What’s the best way to discover new sites on the web? Get a little help from online portals like Site Releases.com. The website lists links according to a variety of categories including Arts and Humanities, News and Media, and Sports among many others. It’s a good place to start browsing starts if you’re bored and have a lot of time in your hands.

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Even young bloggers are not spared from the anger as spammers and flamers bombard comment boxes. The same sort of anger carries over to discussion threads, forums, and chat rooms. When you think about it, the web has become yet another outlet for many people to dispense their pent up emotions. In fact, some blog entries specifically fall under the rant category.

Where are all the angst coming from? Is the web turning to a whole new battlefield for many people all over the world?

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Do you have a myspace profile page? If yes, then good for you. If none, you’re so missing a lot!

Myspace is one of the most popular social networking sites today. It is currently the 6th most popular website in the world and is the 3rd most popular in the United States. Just imagine how many million users checks their account everyday!

The best thing about myspace is that it almost has everything you might possibly want and need like profile, pictures, comments, widgets, blingees, blogs, groups, networks and the newest one is the myspaceim where you can chat with your myspace buddies.

The internet is one big popularity contest. Getting on the front page of a social bookmarking site such as Digg, Del.ici.ous, Stumble Upon, or Reddit turns into page views. Page views turn into clicks. Clicks translate into revenue.

If you want to know how often your blog or site has come up in the biggest social bookmarking websites, try SocialScan.com. It is fast and easy to use, and best of all you don’t even have to register an account and risk getting spam from them or anyone else. Simply go to SocialScan.com and enter your URL in the text box (for example, dailyinternetreview.com) and hit the Submit button.

This is one kind of ailment that the computer age has brought to us. One of them is known as the Computer vision syndrome, or CVS, is a relatively new medically defined ailment and it’s growing. among the heavy computer users. Opthamologists say that 90 percent of the people who just stare at a computer all day long will have some part of it. Focusing continually on a computer screen triggers a whole host of complaints, including double and blurry vision and headaches. People with dry eyes are more vulnerable to CVS. People can lubricate the eyes with artificial tears to combat CVS.

Google ads are everywhere: in your gmail, google search results, popular blogs. They’re popular because they get good results for both the advertisers and the publishers who put them on their websites or online blogs. Advertisers only pay when somebody clicks on their ad, and can set a fixed amount that they are willing to pay everyday so they won’t go over their advertising budget. But did you know that Google can publish your non-profit ads for free?

There are restrictions, of course: for example, US-based organizations must have current 501(c)(3) status, as assigned by the Internal Revenue Service or IRS. Go to this page for more information on Google Grants and to this page for organizations based in other countries.

So how was the George W. Bush “miserable failure” bomb finally removed from Google search results?

There are two reasons: first, in 2007, Google changed their algorithm so that it could no longer be abused by pranksters, and ensured that the “miserable failure” search term would not point to the Google bomb, but rather to discussions, news articles, and commentary about the Google bomb project. The first result is now an article about the “miserable failure” Google bomb itself. Google’s official statement on this change was:

Over time, we’ve seen more people assume that they are Google’s opinion, or that Google has hand-coded the results for these Googlebombed queries. That’s not true, and it seemed like it was worth trying to correct that misperception. So a few of us who work here got together and came up with an algorithm that minimizes the impact of many Googlebombs.

Also, the White House web team got smart and redirected the link that used to point to George W. Bush’s biography; it now points to the page of the current president, which means that after Bush’s successor is elected, those old links would now point to that person’s page. On second thought, I’m not sure that was a completely smart thing to do.

From 2004 to 2006, if you typed in “miserable failure” on google.com, the first result you get would be George W. Bush’s official page on the White House website. This is the most popular example of a Google bomb, which manipulates search results based on the fact that Google’s page ranking algorithm places a high premium on incoming links.

According to Google, they didn’t manually edit search results for Google bombs such as these because:

We’re reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don’t affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

Of all the companies and/or manufacturers who promise technological edges over the other, who do you think is the most popular? A research conducted by InfoPro showed that Cisco still leads the race. A veteran in the technological business with new, exciting and unique gadget releases regularly this is the reason why companies choose them over the others. InfoPro’s method of research involved doing one on one interviews with Fortune 1000 companies that lasted an hour each. More than 50 percent of the companies said that Cisco has been their number 1 choice. Though this is the case, Cisco should look over their shoulder for the 2nd most popular computer manufacturer, Juniper. Almost 20 percent of the companies prefer Juniper (nothing for Cisco to worry about, really. But, who knows?).

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I am sure most of you are familiar with Bluetooth technology. Most of your devices do have this since it’s the fastest way to connect and transfer files from one device to the other. But have you ever thought of how “Bluetooth” got its name? Just a little tidbit of history, Bluetooth is the English name of Danish King Harald Blatand (King Harold Bluetooth in English). He is said to have united all the division in ancient Norway, Denmark and Sweden in the 10th century. Just like what the techie Bluetooth does, it integrates (unites or connect) a wide range of different devices for a faster, more stable connectivity. On May 22, 2008, Bluetooth (technology) will also celebrate its 100th year anniversary.

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