Kinja, the weblog guide:
"Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics, everything from food to sex. Or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers.

Weblogs are much talked about, but still challenging to navigate for the average web user. Kinja is designed to bring weblog writers to a broader audience, by making it easier to explore topics, posts and writers.

Kinja is not aimed at early adopters. Users wanting to analyze patterns of meme propagation, and other sophisticated data, should try the excellent Technorati."

http://www.kinja.com/

Google to offer gigabyte of free e-mail - News - ZDNet:
"Google, the company that made off with the search market, is setting its sights on free e-mail.

The company, based in Mountain View, Calif., on Thursday launched a test with about 1,000 invited guests set to try out a new e-mail service called 'Gmail.'

Google, which made its name in search but has added numerous services, such as a news aggregation page and a newsgroup interface, says that Gmail is search-based e-mail."

Like Yahoo Mail and MSN Hotmail, Gmail will let users search through their e-mail. Unlike those competitors, though, Google will offer enough storage so that the average e-mail account holder will never have to delete messages.

Hotmail currently offers 2MB of free e-mail storage. Yahoo offers 4MB. Gmail will dwarf those offerings with a 1GB storage limit.…

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5182805.html

PC Magazine: Top 100 Web Sites:
"Top 100 Web Sites - April 2004

You'll wonder how you ever got along without these little-known gems. We've also updated our Top 100 Classics."

http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1738,7488,00.asp

Top 100 Favorites Download:
"2004 100 Top Websites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without "

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1558426,00.asp

DOS on Its Death Bed?:
"DeviceLogics, keeper of the DR-DOS code base, released this week what might be the final upgrade to the 17-year-old DOS operating-system variant.

At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, DeviceLogics took the wraps off DR-DOS 8.0, the first update to DR-DOS since 1999."

The primary new feature of the 8.0 release is FAT32/large-partition support, which DeviceLogics is targeting at customers with DOS-based embedded applications that are built atop FAT32 platforms.…

While Microsoft's now-defunct MS-DOS is the probably the best known of the DOS flavors (Microsoft buried MS-DOS inside Windows, as of Windows 95), DR-DOS has had its share of backers through the years.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1558362,00.asp

DDoS Attacks for the Common Man:
"Ask not why the DDoS bell tolls for thee.

You might ask why you, who monopolized your industry or sued customers for using someone else's product, should be the target of a DDoS attack? You might as well ask why there's random street crime. The answer is that the Internet is a rough neighborhood, and even little guys have disgruntled former employees and customers who feel cheated, not to mention ex-spouses and competitors. Trust me, it really could happen."

Most Web sites don't have or need the resources that Microsoft or even The SCO Group put in theirs for normal business, and it doesn't take an army of zombied clients to bring them down. Just a few clients, focused on the job, can cause problems for a Web site. Froutan says that at his company they've seen such attacks go on for days at a time. Experience with the MyDoom worms certainly bears that out.…

http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=122636,00.asp

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Online Merchants Find Problems With Google:
"Google may be popular, but it gets its share of complaints. Merchants quibble when their sites rank poorly, while some users say the popularity-based ranking system shuts out useful, but little-known sites. "

Because a site scores higher the more other sites link to it—an indication of popularity—independent films are less likely than Hollywood blockbusters to appear in results, said Dragomir Radev, an information studies professor at the University of Michigan.

Newer and foreign sites may also be difficult to find because they are not as well known by the U.S.-centric Internet population.…

as Google's popularity grew, so did attempts to fool it. A cottage industry developed around search engine optimization to share tricks for ranking higher.

One early trick involved buying hundreds of domain names and having them link to one another to mimic popularity. As Google closed one loophole, webmasters found others.

Pranksters have figured out that they, too, could game the system, so that typing "miserable failure" gets you President Bush's biography, even though neither word appears on the page.…

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1556008,00.asp?kc=EWNWS032904DTX1K0000599