ING ends link with  Baring name
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ING, the Dutch bank which bought Baring in 1995 for Â£1 after rogue trader Nick Leeson ran up losses of more than Â£800m, ending its use of the Baring name.
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Aaron Wall at SEObook has put together a thought provoking post on current linking techniques, structure, and how Google reliance on trusted sources &#038; domains is in jeopardy as those resouces become more and more abused. Finding the Most Powerful Links Anything that has been greatly trusted has been abused. The difference between the current abuse and [...]
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The company that controls domain names ending in .name charges for registration details that are publicly available for other top level domains. Security researchers charge the policy will create a haven for hackers.
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Avoid these names ... unless you want to destroy your savings.
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>a href='http://www.newsisfree.com/kanoodle_click.php?id=i,68369455'>
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GADFLY ALREADY the internet age has given us 'phishing', when criminals use emails to persuade you to give them your bank details.  Now it seems we have the less crooked but nonetheless enraging online experience of 'philfing'  an acronym for 'purposely hiding what I'm looking for'.
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The other day Tim Bray wrote up an interesting piece on java.util.regex.  I sent him off a quick email detailing my past experiences  and he just blogged his feedback .  "Well... yeah, but here's a story. I was kind of surprised at the results on my OS X box, so I took the code and data over to a nearby Windows XP box and got similar results, so I took 'em to a Debian-stable box I had handy and once again, about the same story. "  "Only, not quite the same. Because it was Perl 5.8.1 on one box and 5.8.3 on another and 5.6.1 on the third, and the i18n/regex code was slightly different in each version, and no two of them gave quite the same results. "  "Now, I'll grant that Unicode/i18n is one ...
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has approved two new internet address types: .mobi and .jobs. This is just a preliminary approval.
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The Internet registrar is being criticized for its practice of putting holds on domain names that searchers on its site may not look for but not immediately register, although it since has backed down.
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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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Dutch bank and insurer ING Group said it will sell the activities of Baring Asset Management nearly a decade after it purchased the remains of the bankrupt British bank Barings, brought down by the Nick Leeson trading scandal in 1995.
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A picture caption last week with an article about an invitation-only social networking Web site misstated its address. It is aSmallWorld.net, not aSmallWorld.com.
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Compliance Resource Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CPLE) announced today that it has changed its name to EnerBrite Technologies Group, Inc.  As part of the name change, a new trading symbol (ETGP) and CUSIP number have been assigned to the company's stock.
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Tony Bibbs, in the wake of last week's surprise from Microsoft to Yahoo, has posted a few of his thoughts on the matter.   I woke up this morning to the news of a $44 billion buy-out offer from Microsoft for Yahoo!. This is being covered from all angles in various tech sites like Slashdot but I think the one angle I haven't seen yet is what does this mean for PHP?   He mentions the work that Microsoft and Zend have done to push PHP support on the OS (check out this email too) and he wonders what the final impact of it all could mean for the language - will things change drastically if Microsoft becomes a major player in the PHP world or would they stay behind the scenes and give the community the support it might need.
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Andreas Gohr has posted some info and code about one of the social networking/linking services out there, StumbleUpon. His post includes PHP code to figure out what your site's StumbleUpon ranking is.   StumbleUpon recently(?) added a "search result enhancement" feature to their toolbar. It adds StumbleUpon "star ratings" to Google results (See screenshot). This got me interested and I had a closer look at their extension...   As part of this "closer look" he came up with the code to return a general ranking for the URL you would give it. It does require a StumbleUpon auth key and username, but if you use the service already, you're one step ahead on that.
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Over on the Rojo blog  Chris writes:  "Thanks very much to Steve Gillmor for alerting us to a bug in how we, and other aggregators, were parsing New York Times RSS feeds. In short, stories older than 7 days or so were linking to abstracts of the articles, not the full articles themselves. This is something we will fix. Steve speculated that perhaps the "Times doesn't want server-based aggregators such as Bloglines and Rojo to consistently allow permalink access beyond seven days." Fortunately we don't see any evidence of that and in fact believe NYT has done a great job in making their content available via RSS, particularly by including a specific "partner" parameter on the URL for RSS aggr ...
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Bonjour mes amis! If you post a twit with my name in it following an at-sign that is exactly 140 characters in length, my little script will pick it up and add you Le Club 140. (Practicing my French!) For example... @davewiner, you are a very nice person and I enjoy sending you replies. I have actually nothing to say, but when has that stopped me before? If you posted that, your name would appear here... http://club140.org/  Of course you will be more original, won't you?  Meanwhile, in other news, Club 140 has caused at least one person to swear off Twitter forever. Too bad so sad! :-(