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Facebook Chat - 23 Apr 2008
Anyone who is a Facebook user will be interested to know that the much anticipated Facebook Chat was rolled out quietly tonight.
Users of Facebook will now be able to instant message with one another though a built in message client. Unlike many other Facebook apps like “Movie Quiz”, “Scrabblous”, or , you […]
Open Courseware lacks Canadian participation - 14 Jan 2008
Today’s article by Dr. Geist in the Toronto Star discusses the lack of participation of Canadian Universities in the Open Courseware initiative. Originally started by MIT – which, as Dr. Geist points out, offers about 1800 courses freely – has spawned into the Open Courseware Consortium featuring universities from China, USA, South Africa, […]
Read Full Post »Open up the Canadian wireless networks! - 06 Dec 2007
AT&T has announced that as of today it would start allowing any phone, device, or software from any maker on its network. That is right, as of today the third major wireless carrier in the US has opened their network to allow customers to use what they want on their networks.
For years […]
Facebook security exposes all your pictures. - 28 Nov 2007
Recently a particular nasty feature of the new Facebook advertising model allowed certain advertising partners to post your purchases to your news feed showing everyone what you had recently bought. The nastiness of this feature – and it is a feature since it was deliberate by Facebook – was the automatic opt in of […]
Read Full Post »Death watch over, burial begins. - 31 Oct 2007
Well it appears that my iPod has finally bit the dust. Having commented previously about the iPod Death Watch site, which uses statistics from their iPod repair center to estimate the average life left on your iPod, I thought it proper to give an update as to the accuracy of the site. […]
Read Full Post »Blogs, blogs, everywhere, and too many to read! - 20 Oct 2007
I have too many blogs! That is right I have to come face to face with the fact I am not able to read the amount of content I currently have flooding me on a daily basis. I need to simplify what information I want and delete the rest.
By now, you […]
iPod death watch! When will your iPod die? - 04 Oct 2007
Lifehacker has recently turned me onto a website to track the lifespan of your iPod, and for me the news is not good. In just over a month my little 20gig Generation 4 iPod is expected to die!. 42 days to be exact!
The iPod Death Clock is a great site if you are […]
It is more than just a website. - 08 Aug 2007
A lot of people do not understand the power of online marketing, of good site design, and how to leverage all the Web 2.0 ideas to help your bottom line. This is a bit of a problem in more rural settings I find and a prime example is the unfortunate lack of development on […]
Read Full Post »Facebook security in question? - 31 Jul 2007
Earlier today Facebook went down for what was reported as an upgrade. For about an hour or so the site showed a “We’re upgrading” message to all the users who attempted to access the main site. If you attempted to access your schools site (for example mun.facebook.com) then you would have eventually timed […]
Read Full Post »Something new coming from Facebook? - 31 Jul 2007
After doing some work today I decided to log into my Facebook account and see what the people are doing. It took some time to get a page to load and originally I thought it was a slow connection but instead I was greeted with the “we’re upgrading” page. This upgrade was […]
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