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Approval voting

A form of approval voting is used by the Web site TV Tropes for certain decisions, including names of pages that need to be renamed.

Dave Della Terza

He is most notable as the founder of Vote for the Worst, a web site that promotes voting for contestants on American Idol who he, among others, believe the producers would hate to see win.

Multichannel News

Multichannel News is a magazine and Web site published by NewBay Media that covers multichannel television and communications providers, such as cable operators, satellite television firms and telephone companies, as well as emerging Internet video and communication services.

Pepper Schwartz

She was the 2005 president of the Pacific Sociological Association, helped create the dating web site Perfectmatch.com, and is a sexuality adviser for WebMD.


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Autistic Self Advocacy Network

In April 2013, as part of Autism Acceptance Month – a counter-movement against the cure-focused Light It Up Blue and Autism Awareness Month movements – ASAN launched an Autism Acceptance Month web site.

Bert is Evil

Bert is Evil is the name of a web site, founded by Dino Ignacio, which featured Bert, a character on the American children's television program Sesame Street.

Blake Gopnik

In 2011 he was hired away by Tina Brown, the famous editrix, to be the art and design critic at Newsweek magazine and its Daily Beast Web site, where he wrote notable features on Warhol, Damien Hirst and the (still pending) collapse of the art market.

BMEzine

BME was started as a web site hosted at Internex Online on December 6, 1994 by Shannon Larratt and is the first body modification website and is by far the largest (with hundreds of thousands of unique images and stories).

Bob Stump

After the Associated Press mistakenly placed Bob Hope's obituary on its web site in June 1998, Stump announced on the floor of the House that the entertainer had died.

Ciudad Seva

Ciudad Seva is a web site founded on December 12, 1995, by Puerto Rican author Luis López Nieves.

Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies

The network exists virtually using the Facebook and Twitter platforms as well as a privately owned web site to communicate and assist its supporters.

Craig Wuest

A now defunct earthstarmusic.com Web site listed later releases; one in particular, Axiom, which was listed as following Humans Only, had clearly been recorded and MP3 samples of the music were included on the Web site.

Cybergrass

Cybergrass was the first web site to ever carry a music awards show—the GRAMMYs in 1996 and has webcast the IBMA Awards show for every year they have been available from the International Bluegrass Music Association.

Daniel Keys Moran

Queen Of Angels (1999–2004) was his official web site, and Lakers Talk (2002–2006) was a fansite for the Los Angeles Lakers.

DearCinema.com

DearCinema.com is an Indian web site on world cinema that focuses on film festivals, art-house cinema, independent and short films.It was founded by Bikas Mishra and launched in February 2007.

Debbie Deb

Gwen Stefani and Jonathan Davis of Korn have cited Deb as an influence, and in the summer of 2006, Janet Jackson featured a cover version of "Lookout Weekend" on her Web site.

Four boxes of liberty

Taking a less positive view of the meme, in April 2010 the Anti-Defamation League noted that it is frequently used by anti-government extremists to justify violence to gain their ends on the grounds that all else has failed, and cites a typical comment on the Pat Dollard Web Site: "we've tried the soap box & the ballot box to no avail. Maybe it's time to start thinking INSIDE the box - the bullet box".

Information policy

More precisely, — the digization of the cultural content made the cost of the copy decreasing to nearly zero and increased the illegal exchange of files, online, via sharing web site or P2P technologies, or off line (copy of hard disks).

International Holocaust Cartoon Competition

Derkaoui's work is also featured on the web site of MSNBC cartoonist Daryl Cagle.

James Hirvisaari

Just before the 2011 general election Hirvisaari was prosecuted for his blog in the Uusi Suomi newspaper web site under the title "Kikkarapäälle kuonoon".

Jerome L. Walton

Jerome L. Walton is the name of a fictitious American science fiction author whose career was described by Steven H Silver in the 1999 April Fool's edition of SF Site, a science fiction and fantasy review Web site.

Jim Safka

This endeavor led to a relationship with Willie Mays and Safka is collaborating with Mr. Mays on a new personal web site.

Jörg Schilling

He is currently employed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Fraunhofer Institute Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin, where his main project was the BerliOS open source web site,.

Kevin Sites

Sites is often cited by former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan in media stories as her inspiration to launch her eponymous web site, DarynKagan.com.

Kung Kao Po

Since October 19, 2003, an audio edition of the newspaper, recorded in Cantonese, is also available in MP3 format from the newspaper’s web site.

Leonard Steinhorn

In 2008 and 2012, WTTG broadcast Steinhorn's campaign courses live on its Web site each week as part of its CampaignU project with American University.

MacCentral

MacCentral was a web site that provided news and information covering the Apple Macintosh, originally as an independent entity and later as the news service for Mac Publishing Web sites, including Macworld.com and Playlist, before being subsumed by Macworld's own brand.

