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Campaign for the right to create, forward and follow links
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News on January 20th, 2010
There has been a talk for while about news agencies blocking bloggers, aggregators and search engines from indexing their content. This has started to become a reality when the Times Online decided to block the news aggregator site newsnow.co.uk. In response Struan Bartlett the founder of NewsNow started the right2click campaign. Watch his campaign video.
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Linux ClearOS to rival Microsoft’s SBS
Microsoft has dominated the small enterprise market with its out of the box feature rich SBS (Small Business Server). Linux has always trailed behind it and although most of the technology to rival Microsoft has been in place, it has always been a mammoth task to setup a server from scratch to do that. ClearOS [...]
Microsoft’s attempt to bribe its way to the top
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News on December 11th, 2009
Once again Microsoft is showing it’s dirty claws. According to a report in the Financial Times (also mentioned in the KPMRS Blog), Microsoft is planing to offer to pay publishers to remove their content from Google in an attempt to make its search engine Bing (no link on purpose) the #1 search engine.
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Google Chrome Beta for Linux
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News on December 8th, 2009
Google has announced the release of a beta version of its browser Google Chrome for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuse).
Here are a few facts from the Google Chrome team:
60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
23 developer builds
2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code [...]
Google Duplicate Content & Multiple Site Issues
Posted by ITechLog in Easy Tips, Tutorials, Web Services on September 18th, 2009
Great tips on the use of Redirect 301 and rel=canonical among some other good stuff.
Technorati Tags: crawl, duplicate content, Google, redirect 301, rel canonical, search engine, search ranking
Open .eps files on GIMP for Windows
Posted by ITechLog in Easy Tips, Open Source on September 18th, 2009
As usual this post is a self help note, but as it’s public I hope it helps someone else. If you want to open .eps or .ps files with GIMP on Windows you will need to install Ghostscript (download it from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/). After successful installation you will need to create an environment variable called GS_PROG [...]
YouTube UK pays up to show Music Videos
Posted by ITechLog in Web Services on September 3rd, 2009
After reaching a deal with PRS for Music and agreeing to paying up an undisclosed lump sum of money, YouTube UK is now able to resume playing Music videos for its users. Neither sides have revealed the amount of money paid by the Google owned company but it’s large enough to backdate payments until January [...]
Wordpress Media upload HTTP Error
Wordpress and Wordpress-MU have given me the HTTP error in the various installations I have performed and each time there’s a different cause. This post is nothing more than a personal notation for future reference but I hope it’s helpful to someone.
Error: when trying to upload media using the Wordpress Flash uploader it get the [...]
