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Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment There's no doubt the technology moves on quickly - today's social networking must-join often ends up tomorrow's GeoCities. Douglas Coupland has been a keen observer of technology's impact on society for almost two decades. [08 Sep 2009]
Yahoo! shuts the doors on GeoCities
News is closing its GeoCities personal homepage service, and with it will go an era of self-expression on the web that's largely been replaced by social networks and blogs. GeoCities rose to power during an... [24 Apr 2009]
Microsoft to clean up web spam
News s Geocities, Microsoft said. Researchers at Microsoft have developed a tool to scrub search engines of major websites that pollute search results and ultimately help clean the web of spam. Called Strider Search Defender,... [14 Jul 2006]
Fake Yahoo! website running ID theft scam
News Geocities account and asks users to log in with their Yahoo! A website designed to look like an official Yahoo! service offering free games but most likely designed to facilitate ID theft has been discovered by internet... [31 Aug 2005]
Worry over MSN blogs aiding spam
News s web hosting service Geocities has been targeted by spammers for some time but MSN's validation system is making the service very popular. About three weeks ago 30 percent of the spam on the internet was directing... [26 Aug 2005]
Phoney phone site still up and running
News MPhone said it had been aware of the fake website for a month and a half, but despite reporting it to the Metropolitan Police - who said that the FBI would be informed - and Yahoo, the company hosting the site on its $8.95 a month... [02 Dec 2003]
Yahoo! becomes website enabler
News Store customers, business email and for-pay GeoCities web publishing services. Yahoo! on Sunday launched a new publishing tool for subscribers of its web hosting service as part of its ongoing attempt to win over small... [21 Jul 2003]
Yahoo launches US web hosting services
News Up to now, Yahoo's web hosting services have fallen under the umbrella of its web publishing site GeoCities and through its Broadcast.com service. In March, Yahoo began charging for beefed-up versions of... [09 Dec 2002]
Bumper sale now on at Yahoo!
News is also cutting start-up fees on some of its own services including geocities websites, business email, and online bill paying. Yahoo! is offering US shoppers discount deals over the next three days to combat sluggish... [13 Mar 2002]
Yahoo! to play the web host
News is to branch out into web hosting with services to be offered through GeoCities. acquired GeoCities, which allows amateurs to build their own sites, around two years ago. Yahoo! Yahoo! The new services... [28 Aug 2001]
Hacker urges e-tailers to secure sites
News On Geocities - another chat forum - Curador claims that he infiltrated the unnamed company's secure databases to expose the lack of seriousness online sellers are using when setting up the security on their sites. [02 Feb 2000]
The incredible shrinking Web
News AOL, MSN, Geocities and Netscape. Internet users in the US are spending more time online - but are visiting fewer sites. Surfers spent 35 per cent of their time on the top 50 sites, up from 27 per cent a year ago,... [25 Aug 1999]
Murdoch learns to love the Net
News It has launched the Japanese arms of Broadcast.com, GeoCities and E*Trade, and its 28 per cent stake in Yahoo! Just six months ago, media mogul, Rupert Murdoch said the Internet will "destroy more companies than it will... [05 Jul 1999]
Yahoo in content agreement row
News has run into trouble with users of GeoCities after posting a content agreement notice on the site on Monday. But many of GeoCities' 4.6 million users took offence to the notice and began an email... [02 Jul 1999]
Yahoo snaps up Web community GeoCities
News In the latest multi-billion dollar Internet deal, portal giant Yahoo has bought Web community host GeoCities. GeoCities, based in Marina del Ray, California, is one of the world's most popular Internet... [28 Jan 1999]
