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May 2nd, 2010
This week is ‘Privacy Awareness Week’ 2010 and as such it is urged that we familiarise ourselves with our rights, 
obligations and best-practice in relation to privacy.
The few recommendations below, from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, are related to Computer identity and information theft. They are well worth reading through:
- Make sure your computer has firewalls, virus protection and online security and privacy safeguards.
- Your online accounts should only be accessible with passwords that you create and change often. Your passwords should be hard for anyone to guess.
- When you shop or bank online, or fill out online forms, look for the padlock symbol at the lower right corner of your screen. This symbol means the information you provide is secure.
- When you log on to your e-mail or bank account from a library or other public computer, make sure no one can watch over your shoulder as you type in your password and other private information. Log out when you leave.
- Be careful about any personal information you divulge online, including in chat rooms and over social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
- Be suspicious of e-mails that appear to come from financial institutions or government agencies, asking you to provide personal information online. Real banks and governments don’t do that, but scammers will often hijack real logos to make their fraudulent messages look authentic.
- Delete any e-mail soliciting funds unless you can verify independently – for example with a phone call – that it’s from a reputable organization.
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June 4th, 2009
Nielsen this week released comparisons showing the enormous growth in the amount of time spent on the most visited Social Media sites from April 2008 to April 2009. The numbers are truly astounding.
The Social Media / Social Bookmarking / Sharing industry is still in its infancy. We’ll definitely be seeing consolidation and / or functionality expansion in the industry over the next few years. As an example, there are so many Social Bookmarking sites with very few distinguishing features (product differentiation). Think of Delicious, Mister Wong and Backflip; what advantages does one really Read the rest of this entry »
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May 23rd, 2009
If you doubt just how enormous the Internet is, just consider this:
- 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.
- WordPress.com gets 18,000 pageviews a minute on the Blogs it hosts
- Flickr hosts over 3 billion photos
- More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
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April 27th, 2009
Sun Microsystems has been acquired by Oracle Corporation (after it looked like Sun would be part of the IBM stable). Of particular interest to many bloggers and corporate Internet Application developers is what will happen with MySQL, the GNU General Public License (GPL) database engine.
A Bit about MySQL
MySQL was acquired by Sun in February 2008 which basically gave the rights of MySQL intellectual property (e.g. documentation) to Sun (which has now been procured by Oracle). MySQL is distribute under GPL therefore is available to download, install and use without financial cost.
MySQL is very widely used particularly for Internet Applications including search engines, content management systems and blogging platforms. High-traffic sites such as WordPress, Google, Wikipedia and Read the rest of this entry »
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February 21st, 2009
In the past week ShareThis has released data showing their most popular Sharing Services during January 2009. The data are illustrated below in the chart provided by ShareThis. The results are likely an accurate reflection of the various sharing services popularity on the web as a whole as ShareThis is extremely popular:
- Email is by far most popular sharing service getting 57%.
- Facebook is the second most popular sharing service at 21%
- Digg has dropped significantly in popularity to 2%
AddThis used to provide similar data but unfortunately has ceased to provide this information. Thanks to Read the rest of this entry »
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