Google buys RSS company FeedBurner
Google has acquired another medium for its advertising engine by purchasing FeedBurner, a company that distributes syndicated content for blogs and other media Web sites, the companies said Friday.
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2.6.2007 Windows portal RSS feeds
Windows portal prepare for our visitors RSS feeds:
Windows portal - All articles rss feed
and other.
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7.1.2006 Is Microsoft Attempting to Patent RSS?
According to patent applications recently made public, it now appears that shortly before Microsoft publicly announced integrated RSS support within Internet Explorer and Windows Vista, it filed for two patents with the US Patent and Trademark Office surrounding Web-based feed readers.
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26.12.2006 UniveRSS, A 3D RSS Reader from Microsoft
In an email from MSDN Microsoft silently mentions the UniveRSS reader. After a look i actually was quite surprised. Microsoft took the RSS possibilities from IE7 and put them into a really stunning 3D interface!
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4.12.2006 Microsoft Responds On RSS Security Concerns in Windows Vista
After a Black Hat presentation called the potential of RSS feeds as an attack vector into question, Microsoft described steps they have taken to mitigate this.
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9.8.2006 Google Sites For All!
Google has just announced a new service called Google Sites, which is now available for any registered Google user. This service was previously only available to businesses with specialty accounts.
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22.5.2008 Web sites for the brave new electronic b@by
Dispatch from the future:
FROM: Carter Kohl, 34 inches, 30 pounds, 17 months.
TO: Friends and family.
MESSAGE: Feel free to contact me. Even though I cannot read just yet, you can still send me e-mail. My parents will read it to me and will help me respond to all your messages. In advance, thanks for getting in touch. I'll be reading and replying back to you before you know it!
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16.1.2006 Song sites face legal crackdown
Thanks
DCrad for this submission. The music industry is to extend its copyright war by taking legal action against websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics. The Music Publishers' Association (MPA), which represents US sheet music companies, will launch its first campaign against such sites in 2006.
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13.12.2005 Windows 7 M1 build shows up on various torrent sites
It was only a matter of time..
Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select few, review and opinion pieces started to leak onto Windows enthusiast sites by OEM employees or their beneficiaries.
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26.1.2008 54% of companies ban social networking sites
News reported on the Wired blog 'Epicenter' warns office workers to check their employment contract or workplace rules before logging into Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networking website.
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12.10.2009 Thousands of web sites compromised, redirect to scareware
Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO (search engine optimization) campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software (Inst_58s6.exe), commonly referred to as scareware.
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17.11.2009 2,600 sites running Windows Server 2008 on the Internet
Thanks to pacpis for this post. Microsoft has recently switched its main website, www.microsoft.com to Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft-IIS/7.0.
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27.6.2007 IE 8's list of 2,400 incompatible sites - including Microsoft.com!
Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) is nearing the finish line, with a March release to manufacturing looking like a distinct possibility. But is IE 8 — or, more accurately — Web site developers and owners — really ready?
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18.2.2009 Botnet Authors Crash WordPress Sites With Buggy Code
Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.
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7.11.2009 Anti-Spam Sites Block Microsoft Hosted Exchange Services
Microsoft's Exchange hosted mail services, designed to help businesses combat spam, have themselves been blocked by several anti-spam blacklists around the Web, CRN has learned.
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31.12.2006Google acquires Web media distributor Feedburner
Google Inc. said on Friday it
is acquiring Feedburner Inc.,
bolstering the Internet
advertising leader's capacity
to distribute both media and
advertising to blogs via Web
syndication technology.
Terms of the deal were not
disclosed, a Google spokesman
said. Various blog reports in
recent weeks had put the price
of a potential deal at about
$100 million, but those
reports could not be
confirmed.
Feedburner
is a pioneer in the market for
delivering the latest updated
information to other Web sites
using technology known as
Really Simple Syndication
(RSS). Customers include the
Wall Street Journal, BBC and
Amazon.com Inc....
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02.06.2007Google AdSense for RSS feeds launching
After ages being bought by Google, FeedBurner is set to launch AdSense for RSS next week, as reported on the company’s blog.
Similar
to AdSense for websites, it will display text advertising in the RSS feeds of the publisher. Meaning that if you a post in your Google Reader
regarding anything (lets say mobiles); you will see ads related it (Verizon etc).
How is this going to work? The
company explains by
saying, “that publishers present already in the Ad Network will see premium CPM ads directly sold on their content; but with a bonus of
targeted ads.”–This means that you get loaded with the best of both; a dedicated Google sales force, along with added revenue that fills
your coverage provides.
This might mean an end of a free fare for the RSS consumers but at the other hand it would trigger certain sites
to offer full feeds as they can now be effectively monetized; as
Adam
Ostrow from Mashable comments.
