A new kind of Web -- don't miss these 11 sites

Here are 11 Web 2.0 sites or mashups or whatever you want to call them that show what the new Web can do, from helping you organize your life to adding some personalized fun to it. ...continue reading 'A new kind of Web -- don't miss these 11 sites'

Not Just an Experiment: Guy Kawasaki's Alltop.com

Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com

It's not an experiment, it's not a demonstration site, it's just a commercial web property designed to provide something useful, gain readership and make some money. Guy Kawasaki's two new Web companies, Truemors.com and Alltop.com, represent a new direction not just for Guy Kawasaki, but for the entire community of Web entrepreneurs. Guy talks about how the Web has changed, and how it's a lot cheaper today to start a Web company than it used to be. ...continue reading 'Not Just an Experiment: Guy Kawasaki's Alltop.com'

Busy Twitter a poster child for new communications

Microblogging site Twitter had its busiest day ever Tuesday and needs more than 30 servers to help its thousands of users keep each other posted about their lives, founder Blaine Cook said Wednesday. ...continue reading 'Busy Twitter a poster child for new communications'

YouTube outage underscores big Internet problem

Sunday's inadvertent disruption of Google's YouTube video service underscores a flaw in the Internet's design that could some day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts. ...continue reading 'YouTube outage underscores big Internet problem'

Flag Telecom: Middle East cables will be repaired by Sunday

Breaks in the Flag Telecom Europe-Asia cable that disrupted Internet and other communications to the Middle East and India last week will be repaired by Sunday, Flag Telecom said in a bulletin. ...continue reading 'Flag Telecom: Middle East cables will be repaired by Sunday'

The Internet's strangest communities

"There's a lid for every pot," the old saying goes, and the Internet sure allows the oddest-shaped lids and pots to find one another and discuss lid-pot relations at great length. Many of the communities discussed here will probably be old hat to you by now (Second Life? please) but then there are the ice chewers -- and the "boytaurs." Not for the faint of heart! ...read more

IPv6 internet overhaul begins

As the pool of unallocated addresses rapidly dries up, the Internet's master address books are being updated to include records in IP version 6 (IPv6), a new format which forms part of a major overhaul of the net's core address system. ...continue reading 'IPv6 internet overhaul begins'

After furor, Network Solutions stands by name policy

Network Solutions is standing by its controversial policy of automatically registering some domain names that are the subject of searches on the company's Web site. ...continue reading 'After furor, Network Solutions stands by name policy'

Infidelity a problem? Offset your cheating online

A Web site is offering people the chance to offset their infidelity by paying random strangers to remain faithful in a satirical bid to highlight its view of carbon offsetting as an 'inadequate' and 'misguided' response to climate change. ...continue reading 'Infidelity a problem? Offset your cheating online'