internet + web

Unique Success

What are the top five Web domains? According to the Washington Post, Yahoo, Google, MSN, AOL, and eBay have the most unique visitors, based on February 2006 figures. Those five names are not exactly surprising, but out of the five, ...READ»

You Have to Watch This Video!

The saga of the Star Wars Kid is finally nearing an end. Ghyslain Raza, the Canadian boy immortalized in a viral Internet video seen by millions, had sued those who first distributed the infamous clip, which features him swinging a ...READ»

China's Wondrous Web

Today's New York Times story on the state of Chinese Websites offers a stark reminder of how successfully the Internet satisifies our most base desires -- and maybe of how powerful a force it can be even in the face of an oppressive ...READ»

Yahoo's Strategy Shift

I heard Wenda Millard speak a couple of months ago at a digital-media luncheon, and she assured the audience that Yahoo was not planning to become a major provider of original content. This was meant to address competitive concerns ...READ»

Network Neutrality

Monday's New York Times features an editorial that takes a somewhat soft stance on whether ISPs and telcos should be able to offer tiered network access to commercial partners -- i.e., giving Wal-Mart a fast connection while giving ...READ»

Postcards from the Future

It sounds like the premise for a film--you receive an email from a loved one who passed away a week before. There are several sites now promoting this service, such as LastWishes.com and MyLastEmail.com. You can write an email that ...READ»

It's the Thoughtlessness That Counts

Potpourri? A Chia Pet? An oversized Pobody's Nerfect T-shirt? The ease of online shopping -- a boon for year-end e-commerce sales -- might be increasing your risk of getting a really lousy gift, a Shopzilla study showed ...READ»

Through a Camera, Darkly

Today's New York Times article (free registration required) about teens selling sexual Web-cam pictures and footage of themselves alarmed me. While it is a common joke that the Internet exists to trade pornography, teens involving ...READ»

Keep Your Friends Close...

Microsoft and Google have never been this cozy. The two giants, along with Sun Microsystems, will support a $7.5 million Internet-research effort called the Reliable, Adaptive and Distributive Systems Lab (RAD Lab) at the University ...READ»

Wikipedia, Vol. 2: Encyclopedia Smackdown

Much like a Wikipedia entry, our discussion of the online encyclopedia is nothing if not dynamic. In fact, it's already time for an update. As FC Now reader Shel Holtz points out, the science journal Nature posted an article ...READ»

What's the Word?

Let the zeitgeist watch begin. With time running out on 2005, some popular Websites have begun to look back at what we've all been looking for. In recent days, AOL, Lycos, and Merriam-Webster released their lists of the most-searched ...READ»

An Open Wound for an Open-Source Reference

Look up Wikipedia on Wikipedia and you learn that the free online encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to has grown to more than 2.5 million articles and over 100 active editions in different languages. Impressive, but is it true? ...READ»

FC by SlideShow

In case you missed any of the 30 or so slideshows featured on Fastcompany.com in 2005, check out our recently updated SlideShow gallery. Among the highlights are end-of-year bests such as Great Business Reads, Most Creative Minds, ...READ»

www.CompanyNameHere.eu

The European Union began taking applications for Web sites with the new domain name, ".eu," on Thursday. More than 110,000 companies and government agencies applied on the first day, according to EURid, the non-profit group handling ...READ»

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URL Hell

It seems GoDaddy.com has a new service, appraising the value of domain names. There are two price points, one with two-hour turnaround and one with a more comprehensive report that takes two business days. While this is a logical ...READ»

What a Tangled Web We've Weaved

Netcraft's latest survey revealed that Internet growth for this year is the highest that has ever been--17.5 million new sites, and the year is not over. The previous record was 16 million added sites at the height of the boom in ...READ»

What's on the Monitor Tonight?

Yahoo!'s new e-reporter, Kevin Sites, isn't the first on-air personality to find the Internet. Scores more have defected from large and smaller TV stations across the country and around the world, bringing with them writers, ...READ»

EBay Gets a Voice

On the surface, EBay's purchase of Skype seems like a return to dot-com buying frenzy. When you consider that Skype's 2005 revenue is estimated to be $60 million, $2.6 billion seems like a steep price. And why is an auction company ...READ»

Blame Google

Gary Rivlin has a great piece on the front page of today's NY Times, the premise of which is that Google is becoming as much of an establishment company in Silicon Valley as Microsoft has been since the 1980s. "...[M]any in Silicon ...READ»

Mine the Map

Yesterday I was watching Oprah, and they interrupted the show with the news about the Toronto plane crash. When they decided to display where the airport was, I was surprised to see them use Google Maps. It seems that the Map has ...READ»

Revisiting "Webification"

Similar to an Indian business school project undertaken last year, students at the Symbiosis Institute Of International Business in Pune, India, are currently discussing a Fast Company article from 2000. It's a Web, Web, Web, Web ...READ»

Being Number One

On his journal, Neil Gaiman spoke about being Neil Number One. I went to Google and put in my name Kevin. I wasn't in the first hundred. But, when I put my last name I was surprised to find that I was Ohannessian Number One. It's ...READ»

Apple Tunes in to Podcasting

With iTunes 4.9, Apple is endorsing podcasting. They are featuring 3000 podcasts, all subject to content approval. That raises flags in my view. No rants against Steve Jobs for sure. I do like the automatic episode updating and the ...READ»

Sounding Off

411 Song is an interesting new service with which you can receive information about a song by holding your cell phone up to a radio or stereo speaker. The service offers information about the song and musician, as well as a link to ...READ»