I hadn’t seen this, but Slashdot is reporting that the national weather service is experimenting with RSS feeds for Weather alerts and their forecasts. Neat, I’ve already setup a feed for the local weather alerts here.
Category: General Web/Tech
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IBM donating DHTML accessibility code to Firefox
Firefox 1.5 will have DHTML accessibility code donated from IBM. DHTML is code that makes some of the dynamic web pages like google maps as interactive with desktop-like application responsiveness. The accessibility code will help pages be narrated to the viewer, or magnified for easier reading. Also it will assist in navigating pages using the keyboard as opposed to the mouse.
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Google Adwords infringement case…
Geico, sometime back, has sued Google (also Overture, but that was settled out of court) over a couple of issues with Adwords. For starters, Geico does not advertise through Google. Their competitors do and in some cases their competitors have appeared with the keywords Geico and Geico Direct. (In other words the advertisors said those are keywords they’re paying to be associated with.) The other issue was with the text in the ad mentioning Geico and Geico Direct.
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Okay – this one is definitely strange…
From the strange category…. The register is running a story about scientists that have developed a battery running on human urine (when you think about how batteries are made this does make some sense.)
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The sunbeltblog id theft saga continues…
It looks as though CoolWebSearch has issued a release about the massive identity theft ring that their product name has featured so prominently in. They are 1) denying that it is related to their tool and asking for evidence that it does so they may pursue the issue (fire employees/contact FBI), 2) considering lawsuits against all outlets that said they were responsible. 3)They try to clarify how to determine what traffic is related to CoolWebSearch.
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High MPG hybrid car (250 Miles per gallon)
I think I first saw these stories Friday night, but several places are reporting on various efforts to modify current hybrid vehicles to squeeze higher mileage out of them. This is the true spirit of “hacking” in some ways. It looks that by adding extra batteries (and recharging those off of house mains), there’s one individual that can get 80 miles per gallon. Others have claimed up to 250 Miles per gallon
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I’m sorry, so sorry…
At least that’s what zdnet UK is saying to Google. Earlier this week it was mentioned that Google was not talking to CNet for a while because of an article in which a CNet reporter disclosed information he found on the CEO of Google, USING google.com a his search engine fount of information.
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Having multiple domains direct to one web site
Recently I’ve consolidated a few domain names that I’ve acquired to direct to this site, and a few others to direct to another site that I maintain. One of the things that I wondered about after I set things up in the sites control panel to receive requests as the other domain names was how that might effect search engine positioning. (more…)