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Discovery 3C: New Widget Ready WordPress Theme

Discovery 3C

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Left sidebar, Widget ready, Adsense Ready, Fixed width, Gray, White, Black, 3 columns, Wildlife/ Animals/ Nature/ Science/ Discovery/ Planet/ Personal Blog

A new 3-column “widgetâ€? and “adsense” ready WordPress theme by headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing based on Discovery by Free CSS Templates. As the name suggests, this theme is ideal for science/ animals/ wildlife/ nature sites, both for professional and personal blogs. You can remove the header image for a neat Web 2.0 look. This new theme was created with support from SAS 70 + Baseball Cards. Please go to our WordPress downloads and support page for theme support, queries or customized web design projects. You may view, download and testrun more of our themes here.

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Webby Award Winners 2007

Webby AwardsNo surprises.

Flickr, Yelp, Onion, Howstuffworks, Treehugger, Ikea, Linkedin, Lonelygirl15 are the popular names we are familiar with amongst the winners of the most prestigious internet awards, the Webby Awards. See the rest here.

To Digg or not to

diggDigg is caught between a rock and a hard place with the HD-DVD scandal to the point that the founder-CEO thinks it could mean the end of this otherwise nifty site.

As most users of this service know, the issue played out in an classic Internet vs Corp war of words (Duggs in this case) over a published HD-DVD DRM process key which might potentially result in a law suit. So much for uncensored social-networking, it’s one of those gray areas where sites like MySpace end up fighting legal battles for shit it’s 14 year-old-dimwit users post.

So indeed “the users” won the duel, but in the process, the very site that facilitated the battle ground faces the axe, now Digg that!

AOLs Fear of Competition from Google, Yahoo

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AOL’s free email service came in after Yahoo mail and Gmail, now check this new Yahoo Clone by (guess who), AOL! If you thought powerhouses acted differently, this will break that myth. The whole world’s waiting to jump at them mercilessly, but competition can hit you hard.

If anything, I am surprised AOL couldn’t foretell what would be coming with this.

“Claim Your Content”: Google’s New Filter for YouTube

copyrightsGoogle CEO, Eric Schmidt assures a new system called “Claim Your Content” which will automatically identify copyright material in an attempt to decrease the “massive intentional copyright infringement” allegations on the video-sharing site YouTube.

Microsoft recently asserted that Google’s pending acquisition of DoubleClick may be a threat to fair competition and Schmidt did not lose any opportunity to ridicule Microsoft and alleged that Microsoft made arguments only because it’s a competitor.

Are the ethical arguments by Microsoft made against Google justified or merely a fear of competition? Big or small, competition can be brutal.