It’s a big old world (wide web) out there. You’ve just had your new website created, by Studio North naturally, it’s looking fantastic and works a treat but how on earth are people going to find it? Kevin Costner once said, “build it and they will come” but sadly he wasn’t starring in a movie about the Internet at the time.
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Three is the magic number
Web 3.0 – the future online?
In the begining was the World Wide Web and it was kind of good. People (usually computer-geek type people like, erm, myself) built a few websites and it’s fame began to spread. Pretty soon big businesses cottoned onto the idea and corporate websites sprang up all over the place with everything from the chief executives biography to a list of their company’s widgets available to purchase. In those days to say you were a ‘website designer’ was to be treated with the reverance normally only reserved for Nobel Prize-winning rock stars, or even possibly the Pope. Untold riches were yours and beautiful women would fall at your feet (although, curiously, not in my particularly grimy neck of the woods at the time).
Internet overhaul wins approval
A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris.
The net’s regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.
The decision means that companies could turn brands into web addresses, while individuals could use their names. A second proposal, to introduce domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts, was also approved.
To read the full story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7475986.stm
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