Category: Websites
Viacom "backs down" – doesn't want to know everything about every YouTube user any more
Angry media mega-corporation Viacom has lessened its demands for information about video watchers, says YouTube – but it still wants details of every item on the site.
YouTube says Viacom – which originally wanted to know what every user has watched on the site – has settled for a bit less data. The critical climbdown is regarding user-associations, so Google will still be handing over its database of stuff, only without the critical user details…
90% of UK ringtone-selling web sites might be "misleading" and ripping off the kids
An investigation by the European commission has found that pretty much all of the awful ringtone-flogging web sites out there are misleading, confusing and mask the true cost of their tacky subscription schemes.
This is not news to us educated, technology-aware lot, but for small children not yet used to the cynical ways of the adult world…
80% of people trust "pretty" web sites
When it comes to internet shopping, we’re not worried about security certificates and the like – all we’re really bothered about is a nice slick interface.
A survey by shopping A-Team Paypoint.net found that having a simple, clean interface is enough to make 80% of people trust and feel happy with an online shop, with lots of white space and clean buttons…
Fake Steve Jobs is dead – but you can buy the book for $25 if you're missing him already
It was the fake blog that spawned a thousand – or, at least, two we can think of – imitators, but Fake Steve Jobs has now sadly passed.
Outed as being the handiwork of writer Dan Lyons, who was the editor of business magazine Forbes, the site was a rather brutal picture of beloved Steve. It painted…
Start up of the Day: Alerts.com – news, sports, flights, alarms, hotels, any reminder you need really
Google Alerts and Yahoo Alerts have themselves a new competitor in the shape of the minnow that is Alerts.com. As well as all the news, weather and sports updates, which the big players already deliver, Alerts is designed to bring you every single piece of information you could need…
Andy Murray's ultimately ineffective Wimbledon racquet for sale on eBay
Good old Andy Murray. He gave us a few moments of hope, before Bravely Crashing Out At Quarter Final Stage (TM) as British sporting heroes tend to do.
If you want to forever own a piece of sporting nearly-history, you can – Andy and war injury charity Help for Heroes have teamed up to flog one of his racquets on eBay…
A fantastic display of garden sheds, including several outstanding TARDIS designs
We should explain the importance of the garden shed to our international readers. It may smell a bit mouldy, there may only be one uncomfortable folding chair to sit on, and most sheds lack basic utilities like gas, water and electricity. But the shed is the final hiding place for man.
Women won’t go there because it’s cold, children aren’t allowed because it’s dangerous. The shed is the last remaining 6′ x 4′ castle of the Englishman. Which is why some crazy men spend so much time modifying their sheds to look like the TARDIS. If you’re going to spend six hours a day in a shed, it may as well be a cool shed.
This stunning selection comes from Readers Sheds (best idea ever), which is currently running its Shed of the Year 2008…
"Unsafe surfing" leads to 70 spam emails a day. After just a month
Security firm McAfee, which has a vested interest in spreading panic and fear among internet users but we’ll pretend not to notice, has been experimenting with internet spam.
McAfee sent 50 people from across the world out on the internet while “unprotected” and found they were soon spammed to death within a month. The terms of the experiment were not revealed, so we’re unsure…
Sainsbury's in CRISIS – web site down, shopping undelivered, thousands at risk of starvation
Sainsburys’ web site has broken. The shopping portal is currently redirecting to a “Service Unavailable” message, accompanied by a nice stock photograph of two lemons (pictured). The site went down on Tuesday night, with the problem ruining the dinner plans of the chain’s online shoppers.
Around 10,000 people who have booked deliveries have been left without their shopping, facing the terrifying prospect of having to carry orange plastic bags home themselves for once. Here’s the moment of shame captured for posterity:
So if you’ve booked an online delivery, not only will they have mysteriously run out of all the two-for-one offers…
Facebook "dipping" craze afflicting the wealthy – pool owners should be "extra vigilant"
Dipping is, apparently, the HOT NEW TREND among spoilt rich kids who live in the sort of areas where the neighbours all have swimming pools.
The Telegraph reports that youths – no doubt off their heads on alcopops and Skittles – have taken to tracking down nearby swimming pools on Google Earth, then organising midnight swim-meets in them with friends through crime-enabler Facebook…
