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Friday, July 11, 2008: Who is hosting Salon

Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group (NASDAQ: SLNM), often just called Salon, is a progressive online magazine, with content updated each weekday. The politics of the United States is its major focus, but it covers a range of issues. Reviews and articles about music, books and films are also a prominent feature of the site. Salon’s headquarters are located in downtown San Francisco, California. Its current editor-in-chief is Joan Walsh. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, July 4, 2008: Who is hosting GoFish

GoFish (OTCBB: GOFH) is a free video sharing website, headquartered in San Francisco, California, allowing visitors to watch and upload video clips, similar to websites like YouTube and Google Video. It was started in May 2005. GoFish primarily differentiates itself from such websites by focusing on “directed” content (i.e. telling users what kinds of videos to make instead of just accepting whatever users come up with), and claiming to be the first to take the leap into merging online broadcasting with over the air broadcasting. The current push of GoFish Technologies, Inc., the company behind GoFish, is an online “reality show” that deals with dating and user-selected contestants, with the semifinalists completing the competition on an as yet undisclosed television network. GoFish pioneered this approach with the launch of America’s Dream Date last June — the first reality-themed online show harnessing user-generated video, and sponsored by a national beverage brand, Jetset Energy Drink. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, June 27, 2008: Who is hosting Blip.TV

blip.tv is a video sharing service designed for creators of user-generated content. blip.tv provides content creators with free hosting, support for a variety of video formats, distribution using technologies like RSS and an opt-in advertising program with a 50/50 revenue share. blip.tv focuses on “episodic content” or “shows,” rather than viral video. In addition to its public services at www.blip.tv, the company also offers private label technology solutions for traditional media companies who want to integrate user-generated content into their existing platforms. Customers include Turner Broadcasting and Conde Nast. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, June 20, 2008: Who is hosting iFilm

ifilm.com was an online archive of short films, movie trailers, and other video clips of interest. Originally founded by independent media and filmmaker Raphael Raphael in 1997 as interactive film and media collective, it now hosts a variety of viral marketing videos, allowing these clips to spread between users easily. On October 15, 2005, iFilm was purchased by MTV Networks in a multi-million dollar deal. It has since been rebranded as the online site of Spike. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, June 13, 2008: Who is hosting Imeem

imeem is a social media service where users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video. The company was founded by Dalton Calwell (ex-VA Linux) and Jan Jannink (formerly of Napster) and many of the core engineers came from the original Napster file sharing service. Launched in October 2004, the service has both a social network structure as well as a content browsing/filtering structure similar to that of Flickr and YouTube. It works on an advertising based business model, and is therefore free to use. According to imeem executives imeem has more than 25 million visitors per month with over 65,000 new users every day. Web tracking site quantcast.com corroborates these visitor numbers and indicates that imeem is the just outside the top 100 websites in the world and rank it as the top social music site. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, June 6, 2008: Who is hosting Twango

Twango is an online media sharing site that supports multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provides users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing. In addition, Twango saves all the original media and its metadata (this includes, but is not limited to, IPTC and Exif). Non-members are free to browse the site, while members can upload media of their own. Sign up for a basic account is free, and provides 250 megabytes of upload bandwidth a month. Twango was acquired by Nokia in July 2007. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, May 30, 2008: Who is hosting Veoh

Veoh is a San Diego, California-based company which runs an Internet Television service allowing users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. The company received media attention after Michael Eisner (ex-Disney chairman) joined the board. In April 2006, he was one of the investors (along with AOL Time-Warner) in the $12.5 million second round of financing for Veoh and re-affirmed his status in August 2007 as an investor in the company’s $25 million Series C financing round. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, May 23, 2008: Who is hosting Revver

Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and shares all ad revenue 50/50 with the creators. Videos can be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format. In addition, Revver is a Video Publishing Platform that can enable any third-party to build their own “Revverized” site. The site at www.revver.com is actually built on top of Revver’s own API, and third-parties can build identical functionality into their own sites. Revver allows developers to create a complete white label of the Revver platform. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, May 16, 2008: Who is hosting PornoTube

PornoTube is an advertising-supported pornographic website that provides audio, videos, and photos of explicit sex for free. It is modeled after YouTube in that it allows its users to upload their own pornographic media (user-generated content). It is one of the highest-traffic pornographic sites on the Internet along with YouPorn and has been described as a major development in Internet pornography. The site offers amateur sex clips, clips from pornographic websites, and scenes of regular porn movies in the straight, gay and lesbian category. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, May 9, 2008: Who is hosting Metacafe

Metacafe is the largest independent video sharing web site, specializing in short-form original entertainment, where users upload, view and share video clips. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Tel Aviv and New York. Metacafe is privately held and its investors include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. Metacafe is similar to other top video vewing websites such as YouTube or Dailymotion, but with several key differences. Core differentiators include duplication elimination, Adult content filtering, an 80,000 community member reviewer panel, VideoRank™, and Producer Rewards™. Its VideoRank™ system gauges viewer reactions to videos in order to feature those that prove most popular to its viewers. Additionally, Metacafe pays video creators for original work that has exceeded a certain threshold of both total views and VideoRank score through its Producer Rewards™ Program. The site features short-form videos in a variety of categories, including Animation, Comedy, Entertainment, How To, News and Events, People and Stories, Sports, Video Games and others. Original content is uploaded to the site by independent video creators, small to mid-sized production groups, and major media companies. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, May 2, 2008: Who is hosting DailyMotion

