ICANN, the internet regulator, has approved plans to allow internet addresses to be written in a non-Latin alphabet, claiming it’s the biggest change to the internet in its 40 year history.
Up until this point, TLDs (top level domains) have had to be written in the western Latin alphabet, resulting in the .com .org .net and .co.uk web addresses we are all familiar with. Whilst Korean websites, for example, have been able to use their own alphabet within the start of a domain, the end of the address has had to end in the .kr suffice (i.e. Latin script) for the addresses to resolve to websites IP address (the destinations true ‘internet address’).
This change could potentially mean new TLDs could appear in as diverse characters as Hindi, Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Greek, Mandarin and Russian Cyrillic. (more…)
After confusing the world with their seemingly meaningless latest ad campaign, Yahoo made another huge blunder this week after shutting down the long running Geocities website without paying any attention to some SEO basics, and potentially wasting millions of dollars in the process.
Boxee, the ‘Social Media Center’, was finally released as a Windows public alpha recently. Epiphany were lucky enough to get an early invite, but now that it’s available to the masses, we thought we’d take some time to give everyone a little ‘heads up’ and introduce this truly fascinating (and possibly revolutionary) little bit of software. Welcome to Boxee, the Social Media Center, coming to a TV near you soon.
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