With a slogan like “Put a contract out on yourself” I was half expecting StickK to be the brainchild of a masochistic hitman. I was slightly disappointed to find out it was quite the opposite - StickK is a service that helps busy people to improve (not extinguish) their lives by setting goals in the [...]

Trackur (www.trackur.com) is a brand new service that promises to take the legwork out of monitoring your online reputation by scouring the web for keywords related to yourself, your company or anything else that keeps you awake at night.
In a nutshell, it’s an aggregated ego-search for power users, allowing you to quickly see who’s talking [...]

Mikons.com is a free online service that puts personal branding at your fingertips, allowing you to create a personal icon (called a mikon) that describes you, instead of the traditional icons or logos used by companies.
Curious about this novel idea, I set about trying to create my mikon, and surprisingly the editor is childsplay to [...]

The Germans are getting their leiderhosen in a twist over an alleged nazi plot behind the scenes at Wikipedia. According to sources, a left-wing German politician has filed charges against the online encyclopedia for brandishing too much nazi symbolism and pro neo-nazi propoganda.
The controversial move followed legal advice from the politician who wants to ‘encourage [...]

Find it, Rank it, Share it. That’s the tagline of the unusually named yokld.com, who bring social ranking and local business together in a service hoping to compete against a plethora of very similar sites, and while the site itself is pretty nice looking, just how useful the service will be remains to be seen.

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Search giant Google has announced that it is joining NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense) in a traditional effort to track the movements of the obese bearded flying fatty, loved by kids the world over. This is a tradition that started with a phone mix-up in the US, when kids were given a direct line to [...]

Search giant Google, having just prevented an epic campaign to distribute viruses, trojans and all manner of nasties via search results for terms such as “christmas gifts” and “hospice” are now asking for the help of the humble user to help them “fill the gaps” in their malware trapping algorithms.
Google’s Ian Fette says..
“Currently, we know [...]

Google is experimenting with a controversial new feature that could change the way search results are indexed forever. Instead of relying solely on algorithmic methods to determine relevance, they’re injecting a Digg style voting system, which allows users to remove search results or reorder them as they see fit.
This should be quite worrying for Digg [...]

For those who’s been under a rock for the past few months, the internet was recently awash with angry bloggers and confused web users over the scandalous arrest of tv-links founder, and the closing of the site for “providing links to copyrighted material”.
Many hundreds of comments included “If linking is illegal, why don’t they shut [...]