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Month: October, 2008

Looking into the tube

19 October, 2008 (14:08) | Internet | By: pooq

(Screenshot of http://www.youtube.com)

Youtube (http://www.youtube.com) is part of the “participatory web”. Everyone can upload short videos and has access to all the films uploaded by others. Assumendly there are several millions of films available.
The development of Youtube was very fast-paced. Founded in February 2005 it has been bought by Google for more than a billion dollars [...]

News central

18 October, 2008 (16:55) | News | By: pooq

(Screenshot von http://www.newsalloy.com)

Newsalloy (http://www.newsalloy.com) is a feed reader, which collects news from other websites and presents them to the user on a page of it’s own. On the startpage you can login or on your first visit register an account.
In meantime most websites which provide news offer “feeds”. Such websites are the big news portals [...]

Traces in space

15 October, 2008 (20:53) | Computer Games | By: pooq

(Screenshot of http://www.spacetrace.org)

Spacetrace (http://www.spacetrace.org) is a space strategy game, which is played by many users at the same time in the same game world. It is translated to many languages and therefore played by gamers in the whole world. At the homepage you can create an anonymous accout and directly start playing.
Spacetrace is a so [...]

Always on the search (http://www.google.com)

11 October, 2008 (19:16) | Internet, That is life | By: admin

(Screenshot of http://www.google.de)

Google (http://www.google.com) is the search engine used by most users worldwide. The very simple start page contains a text box to enter a term of interest and after sending it Google serves short descriptions and Internet addresses of websites matching this request for free.
The company uses automatic search bots to visit and [...]