Internet

Complaints about unsolicited commercial email have prompted an industry coalition to come up with standards designed to quell consumer concerns and keep regulators at bay. [CNET.com]

Spam filters used by some popular Internet email providers weed out only a fraction of the junk they're supposed to but almost never bounce legitimate messages, according to a new study. [CNET.com]

Getting people to say yes to marketing e-mails, and then getting them the messages that are most likely to make them buy, is a thriving industry of its own. [E-Commerce Times]

In our wireless world, can solicitors find you anywhere within cell range if you have a data-ready wireless phone turned on? [CNET.com]

On Monday the battle raging in cyberspace between spammers and their nemesis, junk mail activists, will be fought out in a courtroom, where a landmark judgement is expected to influence the future of direct marketing over the Internet.

Spam is not overwhelming the inboxes of US workers, despite the growing number of junk e-mails promoting get-rich-quick scams or pornographic websites, says a report.

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Pays to click on specific results in their search engine, up to 20 clicks per day.

Social networking site Facebook is accused of 22 counts of privacy breaches by a Canadian group.

Article by Henry Blodget covering the mishaps and user frustrations with the new advertising platform.

Collection of articles with opinions, tools and extensions.

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Visualization of Twitter followers on a map, list or chart.

Run any kind of social network on WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging.

A build-your-own-personalised-portal site, that offers news from over 2000 RSS feeds.

A guide on building your own RSS feed for free.

Free online service that allows publishers to create, publish, update and track their RSS Feeds.

The latest "Complex RSS" specification. As created by the members of RSS-DEV. It extends RSS with RDF-style metadata, and modules.

Userland Software's online validator for RSS 0.9x

Free Internet alarm clock displaying your computer time, custom count-downs and stopwatches. Includes novelty versions such as binary and barcode.

Store and share 10GB of files, each up to 200MB in size. Inactive accounts are deleted after 30 days.

No-registration upload and sharing of files up to 1GB. FTP uploading is allowed. Revenue-sharing available.

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Managed WordPress hosting powered by Google Cloud with a focus on priority support.

This website offers templates for Blogger users.

Responsive Blogger templates, free and premium. Styled for women in business online.

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Beautiful and unique premium WordPress themes for a blog or CMS.

Premium WordPress themes developer. Themes customized for blogging.

WordPress theme site featuring third party themes. Each theme posted has a thumbnail preview, download link, and demo where available.

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Includes themes and plugins built on the WordPress platform. Geared to better digital marketing and sales.

Drag and drop WordPress page builder. Prebuilt, responsive theme.

Premium WordPress themes since 2010.

Helps bands and artists build their websites quickly, including concert management, discography, music sales.

Free and premium versions of responsive multi-purpose WordPress themes.

WordPress themes and plugins. Includes a theme to run a directory on your site.

Professional and free WordPress themes.

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A WordPress application theme creator. Customized for business.

Responsive WordPress premium themes and plugins.

Free blank child theme to create and download online. Start by choosing the existing theme you want to make a child for.

Personal content management assistant. Stores notes, ideas, and plans. Share ideas through Web journals and weblogs. Runs on Macintosh computers.