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The Independent Newspaper is reporting a surge in online clothing sales in the UK, even though many major retailers have yet to offer any of their inventory online and several others just offer a fraction of the current lines in their shops.
Soon the BBC reports, possibly within a couple of months, YouTube will be looking to roll out a system which enables people uploading videos to get a share of ad revenue. The system should involve a mixture of ad formats including short ad clips shown ahead of the actual video.
Yourtube is specifically looking to reward creativity therefore the offer will only apply to videos where the uploader owns the full copyright.
In an interesting article the BBC looks at how botnets are rapidly spreading throughout the internet
“Dr Cerf, who is one of the co-developers of the TCP/IP standard that underlies all internet traffic and now works for Google, likened the spread of botnets to a “pandemic”.
“Of the 600 million computers currently on the internet, between 100 and 150 million were already part of these botnets, Mr Cerf said.
Xinhua is reporting the first batch of home grown Chinese CPUs are under going user tests. The manufacturers Lemote Technology Co. [English] have now moved onto a pilot commercial operation.
The Linux base unit comes with a 40GB hard drive and 256MB of memory and costs 1,599 yuan (about $200)
MySpace Broker Richard Rosenblatt and his company Demand Media want to build millions of sites like MySpace – but this time around they are planning on catering to vertical niches by giving bloggers and experts in those fields the tools they need to publish.
Wikiseek has just launched. It’s a really neat vertical search tool. for searching Wikipedia. (A vertical search is one which only searches a specific niche, business area, topic etc.
Wikiseek only spiders Wikipedia, this means Wikiseek only lists 3 kinds of pages – Ones from Wikipedia, ones which are linked to from a Wikipedia page and Sponsored pages adverts.
Hostway have launched a drag and drop Mobile Site builder helping people to quickly develop a simple easy to use mobile website. (Cost £21.95 per year)
For more information, visit Hostway
The Online Historical Populations Reports (OHPR) website was launched on 9 January 2007.
A fascinating resource with over 200,000 pages of digitised reports and data showing detailed changes in population between 1800 and 1940.
Google Blog is reporting Google Finance is to offer real time stock quotes for free
“It is not my intention to take over the governance of Internet. I don’t think it is in the mandate of ITU and as secretary-general I will continue to contribute to the debate over Internet governance and continue to provide technical support,” said Toure, an electrical engineer from Mali.
“I will be focusing on cyber-security …,” he added.
GPM Group 