Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser. Many of the proposed features and some of the mockups created by Mike Beltzner (see above) suggest a significant overlap in the two products.
DOUBLECLICK, which delivers marketing messages to Web sites and monitors how many clicks they get, plans to announce today that it is setting up a Nasdaq-like exchange for the buying and selling of digital advertisements.
The service may make DoubleClick a more attractive acquisition target, according to advertising industry executives.
DoubleClick, which opened in 1996 as a pioneer in the placement of banner ads online, has evolved into a company that serves — separately — both buyers and sellers of digital advertisements.
Won’t someone think of the children?
Microsoft did. Windows Vista comes with powerful and easy-to-use features that anyone can wield to prevent kids and other unauthorized users from accessing all kinds of things. Anybody with an administrator account can prevent users with standard accounts from downloading files, accessing certain games and applications, using the computer at certain times of day, and so on.
A feed is a file format for sharing news, blog posts or other web content across websites. The site that makes its content available as a source of information is said to publish a feed, while the tools and sites that use that content are said to consume the feed.
myFeedz is both a feed consumer because it reads news and blogs from all over the internet and also a feed publisher because it provides feeds for all the lists displayed.
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web.
