Internet

LinkedIn IPO: Is This The Beginning of Dot.Com Bubble 2.0?

05.19.2011 Tech
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Warning: I am not a professional investor nor do I have holdings in any of these stocks. This post is merely my opinion. Today the social network LinkedIn went public. It’s time for its investors and founders to cash in.  I get it. LinkedIn is a network similar to Facebook but is geared more for [...]

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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

States look to find customer data and back taxes

States Look to Steal Customer Data and Chase Back Taxes

04.21.2010 Politics

We have all heard that there is no escape from Death or Taxes. As the sour economy continues and states are struggling to balance bloated budges, they look to find creative “no harm” taxes.  For some reason the boneheads in government think that taxes increase economic output.  This is a huge fallacy. Stealing business revenues [...]

Tagged as: Government, Internet, Net Neutrality, Taxes

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 [...]

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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!

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Government Plans to Monitor Peer to Peer Networks

04.22.2008 Big Government

Senator Joe Biden (D-Del) wants the US Government to fund $1 billion in tax dollars to monitor peer-to-peer networks. Two years ago, Special Agent Flint Waters from the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office developed software dubbed “Operation Fair Play” to monitor Internet Crimes against Children. I hate child predators. I think they should have harsher penalties [...]

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