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10 awesome Internet Easter eggs

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2008-06-24 23:23:00 by Josh Lowensohn in Webware.com
Adding hidden items in Web sites is what separates good developers from great ones. Below I've compiled a list of 10 of my personal favorites from the past few years. If you have any of your own feel free to share them in the comments 1. The Konami code . The infamous code sequence that appears in many video games old and new ( B A) has a place...
 
Tags: eggs, easter eggs, google easter eggs, google, google bomb, google moon, google bombs, moon, yahoo
 
 
 
 
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Class action suit means Facebook's Beacon just won't go away

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2008-08-14 19:23:00 by Caroline McCarthy in Webware.com
A class action lawsuit filed earlier this week targets Facebook and eight of the participants in Beacon, its ill-fated advertising product that shared information about third-party site activity with the social network. The set of 20 plaintiffs, mostly residents of Texas, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
 
Tags: beacon, facebook, original beacon partners, beacon participants blockbuster, participants, facebook news feed, week targets facebook, week, facebook beacon
 
 
 
 
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Weekend Webware: LOLinator

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2008-01-19 18:00:00 by Rafe Needleman in Webware.com
News.com's new design In the grand spirit of the Swedish Chef translators that popped up on the Net several years ago (see The Dialectizer and even Google's "Bork" translation ), the Malevolent Design company has released LOLinator . This service will take almost any Web site and not only change its text from English to LOLcat, but it will...
 
Tags: malevolent design company, design, swedish chef translators, grand spirit, web site, lolinator, google, dialectizer, massacre
 
 
 
 
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Weekend Webware: LOLinator

2008-01-21 12:01:18 by admin in Web 2.0 Portals
 
News.coms new design. In the grand spirit of the Swedish Chef translators that popped up on the Net several years ago (see The Dialectizer and even Googles Bork... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more
 
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CeBit press department discriminates bloggers/online mediumsonce again

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2008-02-09 23:34:03 by Tam Hanna, Site Founder in TamsPalm - the Palm OS Blog
The German CeBit tradeshow is commonly known for cool devices, sometimes a load of snow and a great press center. Great - for all those who are let in. For most tradeshows, getting in is a matter of proving that you publish something - not so for the CeBit. I have just received my press card for this years trade show - please look below for a...
 
Tags: cebit, cebit media department, favorite news services, german cebit tradeshow, tradeshow, journalists, journalists associations, bloggers, press card
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Borks Blockbuster: Beacon Turns Into A Lawsuit (BBI)

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2008-04-17 16:13:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
Facebook's users seem to have gotten over last year's Beacon controversy, and in retrospect it seems few of them cared in the first place . But one still does: She's suing Blockbuster (BBI) for participating in the marketing scheme, which was supposed to inform your friends when you bought something online. MediaPost In the lawsuit, quietly...
 
Tags: beacon, facebook, blockbuster, facebook users, beacon controversy, users, blockbuster choices, video rental records, critics immediately
 
 
 
 
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Blockbuster Bears Brunt of Facebook Beacon

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2008-04-17 19:03:06 by Kristen Nicole in Mashable!
Well, we knew the day would come when Blockbuster got sued for participating in Facebooks Beacon advertising program, and that day is here. According to MediaPost , Texas resident Cathryn Elaine Harris is pretty pissed that Blockbuster is sharing her purchase and rental activity with friends on Facebook With allegations that Blockbusters use of...
 
Tags: beacon, facebook, blockbuster, facebooks beacon, facebook lie, beacon participant, blockbuster online, facebook cave, lawsuit
 
 
 
 
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My Last Post About Twitter, Ever

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2008-06-28 05:39:51 by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins in Mashable!
Obviously I cant possibly keep the promise I make in the title, but with all the end of week hyperbole being bandied in the name of Twitter-bashing, I couldnt say something else reasonable like Twitter is still having problems, and A Few A-Listers Are Still Upset About Twitter. All of this seems to stem from the fact that the replies tab has...
 
Tags: twitter, twitter troubles, twitter dead, twitter mobile interface, power twitter, check twitter, week hyperbole, mobile, week
 
 
 
 
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Amazon's S3 Storage Outage Busts Web Sites, Crashes iPhone Apps

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2008-07-20 17:05:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
Neat trick: Amazon just made one of my iPhone apps crash -- Twinkle , the Twitter app by Tapulous . Not on purpose, of course. But still, a reminder to companies that relying on third-party "cloud" hosting services -- even from giant, normally excellent Amazon -- has its drawbacks What happened? Sometime this morning, Amazon's (AMZN) S3 storage...
 
Tags: iphone, amazon, iphone home, iphone app platform, outage, excellent amazon, app, sites, app store