So much for social networking!
Here is an online tale of social networking sleuthing:
"Apple retail stores are famously stocked with Internet-accessible workstations that, while intended to be used as demonstrations for prospective buyers, are also free for the public to use. That's led to some problems with nonshoppers monopolizing the machines and taking up space: in mid-2007, Apple blocked access to MySpace, which was then the world's biggest social-networking site.
I hit up Apple's Fifth Avenue flagship store in midtown (you know, the big glass cube), the 14th Street store in the Meatpacking District, and the store on Prince Street in the downtown neighborhood of SoHo.
At the Fifth Avenue store, I was able to access Facebook from one laptop, but on another, the facebook.com domain redirected to an Apple Store page. In the Meatpacking District store, meanwhile, two laptops loaded Facebook without a problem, but a desktop computer brought up a message explaining that the parental controls feature in the Safari browser had blocked it."
Friday, February 6, 2009
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Stolen from someone else's blog!!!! (is this ethical or normal on the net?)
Wikipedia links used to build smart reading lists - tech - 02 January 2007 - New Scientist Tech
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
From the “so cool it is uncanny” department…
Software that generates a list of reading material tailored to a person’s individual interests has been developed by a PhD student in the US.
Alexander Wissner-Gross, a physics student at Harvard University, teaches a course to under-graduates student at his university. While preparing the reading list for his course, he began to wonder about ways to automate the process. (Check out his paper about this topic.)
Wissner-Gross says he saw similarities between the structure of his course and the way information is connected via links in Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia written and edited by volunteers.
“Increasingly, a net user who wants to learn more about a subject will read its Wikipedia page,” he adds. “However, for further depth in the subject, there has been no system for advising the user which other [Wikipedia] articles to read, and in which order.”
Wikipedia links used to build smart reading lists - tech - 02 January 2007 - New Scientist Tech
Just One More Thiing the government's been hiding from us
Duncan Mansfield reports for The Associated Press, "A three-year veil of secrecy in the name of national security was used to keep the public in the dark about the handling of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear fuel processing plant - including a leak that could have caused a deadly, uncontrolled nuclear reaction."
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2 comments:
Wow.... blocked facebook and myspace? I believe it. It's a store, not a library!
very insightful....
I wanted to see this when I was in New York in November--and my son was incredulous--to him its just another ho-hum shopping experience.
to me, it's a GLASS CUBE!!!
(And underground is the store, no less).
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