Although the FeedBurner has been neglected for ages since its acquisition by Google, interest has risen
to speed up the deal. This could very likely be due to the effective monetization and with Google’s mammoth base of advertisers signing up, the
idea very well looks closer to becoming a reality.
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03.06.2008FeedBurner premium news feed now free
After being acquired by Google
a month ago, RSS provider
FeedBurner plans to make its
premium news feed management
services available to
publishers at no extra charge
(manual activation will be
necessary). FeedBurner's
Stats PRO and MyBrand services
were previously available for
an additional monthly fee of
$5. Stats PRO includes
tools to allow users to more
effectively track stats on
feeds, such as ad metrics and
a list of sites publishing the
feed. MyBrand allows users to
attach their own URL to a feed
which is being served by
FeedBurner. The original
charge for the service ranged
from $3 to $14,
depending on the number of
feeds.
Like its
parent company, FeedBurner
will now rely on ad sales for
revenue. Increasing ad sales
had been a constant theme for
both companies when the
acquisition was announced.
Susan Wojcicki, vice president
of product management at
Google, said at the time of
the acquisition that the
search giant " constantly
aims to give AdWords
advertisers broader
distribution to an even wider
audience of users ".
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07.07.2007Google Makes FeedBurner MyBrand Free
Google is about making things
accessible to everyone and one
of the way to make this happen
is to buy a service or
software that used to cost
money and release it for free.
Google did this with
Keyhole (now Google Earth),
Picasa, SketchUp (only a
limited version is free),
Blogger PRO and one would
expect the same for
FeedBurner PRO.
According to
UnderGoogle, the
first visible effect of the
FeedBu
rner acquisition is that
you can use the advanced
features of FeedBurner for
free, but only in a
15
-day trial: reach (the
unique number of people who
view or click your feed posts)
and stats for individual
posts. Just go to "
FeedBurner stats"
and enable the features that
used to be inaccessible until
today if you didn't want to
pay $5 a month for a
subscription. Unfortunately,
you still have to pay to have
them after the short trial
ends...
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03.07.2007Google to Acquire Feedburner for $100 Million
Sources say Google and
Feedburner have agreed to a
deal where the Mountain View,
Calif. company would pay cash
for the company, with the deal
closing within two to three
weeks...
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24.05.2007IE 8 to feature 'super' Web standards mode
If the next edition of the world's most distributed browser expects all Web sites to pass the Acid2 test, one of its key architects said yesterday,
an unfortunate irony might be that many sites could break in that browser.
In one of the stranger admissions yet to come from a
Microsoft developer, Internet Explorer 8 platform architect Chris Wilson acknowledged on his team's blog yesterday that one of the quandaries his
team has faced to date is meeting the simultaneous challenges of embracing Web standards to a greater extent than ever before...while not breaking Web
sites that tweaked themselves years ago to comply with IE6.
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23.01.2008Music Industry to Attack
Lyric, Tab Sites
The litigious music industry
will have a new target in
2006: sites that provide
lyrics and scores to popular
songs. The Music Publishers'
Association says fines and the
removal of such Web sites is
not enough -- it is even
advocating jail time for those
operating these sites...
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13.12.2005China backtracks a bit on online video sites
China's government backpedaled slightly from its earlier policy concerning video sites, now saying that existing sites can continue to operate...
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06.02.2008NY Times Beta Testing RSS
Service
The New York Times is holding
a closed beta test for a new
site it calls "My
Times," which will enable
users to create a personal
news page from a variety of
RSS feeds. USA Today and
Newsweek have launched similar
sites through a partnership
with Newsgator...
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12.07.2006New report identifies dangerous Web domains
When surfing the Internet for safe Web sites, not all domains are equal.
Companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to
be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others, according to a report to be released Wednesday by
antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc.
McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are ".hk" (Hong Kong), ".cn"
(China) and ".info" (information).
Of all ".hk" sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially
dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of ".cn" sites and 11.7 percent of ".info" sites that way.
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04.06.2008China moves to sanction video sites, shut down others
China has cracked down on over 50 video-sharing Web sites for distributing content it feels is pornographic, violent or subversive, by either
punishing or shutting down the sites altogether...
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21.03.2008Google likes to search sites you prefer
Google's new Preferred Sites feature allows users to set their web search preferences so that the search results match their unique tastes and
needs when logged into their Google account. Users can add sites they trust for certain types of information, add local sites for news that's
more relevant to them, or add their favorite blogs and save their preferences. Users can edit their preferred sites list at the bottom of the Google
Preferences page. You have to be signed in to your Google Account to use preferred sites. Google uses the user's Web History to suggest sites
users might like to include or the users can directly add/remove the URLs of the sites they prefer.
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19.01.2009Study: Google runs more than 10 million Web sites
There's no doubt Google is a vast power on the Internet, but because the company uses its own software to host Web sites, it's possible to see just
how powerful.
