2005 January

Videora - Personal Video Using P2P and RSS - Videora 1.0 is the first version of our new personal video downloading program. Utilizing BitTorrent peer to peer technology and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, Videora automatically and intelligently finds and downloads video you want to watch. With easy to use features like Wish Lists and [...]

FedBizOpps.gov is the single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000. Government buyers are able to publicize their business opportunities by posting information directly to FedBizOpps via the Internet. Through one portal - FedBizOpps (FBO) - commercial vendors seeking Federal markets for their products and services can search, monitor and retrieve opportunities [...]

Imagining the Internet - Elon/Pew Predictions Database - This site examines the potential future of the Internet while simultaneously providing a peek back into its history. We invite you to navigate through three useful resource areas that: illuminate the views of stakeholders - The Experts Survey; give an historic overview - The 1990 to 1995 [...]

StumbleUpon Reviews - StumbleUpon is an intelligent browsing tool for sharing and discovering great websites. As you click Stumble!, you’ll get high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended (rated I like it) by friends and other SU members with similar interests. Rating these sites shares them with your friends [...]

Doodle is a tool that searches your hard drive for files using pattern matching on meta-data. It extracts meta-data using libextractor and builds a suffix tree to index the files. The index can then be searched rapidly. It is similar to locate, but can take advantage of information such as ID3 tags. Doodle also supports [...]

The “Virtual Universe” is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet, interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The “Virtual Universe” is a virtual reality environment which runs on [...]

McAfee(R) AVERT Reports Top 10 Threats for 2004 and Advises on Future Threats and Trends - McAfee, Inc. the pioneer and worldwide leader of intrusion prevention solutions, announced the top 10 malicious threats identified by McAfee(R) AVERT(TM), the company’s Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team, to affect both enterprise and home users worldwide in the [...]

The International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) is a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create a digital library of international children’s books. This five-year research project has 5 primary goals:
1. to create a collection of more than 10,000 books in at least [...]

Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google by Rudi Cilibrasi and Paul M. B. Vitanyi -
Abstract by Authors:
We propose a new method to extract semantic knowledge from the world-wide-web for both supervised and unsupervised learning using the Google search engine in an unconventional manner. The approach is novel in its unrestricted problem domain, simplicity of implementation, and [...]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architectures, operating systems, networking, theory, mathematics, telecoms, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing. It aims to provide a one-stop source of information about all computing terms and includes many useful cross-references and [...]

Cryptography and Security - This page by Ronald L. Rivest contains pointers to other web pages dealing with cryptography and security, organized into the following sections: 1) Conferences, 2) Other compilations of links. 3) Bibliographies, 4) Government Sources, 5) Non-Profit Organizations and Associations, 6) Commercial Enterprises, 7) University Sites and Course Material, 8) Other Sites, [...]

BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Related Abbreviations and Acronyms - BABEL is the oldest computer oriented Abbreviation/Acronym Glossary that has always been free; without ads; available in HTML, TEXT and PALM formats; continuously updated on schedule three times a year.
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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures - This web site is hosted in part by the Software Quality Group of the Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division, Information Technology Laboratory. This is a dictionary of algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypical problems, and related definitions. Algorithms include common functions, such as Ackermann’s function. Problems include [...]

Lycos 50 with Dean: 2004 Web’s Most Wanted - The Lycos 50 with Dean offers a snapshot of the 2004 most wanted and searched for web sites. Top 10 for 2004 included: 1. Janet Jackson, 2. Paris Hilton, 3. Clay Aiken, 4. Britney Spears, 5. Nick Berg, 6. KaZaA, 7. Tattoos, 8. Pamela Anderson, 9. [...]

Top Yahoo! Searches 2004 - The top searches for Yahoo in 2004 covered many many areas and the top 10 were: 1) American Idol, 2) Paris Hilton, 3) Jessica Simpson, 4) Britney Spears, 5) Harry Potter, 6) WWE, 7) Usher, 8) NASCAR, 9) NBA, and 10) NFL . Other segments are included as well.

Syndicate IQ helps our clients achieve a simple objective: “To manage, measure, and monetize syndicated content”. As more publishers, marketers, and enterprises utilize blogs and syndicated content (aka RSS) solutions, the importance of accurate measurement becomes paramount to justify continued investments. Any strategy to monetize syndicated content begins with analysis and data on who, how, [...]

January 2005 Web Server Survey - In the January 2005 survey we received responses from 58,194,836 sites, a robust gain of 1.27 million sites from the December survey. After months of little change in market share between the two major web servers, Apache added nearly a full percentage point to its lead over Microsoft, which [...]

blinkx TV - TV Video Search - blinkx TV allows you to search the web for video and audio clips. Unlike other search providers, blinkx TV not only lets you search using standard keyword and Boolean queries but you can also use conceptual search. This type of search is provided by blinkx only, and allows [...]

The Scrutinizer is designed to protect Web servers from HTTP (D)DoS attacks. It’s a toolkit consisting of an analysis engine which analyzes Web server access logfiles in almost real time, an Apache module which is able to block wrongdoers on the Web server, an extension to block offenders with netfilter firewalls, and a set of [...]

Genome-Tools provides flexible tools and a simple API for genomic sequence processing on genomes published in the standard Genbank format. A CGI-based Web interface is also available. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.