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Great educational websites (and an intro to Diigo) (ZDNet) As promised, I've compiled your suggested educational websites and posted them on Diigo, as well. Diigo, by the way, is a bit like delicious on steroids. It has a really straight-forward interface and allows you to highlight and annotate sections of a website (perfect for building web quests... us.rd.yahoo.com
Hong Kong man given 8-years in jail for running online gambling Websites in SW China (People's Daily) A Hong Kong man, found guilty of running a number of gambling Websites, was sentenced to eight years and fined 20 million yuan (2.9 million U.S. dollars) in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The case, believed to be the country's biggest online gambling case, involved about 8.68 billion yuan in wagered money and more than 278 million yuan in illegal profits, a source of the Yunnan High People's ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Websites probed over Baby P (BBC News) Police investigate an internet hate campaign which breaches a banning order about those convicted in the Baby P case. us.rd.yahoo.com
Overrated Small Business: Traffic-Driven Websites (US News & World Report) The biggest success stories of the so-called Web 2.0 era have at least one thing in common. us.rd.yahoo.com
No real security on 65pc Irish websites (Ireland Business World) Some 65pc of Irish websites do not enforce adequate enough security for online payments, leading to a greater risk of identity theft and fraud, according to recent analysis performed by Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services. us.rd.yahoo.com
Convicted Child Molester Behind Internet Websites (FOX 26 Houston) Phillip Fraley is serving time for raping two 13-year-old girls. But you wouldn't know that by websites touting him as an expert craftsman and novelist. us.rd.yahoo.com
Google lets you tweak its search algorithms (Sydney Morning Herald) Google now lets users reshuffle results so their favourite websites get top billing and disliked destinations get discarded. us.rd.yahoo.com
BBC unveils online service response (Channel 4) The BBC Trust will publish its initial response to the corporation's proposed online local video service. Regional newspapers have criticised the plans for an enhanced network of 65 websites across the UK, saying they would represent unfair public-funded competition. us.rd.yahoo.com
Where's Justin Timberlake's SNL video? (Los Angeles Times) The hysterical video vanished from embedded spots on websites around the world. us.rd.yahoo.com
Websites list bus delays for area schools (London Free Press) Winter may mean snow angels and tobogganing for kids, but for parents it means school bus delays and cancellations. A new website, launched this month, includes information about buses for London and Elgin, Middlesex and Oxford counties. us.rd.yahoo.com
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