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December 20, 2008

Undersea sub-cable cut causes mass internet outages

Filed under: Miscellaneous — SticKer @ 5:41 am

Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged.

These carry more than 75 per cent of traffic between the Middle East, Europe and America.

Egypt’s communications ministry says Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea have been cut, causing massive Internet outages.

Undersea cables were also damaged in January, causing outages in the Mideast and India.

Yemen and Sudan were also having phone and Internet difficulties Friday, but it was unclear if it was connected to the outage.

Packet loss for each country can be checked at: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

Sources:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/technology/2008/12/is-the-internet.html?%3F
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmea01PjMKwYuU8amN4_n7W0ycEgD955S40G4

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December 17, 2008

Google Search Results Promote and Remove Feature

Filed under: Google — Tags: , , , , , — SticKer @ 4:54 am

I’m seeing a new feature today ‘Promote and Remove button’ next to Google search results. Note: These buttons only appear when you are logged in and only affect the results that you see.

Log in to your account, promote a page and up it comes, then logout and you will see it drop back. Login again and there it is back at the top.

Here’s how it looks:

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Google drops out of top 20 most trusted companies

Filed under: Featured, Google, Industry News — Tags: , , — SticKer @ 3:17 am

Google dropped out of the top 20 of an annual survey ranking of companies most trusted on privacy by consumers.

Some of the companines in the top 20 were:

American Express
eBay Inc.
Apple Inc.
Yahoo Inc.
Facebook Inc.
IBM Corp.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Intuit Corp.

Source: bizjournals.com

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December 16, 2008

Google Countdown to 2009

Filed under: Google — Tags: , , , — SticKer @ 6:05 am

Google has set up a countdown page where you can see how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left for New Year. Find out each day how to count down the holidays with Google. The calendar also presents a new item each day for users. Yesterday was “Get gift ideas and holiday savings”, and the calender contained a link to top searches on Google Product Search. Create, collaborate, and celebrate with Google Docs & Countdown to 2009.

Google Countdown 2009

Google Countdown 2009

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December 6, 2008

Facebook and Google launches new single user-ID services

Filed under: Blogging, Google, Industry News, Social Media — Tags: , , , , — SticKer @ 7:34 am

Web giants Facebook and Google unveil new features to promote the social web. A services that let users take their existing log-ins and deploy them across a number of sites.

Google’s Friend Connect, out now in beta, is pitched at webmasters who want to add social networking tools to their web sites. The search giant said in a blog posting that this is as simple as “cutting and pasting a bit of code”, and requires no advanced coding or technical ability.

“The goal is to facilitate an open social web,” said Google product manager Mussie Shore in the blog post. “Using open standards like OpenID and OAuth, Friend Connect makes it simple for people to instantly interact with one another on the sites that they already love to visit.

Facebook Connect, meanwhile, which was announced this Summer, has also been updated, according to a blog posting on its web site. However, as might be expected with a social networking site, Facebook is asking its users to create momentum.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook will add sites to the service where there is user demand, and asked subscribers to get in contact with the firms in question to request a connection.

Source: vnunet.com

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