Dailymotion is a video hosting service website, based in Paris, France. Its domain name was registered one month after YouTube (but the site opened one month earlier) with gandi.net, a French internet domain name provider, and at least one name server is based in France with the .fr name extension. The site is well known for its superior video quality in comparison with other flash-enabled video hosting websites. As of January 2008, the site was getting about 16,000 new videos posted daily, and page views in excess of 26 million per day. As of January 2008, Dailymotion had a global Alexa Internet ranking of 38. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, April 26, 2008: Who is hosting YouSendIt

YouSendIt is a web-based pseudo-(SaaS) digital content delivery service provided by YouSentedItt, Inc. It lets users send, receive and track files on-demand. It is an alternative to sending large e-mail attachments, using FTP, and sending CDs or DVDs or tape or USB flash drive via courier. The sender can enter the recipients’ e-mail addresses, attach the file and send it; the recipients receive an e-mail notification with a URL that lets them download the file. With more than five million registered users from 220 countries, YouSendIt once transfered over 30,000 GB per day and over 500 million files to date. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, April 19, 2008: Who is hosting RapidShare

RapidShare is a German owned one-click hosting pay- and free-service (with limitations) website that operates from Switzerland and is financed by the subscriptions of paying users. Rapidshare is one of the world’s largest file-hosting sites with millions of files stored on its servers. According to Alexa, Rapidshare.com is currently the 12th most visited website in the world. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, November 17, 2007: Who is hosting FileFront

FileFront is a computer game and video game download service that provides patches, demos, modifications and other user generated game related content. It was first launched in December 2001, and created by I/O Error Development. FileFront was bought by the Ziff Davis Media Game Group in the late half of 2005. FileFront has experienced exponential growth since the acquisition and is rated among the top 250 websites on the web. The main focus of FileFront is to provide a download service to its users, from its Houston-based servers. In addition to this, FileFront also provides some gaming-related news and articles. The news and articles are provided by Computer Gaming World, a sister-site and offspring from Ziff Davis Media, which owns both sites. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, November 10, 2007: Who is hosting Imageshack

ImageShack is an image hosting website. They have a subscription service, but the majority of their revenue is produced from advertising related to their free image hosting. The imageshack.us Alexa ranking as of September 25, 2007 is 36. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, ImageShack was the fourth fastest growing web brand in July, 2006. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, November 3, 2007: Who is hosting Zooomr

Zooomr is a website created in 2005 by BlueBridge Technologies Group for sharing digital photos. The site is in continuous development and exited its private beta stage in February 2006. According to Thomas Hawk, the site has well over 50,000 users, who can browse and comment on others’ photos as well as upload their own. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, October 26, 2007: Who is hosting SHOUTcast

SHOUTcast is a multiplatform freeware digital audio streaming technology developed by Nullsoft. It allows audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling hobbyists and professionals to create Internet radio/Web radio networks. SHOUTcast consists of a client-server model, with each component communicating via a network protocol that intermingles audio data with metadata such as song titles and the station name. It uses HTTP as a transport protocol, although multicast is another option. SHOUTcast servers and clients are available for Palm OS, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris. Client-only versions exist on Windows Mobile, Series 60 and the PlayStation Portable (PSPradio). The output format is supported by multiple clients, including Nullsoft’s own Winamp, VLC media player, Amarok, XMMS, Zinf and Apple iTunes. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, October 19, 2007: Who is hosting Winamp

Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware / shareware. Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1996. Current Winamp development is credited to Ben Allison (benski), Will Fisher, Taber Buhl, Maksim Tyrtyshny, Chris Edwards and Stephen (Tag) Loomis. In 2005 Winamp grew from 33 million monthly users to over 57 million monthly users, making it the second[citation needed] most actively used media player globally, second only to Windows Media Player. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, October 12, 2007: Who is hosting WinCustomize

WinCustomize is a website that provides content for users to customize Microsoft Windows. The site hosts thousands of skins, themes, icons, wallpapers, and other graphical content to modify the Windows graphical user interface. The majority of the content is free to download. WinCustomize was launched in March 2001 by Brad Wardell and Pat Ford, both of whom work at Stardock. After the dot-com recession had taken down many popular skin sites, WinCustomize quickly grew in popularity due to a combination of wide variety of content, uptime reliability, and being the preferred content destination by Stardock customers. The site has grown at a far greater pace than its founders had anticipated. It has managed to avoid having to put many limitations on users or having to resort to pop-up advertising because of its corporate patron Stardock subsidizing its costs. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, October 5, 2007: Who is hosting DeviantArt

deviantART is an international online artistic community. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens and Angelo Sotira, amongst others. deviantART aims to provide a place for any artist, photographer, writer, or Flash artist to exhibit and discuss his or her works. It also provides a community of like-minded individuals and is visited by 1.5 million individuals per day who view approximately 35 million pages. As of September 2007 the site consists of over 4.5 million users and over 43 million submissions, and receives around 60,000+ submissions per day. deviantART features many forms of creative expression organized in a comprehensive category structure. The artwork on display includes photography, digital art, traditional art, literature and skins for applications. The site also has extensive downloadable resources for use by creators such as tutorials and stock photography. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Monday, September 3, 2007: Who is hosting Wild Wadi

