SlashDot has decided that it is time for a site redesign and they are having a contest to see who produces the best design. The winner will receive a new laptop, but you have to follow their criteria in your design. The most important thing is that you must use their existing CSS framework that they designed a few months ago when they started to plan for this redesign.
It appears that Microsoft is now targeting colleges from around the world to use their Windows Live Mail service. Microsoft offers colleges these services at no cost to the university and in return the university is getting a well-maintained mail server system. Currently there are 72 universities that have signed on with Microsoft and there are still 200 more that Microsoft is going to pursue.
According to the sources at Bink.nu Microsoft is readying a Windows Live Voicemail service that will allow users to store all of their voicemail in one central location.
It appears that Yahoo is testing out a new homepage with a completely redesigned layout. From the image you can tell that they are trying to condense all of their navigation into a few key spots (notably the sidebar). I believe that this is a nicer interface than the current Yahoo Homepage but it still seems to have a lot of information stuffed on to one page.
The competition with eBay has been rising with the release of Google Base and now another service called Shopify is going to be stepping into the ring. Shopify is currently in the beta stage but should be officially released for public use in May. They will allow users to create stores and add as many items as they want to those stores at no additional cost.
Zillow is a real estate site that allows users to see information, such as price, on over 65 million homes. The homes do not have to be up for sale in order to be listed with information. That is why this is so great, because it is an easy way for you to find out how much your home is worth compared to the rest of your neighbors.
Yahoo, in hopes to rival their competition, has finally added satellite images to their mapping system. After using it for a little while (I had to install Flash first) I started to like how smooth it ran. They did a really nice job putting it together, however, I don't believe that they did enough to pull people away from the already popular Google Maps.
Yahoo is one of the leading search engines and to compete with their rivals they now offer an 'Instant' Search. It is interesting to try but is nothing you would want to use as your main search engine. It will only show one result as you are typing in your search which doesn't make it very useful.
It is that time of year again, and it appears that there are quite a few sites participating in the April Fool's fun. Google has created a couple of April Fool's jokes that are pictured below and the especially popular one is SlashDot's new pink colored theme!
PayPal is putting up a fight with the TextPayMe service with the recent release of a mobile payment service. This service will allow you to send money to another person or to make a payment for an item. If you wanted to send money to someone else then you could just text the payment amount and the phone number that you wanted to send the payment to.
Wikipedia is becoming one of the most popular sources for knowledge on the web. The increasing popularity can definitely be seen just because of the millionth article accomplishment.
Technorati is THE blog search engine that everyone uses to find the content that they need. Some people don't like to use RSS feeds, so now they offer a friendly alternative. A registered user of Technorati can create a Favorites list which can contain up to 50 blogs.
The Internet has been around for quite some time now, but many people don't realize how long some people have had their domain name registered. The list below is believed to be the list of oldest domain names that are still active today. There may have been some that were registered before that but have since expired and were not put on the list.
If you are looking for news, pictures or just something fun to do then visit the smallest site in the web world to get it all! If you did happen to notice the picture above then you have seen the entire size of the website.
Some sources are saying that Yahoo! could be paying $30 million to purchase the popular site Digg. This would be just another addition to Yahoo! who has been on a purchasing frenzy lately. I don't think that anyone would be surprised by this purchase, but Digg creator Kevin Rose says 'we are focused on features, not selling the company'. Guess we will have to wait this rumor out.
A slideshow has been put together of how The Million Dollar Homepage Evolved. The slideshow almost starts from the beginning and will show you how it progressed all the way up to now. The screenshots were not taken every day but there are 35 of them which makes for a good little animation. Also, if you never heard, the last 1,000 pixels went for approximately $38,000 on eBay.
Just yesterday I had written an article on ThePirateBay.org selling themselves on eBay for a fundraiser technique to pay for their new $12,000+ server. The auction didn't last long because eBay was quick to pull it. The reason why we think it was pulled was because in the listing they said "we've decided to go prostitutes on you and sell ourselves for money".
The current host of the Windows Vista 5270 Torrent, ThePirateBay.org, will be upgrading its servers in order to meet the increasing demand for torrent files. How are they going to afford to do this $12,000 upgrade? They are selling themselves, actually renting themselves out for a night, on eBay.
The AskMeNow service that has been released could be a good alternative to using 411. I know on my cell phone using 411 costs $1.25, and with Google Mobile I haven't had to use 411. Now there may be a nicer alternative if I don't want to use text messaging. AskMeNow uses automated menus and can get information like sports scores, stock quotes, directions, and more.
If you haven't heard, Jeremy Wright is selling a blog but hasn't revealed which blog it is. It will be revealed today at Ensight around 1PM EST but in the meantime Blogaholics has put together a list of hints that he has given:
