I am reading this article and I would like to know if my visitors are now part of this change? Read the article for details. 

"In the 1998 box office hit “You’ve Got Mail,” the anonymous screen names of Meg Ryan (Shopgirl) and Tom Hanks (NY152) turned unwitting foes into paramours, giving Americans their first dose of a digital-age romantic comedy.

Early AOL users may chuckle now at that signature dial-up modem din: a strung-out chorus of pings and bleeps interrupted by the fuzz of static and white noise. And these days, handles like Shopgirl and NY152 seem so, well, 1998.

More than 10 years later, Internet handles are practically second to one’s identity. They signal our arrival in e-mail inboxes and can often be the first impression we make. User names of yore-college-era holdovers or an inscrutable series of computer-generated numbers tacked on to one’s login-are increasingly frowned upon as unprofessional and frivolous." (2009, ajc.com)

Righ now, I still use my website for this purpose and I will introduce myself when we have a formal communication e.g. through email or phone conversation. The primary reason is to let our visitors to remember our website address e.g. KING.NET, just like in the making of our business brand.

Here's another interesting information for future use of the Internet and how you will address them now. 

"My wife will kill me for saying this,” he said. “If we ever have kids, I’ll only name them something if the domain name is available.” (2009, ajc.com)

I actually registered all names of my children e.g. firstnamelastname.com. I can't register our lastname as it was taken years ago. So if you have the opportunity to register your lastname or your fullname, do it soon before someone else register the domain name. 

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"Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that allowing domains based on religion or denomination would unnecessarily create more conflicts in a world already full of disputes.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, cautioned Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) about the hazards of allowing new Internet domains as .christian, .muslim, .hindu, .buddhist, .jew, etc.

ICANN is currently considering launching of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD), which is the technical term for the suffixes which appear at the end of Internet addresses and are used to route traffic through the Internet, like .biz, .com, .info, .jobs, etc

Rajan Zed argued that this would generate discord and religious bodies would end up contesting various cybersquatter registrations. Similarly named denominations would claim exclusive rights to particular domains. Moreover, it would mean extra financial burden on already struggling religious organizations, benefiting mostly squatters and sellers." (2009, Webnewswire.com)

My humble opinion, Google Chrome is a clean and fast internet browser to replace my Firefox Mozilla browser. Now the question is, can I replace my Microsoft IE browser for business application? Here's my short list of test using Google Chrome for business application.

• Google Chrome accessing Time and Expense website to update my work hours. In Time and Expense version 6.0.6 website, when you try to use "Charge lookup" to add new charge code. The screen provide you an error, which is perfectly fine using Microsoft IE 7.0+ version. Maybe just the version, well I tried again using Google Chrome accesing a Time and Expense website using version 7.0.1 still produce the same error.
• Using Google Chrome in another website that are using pop-up "small box" to make an update. I was able to see the pop-up page but not the option to make the update. It seems Google Chrome have issues with pop-up screen.
• Accessing Microsoft Outlook Web Access via Google Chrome is a different look as well. So far, no error or bug to report. In Microsoft IE, opening a new message pop-up a new screen but not in Google Chrome where the new message stay on the same screen.

I will continue to share my findings, would be nice to post your comments here.

Thank you.

The old Terms of Service agreement was seen by many in the Internet community as Google being evil by asserting ownership over its users' work.

After just a few hours of launching Google Chrome beta internet browser, here's a quick discovery of it's vulnerability through webkit and java bug.

Google just released the BETA version of Chrome, it's own internet browser. So aside Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla (firefox), Netscape, AOL browser and other internet browser, let's add Google Chrome to the list. To tell you frankly, I'm only using Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, but will definitely check out Chrome for sure.

• One box for everything. Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.


• Thumbnails of your top sites. Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.


• Shortcut for your apps. Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.


• Safe browsing. Google Chrome warns you if you're about to visit a suspected phishing, malware, or otherwise unsafe website.


• Crash control. This is a cool feature, every tab you're using is run independently in the browser. So if one application crashes it won't take anything else down.


• and more.

Only 475KB file to download and quick to install approx. within 5 min. I'm surfing already with Google Chrome. Go check it out yourself, visit http://www.google.com/chrome

Share your feedback with us. Your truly, KING.NET

Since we launched the new design and new services for Michigan.TV last week, I received some questions related to uploading their video and what do I recommend for them to use. Hands up, I told them to use Michigan.TV for uploading unlimited video, music and photo. Not to be bias, YouTube is great for mass audience for your video but if you want quality HD-like internet video go check out Vimeo.com. Vimeo offer you the best HD video on the web.

Check out the HD Channel.

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The latest ICANN plan to allow the global populace to assemble an entire domain name like www.yourname.yourname as their free-choice is a revolutionary and timely decision. This now open doors to cyber-brands like my.ibm, hotel.toronto, it.jobs, play.poker, fly.usa or go.telus and applicants will submit a non-refundable fee of $100-500K USD for each name idea and the businesses are already jumping to get started.

A new study estimates that this new registration process would create $33 Billion in fees in the first three years. The prime beneficiaries will be ICANN, which operates as a not-for-profit organization, but they still would have to deliver a highly structured, high speed service and meet global needs Other big recipients will be the worldwide domain registrars and highly specialized experts and lawyers while the cascading revenues will go to IT and web support organizations. The public at large will become the real beneficiaries as a billion new users will come online, millions of new interactive gateways will open and thousands of new global brands will emerge. This will make a global impact and bring a new face to the global E-commerce. The study also points out how in countries around the world, new national clubs of overnight billion-dollar domain name owners will emerge, all fueling the new global race.

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It's not often that multiple vendors are involved in a single security patch.

The team behind the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay has started to work on a new encryption technology that could potentially protect all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The project, which is still in its initial stages, goes by the name “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. It tackles encryption not on the application level, but on the network level, the aim being that all data exchanged on your PC would be encrypted, regardless of its nature — be it a web browser streaming video files or an instant messaging client. As Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij (a.k.a. Tiamo) told me, “Even applications that don’t supporting encryption will be encrypted where possible.”

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is getting ready to vote later this week to open up the Internet naming convention to allow more options.

Microsoft failed to get Yahoo to increase their online search presence and go head to head with Google. Well, Microsoft move on and acquired Navic networks to extend its ad platform to television.

About Navic:
Navic's technology is transforming television advertising through sophisticated campaign management tools that use real-time audience measurement data to optimize the delivery and placement of targeted interactive media. Navic's closed-loop solutions are designed to ensure continued campaign success across local or vast geographical areas that span multiple MSO divisions and platforms.

In the news:
Buying Navic is also a way to keep pace with Google, which is making a push to enter the estimated $80 billion TV ad market. McAndrews said Navic differs from Google's approach by working directly with cable companies versus satellite services, allowing greater targeting and not forcing broadcasters to use an auction. Project Canoe, which recently recruited Aegis Media Americas CEO David Verklin to head it, is attempting to bring ad targeting to TV through a consortium of cable companies.

"Our ultimate goal is to take the things you can do on the Internet, including targeting and accountability, to television," McAndrews said. "We see TV looking a lot like the Internet.
Source: Adweek.com