This has to be the stupidist thing I have seen in a while. CNN news has picked up a story about a Twitter group that encourages people to “tweet” (I hate that saying) about bad drivers. “Why waste your time futilely shaking your fist at the driver who cut you off on the country road [...]
Continue Reading...This is a bit “tinfoil hat” and slightly from the left, but worth taking note of. Facebook received tons in venture capital for one reason. “Data mining” is worth a fortune. The more you say about yourself on social networks, the more marketing demographics you reveal and the more they can target advertising towards you [...]
Continue Reading...I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in the last few weeks and months. As the economy continues its downward spiral, more and more small businesses are turning to email marketing through harvested lists. I’m not talking about shady unknowns hocking “enlargement” remedies to lists of millions of addresses being sent through open botnets of open relays. [...]
Continue Reading...You’d think I was on an all out assault on Facebook this week. Really, I’m not… they are just on a bad PR streak in the news. It seems some users have realized that their new terms of service released this week has some rather scary wording in it. Facebook’s Terms of Service — the [...]
Continue Reading...In case you needed another reason to dislike social networking (social engineering) sites, Facebook has been caught censoring conservative ads that promoted signing a petition against the stimulus bill. The first excuse Facebook gave to American’s for Prosperity (who placed the ad) is that it violated two of their rules. First, Facebook claims the ad [...]
Continue Reading...This article pretty much sums how I am starting to feel about Facebook. Facebook defines itself as ‘a social utility that connects you with the people around you’. This could not be further from the truth. Far from serving as an umbilical cord of friendship for the socially deprived, Facebook actively damages interpersonal relationships, harms [...]
Continue Reading...The first web browser for African-Americans, Blackbird, was recently released. As a web developer, the first thing that popped in my mind is: Why? What is the point of this? Are browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer somehow racist? Unfortunately, the Blackbird web site doesn’t give many answers. It states the browser is “powered [...]
Continue Reading...The BBC broke the news that Apple has quietly posted an article on their support forum that recommends running an antivirus on Mac OS. After years of hounding Windows about their security vulnerabilities this is certainly a shift in direction for Apple. Currently, there are no known Mac viruses in the wild. There are several [...]
Continue Reading...I’ve long complained that modern science only asks “can we do this?” and fails to ask “should we do this?”. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. This debate again pops up as scientists get ever closer to cloning a mammoth and as a result, closer to cloning and bringing back primitive human life. [...]
Continue Reading...Ever wonder how some tech products get wild names? This articles explores how ten of today’s more iconic tech gadgets, gizmos, software, and sites got their names. Some are obvious… some aren’t. The early version of Mozilla’s browser was called Firebird, but due to another open-source project with the same name, the Mozilla elders renamed [...]
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