Archive for the ‘Online’ Category
Tonight I had a friend tell me, “Just deleted my Twitter account, feels good.” I asked why, she responded that she didn’t need it anymore.” Sound theory, but I’d like to offer a little counter advice, the same advice I gave her. Never delete your social network accounts. In an age where digital fraud is [...]
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Ignore People – or making the most of social networks
In: Online
25 May 2010In the beginning I accepted every request. When a graduation class group started, the invites started pouring in like a flood. I accepted all of them and before long I had over 300 friends on Facebook. These days I have 136, and regularly I go through the list and prune it here and there. I [...]
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- Tags: Facebook, Social Network
Google REALLY cares about your information and security
In: Online
25 Feb 2010I just want to let this quote sink in. This is from one of Google’s engineers talking about their email system Gmail "Gmail was a beta app for a while in itself and that kind of let us as a company not be too afraid about getting something out that may screw up once in [...]
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It’s pretty common to see this type of pattern. Usually it’s us geeks who get there first. We were the first to chat online, we had email and digital cameras first, heck, who do you think it was that made online porn go mainstream. Early adopters, or internet pioneers as the more pretentious ones like [...]
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- Tags: Twitter
What Facebook taught me about friends and high school
In: Online
2 Jul 2009With very few exceptions, I have ran across everyone I ever went to high school with on Facebook. From the first week I joined, I was inundated with friend requests from everyone you could imagine. In many cases they were even people I don’t remember getting along with at all. Of course you, probably just [...]
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- Tags: Facebook
Guess who has the front page advertising on Macworld…BING!
In: Online
11 Jun 2009I guess money talks… BING! The background, the top banner and the top right ad, woof Submit this post to
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- Tags: Bing, Macworld, Microsoft
Trent Reznor learns that idiots rule the internet
In: Online
10 Jun 2009I wish I could have saved Trent a little time. Having cut my internet teeth in 1993 lurking in IRC chat rooms, I know all too well the kind of people that plague the internet. I say plague because like any social ecosystem there are the deviants that attempt to corrupt it because they cannot [...]
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- Tags: NIN, Trent Reznor, Twitter
Why Facebook user names are good for you and Facebook
In: Online
9 Jun 2009I had read a little about the new Facebook user names today, and was surprised at the flaming negativity on Facebook’s blog post describing the feature. It was, well, read it: That’s a bit overboard don’t you think? Facebook user names are a great idea and here is why: Today, Facebook is most people’s online [...]
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No Google, the Browser is NOT the Computer
In: Online|Technology
27 May 2009Google wants you to forget about Windows, Mac OS X And Linux. The latest ploy is to use HTML 5 to gather support for putting all of our personal computers on a serious diet. I don’t mean the type of diet that gave us iPhones and net books, the kind that gives us strings, entanglements [...]
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- Tags: Google
MUI, or Multilingual User Interface, is the technology that Microsoft Windows and Office, as well as other applications, use to deal with multiple languages. So what does this have to do with Facebook? If you are the global icon I am (laughs), you obviously communicate with people all over the world. I have been trolling [...]
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- Tags: Facebook
Paul Boutin And PC World Don’t Get The Internet
In: Online|Technology
17 May 2009The title of the article that proves my point? “Is Google’s Chrome the New Internet Explorer?” The gist of the article? Microsoft thinks that bundling Chrome in Windows will give Google a search monopoly because of it’s speed and security. The Battle for the Box Let’s make one thing absolutely clear. Microsoft’s concern with the [...]
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- Tags: European Union, Google, Microsoft
Twitter is Growing Up
In: Online
13 May 2009It was so subtle, most people didn’t notice. Those who did complained at the top of their lungs. I for one, welcome the change and think it’s the first step in making Twitter more usable. In case you don’t know, here is the deal. Until yesterday, when someone you follow, replied to anyone, you saw [...]
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We know Airlines nickel and dime us, is your ISP next?
In: Online|Technology
16 Apr 2009If you are not following the current trends in Internet Service Providers (ISPs) closely, you might wake up surprised one day. On the tail end of an un-successful, but not over, fight against net-neutrality, ISPs have decided to take another stab and killing the blistering growth of internet video to save the flailing cable industry. [...]
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- Tags: AT&T, Cable, Comcast, Internet, Time Warner
New Term Definition: Twemmings (Twitter Lemmings)
In: Online
27 Mar 2009I need a brush up on some .net coding against web services and decided to play around with Twitter a little bit. I decided to take a somewhat nefarious route and game Twitter a little bit. I sat at my computer last night for a few hours, by this morning I had the Follower Farmer [...]
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- Tags: Twitter
Commentary about Commentary
In: Online
17 Mar 2009So what I take from this is that: 8 hours of getting your computer back to working is a walk in the park and should be not only accepted but embraced as part of the Apple experience. … Even though the bug was caused by another program and later recognized by Apple as a bug that affected thousands of users, I should give up all of my computers because not being able to overcome the bug on install day is obviously a leading indicator of my knowledge with computers. … Since I am betting that he did not subscribe to my feed (who wants to hear what such an idiot has to say) I will email him a link to this post and maybe he’ll come back to attack me again.
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