New 'real estate' up for grabs in Cyberworld

ICANN has now adopted a new set of Web site naming rules. This would allow folks to buy NEW top-level domain names ending in WHATEVER they like.

Sounds like a liberal policy. But internet as we knew and recognized may change. Its not going to be all .com or .org, or .in or .uk etc. It could be zany things like http://MY.SITE.ETC. If I were to buy my.site.etc, could someone else buy site.etc.my? What chaos that would be. My gut feel is that internet sans its naming conventions/rules is going to be a very difficult entity to govern.

If its any consolation, there is an attempt to dissuade cyber-squatters by hiking the fees for buying domain names.

A new search engine: Evri

This semantic search engine is the outcome of the founders aim to connect 'content to content' in a way that social networks connect 'people to people'. Thats why the tag line for Evri is 'Search less Understand more'.

Often times we get lost in the ocean of search results, moving from one site to another and more often than not, moving from one topic to another eventually losing the purpose of our search and very importantly losing time and energy. Its a lifestyle change that we need to make in order to get more out of our searches and products like Evri strive to make this change happen.

Check it out..its still in private beta, you will need to register to receive an email with access details.

Mobile VAS:Turning off Caller Tunes

Have you ever called someone (lets say for purely business purpose) and it turns out that they have an annoying Caller Tune? Maybe its a song in a language you dont understand. Maybe its a song that features an actor that you detest. May its a song you find disgusting. And it gets worse when the person doesnt pick up in the first few rings and you have to listen to the full song?

Shouldnt you, as the call initiator, have the right to turn off the cacophony and listen to a plain and simple 20th century "Trrrring-Trring........" instead?

Is there a chance that somebody making the VAS stuff is listening?

SearchMe

Tired of Google's plain search interfaces? SearchMe is a great answer! On a dull and dreary day I tried fishing out the latest on Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. Voila! The search results are snapshots of the individual web pages presented as a set of revolving panes. And you can magnify them to get a better view. You wont have page numbers for search results (do you really care whether you are in page 7 or page 8 of serach results when you are scanning through the search results?), instead you have a scroll bar!

I dont think the site can match Google as yet on speed or accuracy, but its fun and pretty cool. Check it out!