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Goodbye, GeoCities: It's the end of an era
Comment GeoCities once seemed to occupy an unassailable position on the web, so its recent demise contains important lessons about the nature of the medium, says Bruce Lawson. As the first generation of user-generated content, GeoCities had only...
[November 11, 2009, 14:40]
US Report: GeoCities looks for revenue in searches
News GeoCities' latest strategy for gathering revenues comes from an old Internet standby: The search engine. GeoCities says the new tool -- which is primarily for searching GeoCities itself, not the Internet -- will offer some technical improvements...
[October 20, 1998, 13:45]
Yahoo!- GeoCities merger depends on 'pooling of interests'
News said in a regulatory filing Friday that its proposed merger with GeoCities will be in jeopardy if it doesn't qualify as a pooling of interests by regulators. shares slipped 4 1/2 to 150 7/8 and GeoCities fell 2 1/8 to 96 3/8 in morning trading.
[February 26, 1999, 16:39]
Yahoo to shut down GeoCities
News Yahoo is closing its GeoCities personal homepage service, and with it will go an era of self-expression on the web that has largely been replaced by social networks and blogs. GeoCities rose to power during an era when publishing on the internet...
[April 24, 2009, 16:14]
There was much noise about the closure of tripod, sites.google, geocities
Blog Yes, they have left the stage. It would happen anyway, sooner or later. That’s because of their nonoptimality that leads to high maintenance cost. And cost price is directly proportional to the expected financial return from a service, and...
[May 6, 2009, 16:03]
VC backs challenger to Broadcast.com
News After big scores investing in Lycos and Geocities, CMGI hopes to pull off the trifecta with a $100 million (£60 million) investment in an Internet broadcast start-up to be run by the former president of the NBC television network.
[February 18, 1999, 9:54]
Ab-normalization at Experts Exchange - Part 1
Blog Comment To make sure you can read the page I've added it to my geocities page: http://www.geocities.com/nico5038/Q_23762363.html Hi Roger, Experts-Exchange just likes to receive $$'s for viewing content that's posted by volunteers.
[November 2, 2008, 17:15]
IE flaw danger increases as exploit code released
Talkback If by chance you would prefer to use tested software to enable these solutions, go to http://www.geocities.com/turbotramp2/samurai.html or click http://www.geocities.com/turbotramp2/samurai.zip to download the most recent version of Samurai.
[June 9, 2005, 0:40]
Lycos to buy personal home page firm Tripod
News YHOO) formed a partnership with personal Web page publisher GeoCities Inc.taking a minority equity stake in the company. Both Lycos and GeoCities are products of the CMG Information Services Inc.venture firm and have held tight traffic-sharing...
[February 3, 1998, 16:04]
Rogue spy exposes agents on the Web
News The free webhosting service GeoCities was forced to shut down the former British spy's site. Last week, Tomlinson put up a new site through the free Web-hosting service GeoCities. Bruce Zanca, the vice president of communications at GeoCities, says...
[May 13, 1999, 11:04]
Social networks - future portal or fad?
News After all, rudimentary social networks have always been around in communities like AOL and Geocities. But attendees at the Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit in Laguna Beach, California still can't decide if these companies are next-generation...
[June 14, 2006, 15:10]
Surfers spend more time online, says Media Metrix
News were AOL.com (with 29 million visitors), MSN.com (22 million), Netscape.com (19 million), and Geocities.com (19 million). Netscape was the big mover in June, jumping from sixth to fourth and knocking GeoCities from fourth to fifth and Go.com from...
[July 21, 1999, 10:58]
MSN hosting '10 percent of spammers' sites'
News According to Heunemann, Yahoo'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...
[August 26, 2005, 10:25]
Yahoo! launches Web hosting services
News s Web hosting services have fallen under the umbrella of its Web publishing site GeoCities and through its Broadcast.com service. began charging for beefed-up versions of GeoCities while pulling some features into paid-only versions.
[December 9, 2002, 10:47]
Yahoo! blows past Q2 estimates
News Page views for Geocities were roughly comparable to March, executives said. will not break out Geocities results in future quarterly reports. Of course, that includes about 40 million page views from its $3.56bn acquisition of GeoCities.
[July 8, 1999, 8:37]
Yahoo! does it again...
News The GeoCities purchase will close in late May or early June, Koogle said. It also acquired GeoCities Inc.adding more of a community-centric look to its ever-expanding business model. Geocities and Broadcast.com are different cases, to tell you the...
[April 8, 1999, 9:21]
Can you trust TRUSTe?
News This is a very different situation than we had with Hotmail and Geocities," he said. Last year, yet another TRUSTe licensee -- Geocities, now owned by Yahoo -- settled with the FTC after being cited for improperly collecting data from children...
[November 3, 1999, 9:38]
Exclusive: iBook speed bump ahead
News to share with Apple its records on Worker Bee, who allegedly posted similar information about yet-unannounced Apple products on a GeoCities Web page. owns GeoCities. New information obtained by ZDNet News confirms details of a forthcoming speed...
[August 11, 2000, 8:41]
Yahoo faces Flickr rebellion
Talkback When in 1998 yahoo bought geocities and imposed new conditions, many users blacked out their pages. That, Microsoft's unlawful killing of Netscape, and the arrival of home broadband, marked the turning point in the Internet's history.
[August 31, 2005, 22:04]
Fraudulent e-commerce site proves hard to close
Talkback "Yahoo, the company hosting the site on its $8.95 a month Premium Geocities services, it had been unable to either get the site taken down or to get in contact with the registered owner" I don't understand.
[December 1, 2003, 19:44]
