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Tim Berners-Lee launches "WWW Foundation" at IGF 2009
Tim Berners-Lee waved his iPhone playfully at the podium, then gave a boyish grin, touched its face, and instantly and wirelessly sent a message to the world, announcing the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation. If that doesn’t seem amazing, you have to think about the context. Just 40 or so years ago, in 1969, the Internet was getting off the ground as a simple connection between two computers.
Continue reading »SeqPod for sale at $125,000
Are you among those who signed up for search and recommendation engine SeeqPod? If you are, this’ll interest you In April, SeeqPod, in a bid to stay afloat, began offering its Targeted Crawling system with built in APIs at $5,000 a pop . Soon after, it filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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