That geographic clue gives away the sponsor: Microsoft, which is underwriting an online moviemaking contest in an effort to stimulate sales and burnish the reputation of Windows Vista, its operating system.

I’m Mat Wall, Technical Architect for guardian.co.uk. As you probably know we’re a long way into the rollout of our new version of the web site.

It may be a niche publisher, but the International Data Group has been working out the answers to some big mainstream questions. The biggest one: Can print media survive the transition to the Internet?

Guardian Media Group’s Real and Century stations, covering the north-east and north-west of England, Scotland and south Wales, will offer free downloads on Monday, May 5, to listeners via the Cliq service, which users download to their mobiles.

WE HAD to LOL when we read how txt-msg lingo is replacing stndrd english in student academic pprs. 1 casualty of da trend is uz of capital letter to start a sentence. kids feel free to lowercase everything. pnktu8n is also dissed. tchaz try to help but it

I am not sure of all of the facts, but the read below is worth it and as they say: “….baby we have come a long way!!!” — regardless odf the exact date of the start of e-commerce.

A term I’ve heard tossed around frequently in real life, but not in the blogosphere is the term “viral loop.” In fact, when googling it, I only saw one mention from Jia Shen, a very smart guy: