Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Viralcom - The truth behind YouTube Videos!

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I came across a trailer for an up and coming show called Viralcom (embedded below). The series follows Viralcom and takes you behind the scenes to see how all the classic YouTube videos are made, or would be made if a large organisation was behind them. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-mdz1hqAs] A new ...

ENUM - DNS for VoIP

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

  I was at Internet World today and went to a very interesting talk by a guy from Nominet; it was about ENUM a VoIP server resolution service, DNS but for telephone numbers. ENUM effectively allows a user to lookup a telephone number like you would a website and find out ...

Dopplr

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I have just come across another social network called Dopplr, this seems to have been up and running since September last year, I guess I just missed it. First impressions aren't good but it doesn't mean I don't like it; firstly the site is very slow, I can't get it to ...

Facebook Chat

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Well, its finally here, for me at least. Facebook's long awaited chat program was ready and waiting this morning when I loaded up my browser. I haven't used it yet so can't comment on its stability although according to the odd twitter post it has been turned on for everyone today ...

The West vs China

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The whole China and the Olympics issue seems to be hotting up, earlier today TechCruch reported that a sports website The Sports Network serving data to CNN is currently down because of pro China hackers.   The wording on the notice above seems to imply it is the Chinese government behind this which is ...