The Wild Wadi Water Park is situated in Jumeirah, an area in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Wild Wadi is an outdoor water park with a heated/cooled wave pool, multiple water slides and two artificial surfing machines. In addition, the park has the largest water slide outside of North America and an 18 metre water fall, which spills its load onto the guests below every ten minutes. The water park also has two gift shops,three restaurants and two snack stands. It was featured in The Amazing Race 5 and The Amazing Race Asia 1, in which teams had to slide down a 70 foot drop. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Sunday, September 2, 2007: Who is hosting Obama for America

Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party. The U.S. Senate Historical Office lists him as the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate. Born to a black Kenyan father and a white American mother, Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings. He spent most of his childhood in the majority-minority U.S. state of Hawaii and lived for four years in Indonesia. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer, university lecturer, and civil rights lawyer before running for public office. He served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, launching his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2003. Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while still an Illinois state legislator. He went on to win election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with a landslide 70% of the vote in an election year marked by Republican gains. As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama co-sponsored the enactment of conventional weapons control and transparency legislation, and made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He is among the Democratic Party’s leading candidates for nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes. He married in 1992 and has two daughters. He has authored two bestselling books: a memoir of his youth titled Dreams from My Father, and The Audacity of Hope, a personal commentary on U.S. politics. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, September 1, 2007: Who is hosting Penthouse

Penthouse, a men’s magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and soft-core pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by General Media, Inc, now called Penthouse Media Group, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International Inc. prior to chapter 11 restructuring. Although Guccione is American, the magazine was founded in 1965 in the United Kingdom, but beginning in 1969 was sold in the United States as well. At the height of his success, Guccione was considered to be one of the richest men in the United States. He was once listed in the Forbes 400 ranking of wealthiest people (1982-$400 million net worth). According to an April 2002 New York Times article that quoted Guccione saying Penthouse grossed $3.5 billion to $4 billion over the 30-year life of the company, with net income of almost half a billion dollars. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, August 31, 2007: Who is hosting Hustler

Hustler is a monthly pornographic magazine aimed at heterosexual men and published in the United States. It was first published in 1974 by Larry Flynt. It was a step forward from the Hustler Newsletter and The Hustler For Today’s Man which was cheap advertising for his strip club businesses at the time. The magazine grew from a shaky start to a peak circulation of around 3 million (current circulation is below 500,000). The magazine was one of the first major men’s magazines in the United States to break the taboo that existed in the early seventies by showing much more explicit views of the female genitalia than other popular magazines of the time such as the relatively modest Playboy. Today, Hustler is still considered more explicit (and more self-consciously lowbrow) than such well known competitors as Playboy and Penthouse. It frequently depicts hardcore themes, such as the use of sex toys, penetration and group sex. Larry Flynt’s Hustler empire also owns the Hustler casino in Gardena, California, as well as Hustler Hollywood, a chain of Hustler stores that sells adult-oriented videos, clothing, magazines and sex toys. The chain’s flagship store is on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Thursday, August 30, 2007: Who is hosting Playboy

Playboy is an American men’s magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., reaching into every form of media. Playboy is one of the world’s best known brands. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide. The magazine is published monthly and features photographs of nude women, along with various articles on fashion, sports, consumer goods, and public figures. It also has short fiction by top literary writers, such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, and Margaret Atwood. The magazine has been known to express liberal opinions on most major political issues. Playboy’s use of “tasteful” nude photos is classified as “softcore” in contrast to the more “hardcore” pornographic magazines that started to appear in the 1970s in response to the success of Playboy’s more explicit rival, Penthouse. Today, Playboy is a significant producer and distributor of hardcore pornography due to its 2006 acquisition of ClubJenna Inc and its ownership or several adult cable channels such as the Spice Network. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Wednesday, August 29, 2007: Who is hosting National Security Agency

National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) is the United States government’s cryptologic organization that was officially established on November 4, 1952. Responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications, it coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to produce foreign signals intelligence information, which involves a significant amount of cryptanalysis. It is also responsible for protecting U.S. government communications and information systems from similar agencies elsewhere, which involves a significant amount of cryptography. A component of the Department of Defense, the NSA has always been directed by a three-star flag officer. The NSA is a key component of the U.S. Intelligence Community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Tuesday, August 28, 2007: Who is hosting NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation’s public space program. Established on July 29, 1958, by the National Aeronautics and Space Act, its annual funding for fiscal year 2007 (FY2007) amounts to US$16.8 billion. In addition to the space program, it is also responsible for long-term civilian and military aerospace research. Since February 2006 NASA’s self-described mission statement is to “pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.” Its motto is ad astra per aspera, Latin for “To the stars through difficulties.” or the more common translation “A rough road leads to the stars.” (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Monday, August 27, 2007: Who is hosting Paris Hilton

Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebutante, businesswoman, model, actress and recording artist. She is an heiress to a share of both the Hilton Hotel fortune and the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton. Hilton rose to fame around 2003, when her sex tape titled 1 Night in Paris appeared on the internet one week before the reality series The Simple Life began airing in December 2003. As an actress, she has appeared in several minor roles, most notably in the horror film House of Wax (2005). In 2006, she released her debut self-titled album Paris. Hilton has since garnered notoriety as a result of several legal incidents, the repercussions of which have caused Hilton to serve time in a correctional institution in 2007. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Sunday, August 26, 2007: Who is hosting Naughty America