Specifically, Google operates about 10.5 million Web sites in October, a 411,000 increase from September, according
to
statistics released Thursday by Netcraft, which
monitors what software is used to host Web sites.
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31.10.2008House Passes Bill to Block Web
Sites
A near-unanimous vote in the
U.S. House of Representatives
may soon make social
networking sites and chat
rooms inaccessible in public
locations such as libraries
and schools, however its broad
wording may end up shuttering
access to many sites that do
not pose a threat to minors...
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28.07.2006Trojan, distributed over torrent, blocks torrent sites
A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC, has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would
modify the users host file, rather than generating a key, changing popular torrent web sites like, The Pirate Bay, Suprbay (The Pirate Bay forum) and
Mininova, the two most popular torrent sites on the internet to 127.0.0.1, making it impossible to visit these sites. The Trojan caused pop-ups on
users screens and played a sound file saying "downloading is wrong". The Trojan didn't install any other spyware or malware onto the victims
PC, other than blocking the three web sites, something that many users thought was strange.
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06.01.2009Nielsen NetRatings serves up July's social media numbers
Clearly, social networking
metrics are the new black. It
seems like just about everyone
wants to know whether Facebook
will pass MySpace--or whether
there are any trendy,
fast-moving start-ups that you
ought to be monitoring so that
you can start up a profile and
amass a healthy friends list
before it gets too trendy.
Last month,
ComScore released numbers
pertaining to social
networking's worldwide
growth. Now, Nielsen
NetRatings' PR team has
released their latest set of
figures that track how quickly
the top social networking
sites are growing. The results
are divided into three
different categories of social
media: social networks, blogs
(and blog platforms), and
video sites.
It looks like Nielsen has
tweaked its criteria over the
past month, because the lists
are strikingly different from
analogous ones it released for
June: in those, sites like
YouTube and Blogger were
included among social
networking sites as well as in
the "top blogs" and "top
video sites" categories. It
made for a rather confusing
list, seeing as you had
TypePad alongside Facebook
under the "social
networking" umbrella. Now, it
looks like the main social
networking site list consists
exclusively of community
sites.
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17.08.2007PINNED: JCXP Notice
Hey there guys! (and gals..)
just to let you know, we're
still working furiously on
getting the forums back
online.
At this time we can't
disclose any more information
other than that we are
performing maintenance on our
forums and our server.
The front page
(here) of JCXP will still be
operating and you can still
expect to see news here in the
coming days.
We appreciate your
patience in this and all of us
staff hope to see you all back
on the forums soon.
Thanks!
Greg and David
jcxp.net - 16.03.2007
Security expert says don't blame Microsoft for mass Web site defacements
Progress was made on Monday in mitigating thousands of SQL-based Web sites injected with malicious Javascript code, however, one security expert says
that we can expect to see more such attacks in the near future.
A traditional SQL injection attack allows malicious attackers to
execute commands on an application's database by injecting executable code. "What's different about this latest attack," said Jeremiah Grossman,
CTO of White Hat Security, "is the size and the level of sophistication." In the past attackers have gone after a small niche of the Internet--say
travel sites or sports sites--but with this latest attack, attackers have a generic way to blast the Internet, and they've chosen to attack sites
running MS-SQL.
winbeta.org - 29.04.2008
Vista's First Service Pack Coming Soon
Windows Vista's first service
pack is arriving on August 14
through Windows Update,
roughly six months after
Microsoft released Vista. It
is not yet clear whether the
Windows Vista service pack
will include security fixes or
merely update certain Vista
components to improve Vista's
performance and compatibility.
News
outlets have been touting the
rumored release of two big
Windows Vista patches to beta
testers, but the releases have
been confirmed this week by a
leak of those patches to
various Web sites.
The Vista performance and
compatibility packs reportedly
address issues that some Vista
users have been complaining
about. Among other things, the
fixes are designed to improve
Vista's performance when
copying or moving large files
or large directories. Issues
with Vista's memory manager
-- which can cause the system
to lose its default gateway
address -- are also reportedly
addressed in the packs.
The
running theme of the fixes is
to improve the performance and
reliability of Vista, as well
as compatibility issues with
printers, digital cameras, and
other devices.
Click
Read More to view the
rest of this article.
jcxp.net - 06.08.2007
Web's 'dark corners' are everywhere, group says
It's getting harder and harder to know who to trust on the World Wide Web, according to online safety advocates StopBadware.org.
On Tuesday, the group released its 2007 Trends in Badware report, saying the bad guys are
finding new ways to place their malicious software on our computers -- often by compromising Web sites that we trust.
With the
help of one of its sponsor companies, Google, StopBadware maintains a list of 200,000 Web sites that are known to be associated with malicious
downloads. According to Max Weinstein, a project manager with StopBadware, more than half of these sites have been hacked and don't even realize
it.
In fact, this move to delivering malicious software on legitimate sites has been a disturbing trend over the past year, he
said.
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