Monthly Archives: April 2006

Save The Internet

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past several months, you’ve probably heard the term “Net Neutrality“. It’s a big issue, and as a web user it directly impacts you. It doesn’t matter if you use the net to play games, VoIP, IM, or just surf… there are things brewing in congress that could change the web as we know it.

You see, the suits at Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and others want to control what sites work best. How could this impact you? A new site, savetheinternet.com has all you need to know right here.

Everyone needs to join in if we are going to save the internet. Write your congressman / senators and tell them to save the internet, and to vote against a multi-tiered net.

Viacom To Aquire XFire, Inc. For $102 Million

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XFire has been purchased by Viacom… the company that owns such disasters as MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon.

You can read the full press release here. According to the info, XFire will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of MTV Networks.

MTV was cool once upon a time, let’s hope they don’t frak up XFire like they’ve managed to do just about everything else that they’ve touched.

Google Maps Is Back

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Google showed once again that it does listen to its customers, by renaming it’s map and directions service back to Google Maps.

Back in January, Google combined Google Local and Google Maps into once service and decided to go with the name Google Local. Personally, I thought the chosen name was a bad choice, and apparently so did a lot of other people. So now, the name has been changed once more, and it now has the more appropriate (IMO) name of Google Maps.