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Get an online business card care of Lyro

lyro online business cardsThe world is slowly turning paperless, ok not quite yet, but it's getting there with the help of Lyro. (Yes, it's a made up Web 2.0 word)

Lyro's goal is to become the largest repository of online business cards helping everyone get found; Essentially a worldwide directory of professionals located in one digital location. It also serves as a way to contact potential customers, business partners, colleagues and acquaintances that is searchable through major engines like Google, Yahoo and Ask.

Currently operating in Beta form, Lyro cards are a free service, rather plain looking, and it takes a few minutes to sign up for. Further items in development that are really going to make this service rock are the ability to upload a profile picture, downloadable vCard, and fully customizable online card, however judging from the FAQ's it looks like these additions might come with a small fee when they are released.

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services

Chat on any website with Yaplet

yaplet chat hereLooking for a way to chat with people that are visiting the same website you are? Yaplet makes it easier to chat with people that visit the same websites, and have the same interests that you do. Started by two college kids as a hobby, this application has been garnering so much interest lately that their servers exploded last week. Through their no installation and registration magic, Yaplet adds a chatroom to every website on the internet. Visiting a website through Yaplet adds a frame on the left of the screen where the chatting takes place, or displays a pop-up.

There are three ways to activate chat on a website:
  • Use the Yaplet bookmarklet.
  • Enter a URL into the yaplet URL field.
  • Add a "Chat Here" button to your website.
If you want to check out the current Yaplet sites, here is a list of the top sites that people are chatting on right now.

Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Mozilla, Open Source

Mozilla is moving into China

mozilla moving into chinaMozilla is looking at opening shop in China to get closer and more involved with that market to push the open source opportunities. Mozilla is the employer to 100 staff members who are scattered throughout the world, who together with volunteers chug away at testing and sharing open source software that comprises of the Firefox browser. Their biggest goal with the new office is to educate the open source Chinese market, and adapt and mold it for local tastes and requirements. With fewer than 100 Million Mozilla users around the world, there are one million who call China home. China's government rules on software piracy and expensive licenses look to sway residents to shift towards the open source market. As the second largest Internet using area in the world, behind the US, 137 Million users could soon be getting cozier to Mozilla's technology.

Filed under: Fun, Internet

Happy 16th Birthday WWW

happy birthday wwwThe World Wide Web turned 16 on Monday! And it looks like we missed its birthday. Nonetheless, we still wish it a happy birthday, and thanks for all of the good times. According to the W3.org site, this URL held the fist web page nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, which is no longer in existence. Dont confuse this with that 15th birthday back in back in August. That one was for Tim Berners-Lee's posting on a newsgroup, and the development of a GUI browser and editor. This birthday celebrates the actual name Word Wide Web, changed from the Information Mesh, Mine of Information, and Information Mine.

Too bad, but at least we have archive.org taking snapshots of the web now for generations to look back on. What are your fondest memories of the web so far? Are you happy with its growth and direction? Want to send it a b-day message, drop us a comment.

Now, does the WWW have any other birthdays we don't know about?

Filed under: Business, Internet, Windows, Microsoft

Counterfeit software dealers beware, Microsoft is on your tail

microsoft counterfeit legalToday Microsoft said that it had 55 legal cases started with dealers that have been accused of selling counterfeit software online. Microsoft said that this is the highest number of shakedowns to date, hitting the US, Germany, Netherlands, France, Britain, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Korea, Mexico and Poland.

Online sellers of the counterfeit Microsoft materials have been using eBay and auction sites to sell the materials. This is an extremely pressing issue for Microsoft--not only are they loosing money, but the software in question could be defective and potentially hazardous to users, leaving backdoors open for possible security breaches and identity thefts. Our friends at Microsoft investigated these counterfeit applications and found that 43% actually contained additional programs and code that is not part of the actual operating system! Wow! I know that Microsoft's software can be rather expensive at times, but is it really worth dealing with all the hassle counterfeit software can bring? Especially nowadays when we live online, and do practically everything on the World Wide Web including banking and purchasing. Pretty spooky stuff!

Filed under: Internet

Happy 15th birthday, WWW!

Tim Berners-LeeOn August 6, 1991--15 years ago today--Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web with a message to the alt.hypertext newsgroup. In the message he says," The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system," and provides the source code for his prototype line-mode browser, a GUI hypertext editor for NeXT, and a skeleton server daemon. From those humble beginnings, all of this. Thanks, Tim, and Happy Birthday WWW!

[Via kottke.org]

Filed under: Fun

The Top 25 web sites of 1994

NCSA MosaicWhenever I think about my first days on the web c. 1995 I think of WebCrawler, the original and for awhile the best fulltext web search engine. WebCrawler's creator, Brian Pinkerton, is now working for Technorati ranking the world's blogs, which isn't much different from what he was doing 12 years ago: ranking the world's then-tiny population of web sites. Back in March 1994, about six weeks after WebCrawler's launch and long before PageRank, Alexa, or del.icio.us, Pinkerton took stock of WebCrawler's index and ranked the 25 most-linked pages on the web. Back then WebCrawler knew about 72,000 documents on 2,200 servers, and the number one most-linked page (plus seven of the other 24) belonged to CERN, where Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, and was a page describing what, exactly, the WWW is. Of course, every page on the Top 25 is now long gone, and most of them can't even be found in the Internet Archive, so the closest you'll be able to get to that original #1 page is this archived version from 1992. Number two on the Top 25 is the home page for NCSA's Mosaic web browser, the direct predecessor to Netscape Navigator.

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