Naughty America is an adult entertainment company that offers Internet pornography on its myriad of websites. Most of its content consists of reality porn. Naughty America’s slogan “The Difference is Here” attempts to describe how the company differentiates itself from similar sites by never shooting scenes with “gross or degrading” content. Thus it purports to be a company specializing in “good, wholesome, adult entertainment.” Started in June 2000 with a small staff under the name SoCal Cash , the company changed its name in March 2004 to Naughty America,and now employs over 35 staff members. Naughty America has over 70 DVDs containing the content shot for their websites. These Naughty America DVDs are distributed world wide by Pureplay Media since November 2005. Naughty America is owned by La Touraine, Inc. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, August 25, 2007: Who is hosting Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server (currently known as Sun Java System Web Server), and has since evolved to rival other Unix-based web servers in terms of functionality and performance. Since April 1996 Apache has been the most popular HTTP server on the World Wide Web; since March 2006 however it has experienced a steady decline of its market share. As of August 2007 Apache served 50% of all websites. The project’s name was chosen for two reasons: out of respect for the Native American Indian tribe of Apache (Indé), well-known for their endurance and their skills in warfare, and due to the project’s roots as a set of patches to the codebase of NCSA HTTPd 1.3 – making it “a patchy” server. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. The application is available for a wide variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. Released under the Apache License, Apache is free and open source software. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, August 24, 2007: Who is hosting Zend Technologies

Zend Technologies Ltd. is a world wide web infrastructure software company with headquarters in Cupertino, California, USA and has offices in Israel, France, and Germany. Zend Open Source Systems Japan, currently owned by Turbolinux, is a representative of Zend Technologies in Japan. Zend is best known for its founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski who, along with other Israeli graduates of the Technion and Rasmus Lerdorf, have created PHP. The company’s operations are currently centered on the development of products relating to the development, deployment and management of business critical PHP based web applications, including Zend Studio. The name “Zend” is a portmanteau of the names of its founders, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans. In 1997, Zeev and Andi rewrote the parser behind Rasmus Lerdorf’s PHP-FI. The result was released as PHP 3. In 1998 they redesigned that parser completely, and named it the Zend Engine. PHP 4 was based upon the first version of the Zend Engine and was extremely successful. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Thursday, August 23, 2007: Who is hosting PHP

PHP is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications. Textual User Interfaces can also be created using ncurses. PHP is a recursive acronym for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”. The main implementation is produced by The PHP Group and released under the PHP License. It is considered to be free software by the Free Software Foundation. This implementation serves to define a de facto standard for PHP, as there is no formal specification. Currently, two major versions of PHP are being actively developed: 5.x and 4.4.x; on July 13, 2007, the PHP group announced that active development on PHP4 will cease by December 31, 2007, however, critical security updates will be provided until August 8, 2008. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Wednesday, August 22, 2007: Who is hosting MySQL

MySQL (pronounced /mɑɪ ɛs kjuː ɛl/) is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS) which has, according to MySQL AB, more than 10 million installations. MySQL is owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, which holds the copyright to most of the codebase. This is similar to the JBoss model and how the Free Software Foundation handles copyright in its projects, and dissimilar to how the Apache project does it, where the software is developed by a public community and the copyright to the codebase is owned by its individual authors. The company develops and maintains the system, selling support and service contracts, as well as proprietary-licensed copies of MySQL, and employing people all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. MySQL AB was founded by David Axmark, Allan Larsson, and Michael “Monty” Widenius. The CEO is Mårten Mickos. The MySQL company also sells another DBMS, MaxDB, which is from an unrelated codebase. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Tuesday, August 21, 2007: Who is hosting Mambo

Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) is a free software / open source content management system (CMS) for creating and managing websites through a simple web interface. It has attracted many users due to its ease of use. Mambo also includes more advanced features such as page caching to improve performance on busy sites, advanced templating techniques, and a fairly robust API. It can also automate many tasks such as web indexing for static pages. Mambo can provide RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, language internationalization, and other possibilities. Mambo is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)Version 2. The rights to the Mambo CMS codebase, name and copyrights, are protected by the Mambo Foundation, a non-profit corporation formed to support and promote the Mambo Open Source project. The project site and downloads can be found at http://source.mambo-foundation.org, and an online demo of Mambo is available at Open Source CMS Demo (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Monday, August 20, 2007: Who is hosting phpAdsNew

phpAdsNew is an open-source advertising server (written in PHP using the MySQL database) licensed under the GNU General Public License, with an integrated banner management interface and tracking system for gathering statistics. With phpAdsNew you may rotate paid banners and in-house advertisements. You can also show banners from third party advertising companies. phpAdsNew is a fork of phpAds, created by Tobias Ratschiller in 1998. The project came to a halt in 2000, after which Wim Godden expanded the project with new features, thus creating phpAdsNew (hoping the ‘New’ part would be temporarily, until Tobias could update the phpAds website, which only happened years later, after the name phpAdsNew was too well established). During 2001–2002, Wim Godden led the project and later received help from developers such as Niels Leenheer and Phil Hord, adding new features and improving the existing features. After release 1.9, a completely revised version 2.0 was created. This task was led by Niels Leenheer. It included new features and a revised graphical interface. At this time, version 2.0 is still the main version of phpAdsNew. A port of this software for PostgreSQL is available named phpPgAds, created by Matteo Beccati. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Sunday, August 19, 2007: Who is hosting Joomla!

Joomla! is a free, open source content management system written with PHP for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets, using the MySQL database. Joomla! includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla! is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, August 18, 2007: Who is hosting WordPress

WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.2.2, released on 5 August 2007. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, August 17, 2007: Who is hosting CNET Networks, Inc.

