Well, have you? I don't actually NEED to use an online dating service, but I thought I would give it a shot. I got 2 spammers and a special person... i don't know if its a real person or somone trying to con me. Check this out. Today I was asked if I could do her a favor. This favor is to pick up a check from some 'company' and then send it through Western Union. Now this is what I can not figure out: If I own a business and I want to send money internationally, then why can't the ...

If you don't know what Upcoming.org is, its sort of like a social calenar program. From what I have seen, it is mostly used to show off events, not personal stuff (like I see on MySpace) Yahoo buys Konfabulator, now Upcoming... what is next? Listal? Stardock? (no I think Google will buy them out)

SOURCE: CNN.com Geolocation tech slices, dices Web Monday, July 12, 2004 Posted: 1:03 PM EDT (1703 GMT) NEW YORK (AP) -- Type "dentist" into Google from New York, and you'll get ads for dentists in the city. Try watching a Cubs baseball game from a computer in Chicago, and you'll be stymied. Pre-existing local TV rights block the webcast. The same technology is also being used by a British casino to keep out the Dutch and by online movie distributors to limit viewing to where...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Internet2: 2004 and beyond Published: August 24, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT By Marguerite Reardon Staff Writer, CNET News.com Internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman doesn't let a little thing like a few thousand miles stand in the way of reaching his students. Using high-definition videoconferencing technology available through the Internet2 network, he can give individual instruction to students half a world away with CD-quality soun...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Browser campaign slams IE Published: August 24, 2004, 4:00 PM PDT By Paul Festa Staff Writer, CNET News.com A group that prodded browser makers toward better standards compliance is urging people to abandon Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The group has set up a Web site reminiscent of Apple Computer's "Real People" ad campaign, which urged people to switch from Microsoft's Windows operating system to the Macintosh. The site features first-person testimoni...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com JibJab beats copyright rap Published: August 25, 2004, 8:47 AM PDT By Evan Hansen Staff Writer, CNET News.com update A music company claiming to own the rights to Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" may have gotten more than it bargained for when it took on JibJab Media, the Web animators behind a wildly popular parody of the U.S. presidential campaign. On Tuesday, Ludlow Music agreed to allow JibJab to distribute its film, which is based on the tu...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com Gmail by any other name? Published: August 13, 2004, 3:42 PM PDT By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com In another for the "whoops" file, Google risks losing trademark rights to the name of its Web-based e-mail service, Gmail. The search giant is fourth in line to be considered for ownership of the trademark name, Gmail, according to filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Because the office considers applications in the order they wer...

SOURCE: FORBES Gmail Vs. MSN Hotmail Vs. Yahoo! Mail Arik Hesseldahl, 06.28.04, 6:00 AM ET NEW YORK - What year is it again? When it comes to the suddenly renewed battle in the free Web e-mail business, it may seem a bit like 1997 all over again. And in a sense the main combatants haven't changed much since then. Remember when names like Rocketmail battled Hotmail and WhoWhere... Click on the link provided for more...

SOURCE: CNET NEWS.com The spyware inferno August 13, 2004, 10:00 AM PT By Sharon Wienbar The proliferation of advertising programs on the PC is called by many names--most of which involve unprintable language. To the Slashdot crowd, it's spyware and its authors should be burned at the stake. Some in Congress call it "cyber trespass" and want to outlaw specific "deceptive practices." To Claria, the biggest company in the niche, it's extraordinarily profitable to the tune of $...

Source: CNET Judge rules Microsoft infringed on Eolas patent Last modified: January 14, 2004, 5:40 PM PST By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com A Chicago federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $521 million patent verdict against Microsoft that could ultimately force major changes in many of the most common Internet software products. Judge James Zagel said he saw no reason to overturn an August jury verdict that said Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browsin...

Here are the links I have been working to post. If you have the Google Toolbar you can search for words by highlighting them to look for specific topics I have collected around the net over the course of almost a year. In RAW Format means its just a list of links in no order and with no description Most of the links are on current/past events, science, technology, art, business, political/social, and education. Basically things I am interested in. Links with dates on them will ...