Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to everyone. Today while doing my early morning browsing session I came across this curious Easter animated card:

Daniel Scocco on March 24, 2008 | Filed Under General | Leave a Comment

Microsoft’s Mesh Network Plans

Microsoft has been pushing hard at the mesh network. Announcements made by the Redmond giant has spanned multiple media, devices and will hopefully translate to several products. At the heart of this grand vision is the concept to bring computing to the masses, essentially encompassing a series of devices – handhelds, desktops, laptops etc. It is cloud computing as it should be.

Arun on March 24, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

Security Friday : Web Attacks Galore

Scrapkut worm spread via code injection

A new breed of malware targets the scrap book feature on Google’s Social Networking site Orkut and spreads by active code injection as scrap book entries to all the contacts of the user.

An excerpt from Register:

People who click on the link are redirected to an external site hosting malware that’s disguised as a Flash upgrade. Users duped into installing the software get malicious Javascript code injected into their next active Orkut web session. This malicious scrapbook entry is then sent to all the victims’ friends, recommencing the infection cycle.

Arun on March 21, 2008 | Filed Under Security | Leave a Comment

More Privacy Controls And Instant Messaging Coming To Facebook

FaceBook announced a feature that gives its users more control and customization option in making their profile information visible to selected contacts.

An excerpt from AP:

For example, someone who uploads a racy batch of photos or lists his cell phone number or personal e-mail address on his Facebook page can now bar some people on list of friends from seeing any of that information.

Arun on March 20, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | 1 Comment

TV Phones a Huge Hit in Japan

Mobile TV technology in Japan claimed another milestone when it breached the 20 million mark since the program was started in 2006.

Arun on March 19, 2008 | Filed Under Media | Leave a Comment

Awareness Test

The Internet is the land of short attention spans. No doubts about that. What about you, do you think you aware of everything that is going on around the websites that you visit? Check the video below, basically you need to count how many passes the white team makes.

Daniel Scocco on March 18, 2008 | Filed Under Online Video | 4 Comments

Topicle: Community Powered Search Engine

There is an argument going around the Internet that says that Google has its days counted. Basically these people argue that you can not search the Internet algorithmically. That is, you need to have some human input in the process if you want to make sure that the results are relevant.

Daniel Scocco on March 18, 2008 | Filed Under Search Engines | 1 Comment

New Twist To Online Product Promotion

Social Networks have been quoted as the potential melting pots for advertising but the recent approaches have not exactly paid off. FaceBook, the popular social networking site had tried a strategy at advertising that most of its users found to be too intrusive. But the approach being tried by a firm called bSocial may finally throw some light on how to approach product promotion in the social networking space.

Daniel Scocco on March 17, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | Leave a Comment

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