Internet

Stop Online Piracy ACT (SOPA)

11.17.2011 Internet
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I want to start off by saying I am against piracy and copyright violations. As usual the morons in Washington want to censor the internet.  Yesterday Congress held hearings on Bills S. 968 (the Protect IP Act) and H.R. 3261 (the Stop Online Piracy Act). These bills will hold entire websites responsible for any improper [...]

Tagged as: Internet Centsorshop, SOPA

How to Disable Facebook’s Facial Recognition

06.08.2011 Internet
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Facebook’s masive computer systems will soon be able to recognize familiar faces. Facebook is changing the process for tagging friends in photos uploaded to the social network, the company announced on Tuesday. In the next few weeks, the system will scan all images posted to Facebook and suggest the names of people who appear in [...]

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Small Business Documentation on a Budget: Wiki

01.10.2011 Internet
Wiki: Small Business Documentation

Over the weekend, one of my web projects surpassed 1,000,000 page views. This is an incredible milestone especially since the website is completely internal with no external web traffic. It means that less than 150 people created all those page views. I couldn’t be more excited about it. It’s a great accomplishment. I work for [...]

Tagged as: Government Tech, Internet, Wiki

Spokeo: Brilliant Social Marketing Using Fear

01.04.2011 Internet
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Lately I have seen a lot of facebook updates with something like: “FYI EVERYONE – There’s a site called spokeo.com and it’s an online phonebook that has a picture of your house, credit score, profession, age, how many people live in the house. Remove yourself AND ANY AKA OR SPOUSE by the Privacy button on [...]

Tagged as: Internet, people search, Spokeo, Technology, web

Busted on Live National TV for Surfing Porn

Busted For Surfing Porn on Live TV.

02.04.2010 Business

Being an IT person I have seen a lot of disturbing things people have viewed at work while surfing the internet. I have seen porn. I have discovered people’s sexual orientation. I have seen it all. Macquarie Private Wealth adviser David Kiely was caught on live television looking at semi-nude pictures of Australian model Miranda [...]

Tagged as: Busted, Internet, Internet Usage

Cell Phone Location Accuracy: Don’t Let the Salesman Fool You.

10.12.2009 911

When a caller calls 9-1-1 the most important thing to convey to the call taker is location location location. Many times the caller can give this information but in some cases they can’t. This is where call location technology comes into play.

Information coded inside the call sends location data to the 9-1-1 call taker.

For the past 30 plus years the public has become accustom to the fact that when you call 911 from a land line that your address (Automatic Location Identifier or ALI) and phone number (Automatic Number Identification or ANI) information is displayed for the call taker on the other end of 9-1-1. This has given the public and first responders a level of comfort that even if you can’t speak if you can dial 9-1-1 we will find you. This is true.

Tagged as: Technology

A List of a Few of the Many Blogs I Read

06.29.2009 Internet

I love the internet for reading. I really don’t like sitting down and reading a book as I would rather read on the internet. I think its because I think the information is stale. The real time of the internet allows to follow things in a more timely manor.

Blogs are a great way to get information that I am currently interested in. I have included a few blogs that I read and they are in no particular order. Enjoy!

Tagged as: blogs, Internet

Windows Desktop A Different Approach

04.09.2009 Internet

What if your windows desktop didn’t have to be boring? What if you could do more than create icons and folders? Well now you can? It’s called BumpTop.

Tagged as: Technology

Disney Wouldn’t Reuse Animation Would They?

04.05.2009 Internet

Whoops Maybe they do… It appears that Disney has gone green and is recycling their animation.

Tagged as: YouTube

BIT.LY: A Short URL Tracking Tool

03.23.2009 Blogging

Many of you use social media to promote your websites. Twitter is on fire at the moment but soon another fad or legitimate tool will burgeon onto the scene. Due to twitters limited amount of characters long URLs often times don’t fit especially if you include any other commentary. Tiny takes a large URL and creates a shorter and more easily managed and shared URL. Tiny URL’s have become the rage with the Tweets.

Most webmaster likes their stats and ability to track success at view them at the granular level.

Tagged as: Blogging, Webmaster Tools

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