I got an email today from SitePoint regarding their popular marketplace. Just like they previously moved their design section to 99Designs.com, they are now moving their website trading section to Flippa.com.
The new marketplace has a few ‘improvements‘ :
Private Sales as an alternative to Auctions
Customisable categorisation and powerful advanced search
Automatic email notification of listings matching your search criteria
More …
With the worsening economy, there are a lot of aggressive scammers out there. Following are two to be aware of, with concrete suggestions on how to keep your money safe online — 100% of the time.
Google posted today that they will be releasing a beta version of their new browser tomorrow. Called Chrome, the browser will be available tomorrow in 100 countries for versions of Windows. Mac and Linux versions are to follow at a later date.
Google decided to launch the new browser via a comic. You can see the comic in full …
I read an article today on BBC about the launch of a new search engine by some former Google employees. The search engine is called Cuil (pronounced Cuil) and has a simplistic feel to it, reminiscent of when Google when it was first launched.
The site is different to Google in many ways. The site has a black background and search …
The net seems very busy this morning with reports that Google are about to acquire the hugely popular Digg for an estimated $200 million. It’s not a done deal as yet but it does look like it’s going to go through.
It will be interesting to see what Google does with Digg and whether they will integrate the service with Google more. Remember, they …
It looks like FireFox’s campaign to get the most software downloads in 24 hours has worked. They now have an announcement on their website saying :
Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 …
It seems that popular UK Social Networking site FaceParty may have been hacked. As it stands just now the site is down and the home page has been replaced with a message to ‘The Haterz’
I have seen a few sites reporting that FaceParty have put this offensive message to members because of the negative comments they were receiving from members. However, I am a little sceptical. It is more likely the …