JohnChow.com: The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores:
The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information.
All I can say is “WOW.” It takes a lot of pageviews to earn that kind of money! I need to think up the next killer idea…
You may have noticed that certain words on this site have a double-underline. These are ads from Kontera. The company has developed a javascript application to choose words and phrases for which they may have a useful advertisement. If you wish to see what they have to offer, you can mouse over the link. If you are uninterested in any offers, simply do not roll your mouse over the double-underlined words and you will not be bothered.
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From BroadbandReports.com: 25 Cents to Stream a DVD Quality Film - 80 Cents for HD, a nickel for iPod TV…:
Dave Burstein crunches the numbers behind offering video via broadband and concludes that it costs a quarter to stream a DVD quality movie, 80 cents for an HD film, or a nickel for iPod or AOL TV shows. A much more reasonable analysis than the recent UK report that claimed it cost ISPs $39 to stream a two hour HD film. This compared to broadcast over the air video, which costs a few pennies per hour to distribute.
“For providing managed servers and internet bandwidth, several content delivery networks are bidding $10,000 to $12,000 per continuous gigabit per month. That’s enough for 700 1.5 megabit streams, almost DVD quality if pre-encoded in the latest MPEG-4, Flash, or Windows Media. Amazon’s choice of 2.5 megabit encoding may be raising the bar. It’s also enough for over 3,000 300 Kbps streams, appropriate for iPods or the quarter screen video AOL and ABC are distributing supported by ads.”
Burstein also comments on how players like Apple and Amazon will threaten TelcoTV’s already fragile projected profit margins.
Vista will also support the current IPv4. The side effect, according to Mockapetris, is that a Vista PC will make two DNS requests, one for each IP version, instead of just one.
“It is going to try a DNS lookup for the IPv6 address and then a DNS lookup for the IPv4 address,” Mockapetris said. “It just uses more DNS, and until we increase the supply, things are going to go slower.”
The article is a bit too sensational for my tastes. The clear and simple answer to the question “Will Vista stall net traffic?” is no.
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This site got dugg yesterday in response to my post about the State of Florida’s People First job portal shutting out alternate browsers. The post rose to the front page of Digg and remained there for several hours. It continued to be included in the rss feed after it was no longer on the front page.
The changes that I implemented in my SuEXEC, Fastcgi and cPanel post handled the high traffic generated by Digg with ease and the site remained pretty responsive throughout.
I hope that the 8,000+ people who read the post , and the many who were kind enough to leave comments will show the State that it is indeed an important issue. It is an issue easily fixed.
Thank you Digg users for helping to bring this issue to the public light.
I followed the the advice of a user of digg, Sillywampa, on Digg’s entry about my earlier post on Florida’s People First Job Portal and emailled PeopleFirst@dms.myflorida.com about this issue. Here is what I wrote:
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Update: I wrote a post about an email I sent to the State of Florida and the response I received. This was suggested by Sillywampa on Digg. Thanks Sillywampa for the email address.
The State of Florida’s People First job portal is still running an outdated script that locks out users of alternative browsers from applying to state jobs. The only supported browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.
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The wisdom of the crowd is definitely a powerful force.
TheStar.com - Wikipedia handles Colbert:
…Colbert stated, if enough people alter the page on Wikipedia, it’s fact.
It should have been the biggest threat to the institution of Wikipedia to date. It was a condemnation of the site’s credibility. And it didn’t come from the Times, or from some retired political refugee from the Kennedy era.
It came from someone cool. Colbert, after all, has some serious credibility among the crowd who use and contribute to Wikipedia.
Within a day, Colbert’s report had hit some of the Net’s geek nerve centres, Slashdot.org and Fark.com. Wikipedia’s protection log was recording ongoing attempts at vandalism.
There was just one problem with the prank: Colbert was ultimately proven wrong.
Although the servers were tested, soon after Colbert began ranting about wikiality on his show, the encyclopedia had locked down the page on elephants and Colbert’s biography.
CNET News.com has written an article about protecting yourself from search engines. The piece is a fluff piece; however, does have some useful tips. I recommend that you read it.
This comes after AOL released the search records of users to the public.
FAQ: Protecting yourself from search engines | CNET News.com:
AOLs publication of the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users should reinforce an important point: What you type in online may not be as private as you think.
Search engines place a multibillion-dollar infrastructure at the hands of any random user who stops by their Web site. The price you pay, however, is that the company may hold on to your search queries–which can provide a glimpse into your life–forever.
To offer some suggestions about preserving your privacy while using search engines, CNET News.com has prepared the following list of frequently asked questions.