In 1994, with the help from Fox co-founder Kevin Windle, CNET produced four pilot television programs about computers, technology, and the Internet. CNET TV was composed of CNET Central, The Web, and The New Edge. CNET Central was created first and aired in syndication in the United States on the USA Network. Later, it began airing on USA’s sister network Sci Fi Channel along with The Web and The New Edge. These were later followed by TV.com in 1996. Current American Idol host Ryan Seacrest first came to national prominence at CNET, as the host of The New Edge and doing various voice-over work for CNET. In addition, CNET produced another television technology news program called News.com that aired on CNBC beginning in 1999. CNET acquired the Swiss-based company GDT in 1999. GDT was later renamed to CNET Channel. In 1999, CNET granted the right to Asiacontent to set up CNET Asia, operation was brought back in December 2000. In early 2000, the same time CNET became CNET Networks, they acquired comparison shopping site mySimon for US$700 million. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Thursday, August 16, 2007: Who is hosting Reuters

Reuters Group plc (LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY); pronounced [ɹɔɪtəɹz] is known as a financial market data provider and a news service that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. However, news reporting accounts for less than 10% of the company’s income. Its main focus is on supplying the financial markets with information and trading products. These include market data, such as share prices and currency rates, research and analytics, as well as trading systems that allow dealers to buy and sell such things as currencies and shares on a computer screen instead of by telephone or on a trading floor like that of the New York Stock Exchange. Among other services, the most notable is analysis of 40,000 companies, debt instruments, and 3 million economic series. Competitors include Bloomberg L.P. and Dow Jones Newswires. On May 15, 2007, The Thomson Corporation agreed to a merger with Reuters, a deal valued at US $17.2 billion. Thomson will control about 55% of the new company, to be named Thomson-Reuters. The new head of Thomson-Reuters will be Tom Glocer, the current head of Reuters. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Wednesday, August 15, 2007: Who is hosting Friendster

Friendster is an Internet social network service. The Friendster site was founded in Mountain View, California by Jonathan Abrams in March 2002 and is privately owned. Friendster is based on the Circle of Friends (social network) technique for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Tuesday, August 14, 2007: Who is hosting StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. These webpages are typically presented when the user — known within the community as a Stumbler — clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which new webpage to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. i.e. it is a recommendation system which uses peer and social networking principles. There is also one-click blogging built in as well. Users can rate, or choose not to rate, any webpage with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles “channel-surfing” the web. Toolbar versions exist for Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite and Internet Explorer. eBay acquired StumbleUpon in May of 2007 for $75,000,000 USD. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Monday, August 13, 2007: Who is hosting Alexa Internet Inc.

Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. Alexa collects information from users who have installed an “Alexa Toolbar,” allowing them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as lists of related links. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Sunday, August 12, 2007: Who is hosting Last.fm

Last.fm is a UK-based internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It is one of the world’s largest social music platforms with over 15 million active users based in more than 232 countries. On May 30, 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for US$280m (£140m), the largest European Web 2.0 purchase to date. Using a unique music recommendation system known as “Audioscrobbler”, Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to, either on the streamed radio stations or on the user’s own computer or iPod. This information is transferred to Last.fm’s database (“Scrobbled”) via a plugin installed into the users’ music player. The profile data is displayed on a personal web page. The site offers numerous social networking features and can recommend and play artists similar to the user’s favourites. Users can create custom radio stations and playlists from any of the audio tracks in Last.fm’s music library, but are not able to listen to individual tracks on demand, or to download tracks unless the rightsholder has previously authorised it. Registration is required to acquire a profile but is not necessary to view any part of the site or to listen to radio stations. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, August 11, 2007: Who is hosting Gmail

Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom, is a free Web-based email (Webmail) and POP3 e-mail service provided by Google. It was released on April 1, 2004 as a private beta release by invitation only, and was opened to all as a public beta on February 7, 2007. This service offers more than 2,880 megabytes of free storage (as of August 2007), a search-oriented interface and a unique ‘conversation view’. Gmail is well-known for its use of the Ajax programming technique in its design. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, August 10, 2007: Who is hosting Joost

Joost (IPA pronunciation: [dʒuːst] ‘jew-st’) is a system for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web using peer-to-peer TV technology, created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (founders of Skype and Kazaa). Joost began development in 2006. Working under the code name “The Venice Project”, Zennström and Friis assembled teams of some 150 software developers in about six cities around the world, including New York, London, Leiden and Toulouse. Joost’s CTO is Dirk-Willem van Gulik. According to Zennström at a 25 July 2007 press conference about Skype held in Tallinn, Estonia, Joost has signed up more than a million beta testers and is on track for an end-of-year launch. The teams are currently in negotiations with FOX networks. It has signed up with Warner Music, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Productions (Indianapolis 500, IndyCar Series) and production company Endemol for the beta. In February 2007, Viacom entered into a deal with the company to distribute content from its media properties, including MTV Networks, BET and film studio Paramount Pictures. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Thursday, August 9, 2007: Who is hosting A List Apart

A List Apart (ALA) is a webzine for web designers. It covers various topics of interest and advocates the use of web standards in the design process. Regular articles are written by contributing authors who are not part of the editorial team. Their tagline is “for people who make websites”. It was co-founded by web design lecturer Jeffrey Zeldman. ALA started as a mailing list in 1997 by Zeldman and Brian M. Platz. A year later, in 1998, ALA was launched as a website. ALA allows anyone to submit an article, which editors will then review and may choose to upload to their web site. In 2001, A List Apart’s editors grew tired of the lack of standards followed by popular Web browsers. It converted to the standard entitled Cascading Style Sheets, developed by Håkon Wium Lie, and challenged its readers to do likewise. While other websites had experimented with using CSS for style before 2001, A List Apart was the first in the web design community to gain notoriety for using a CSS-only design. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Wednesday, August 8, 2007: Who is hosting Dodgeball

