Matias Vangsnes

Internet, communication and the concept of open source

Posts Tagged with "age"

Why the Dot Com Kingdom Will Continue to Rule Post New gTLDs

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

At the start of the Internet and the first ever internet domain name boom, why has ‘dot com’ became the king and not ‘dot net’? This is a serious naming question and demands authoritative clarity to the answers. Form a nomenclature point of view; the global audience felt more comfortable with .com. It sounded better [...]

The Dot Com Kingdom Rules

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

At the start of the Internet and the first ever internet domain name boom, why has ‘dot com’ became the king and not ‘dot net’? This is a serious naming question and demands authoritative clarity to the answers. Form a nomenclature point of view; the global audience felt more comfortable with Com. It sounded better [...]

Softly on a budget

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

The primary freeware photo-editing option on a Linux system is the ”ugly and cranky” GIMP. MICROSOFT is about to drop Windows 8 on us and Apple has an operating system update coming soon. They will cost money. And do we need them? What if you could get all the photo-editing and other essential software absolutely [...]

Africa, Latin America Avail Advantages of New gTLD Process

Monday, June 18th, 2012

Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are big beneficiaries in the new Generic Top Level Domain selection process after the introduction of the controversial “batching” methodology by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The batching process allows for applications to be selected first on geography, and then involves a round robin process that [...]

Africa, Latin America take advantage of new gTLD process

Saturday, June 16th, 2012

Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are big beneficiaries in the new Generic Top Level Domain selection process after the introduction of the controversial “batching” methodology by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The batching process allows for applications to be selected first on geography, and then involves a round robin process that [...]

Africa, Latin America take advantage of new gTLD process

Saturday, June 16th, 2012

Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are big beneficiaries in the new Generic Top Level Domain selection process after the introduction of the controversial “batching” methodology by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The batching process allows for applications to be selected first on geography, and then involves a round robin process that [...]

WordPress Hosting Reviews Selects MyReviewPlugin For Review Functionality

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

WordPress Hosting Reviews MyReviewPlugin is the only, fully-functional review plugin that works well enough for our caliber of website. Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 13, 2012 http://wphostingreviews.com selected MyReviewPlugin as their review managment software. MyReviewPlugin was the best choice to meet all of our design and functionality requirements.” Said Steven Johnson, website developer at WordPress Hosting [...]

Wolters Kluwer Completes Application for Global Top Level Domain of …

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Enhancing User Experience and Reinforcing Global Brand Awareness Alphen aan den Rijn (June 12, 2012) – Wolters Kluwer, a global leader in professional information services, announced today that it has successfully completed its application for the new global Top Level Domain (gTLD) of ‘.wolterskluwer’ with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).Wolters Kluwer [...]

OpenDNS Named "Cool Vendor" in Cloud Security by Leading Analyst Firm

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

OpenDNS Named “Cool Vendor” in Cloud Security by Leading Analyst Firm San Francisco, CA, Jun 05, 2012 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) – OpenDNS, the world’s largest Internet-wide security network – making the Internet safer, faster and more reliable for tens of millions of people every day – today announced that it has been named a Cool [...]

Linux Mint 13 closes in on KDE edition

Saturday, May 26th, 2012

Fans of Linux Mint 13 can look forward to getting their hands on KDE and Xfce variants before the end of June, if predictions by project leader Clement Lefebrve pan out. Read this Ten factors that make Ubuntu 11.10 a hit Read more The Linux Mint 13 update to the Ubuntu-based desktop operating system, also [...]

WordPress Founder Mullenweg: ‘Radical Simplification’ Coming To Mobile Users

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Blogging on the move WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg, recently shared his plans for the blogging service. Announcing what the future has in store for the platform, Mullenweg told attendees at the paidContent.org event yesterday that a new “radically simplified version of WordPress” will be launched soon. With big thoughts in mind, Mullenweg took to his [...]

Baboon Study Shows Why High Social Status Boosts Health

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Being at the bottom of the social ladder is generally a predictor of bad health: research shows that poor people die sooner and have more disease than rich people, even when you account for factors like lack of access to health care. But the data on social hierarchy and health — including studies in primates [...]

What’s the verdict: Whitney Houston’s final recording

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Whitney Houston didn’t depart without leaving fans with new music. The legend recorded a duet with Jordin Sparks called “Celebration!” for their upcoming film “Sparkle,” which Ryan Seacrest premiered on his radio show Monday. It’s said to be Houston’s last known recording before her February death at the age of 48, and she and Sparks [...]

The numbers game – trade marks and domain names

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

It is, therefore, not surprising (and a cause for concern) that trademarks are set to become a casualty in the battle for online supremacy. The fact that trade mark infringement on the internet is a present danger is not new. However, few realise the extent to which the domain name system is open to abuse [...]

Tumblr Plans to Cash In. Will 53 Million Bloggers Agree?

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Once, around six years ago, Karp’s mentor, Fred Seibert, gave him some tough love. Karp had begun working for the television and film producer after dropping out of New York’s prestigious Bronx High School of Science at the age of 15. He had taught himself how to code, and his parents homeschooled him while he [...]

Download Think Like a Man full version movie in hd quality

Monday, April 30th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 30, 2012 – Four new films hit theaters this weekend, but moviegoers were still thinking about “Think Like a Man.” In a surprise win, the ensemble comedy topped the box office for the second consecutive weekend, collecting $18 million and bringing its 10-day total to $60.9 million, according to an [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Scorecard

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

Well, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an Ubuntu 12.04 review, with pictures, videos, step-by-step instructions and everything else imaginable. So rather than write yet another, I am going to take a different approach – a quick result run-down and a few comments about installing it on the various computers around here. As [...]

Cyber assault

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Ours is a digital age, with many of our citizens “surfing” the Internet for work, entertainment and education. Whether we’re doing online banking with routine bills paid by a few keystrokes, accessing the nation’s electrical grid through very sophisticated and protected computer controls or just sending routine emails, the facets of the digital diamond shimmer [...]

21 Year Old Penn State Student Develops Very Useful WordPress Plugin to Help Website Owners Edit their Site’s Design Online.

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

John Cook, a 21-year-old Pennsylvania State University student, has just hit the headlines by developing a new WordPress Plugin that makes it extremely easy to edit the design of a WordPress website. His just launched plugin is basically a WordPress theme editor that allows users to edit the CSS of their WordPress theme. State College, [...]

Short about me

Technical project manager at Futurniture. General interest in Internet, communication and the concept of open source.

Find out yourself

Old and dirty

Google ads

Sorted by topics

Surfable

qrcode