Lately, there's been an awful lot of talk about net neutrality and the future of the Internet. If you want to know more about this issue and what lies at the heart of it, reading John Battelle's interview with Vint Cerf is a good place to start. Vint Cerf is Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, and is also seen as … Read More

As you may be aware, the Internet has been buzzing with hilarity at the comments of a certain senator Ted Stevens. Together with other senators, he's been busy debating the issue of net neutrality and decided to vote against it. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem overly qualified to do so, to put it mildly. His grasp of what the Internet is, … Read More

At least I know that someone's reading this blog. Bob Gibson from TuCows emailed in, after reading our People ignore banner ads – no, really entry from a few days ago. Bob was very agitated. Okay, not really. If you've met Bob you'll probably find it hard to picture him really agitated. But he did disagree with a number of … Read More

Have you been noticing a decline in the quality of Google search results lately? I myself have noticed an increase in the number of spam results (and I use Google a LOT), although our own rankings remain more or less where they have been for a long time. And the masses are starting to grumble. The gist of the grumble … Read More

ClickZ is reporting on a new eye-tracking study which has discovered that website visitors avoid viewing banner ads. Naming it “banner blindness”, the study claims that people simply ignore bright flashing ads and other irrelevant content. I think anyone who's attempted a banner ad campaign in recent years would have been more than happy to tell them that, without the … Read More

Regular readers of this blog will know that Maxthon is my browser of choice, mainly because I love how easy it makes tabbed browsing. What I didn't know was that it's also hugely popular in China, but for an entirely different reason. CNET News reports: “[Maxthon] has attracted millions of users in China for functionality that can funnel traffic through … Read More

Regular readers of this blog will have heard me praise ClickTracks before. It's head and shoulders above any other log analysis tool, and believe me I've worked with a few over the years! Their free version, ClickTracks Appetizer, isn't a trial version, but is instead a stripped down version of their main product. However, on June 8th, ClickTracks will turn … Read More

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We all love a good Top 10 or Bottom 20 list, and PC World have put together a great one. This list – The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time – is a regular techy hall of shame, and should provide you with some serious emphatic nodding as you find yourself agreeing with it all. Great entertainment. In the … Read More

There has been much talk about this particular relationship, but now they’ve gone ahead and made it official. In the future, Dell PCs will have Google software installed when they leave the factory. The software will include a Google toolbar and a co-branded homepage. Hmmm. Of course, this is not great news for Microsoft. But is it really necessary for … Read More