Dodgeball is a social networking software provider for mobile devices. It was acquired by Google in May 2005. Users text their location to the service, which then notifies them of crushes, friends, friends’ friends and interesting venues nearby. In April 2007, the founders of Dodgeball quit Google to work on other projects. The service was developed by students at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program(ITP). (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Tuesday, August 7, 2007: Who is hosting Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, email, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, currently three gateway numbers are available: short codes for the USA and Canada and a UK number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Monday, August 6, 2007: Who is hosting PostSecret

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project in which people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. PostSecret began as an art installation for Artomatic 2004 in Washington, D.C. The idea of the project is simple: completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they have never before revealed. There is no restriction on what the content of the secret must be, only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams. Since Frank Warren created the website on January 1, 2005, PostSecret has collected and displayed upwards of 2,500 original pieces of art from people across the United States and around the world (international readers have also been known to send in postcards). The site, which started as an experimental Blogspot and is updated every Sunday with approximately 20 new pieces, has a relatively constant style, giving all “artists” who participate some guidelines on how their secrets should be represented. Recently the project has received some national news coverage, being featured weekly in Washington, D.C.’s City Paper as well as in the All-American Rejects 2005 music video Dirty Little Secret. Artwork from the site was blown up to poster size and used as the background for the shoot. In the sixth annual Weblog Awards, the PostSecret website received five Bloggies in 2006: Best American Weblog, Best Topical Weblog, Best Community Weblog, Best New Weblog, and Weblog of the Year. In several schools, such as Martingrove Collegiate Institute, students started up their own post-secret walls, putting up secrets on pieces of papers anonymously (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Sunday, August 5, 2007: Who is hosting Lifehacker

Lifehacker is an advertising-supported weblog about life hacks and software which launched on January 31, 2005. The site is owned by Gawker Media and covers Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux programs as well as time-saving tips and tricks. The staff updates the site about 18 times each weekday, with reduced updates on weekends. The Lifehacker motto is: Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don’t live to geek; geek to live. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, August 4, 2007: Who is hosting Boing Boing

Boing Boing (originally bOING bOING) is a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, later becoming an award winning group blog. Boing Boing started as a zine in 1988 by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair. Issues were subtitled “The World’s Greatest Neurozine”. Associate editors included Gareth Branwyn, Jon Lebkowsky, and Paco Nathan. Along with Mondo 2000, Boing Boing was an influence in the development of the cyberpunk subculture. Common themes include technology, futurism, science fiction, gadgets, intellectual property, Disney and politics. The last issue of the zine was #15. Boing Boing became a website in 1995 and later relaunched as a weblog on January 21, 2000, described as a “directory of wonderful things.” Over time, Mark Frauenfelder was joined by three co-editors: Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Xeni Jardin. All four Boing Boing contributors are or have been contributing writers for Wired magazine. In September 2003, Boing Boing removed their Quicktopics user comment feature without warning or explanation. Bloggers commenting on the change at the time speculated that it stemmed from “identity impersonators and idiot flamers” pretending to be co-editors. Xeni Jardin was also a guest on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer to discuss the Washington Post’s decision to remove their comments section, and spoke from her experience at Boing Boing. In 2004, the project incorporated as Happy Mutants LLC, and John Battelle became the blog’s business manager. Boing Boing has twice won the Bloggies for ‘Weblog of the Year’, in 2004 and 2005. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, August 3, 2007: Who is hosting Technorati

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. As of April 2007, Technorati indexes over 75 million weblogs. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals. Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik was the site’s Chief Technologist Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. Sifry is a major open-source advocate, and was a founder of LinuxCare and later of Wi-Fi access point software developer Sputnik. Technorati includes a public developer’s wiki, where developers and contributors collaborate, as well as various open APIs. The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show. It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Thursday, August 2, 2007: Who is hosting Pownce

Pownce is a social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, Daniel Burka, and Shawn Allen. Pownce is centered around sharing messages, files, events, and links with already established friends. Since the launch on June 27, 2007, new members can only join through an invite from a friend or by e-mail request. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Wednesday, August 1, 2007: Who is hosting Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL, LSE: ACP, FWB: APC) (formerly Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and closely-related software products. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple develops, sells, and supports a series of personal computers, portable media players, computer software, and computer hardware accessories; Apple is also currently involved in the creation of new technology concepts, such as the iPhone, Apple TV, and many features of its new, upcoming operating system, Mac OS X “Leopard”. Apple also operates an online store for hardware and software purchases, as well as the iTunes Store, a comprehensive offering of digital downloadable music, audiobooks, games, music videos, TV shows, and movies. The company’s best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of personal computers and related peripherals, the iPod line of portable media players, and the iPhone. Apple’s best known software products include the Mac OS operating system and the iLife software suite, a bundle of integrated amateur creative software products. (Both Mac OS and iLife are included on all Macs sold.) Additionally, Apple is also a major provider of professional (as well as “prosumer”) audio- and film-industry software products. Apple’s professional and “prosumer” applications, which run primarily on Mac computers, include Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Final Cut Studio, and related industry tools. Apple had worldwide annual sales in its fiscal year 2006 (ending September 30, 2006) of US$19.3 billion. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Tuesday, July 31, 2007: Who is hosting LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking site, mainly used for professional networking. As of July 2007, it had more than 12 million registered users, spanning 150 industries and more than 400 economic regions (as classified by the service). The main purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone (whether a LinkedIn user or not) to become a connection. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Monday, July 30, 2007: Who is hosting Blogger

Blogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs in August 1999. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features that Pyra changed to be free. About a year later, Pyra Labs’ co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google. Google purchased Picasa in 2004; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs. On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features including CSS-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On 14 August 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed Invader, alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers, as well including some new features. In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. As of May 2007, Blogger has completely moved over to Google operated servers. It currently hosts a huge number of blogs, ranging from the personal to those used purely for business. Some blogs get large numbers of visitors every day yet remain hosted on Blogger’s free service. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Sunday, July 29, 2007: Who is hosting Facebook

Facebook is a social networking website which was launched on February 4, 2004. In the beginning, the membership was restricted to students of Harvard University. It was subsequently expanded to other Boston area schools (Boston College, Boston University, MIT) and all Ivy League schools within two months. Many individual universities were added in rapid succession over the next year. Eventually anyone with a US college or university (.edu) email address was eligible to join. There was a separate network initiated for US high schools. Since 11 September 2006, it has been made available to any email address user who inputs a certain age range. Users can select to join one or more participating networks, such as a high school, place of employment, or geographic region. As of July 2007, the website had the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites with over 30 million members worldwide (also from non-collegiate networks). In June 2007 it was ranked between top 10–20 web sites, and was the number one site for photos in the United States, ahead of public sites such as Flickr, with over 8.5 million photos uploaded daily. It is also the seventh most visited site in the United States. The name of the site refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of the campus community that colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, July 28, 2007: Who is hosting MSN

MSN (short for Microsoft Network) is a collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft. Initially released on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of Windows 95. The range of services provided has changed significantly since its release. The Hotmail webmail service was amongst the first (as of May 7, 2007 it is being replaced by Windows Live Hotmail), followed by the instant messenger service MSN Messenger, which has been replaced by Windows Live Messenger. According to Alexa.com, MSN.com is currently ranked 2nd amongst all websites for Traffic Rank. In large part, MSN was rebranded in 2005 to Windows Live, which saw the release of Windows Live Hotmail (previously Windows Live Mail) and Windows Live Messenger. Microsoft overhauled its online software and services in a climate of increasing competition from rivals such as Google, and Yahoo!. The Windows Live brand is currently being rolled out service-by-service, with rebranded services being classed as Beta tests initially. It is anticipated that the MSN service will aim at the personal and family user, whilst Windows Live will be a dedicated search facility for various media. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, July 27, 2007: Who is hosting Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American e-commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. It was one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet and was one of the iconic stocks of the late 1990s dot-com bubble. After the bubble burst Amazon faced skepticism about its business model, but it made its first annual profit in 2003. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, and launched in 1995, Amazon.com began as an online bookstore, though it soon diversified its product lines, adding DVDs, music CDs, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and more. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, China, and Japan. It ships globally on selected products. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Thursday, July 26, 2007: Who is hosting Flickr

Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Wednesday, July 25, 2007: Who is hosting eBay

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website where people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. In addition to its original U.S. website, eBay has established localized websites in several other countries. eBay Inc also owns PayPal, Skype, and other businesses. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Tuesday, July 24, 2007: Who is hosting Megaupload

Megaupload is a one-click hosting website. It operates from Hong Kong and is financed by AdBrite and by the subscriptions of paying premium users. Non-premium service is available for free, and allows users to upload files of up to 500 MB, previously 250 MB, without registration. The user is then supplied with a unique URL, which locates the file and enables anyone with whom the uploader shares it to download the file. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Monday, July 23, 2007: Who is hosting Orkut

Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. It claims to be designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. Similar to Friendster and MySpace, Orkut goes a step further by permitting the creation of easy-to-setup simple forums (called “communities”) of users. Since October 2006, Orkut permits users to create accounts without an invitation. In April 2007, Orkut introduced polls in communities. Orkut is the eighth most visited site throughout the world. It is also the 31st most visited site in US. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Sunday, July 22, 2007: Who is hosting Baidu

Baidu (Pinyin: bai du) (NASDAQ: BIDU) is the leading Chinese search engine which can search websites, audio files, and images. It has also an online collaboratively-built encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia (Baidu Baike), and a searchable keyword-based discussion forums. As of April 8, 2007, it is ranked seventh in Alexa’s internet rankings. Baidu provides an index of over 740 million web pages, 80 million images, and 10 million multimedia files. Its interface is cloned from Google. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, July 21, 2007: Who is hosting isoHunt

isoHunt is a major BitTorrent index with over 806,961 torrents in its database and over 12.11 million peers from indexed torrent. With 7.4 million unique visitors as of May 2006, isoHunt is one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Thousands of torrents are added to it each day as well as deleted for a multitude of reasons. On average, isoHunt users perform over 40 million unique searches per month. The website’s founder Gary Fung is currently being sued for copyright infringement. On January 16, 2007, isoHunt was taken offline; stating that “Lawyers from our primary ISP decided to pull our plug without any advance notice”. After a major hardware upgrade , the site resumed normal operation by January 22, although experiencing several subsequent brief periods of downtime due to server changes. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, July 20, 2007: Who is hosting 43 Things

