A blog post I came across reported that iWebTool’s Google Pagerank predictor hasn’t been working correctly anymore. It has been more than six months now that this has happened. Google Pagerank provides a basic authority ranking for the Google search engine, though it hasn’t been working well, and hasn’t got much affect on search results as it previously had.
Archive for January, 2009
Circuit City was heard liquidating all of its stores through big sale, on Saturday. Sales were up to 30 percent off, and saw customers romping all around, buying anything with a sweet price tag. Lines at the checkout were seen going till the back of the store. Best Buy proved to be a better opponent and so Circuit City took the final blow.
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Lycos Europe is rolling head over heels to shut down its services. Yesterday it shut down its email and Tripod in Europe, but that wasn’t the end of it as it pulled down shutters on Jubii as well. Jubii provided its users with integrated chat, text messaging, blogging, email, file-sharing and storage services. The homepage reads:
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To clarify any misunderstandings created by some mis-reporting by other blogs lately – Lycos will not be shutting down their Mail and Tripod services in the U.S. As reported earlier by us, services are being shut down in Europe only.
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CogHead, a web service that enables developers to create apps visually for the web, pretty much the same way as MS Access and VB did for the desktops is in talks for its acquisition. The talks of acquisition are underway as the startup failed to negotiate third round of funding. The last round brought it $8 million from American Capital Strategies, El Dorado Ventures and SAP Ventures about a year back.
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Lycos Europe will be pulling down the shutters on its email as well as its website creation hosting service, Tripod. The reason for the shut down is the parent company, Telefonica’s decision to put a stop to each of the mentioned services as they have termed un-profitable. The date for closure has been set for February 15 and users of its mail service were notified via email from the company:
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While many of us were counting days till the micro-blogging service Jaiku shuts down its founder said nothing is going to kill it. In his post, Jyri Engeström stated that the service will stay alive and will come up serving something more useful. His words do have weight as it had already migrated to the Google App Engine from where its code will be under license from Apache along with fully supporting OAuth. I bet its support for the OAuth will definitely give it an edge over Twitter for it still deprives its community of that.
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Apple iPhone received another free (only for those who have paid Pingdom accounts) app from Pingdom that enables its users to keep tack of their site’s current status. That’s not it for the app also archives your site’s stats for the last 30 days. So if you are on the look out for a mobile monitoring service, Pingdom has brought the right thing to your iPhone.
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The German government has decided to put a stop to ‘child porn’, and will start handing out blacklists to ISPs soon. The German family minister, Ursula von der Leyen said that they’re expecting technical implementation to go live this year. Though it’s easy to say that people will find a way around this; as a press release also notes:
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