Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Anthony Ha at Venturebeat reported on Friday that Socialmedian has left the beta stage (whatever that means). Ha says it's an important milestone for the company. Ha went on to note, "I'm not seeing anything that will tempt me away from social messaging/sharing sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, or the sharing option within (Read More)
: This is an example of a reviewer not taking the time to erly test what they are reviewing. He's entitled to his opinion's but there is information in here that's inaccurate. I'll leave him a comment on his site when I get home tonight
: @michaelfidler Indeed! I'm sure there's a disconnect here! But, I simply cannot parse his flamepost, his problem, his defensiveness, and his lazy generalizing. I won't have it! And, I'm sure I'll forget all about it in a few weeks.
: @jasongoldberg We got your back ... without prompting! I agree with @reechard, @centernetworks still refuses to reply when he was asked directly by me to explain despite complaining that no one asked! Seems that it must only be flamebait. It is unfortunate because I am turned away from CN now.
"If you’re not Techno Viking, becoming popular on the web is actually pretty hard work. It’s not anything you could “force” to happen - instead it is the result of relentlessly contributing on a subject you are passionate about until you start to become a referential person for that subject matter. In other words, when people write on a subject, your name naturally comes up as the go-to person. At that point, your reputation and popularity start to work for you naturally."
Submitted by Kadesoto
from Google Reader:
Forget losing your job, apparently your MySpace or Facebook profile and photos can now cause you to lose your degree. In what may be one of the most frightening rulings regarding social networks and privacy to date, a federal judge has ruled against a former student of Millersville University of Pennsylvania who was denied (Read More)
Belongs to the News Networks :
none (yet) -- click "share" to share with a network.
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
There was a lot of focus a few weeks ago on whether Presiden-elect Obama was going to be allowed to keep his BlackBerry. The discussion seemed kind of silly given that BlackBerrys are in wide use in the U.S. government. However, you may recall that a foreign national stole a couple a few months ago, which certainly raised t (Read More)
: I think that any U.S. president needs to be concerned about the security risks of anything they say or write...digital or otherwise. Remove the wi-fi on the mac and let him Rock n Roll and Change our DotGOV connected to a secure (we hope) white house network.
: Security is an issue, even with Macs (especially as they grow in number of users). But just because Obama's personal computer is a Mac, I'm sure that he used a PC as a Senator, and as a state legislator, and most assuredly before he entered government.
This, methinks, is significantly less important than whether or not he is a smoker. They're not going to take his Mac away, they'll probably throw Windows on it and find some way to make it work with their security standards.
Submitted by Eng1ne
from Google Reader:
I think everyone has been thinking for a while now about how the entire internet industry is flawed and how it will face even more serious problems in the future unless something is changed in terms of how businesses make money here. Recently every time a new startup sends me a pitch about their new product, I’ve been stubb (Read More)
: You are so rigt, See this big companies that have been around for a very long time just go out of business like this is hard for the little guy. If the big guy can't has the little going to do it.
By have a online business you can save lots of money. No stores, all you need is just one big warehouse and a shipping department. If any of these company get smart they just do business online .
While you've been reading the above, thousands of people all over the world have been working to put money in my pocket. I even make money while I sleep! By this time next week, so could YOU. Get full info here: http://www.quickinfo247.com/8051555/FREE.
: The American economy today is facing lots of crisis and the people that are average earners only are being very much affected. That’s why providing financial options to the people is a very good step for them to cope up in the present economic situation. Financial option like short-term installment loan could help a person in times that he urgently need money. Consumers must seek first for information about the best financial option that could help them. Click to read more on this site: http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2008/11/18/marriage-money-management-payday-installment-loans/.
Scobleizer
Mike Arrington, founder of the famous tech blog TechCrunch, hates the new Google search features. They even tell you how to kill the new wiki-style features using GreaseMonkey on Firefox. Mike does take the time to explain the new features here, though.The problem is, Mike is wrong.These features rock. They let me add notes (Read More)
: I am wondering a couple of things on Google SearchWiki 1) Does the promotions of websites reflect to any of my other searches...essentially would knocking down Experts Exchange from one search mean it will be knocked down for any of my future searches. 2) If experts exhange have new content would it again show up on my searches if I searched with the same keywords. Would giving control to a novice would actually result in derailing his searches at some point based on this ability to turn off things and not turn them back on?
: Scoble says this is a win for Google, because searchers spend more time on a page, hence see more ads, etc. But I like the idea that we can reduce or eliminate abusive social bookmarking's effect on our individual results. Gotta be great for researchers of all sorts.