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| SPAM TURNING 30 THIS MONTH; NO GIFTS, PLEASE |
The date: May 3, 1978. The culprit: Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the old Digital Equipment Corporation. His crime: Sending a sales e-mail to 393 users on Arpanet (then a U.S. government computer network and the predecessor of today's Internet). Little did Thuerk know that he'd just become the world's first spammer.
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| WWW INVENTOR SAYS WEB ONLY IN INFANCY |
The World Wide Web is still only in its infancy, its British inventor said Wednesday, on the 15th anniversary of the web's effective launch. Tim Berners-Lee told the BBC that the web, which started life in the CERN physics laboratory on the Franco-Swiss border in the early 1990s, could develop in unimaginable directions but above all should be a force for good. "What's exciting is that people are building new social systems, new systems of review, new systems of governance," he said. "My hope is that those will produce... new ways of working together effectively and fairly which we can use globally to manage ourselves as a planet."
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| GOOGLE RESEARCHERS WANT TO IMPROVE IMAGE SEARCHES |
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how valuable is the ability to find the perfect image of an object from the entire Web? According to a paper delivered by two Google researchers at the International World Wide Web Conference in Beijing last weekend, the search-engine giant may be one step closer to answering that question. Information scientists Shumeet Baluja and Yushi Jing announced the development of an algorithm, called VisualRank, that generates significantly more relevant image-search results than current results using text-based clues (captions and other words associated with each image). The goal ultimately is to train computers to move beyond text into the effective identification of "rich content" -- the shapes, colors and context of images that humans recognize with little effort.
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| TECH COS., BROADCASTERS BATTLE OVER TV 'WHITE SPACE' |
Ten months before the nation flips to digital television, technology companies and TV broadcasters are fighting over the virtual remote, with different ideas of what to do with the unused airwaves. Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others on Tuesday are launching an advertising and lobbying blitz to convince Capitol Hill that these unoccupied airwaves, or "white spaces," could be used for affordable high-speed Internet service, greatly benefiting rural areas and spurring competition and innovation. Tech companies say the technology is there to allow low-powered, unlicensed devices, such as cell phones, laptops and BlackBerrys, to operate in the empty spectrum without interfering with over-the-air TV programming and wireless microphone signals. The Federal Communications Commission is trying to figure if the technology can do this, although several publicized tests have failed.
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| YAHOO PLANS MAKEOVER WITH ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL NETWORK |
Yahoo Inc. plans to make its Web site a social hub by hosting applications from other online services, part of the Internet pioneer's effort to spawn more advertising opportunities. "We are going to rewire the entire experience at Yahoo to make it social in every dimension," Ari Balogh, Yahoo's chief technology officer, said Thursday at a "Web 2.0" conference that drew a crowd of more than 1,000. The more open platform copies a concept that already has been embraced by Internet search leader Google Inc. and a variety of online social hangouts, including Facebook Inc. and News Corp.'s MySpace.com. Yahoo's new look will give its roughly 500 million users greater flexibility to customize Web pages. They will be able to pick from a variety of mini-applications, known as "widgets," and plant them just about anywhere on the site, including their personal version of the front page.
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