The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organizations nominated, up from even last year's all-time high of 205.

It was not until the late 1990s that it really took off but today the internet celebrates the 25th birthday of the dotcom domain name.

The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde was beamed into a conference room by Skype at South by South West Interactive today to talk to interviewer Elizabeth Stark about the Pirate Bay, his views on copyright and whether the Pirate Bay can ever be fully shut down.

Indexed DB isn't a sure thing, but it's got most of the right allies in the browser world en route to becoming an enabler of the cloud computing vision.

Micro-blogging service Twitter's user growth has almost levelled off since September 2009, according to a study.

The internet is really just an excuse to look at naked women, so no surprise that Sex.com is up for sale next week, minimum bid of $1 million.

Twitter has officially turned on geo-location options for users who like to tweet where they are. The new service, which is rolling out across all users, will let you set whether or not you want people to see where you are twittering from if you tweet from the Twitter website.

Courtesy of Neilsen data and info-graphics at the BBC, a new visualisation has been created to explain the interactivity of users and the sites they visit in the main browsing areas of the world, including the US, Australia, Brazil and a half-dozen European countries.

Facebook says it won't adopt the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre reporting button because it's own reporting system is more robust.

Mozilla has promoted its web extensions prototype package - Jetpack - by pushing it upstairs and readying it for production with its Firefox browser.

The premise of Wikipedia is laudable. A knowledge depository written and edited by the people, for the people. The glue that keeps the site together is an evolving set of policies and guidelines, but, these guidelines are open to much interpretation and debate. Here are 10 of Wikipedia's daftest discussions.

Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.

Overnight, Twitter flew past the 10bn tweet milestone, according to the GigaTweet site, which tracks the microblogging service. It has taken more than three years to get there. However, Twitter's rapid growth means that the next 10bn should be knocked off in 203 days.

The Mozilla Foundation is best known for Firefox, but as Foundation head Mitchell Baker recently told us, the group's mission is not merely to produce a browser that kills Internet Explorer.

This year American Idol made headlines for pushing out individual Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts for each of its 24 finalists. However, the show made a drastic change in strategy last night by consolidating all of them under the AI9Contestants username across sites.

A group of researchers plans to release a version of the Firefox browser that includes the built-in ability to view 3D graphics, a capability that could open the door for more interactive Web pages from developers.

New figures suggest Facebook's financials are healthier than expected - with the site on course to break a billion dollars of revenue by the end of the year.

These heavy-hitting browser add-ons act like applications that could easily replace their desktop counterparts.

Facebook and Twitter scams are sweeping the net, offering users the chance to beta test an Apple iPad.

The internet created a cash free-for-all but many of the pioneer firms soon crashed. A decade on, James Ashton looks at what made some into lasting winners and drove others to early graves.