The second measure to bring infotech to the unwired masses is to just do it: give IT to them -- computers, web-phones, satellite and fiber-optic links, the works -- at low cost, if not for free.
Even God.com--undoubtedly a hot piece of Web property--hosts only text and links to .pdf files.
The Web is changing from a collection of text and links to a hyper-visual Pixel Web turning into a Web of things and objects.
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The company has attracted considerable attention in recent weeks for the re-launch of iHeartRadio, which provides links to Web versions of its broadcast stations, along with a Pandora-like user programmable radio service.
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The web's links now encompass computer-science technical reports, folk-song lyrics, economic statistics from America's Department of Commerce, tarot cards, satellite weather photographs, film reviews, legal databases, the Bible, library catalogues, literary magazines and more.
Since Google ranks results based on the number of Web pages that link to them, cyber-criminals added thousands of links to their pages on forums and blog comment sections around the Web, pushing their pages to the top of the search engine's results.
Only 1% of visitors to a search-engine Web site typically click on those paid links running alongside the results.
The Treasury's Web site is full of easy-to-find links to testimony, speeches, reports, presentations and position papers endorsed by departmental bigwigs.
The levels are also Mars-themed, and links to NASA web content.
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Fark.com is little more than a running scroll of cleverly worded one- or two-sentence links to stories from around the web.
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Even Google, the Web's self-proclaimed "Do no evil" company, is experimenting with a technology called AutoLink that inserts button-shape links on other people's Web sites that lead back to Google or to Google partners like Amazon.com.
Social Intelligence Corp. takes personal information given to the company by its clients and uses its own software to search the web for user-generated content, collecting a broad array of links and categorizing data to generate matches.
The company also said it would do a better job of restricting copyright violators on the Web from participating in Google's advertising network, and that it would take steps to make it easier for users to find and access previews of copyrighted material, such as songs or videos, on the first Web-search results page, rather than having to click on links to other websites.
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But as Web commerce has boomed, so too has the value of links--for everyone, including Google.
The site also links to a wide selection of Halloween-related web pages, covering All Hallows' Eve subject matter from ghost stories to costumes to "mystic games" like a virtual Ouija board and a tarot card reading.
It was reported last year that U.S. venture capital firm Union Square Ventures and a handful of American tech companies were to only accept links to jobseekers' "web presence" -- from blogs to Twitter accounts -- instead of traditional resumes.
" Motive (nasdaq: MOTV - news - people ) did not include any links on our Web site during our IPO filing period, " says April Downing, investor relations chief for the software company, which went public in June.
This disruptive approach results in a directory meta-application, which links (like a browser calling up a Web page) to every individual application, cloud service, or Web site employees need.
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These include links to his books, how-to's on building Web sites, free fonts and wallpaper, advice on getting a job at a startup and pictures of cats and himself.
Many of the apparently fraudulent Web sites trying to tap into Katrina relief donations feature pop-ups, spam through provided links and other unsolicited e-mails.
Validea scans publications and Web sites, including all the major business magazines, CNBC and discussion groups, and cross-links stocks mentioned in those media with the people who made them and the touters' prior records.
Unlike Facebook, the dominant color of MeinVZ--a StudiVZ networking site aimed at professionals--is orange, but the design of the Web site, including lefthand side bar, with links to groups, messages, profile and messages, and a wall, would seem rather familiar to any Facebook user.
This means there has to be a deep-level screening of all content on that web page, including text, images, banner ads, clickable links, audio or video files, etc.
And now anyone with a modem and a few dollars can become his own publisher by using simple software to create a blog -- a kind of diary of opinion or a running journal that also provides links to articles and other Web sites.
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