Misspellers get bigger page ranks in Google

Here's an interesting story of how an innocent spelling error can give your website a good page rank in Google.

Source: João Bordalo

Your mobile has the Answers

One of my favorite sites for (literally) finding answers has gone mobile. You can now easily find answers in an encyclopedia-like website, directly on your mobile. Just connect to the Internet and go to mobile.answers.com and you're ready to start getting some answers.

Source: Lifehacker

Check your addiction online

Have you ever wonder exactly how much time do you waste on the web and on which specific sites? Well, now you can check it out with the new Firefox add-on: PageAddict.

This extension gives you a summary of how much time you've spent visiting different sites. Just install the plug-in, surf like you normally do, then return to PageAddict.com to see your results. You get the time spent at each site, the percentage of your overall time spent at each site, and the option to apply tags to them.

Source: Lifehacker
Website: PageAddict

The world wide web is not big enough for Google: continued

As posted before, Google is really trying to get in the offline business and this time it's radio. Google is hiring scores of radio sales people and is spending heavily in a bid to expand its position in the $20 billion radio industry.

Google spokesman Michael Mayzel said this week that the company will begin a public test of Google Audio Ads by the end of the year. Advertisers will be able to go online and sign up for targeted radio ads using the same AdWords system they use to buy Web search ads.

From: Reuters Tech News

The world wide web is not big enough for Google

The Internet is too small for the giant corporation that Google is becoming. Google is set to begin helping customers buy advertisements in 50 U.S. newspapers in a test to see how the Web search leader can extend its business into offline media.

Source: Reuters Tech News

Office 2007 ready to be distributed

Microsoft has completed the software code for its Office 2007 suite and will begin to offer the world's most popular package of desktop software to corporate customers on November 30.

By announcing the Microsoft Office 2007 suite was ready for "release to manufacturing," it signals that the product is relatively bug-free and suitable for wide distribution.

From: Reuters Tech News

Wikipedia does not spread only knowledge

The free on-line encyclopedia was used to spread malicious code across users of the Wikipedia.
The entry for the MSBlast worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false information about a new version of the Lovesan/MSBlast worm, with links to a supposed fix, which was, in fact, a piece of malicious code.

From: CNET

A virtual Big Brother

The popular internet virtual world Second Life will host the next generation of reality shows, starting with the world famous Big Brother.

Endemol, the original producer of the show, will select 15 international Second Life contestants to spend at least eight hours a day inside a specially constructed glass-walled house for one month. As in the real-world version of "Big Brother," the contestants will be voted off until only one remains.

The winner will receive a virtual island within Second Life, worth about US$1,675.

Source: Reuters Tech News

"Silent Jet" to make airport areas a "quieter" place to live

Researchers at MIT and Cambridge University have unveiled a design for a "silent aircraft" that would radically reduce the noise emanating from airports.
Besides re-imagining the shape of traditional jumbo jets, the 40-person team also moved the engines from under the wings into the body of the plane itself, allowing them to take in air from the top of the wing and minimize the noise heard by people on the ground. The quieter design could result in airports being constructed much closer to residential areas, meaning that passengers would be able to start their two-hour wait at the security checkpoint that much more quickly.

From: CNET, Engadget
Photos: CNET

Don't sell your (ilegally) downloaded musics, and you're home free...at least in Spain

A Judge in Santander, Spain, has ruled that "non-for-profit" download of musics is not a crime. The defendant was a 48 year old man who downloaded musics from the Internet and shared them with his friends. The accusation wanted the man to be sentenced to pay a fine and compensation to copyright holders.

However, the Judge decided that downloading musics with no intention to have any profit from it, is not a copyright infringement, thus opening a very important precedent in Spain. The defendant walked free without having to pay neither the fine or the compensation.

Source: Peopleware (Portuguese), Diário Digital (Portuguese)