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Mar 8 / 6:51pm

18 interesting firsts on the Internet

Just discovered an interesting list, 18 first different things on the Internet [brief] history, thanks to the TechReaders site!

The First Email: Ray Tomlinson sent first email and also made use of @ symbol in email addresses in 1971.
The First Ever Domain Name: "symbolics.com" registered by computer manufacturer Symbolics (now obsolete) on 15th March 1985.
The First SPAM Email Ever: Gary Thuerk sent spam email messages to 393 people on ARPANET on 3rd May 1978.
The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility: Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996, Finland).
The First Ever Website: Info.cern.ch which was launched in late 1990.
The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction: NetMarket that claims to process first ever secure transaction on the web on August 11, 1994.
The First Ever Online Bank: Stanford Federal Credit Union that provides Online Internet Banking services to all of its customers in October, 1994.
The First Ever Search Engine: WebCrawler.com which was launched in 1994.
The First Ever Blog: Justin Halls is considered the first blogger who started a web diary in 1994. [The term webblog was introduced in 1997 which later led to “blog” in 1999].
The First Ever Podcast: Dave Winer added audio content into the RSS feeds on January 11, 2001.
The First Item Ever Sold on eBay: A broken laser pointer worth $14.83.
The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter [1995].
The first edit on Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder when doing a test edit with text “Hello, World!”
The First Ever Video on YouTube: "Me at the Zoo" video put by the the cofounder of YouTube Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
The First Ever Message on Twitter: It was a demonstration message with text “just setting up my twttr” by the creator of Twitter, Jack Dorsey on 21st March 2006.
The First Ever Voice Chat Service: Rocket Messenger.
The First Ever Website Hacked: Federal websites that included US Department of Justic, U.S. Air Force, CIA, and NASA in 1990.
The First Ever Social Network Site: Friendster.com which was launched in 2002.

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Feb 10 / 3:01pm

BBC tells news staff: Keep up with social media-- or leave!

The director of BBC Global News Peter Horrocks said it was important for editorial staff to make better use of social media, since it has been a primary source of information. "This isn't just a kind of fad from someone who's an enthusiast of technology. I'm afraid you're not doing your job if you can't do those things. It's not discretionary."

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Jan 16 / 4:57pm

Yahoo’s strategy for the Social Web in 2010

GigaOM wrote an interesting piece about Yahoo's social web strategy for 2010, based on interview with Cody Simms (Director of Product Management for the Yahoo application platform) and Chris Yeh (head of the Yahoo developer network) recently.

Some key points:

Yahoo wants to aggregate its users’ activities from around the web. The Facebook Connect integration is the first in a string of coming deals with other social sites.
What about integrating with Yahoo’s own services? Yahoo Updates would be the center of Yahoo’s new open social strategy, which consists of activity streams shown in Yahoo Mail, on its front page, in Yahoo Messenger clients and on its toolbars.

Right now the people you see in your Updates are those with whom you have explicit Yahoo Connections. Next the company will add in your Mail and Messenger contacts.

Yahoo plans to start allowing comments on its incredibly popular News, Finance and Sports sites.