The Movie Studios are hardening their stance on the new revision of the copyright law under discussion. They are not happy with the most recent revision that includes a judicial review. Tellingly, one of their complaints is the possibility of the process being bogged down in red tape, therefore making it difficult for them to […]
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Will it be Binghoo or Yabing? With the announcement that Microsoft and Yahoo collaborating on search for a 10 year license term, one of the key outcomes is that Yahoo search will now be powered by Bing, the new Microsoft \”Decision Engine\” After Xtra ditched MSN and went to Yahoo, Microsoft is back in the
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Well we are nearly at the end of July, on the down slide to Christmas. Here are new additions to the Deepweb Family Mid North Town and Country – New Local Newspaper Auckland Rubbish Removal Information Necia Prior\’s Art Blog Ragdoll Cottage and Kittens Crazy Steve\’s NZ Golf Equipment Welcome all.
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After reading an article about patch bans in Wanganui and the legal challenge to that ban by members of the Hells Angels, my eyes caught the contextual ads that were being served up. Now I am not sure how these ads are served, they are not Adwords, or other obvious PPC ads. They seem to
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As a web professional, I try to look at and investigate new ideas, trends, and concepts that appear in the industry. Not only because they may work for me, but also so I can give advice on these topics to my clients, coming from some if not much experience. Take as an example my Facebook
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HTML 4 has been around for many years, and it looks like the newest incarnation HTML5 is going to make some serious changes to the way the web works. Here is a video for those who are interested (it is over an hour long, and targetted at a technical audience, but very informative) Here are
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Well I am not a fan of the Browser, but these ads are pretty good. I have found 4 so far, here is one S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. – Internet Explorer 8 And another… F O M S Internet Explorer 8 Can\’t remember the last time Microsoft had to advertise IE, must be a Firefox getting near!
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I posted about the imminent revised copyright law (Section 92a) being published. I must say that the process put forward does seem to make sense and the threat of disconnection can only be issued for repeat offenders. While some are still not happy with this being the ultimate punishment, it will mean that there will
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After the Black Out campaign gained some time for reasoned thought about the new copyright law, the new recommendations are due shortly about it\’s implementation. The previously drafted legislation called for termination of infringer\’s internet accounts for repeated copyright violations. This created the Black Out backlash and so now we wait to see how things
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Twitter is becoming clearer. Now I have TweetDeck, Twitter becomes a much better experience, I now know when someone I am following has posted something up, and it even allows me to reply from within TweetDeck. Now the thing with TweetDeck, is that it is a program you install on your PC, think of it
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