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I activated my Facebook Timeline yesterday on 17 December 2011. I didn't
record the date that I joined Facebook, but I learned from the Timeline
that I joined on 26 September 2006.
Facebook.com::Gerald Thurman [18 December 2011, top] |
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Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) went public on 16 December 2011. ZNGA opened at $11.00;
hit an intra-day high and low of $11.50 and $9.00; closed at $9.50.
Zynga raised $1 billion via its IPO, which was the largest IPO since Google went public in 2004. Zynga.com::Connecting the World Through Games #CastleVille #IndianaJones #CityVille #Empires&Allies #FarmVille #ZyngaPoker #WordsWithFriends[17 December 2011, top] |
I used Google Buzz, via Gmail, on 12 December 2011. I went to Buzz
something on 16 December 2011, again vai Gmail, and the Buzz hyperlink
was gone. The following was copied from the Wikipedia.
"On October 14, 2011, Google announced that it would be discontinuing the service and that the existing content would be available in read-only mode. Buzz was discontinued on December 15, 2011." Note: I used Google Buzz as my Stocks Stuffer blog. When I found out Google was going to kill off Buzz, I switched to using Google's Blogspot.com. [16 December 2011, top] |
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Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper on 12 November 1990 that is considered
the birth date of the World Wide Web. In 2011, the WWW (if a person)
turned old enough to drink legally.
I've been awed by the power of the hyperlink ever since I first learned about it circa 01996. The idea of the "hyperlink" was tossed around well before I was born in 01957 (circa mid-01940s). It's a bummer that I haven't been able to exploit the hyperlink to achieve financial independence/freedom. W3.org:: WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project [12 November 2011, top] |
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10/29/1969 was an important day in the history of the Internet.
CS.UCLA.edu::The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words [29 October 2011, top] |
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Four years ago today I tweeted my first Twitter Tweet. Right now,
at ~5:40am MST on 18 October 02011, I have tweeted 6,901 tweets via
four separate Twitter accounts (@nanofoo, @mathbabber, @compufoo, @yottagoo).
I have 836 "followers," but most don't "follow." I'm "following" 629 and
for me the power of Twitter is in whom I "follow."
The following were the three most recent tweets I had received while creating this posting. Xconomy MIT startup Ginger.io, $1.7M in tow, combines mobile data w/ deep science to make connections between behavior & health tinyurl.com/3mru99b Computerworld Really big data: The challenges of managing mountains of information cwrld.us/oiHJfn insideHPC Just in: Steve Scott Blog: 20 Petaflop Titan An Important Milestone on Road to Exascale bit.ly/r1Hv0o #HPC[18 October 2011, top] |
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Wired.com::ThisDayInTech::Sept. 19, 1982: Can.t You Take a Joke? :-)
The Wired posting prompted me to update GDT::Bit::Emoticans (i.e. ASCII faces), which I created during the latter part of the 20th century. [19 September 2011, top] |
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I have yet to find LinkedIn a useful resource,
but others have and someday I should learn how to use it more effectively.
Plus.Google.com::Danny Sullivan On Making Effective Use of LinkedIn [17 August 2011, top] |
@compufoo received the following tweet from
@iProgrammerInfo on 2011.08.06.
The Web turns 20 http://bit.ly/oPSI27 The following was an Internet Observer posting that was posted on 1 May 2008. Happy 15th Birthday to the WWW. 30 April 1993... the WWW went public. And 15 years later, Tim Berners-Lee claims the web is still an infant. BBC.co.uk::The World Wide Web turns 15 (again) The BBC News article starts with... "The World Wide Web has many birthdays." [06 August 2011, top] |
[19 May 2011] LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD)
went public at $45 on 19 May 2011. During its first day of trading
the shares hit an intra-day high of $122.70 before closing at $94.25.
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On 15 April 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority added
the dot-xxx Top Level Domain to the root nameservers.
IANA.org::Delegation Record for .XXX [16 April 2011, top] |
Everyday I get a "Qwiki of the Day" email message.
The following was the Qwiki of the Day on 7
April 2011.
"April 7, 1969 is the symbolic birth date of the Internet, [...]" On 2 September 2004, I wrote GDT::Computing::Bit::Happy Birthday To The Internet? [07 April 2011, top] |
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The Qwiki email message on 25 March 2011 was about the first
wiki (WikiWikiWeb) being created on 25 March 1995.
TwitterTweet... I just watched the Qwiki on WikiWikiWeb. http://t.co/3i9K5mT via @Qwiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb [25 March 2011, top] |
| Five years ago today (i.e. on 21 March 02006), Jack Dorsey (@jack) sent the first Twitter Tweet. These numbers are interesting and at the bottom it says that the number of Twitter employees has grown from eight in Jan'08 to 400 today. [21 March 2011, top] |
I posted the following to Facebook on 2011.03.19.
Slashdot reported this morning that ICANN has approved the dot-xxx TLD (Top-Level Domain). It's taken ICANN years to make this decision. I searched my website and found reference to the "proposed" dot-sex TLD in instructional material dated 23 July 02002. Note: I use 5-digit years on Facebook. I followed up my Facebook posting with the following comment. Internet Observer blog posting posted on 9 April 02004... ".sex Considered Dangerous" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3675.txt[20 March 2011, top] |
"But we're still stuck inside the client-server world of requests
and responses, where we -- the users -- play submissive roles."
-- Doc Searls ("It would be nice if I had one career role. But
I don't. That would be too normal. So here's what I play: ..." -- Doc
Searls)
Doc Searls is one of my E.F. Huttons. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2011/02/18/bring-on-the-live-web/[21 February 2011, top] |
"The dramatic increase in Internet users during the past 10 years has beenremarkable to witness. But that was just the opening act. In the next 20 years,nearly 5 billion people will join the network. It is those users who will decide thefuture." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton talking about #InternetFreedom. http://www.scribd.com/doc/48895078/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Feb-15-2011 I get nervous when U.S. politicians talk about the Internet. [21 February 2011, 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 on 01 January 2011 it contained 678 postings. Reviewing archived Internet Observer postings is an one way to get an Internet related history lesson. Internet Observer Archives: 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 [10 February 2011, top] |
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