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The following was in a tweet from @Factlets.
"Google Street View captured images of thieves moments before they
mugged a 14 year old boy of his phone and cash in Groningen, NL."
That's nice, but couldn't criminals use Google Street View to look for people loading up their cars to take a vacation? [03 March 2010, top] |
@nanofoo tweeted the following on 2010.03.02.
I missed this yesterday. Yahoo! was incorporated on 3/1/1995. Happy 15th Birthday to Yahoo![02 March 2010, top] |
@nanofoo received the following tweet from
@ThinkGeek on 2010.02.23.
Happy 15th birthday, Apache HTTP Server! 112 million sites later, you've come a long way from "a patchy" fork of NCSA. The following was copied from HTTPd.Apache.org.
"By the end of February [1995], eight core contributors
formed the foundation of the original Apache Group."
HTTPd.Apache.org::The Apache HTTP Server Project [23 February 2010, top] |
@nanofoo received the following tweet from
@DannySullivan on 2010.02.23.
twitter: 600 tweets per second. facebook: 700 updates per second. buzz: 55 post per second. the http://selnd.com/b9Zwys SearchEngineLand.com::By The Numbers: Twitter Vs. Facebook Vs. Google Buzz [23 February 2010, top] |
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Excuse this Facebook "status update"-like posting...
Facebook turned six years of age on 4 February 2010. [06 February 2010, top] |
I agree with Google's assessment.
"Over the last few months, we've been researching the
security/latency tradeoff and decided that turning https
on for everyone was the right thing to do."
Gmailblog.Blogspot.com::Default https access for Gmail [13 January 2010, top] |
The 2010 question of the year from Edge.org is:
"Is the Internet changing the way we think?"
I like Rodney Brooks point of view.
"The Internet is stealing our attention. Unfortunately,
a lot of what it offers is merely good sugar-filled
carbonated sodas for our mind. We, or at least I, need
tools that will provide us with the Diet-Internet, the
version that gives us the intellectual caffeine that
lets us achieve what we aspire, but which doesn't turn
us into hyper-active intellectual junkies."
Edge.org::Is the Internet changing the way we think? [11 January 2010, top] |
The following tweet by @SteveCase was received on 2010.01.02.
"Why Twitter Will Endure (NYTimes) http://bit.ly/6bUK0S (via @GregMitch @carr2n) David Carr (@carr2n on Twitter) via NYTimes.com...
"The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool
Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been
open standards that become plumbing," said Steven Johnson, the
author and technology observer who wrote a seminal piece about
Twitter for Time last June. "Twitter is looking more and more
like plumbing, and plumbing is eternal."
Twitter will endure because is part of the Internet's plumbing? I hope so, but only time will tell. [02 January 2010, top] |
The Internet Observer is a blog
about the Internet. It is updated on a random basis and covers
a wide array of Internet topics such as privacy, security,
browser usage, server usage, domain name speculation, ecommerce,
and so forth. The following blurb summarizes the goal of the
Internet Observer.
The Internet Observer was started August of 1998 and as of 01 January 2010 it contained 654 postings. Reviewing archived Internet Observer postings is an one way to get an Internet related history lesson. Internet Observer Archives: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 [01 January 2010, top] |
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