Chacha.com aims to be the search engine of choice in a web 2.0 world. This is a human-edited search engine with personal guides to help you find what you’re looking for. Chacha.com is currently claiming 3000 human guides that can…
Google buys YouTube Flash application with Users for 1.65 Billion.
Google has officially bought YouTube. 1.65 billion seems a bit high. One thing I find interesting is the technology that makes YouTube possible. This is basically a Flash-based website. The technology that powers YouTube and Google Video is Flash. It’s…
Firefox clean AOL old tricks and Google Forwards Literacy
I reported some serious security flaws in Firefox and apparently it just wasn’t true. Although Mozilla is being careful with their wording, it appears that the hackers made the announcement to gain popularity. Dozens of other news organizations were involved.…
HP Indictments and the Google Truth Detector
In the news, indictments were handed down today by the California Attorney General to Patricia Dunn and 4 others at HP. They basically went about getting information illegally. Fraud is the technical term and these are felonies. This is a…
Website and feed location update plus Gadgets and Macros
Our original version of this site will be removed and permanently forwarded to our new site this weekend. So please be sure and update your RSS Feed pointers to our Feedburner feed at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/wowtechminute We also have a comments feed…
Localized Search Engine Marketing – Live from SES Denver
Today’s tip on localized search engine marketing comes to us from Rochelle Paulet, from the show floor at Search Engine Strategies in Denver Colorado. Most webmasters, get their customers from local small businesses. Introducing a nationwide SEM campaign just doesn’t…
Major Firefox flaw and Congress dusts off gambling ban
Some hackers busted out some major Firefox flaws on stage at the ToorCon Hacker Conference. It sounds like the whole browser needs a rewrite. They didn’t release information about 30 additional flaws they claimed to have uncovered. But they surely…
Three things to know about planning a web design project
So you’re hiring a webmaster to build you a new website or application. You want three things. Quality, you want all the details like SEO, usability and standards testing all from the start. You want it to be built quickly.…
Jah! jajah.com Microsoft VML Patch and Apple iTunes Fix
JAH! JaJah. Their new service will take some of Skype’s users with anywhere VOIP services. Your phone might even be supported and international calls could save you the most. Peter Jackson, Lord of the Rings Director is teaming up with…
MySpace beats YouTube – Jumpcut Sexy – Del.icio.us hits 1 Million Mark
If you’re wondering how MySpace’s popularity is holding out, Bambi Frisco at MarketWatch has some early numbers from comScore Media Metrix. It turns out that MySpace is serving more video than Google. More than YouTube and other giants like Viacom.…