving once and for all that perception is everything, Japanese virtual restaurant Air Yakiniku has become the 29th most searched site on Yahoo!. (Warning: Google Translator does little to help with this one.) Allow us to explain. The virtual Korean BBQ restaurant, originally designed for ...

It should go without saying that we absolutely love the Net. The Web of Intertubes (forget the educational purposes) allows everyone to feel a little bit better about themselves, if only through pointing out other people's foibles, insecurities, and moments of weakness. And then mercilessly making fun of them. Web users constantly post regretful comments that result in firings, arrests, and, ...