43 Things or 43things.com is a social networking site that is built on the principles of tagging, rather than creating explicit interpersonal links (as seen in Friendster and Orkut). Users create accounts and then list a number of goals or hopes; these goals are parsed by a lexer and connected to other people’s goals that are constructed with similar words or ideas. This concept is also known as folksonomy. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Thursday, July 19, 2007: Who is hosting BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GBP£4 billion. Founded in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd, it was subsequently granted a Royal Charter and made a state-owned but independent corporation in 1927. The corporation produces programmes and information services, broadcasting globally on television, radio, and the Internet. The stated mission of the BBC is “to inform, educate and entertain”; its motto is “Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation”. The BBC is a quasi-autonomous Public Corporation operating as a public service broadcaster. The Corporation is run by the BBC Trust; however, the BBC is, per its charter, to be “free from both political and commercial influence and answers only to its viewers and listeners”. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Wednesday, July 18, 2007: Who is hosting FeedBurner

FeedBurner is a news feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Services provided to publishers include traffic analysis and an optional advertising system. Though it initially was not clear whether advertising would be well-suited to the RSS format, authors now choose to include advertising in two-thirds of FeedBurner’s feeds. Published feeds are modified in several ways, including automatic links to Digg and del.icio.us, and “splicing” information from multiple feeds. FeedBurner is a typical Web 2.0 service, providing web service application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow other software to interact with it. As of June 22, 2007, FeedBurner hosted 779,820 feeds for 454,969 publishers. On June 3, 2007 FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc., for a rumored price of $100 million. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Tuesday, July 17, 2007: Who is hosting CNN

Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. It is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, owned by Time Warner. CNN introduced the idea of 24-hour television news coverage, and celebrated its 25th anniversary on June 1, 2005. In terms of cumulative (Cume) Nielsen ratings or “unique viewers”, CNN rates as America’s #1 cable news network. CNN broadcasts primarily from its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta, Time Warner Center in New York City, and studios in Washington, DC. As of December 2004, it is available in 88.2 million U.S. households and more than 890,000 American hotel rooms. The U.S version of CNN is also shown in Canada. Globally, the network airs through CNN International and has combined branded networks and services that are available to more than 1.5 billion people in over 212 countries and territories. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Monday, July 16, 2007: Who is hosting Wikipedia

Wikipedia (IPA: /ˌwikiˈpiːdi.ə/, /ˌwikiˈpeːdi.ə/ or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdi.ə/ is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers; the vast majority of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet. Wikipedia’s name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Its primary servers are in Tampa, Florida, with additional servers in Amsterdam and Seoul. The project is currently operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization. Wikipedia has approximately 7.5 million articles in 253 languages, 1.865 million of which are in the English edition. This makes it the largest, most extensive, and fastest growing encyclopedia ever compiled. It has steadily risen in popularity since its inception, and currently ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Sunday, July 15, 2007: Who is hosting Yahoo!

Yahoo! Incorporated (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American public corporation and global internet services company. It provides a range of products and services including a web portal, a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. According to web traffic analysis companies (including Alexa Internet and Netcraft), Yahoo! has been the most visited website on the Internet, with more than 412 million unique users. The global network of Yahoo! websites received 3.4 billion page views per day on average as of October 2005, making it one of the most visited US websites. It primarily competes against Google, MSN and AOL, among others. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, July 14, 2007: Who is hosting Engadget

Engadget is a popular technology weblog and podcast about consumer electronics. The weblog has won several awards. Engadget currently has four different sites, all operating simultaneously with each having its own staff, which cover technology news in different parts of the world in their respective languages. The US Engadget site made its 20,000th post on 25th August 2006. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, July 13, 2007: Who is hosting Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 76,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $44.28 billion. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. These products make up a large majority of the desktop computer market, in line with the company’s original mission of “a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software”. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Thursday, July 12, 2007: Who is hosting MySpace

MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; in turn, the owner of Fox Interactive (and therefore MySpace), News Corporation, is headquartered in New York City. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Wednesday, July 11, 2007: Who is hosting PirateBay

The Pirate Bay (often abbreviated TPB) is an Internet site that bills itself as “the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker” and also serves as an index for .torrent files that it tracks. Due to BitTorrent’s ability to handle extremely large files, it is popular for sharing large music sets, movies and software as well as Linux distribution discs. ThePirateBay.org is ranked 299th (as of June 21, 2007) in the Alexa ranking list of the world’s most-visited internet sites. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Tuesday, July 10, 2007: Who is hosting Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a popular technology weblog about consumer electronics. It is part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton. The blog, launched in 2002, was originally edited by Peter Rojas, but he was recruited by Weblogs, Inc. to launch their similar technology blog Engadget. By mid-2004, Gizmodo and Gawker together were bringing in revenue of $6,000 per month. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Monday, July 9, 2007: Who is hosting YouTube

YouTube is a popular video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid February 2005 by three former employees of PayPal. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display video. The wide variety of site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. Currently staffed by 67 employees, the company was named TIME magazine’s “Invention of the Year” for 2006. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google’s stock. The deal closed on 13 November 2006. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Sunday, July 8, 2007: Who is hosting del.icio.us

The website del.icio.us (pronounced as “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and is now part of Yahoo!. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Saturday, July 7, 2007: Who is hosting Digg

Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. (read entire article at Wikipedia)

Friday, July 6, 2007: Who is hosting Google

Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American public corporation, specializing in Internet searching and online advertising. The company is based in Mountain View, California, and has 12,238 full-time employees (as of March 31, 2007). (read entire article at Wikipedia)