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If you have ugly friends you can even chose to exclude them in your personal poster!
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The Internet provided two security lessons this week…
1 — use hard passwords,
2 — use different passwords on all websites.
E-mail addresses and passwords from Gawker Media have been stolen for 200,000 1.4M registered users and are circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend compromise. Gawker Media has warned users to change their passwords both at Gawker Media and at other sites where users utilized the same passwords.
Popular websites including Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin and Fleshbot users were compromised where users were required to register, providing their e-mail address and a password, to leave comments. The emails and passwords were released by “Gnosis” in a 487MB file. Additionally, “gawker_redesign_beta.jpg” and Gawker’s server kernal versions have been included in the torrent.
The passwords were encrypted although it’s expected that password crackers are being worked overtime and the easy passwords have probably already been cracked.
In a proactive move, LinkedIn has reset passwords for users that have Gawker Media accounts requiring a change. Two thumbs up for LinkedIn from the Geeks… not so much for Gawker Media.
Because the Geeks recommend using hard passwords and different passwords for every website, you may ask how you keep track of all those passwords because that yellow sticky on the side of your monitor allows you to only write so many passwords on it. Instead of using the sticky, the Geeks recommend utilizing a password tool like 1Password (available on Mac/Windows/iOS) combined with DropBox to maintain your all your passwords wherever you have access to Dropbox and an installed copy of 1Password.
Mozilla has introduced a new campaign aimed to promote Firefox 4. The campaign streams cuteness from the Knoxville Zoo in the form of two female baby red pandas which are also called firefox (as pictured in this article) and by downloading Firefox 4 Beta you help earn “treats” for the red pandas including jungle gyms, grass flats and kung fu lessons.
With the web browser benchmarks showing Firefox 3 as not performing as well as Chrome, Safari and Opera, perhaps this is campaign that will bring some users back to Firefox… at least until staring at cute red pandas practicing kung-fu gets boring.
Update: apparently the Knoxville Zoo will NOT be teaching red pandas kung-fu.
Google’s eBookstore has opened their virtual doors with the goal of capturing some market share away from other eBookstore’s including Amazon for the Kindle, Apple’s iBooks, Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Kobo from Borders with over 3 million titles from some 4,000 publishers.
Google provides a web reader but the iOS and Android apps have been released as well allowing synchronization of your bookmarks and library.
What I like about the Google library is that you can download the book as either an ePub or PDF format. ePub is the open source ebook format. With these formats you can view and print on just about any device not to mention “loaning” books to friends.
The open-source social networking site called Diaspora just opened up its site to a limited number of alpha testers. Diaspora is the result of a backlash to Facebook’s closed network and sometimes contentious privacy policies. Two of Diaspora’s main goals are to let users own all of their data and decide how and with who it gets shared. …
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Two of the newer search engines that we’ve featured previously, blekko and DuckDuckGo have joined forces to enhance their respective engines with technology from the other.
For example, DuckDuckGo (DDG) now uses blekko’s slashtag technology to automatically filter out spammy website results, and blekko is using DDG’s ‘zero-click info’ which provides some summary info about a result.
Although not anywhere near Google or Bing’s level of traffic, both DDG and blekko provide some very nice features not found in either search engine and until ‘intelligent’ search technology advances to where we don’t need to qualify our searches, then human-driven intelligence will still be needed, but assisted by tools such as found in these search engines.
This is astounding and scary, but according to Hitwise, a numbers tracking service, Facebook accounts for almost 25% of web page views in the United States.
Henry Blodget over at Business Insider thinks that Google should buy Twitter, Groupon and Foursquare. I think he’s right.
Facebook announced its new messaging system today specifically saying it’s “not e-mail”. Actually what they mean is for it to be more than e-mail – modern messaging: IM, e-mail, & SMS, all consolidated in one place. …
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