While receiving email this morning, I noted a troubling trend: internal Exchange email was showing up as fast as I might expect, but external email traveling across the vast expanse of the Web: not. The Internet Storm Center confirmed this morning that outages were being reported for most, if not all, of Google's services, including Gmail. But it doesn't seem, at least to me, to be only Google services that are down.

On Monday, the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced. This was the first year that online-only entrants were allowed, but sorry, none won.

Google (GOOG) announced its Q1 2009 results on Thursday, and for the first time ever, there has been a dip. Ouch! Revenue fell 3% for the quarter versus Q4 2008.

You can expect the Internet to be straining under the stress of untold numbers of fans trying to watch or listen to the game tonight. The NCAA finals tip off at 9:21PM EDT.

Facebook's CFO Gideon Yu is leaving the company, as Facebook confirmed on Tuesday.

Internet companies and business have lost $264 million dollars in the year 2008 due to the rising internet crime. Online scams and fraud schemes have caused and average loss to amount to $931 US dollars. The 2008 internet crime report is released today.

Times are tough for newspapers, and as we know, the Internet has overtaken newspapers as a news source. As newspapers study charging for portions of their online content, some are choosing to close their print edition entirely. Thus, tomorrow will be the last printed version of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1863-2009) will publish its final newspaper tomorrow; going online only.

Well, to be honest, the World Wide Web turns 20 today, in idea form, not in actual implementation. It was 20 years ago in March 1989 that Tim Berners-Lee wrote the paper Information Management: A Proposal.

Search engines are a dime a dozen. Anyone remember Cuil? But with WolframAlpha, Stephan Wolfram has a new kind of search engine in mind, and he has the track record to make one think he can do it.

Themza.com offers a bouquet of ready-to-use web design skins for the Joomla, WordPress, Moodle and 4images scripts, which will assist webmasters to create personal blogs, e-learning portals or photo galleries, or to revitalize their existing ones.

For the past two decades, the Internet has been used by many as an easy-to-use tool that enables the spread of information globally. Increasingly, the Web is moving beyond its use as an electronic "Yellow Pages" and online messaging platform to a virtual world where social interaction and communities can inform social science and its applications in the real world.