Madster

In 2000, for a short time, Capitol Records authorized Madster (which was called Aimster at the time) to provide some Radiohead video files on the service's Web site and to release a skin for the Madster software that had a Radiohead theme.

Margo Chase

She has designed logos for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as well as the web site) and Angel; her company has been involved in the "branding" of numerous entities, such as Target stores; Chase design has worked for such Hollywood notables as Cher, Madonna and the Tejano crossover singer, Selena; her articles and interviews appear in magazines such as How and Create.

MetaBase

MetaBase was developed as part of the BioWiki initiative, and was entered into the first International Openfree Bioinformation Contents Competition organised by BiO.CC, the top-level biological information web site operated by Genome Research Foundation.

MetaDesign

Meta's San Francisco office grew a reputation for client relationships with Silicon Valley technology companies and developed innovative interactive teaching media including ViZability, IDEO's first web site, publishing systems for Ernst & Young and McGraw Hill and specialist event publicity for Fuse 98.

National Runaway Switchboard

NRS also maintains a Web site, www.1800RUNAWAY.org, which was significantly revamped in 2006 and which presents a wide range of information both on NRS and on runaway and homeless youth in general, including guidance for what families should do if a child is missing.

Online Books Page

The web site was named one of the best free reference web sites in 2003 by the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association.

Penelope Umbrico

Her project "Suns from Flickr " started in 2006 when she found 541,795 pictures of Sunsets searching the word “sunset” on the photo-sharing web site Flickr while looking for the most photographed subject (which the sunset turned out to be).

Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Welles

The Plaintiff was relying on the decision in Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corp., to support the contention that the Defendant’s use of Playboy trademark in her web site infringes on its trademark by causing likelihood of confusion shown on the basis of initial interest confusion.

Privacy

Robert Ellis Smith, 2004, "Ben Franklin's Web Site, Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet," Providence: Privacy Journal.

Pyramaze

Shortly after that performance, on November 10, 2006, the band announced on its official Web site that Lance King was no longer Pyramaze's singer.

Rae Assist

Together with Clement Mok they founded NetObjects, Inc. in 1995 to market one of the first web site building tools, NetObjects Fusion, which also should rely on the SOLO framework.

Rhodes Brothers

(See the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods web site, Seattle.gov, and its information on the Albert J. Rhodes mansion, designed by Ambrose J. Russell and Frederick Heath (architect).

Stack Exchange Network

In 2008, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer Web site for computer programming questions, which they described as an alternative to the programmer forum Experts-Exchange.

Stinkytoons

The cartoon was licensed by the Sierra Club's web site along with a second cartoon "Stinky Gets Gas."

Tapani Koivuniemi

The company web site gives the appearance of a normal publishing company – though there is no postal address for any offices - and indeed, listed among their clients are British Airways, the Finnish taxation authority, the City of Espoo, and Kela (The Finnish social security authority).

The Grantville Gazettes

Separating 1632-verse history from the internet web fora at Baen Books web site Baen's Bar is impossible, for the forum has shaped the series, as the series has, in part, shaped the forum.

United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2006

Also in August 2006, Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, a Web site run by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, added the race to their "Ferocious Forty" list of the 40 most competitive House races in the nation.

Unorganisation

Whilst the idea of unorganisation has been a common theme among management theorists (see Tom Peters, for example), the term itself was apparently coined by Simon Buckingham, who wrote extensively about unorganisation on his web site www.unorg.com (now defunct) from 1996 through to 2004.

Virtuoso Universal Server

The on-line version of Keltainen Pörssi was at one time said to be Finland's most popular web site with 500,000 registered users.

Vistaprint

In 2008, Vistaprint announced a strategic partnership with Intuit, a supplier of accounting software, tying their service into Intuit's QuickBooks software using an Intuit-branded web site.

Voice-based marketing automation

Call tracking enables marketers to tie incoming phone calls back to the specific marketing source (ad, keyword search, email, QR code, web site, collateral, trade show, or other source) that originated it.

VReel

Using a similar style to the defunct site, VReel has received a licence from DivX, Inc. to use their codec, and has signed an agreement with Edgecast to host the Web site globally.

W Vision

Developed by a joint venture between the Impress Group and the Watanabe Productions Group, the Web site provided videos from various content provider and producers, using software including RealPlayer, VDOlive Player, and FutureSplash (now Adobe Flash.) The service started in the end of the 1990s, hence the low-quality streaming videos to accommodate the Internet users mostly connecting via dial-up service.

Warcry

WarCry Network, a fan-based web site network centered around MMOGs

William W. Johnstone

His death remained officially unconfirmed for nearly three years and was the subject of continuous debate in the forum on his web site.

Wolf Brand Chili

A web site for the preservation of the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas, states that the hotel maintained a supply of Wolf Brand for the visits of country singer Ernest Tubb.

WorcesterScene

Further integration with social media technologies, like Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare, has allowed WorcesterScene to more closely connect its visitors with the businesses they are searching for on the web site.