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Facebook and Privacy

Facebook updated its privacy settings making lots more public than the public thought would be public! Here are some links addressing that. Updated: Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information | Electronic Frontier Foundation “Once upon a time, Facebook could be used simply to share your interests and information with a select small community […]

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Developing Your Brand on the Web

One or more services have been developed recently so that you can see how your ‘brand’ or your presence on the Web: how many times you are mentioned, what information is associated with your name, and similar items. A few links related to all this follows. Reputation Professor Personal Branding Blog (tags: personal branding cpsc104) […]

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Servers and Netetiquette

HowStuffWorks “How Web Servers Work” In this article, you will learn how Web servers bring pages into your home, school or office. (tags: webserver servers tutorials internet learning guide) IANA — Root Zone Database “The Root Zone Database represents the delegation details of top-level domains, including gTLDs such as “.COM”, and country-code TLDs such as […]

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The Web’s Stories, Embedding Silicon Chips inside Human Cells, Google Chrome Videos

These links may not go too well together, but they are the some of the ones I was getting together for my class, Introduction to Computer Science, the other day. The first is another good TED talk. Jonathan HArris talks about ways to map, view the stories, blog entries on the Web. Very interesting stuff, […]

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Vanishing Privacy (NYT) & Net Aids Dictatorships (TED)

The first of these is an article that appeared in the New York Times on March 17, 2010. The article discusses how we expose our identities and characteristics on social networking sites, how that information can be aggregated and interpreted, and reiterates the maxim that essentially nothing is private on the Internet. The second is […]

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Open Source links for 2010-03-03

Video: Robots that make things! (And how sharing is the best way to run a business and your life.) | opensource.com “A few folks from Red Hat’s video team had the opportunity last summer to attend the first Open Video Conference in New York. We met some inspiring, open minded, and highly motived people and […]

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Large Cyber Criminal Attack, 2010-02-19

More than 75,000 computer systems hacked in one of largest cyber attacks, security firm says – washingtonpost.com “More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world have been hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals discovered to […]

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An agglomeration of links for 2010-01-31

Visited bloglines and some blogs today and I came up with a few interesting links. The first is a link to the way Eun-Ha’s video Now and Then is referenced in a course dealing with Flash animation. The second is to a search feature at Harper’s Index, and the third is to the 2010 Edge […]

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IPL Wiki & Future of Education; links for 2010-01-05

Main Page – IPL Wiki A wiki for followers/members of ipl-2 (tags: internet web2.0 library wiki community ipl) Future Of Education: The Best 2009 Articles And Reports From MasterNewMedia A collection of articles about where education might be headed. (tags: education technology)

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JavaScript MVC and 10 Tactics for info-activism links for 2010-01-04

A List Apart: Articles: JavaScript MVC Once a bit player, JavaScript increasingly takes center stage. Its footprint—the space it takes up on our servers and in our development schedules—continues to grow. So how can we make our JavaScript more reusable and easier to maintain? Perhaps MVC will offer some clues. (tags: mvc bestpractices controller alistapart […]

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