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Maggie O'Connell

Your private data pays for 'free' Facebook and Google - Jan. 28, 2011 - 0 views

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private data free

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  • constant stream of breaches, accidents and misfires have given the issue fresh visibility this year
    • Maggie O'Connell
      Maggie O'Connell on 09 Feb 11
       
      people have found ways to breach the relatively weak security system of Google and Facebook. Because of the hackings, there is a new focus on the issue. But what happens when the focus is no longer on the issue of weak security?
  • fourth annual Data Privacy Day
  • the tech companies would prefer to see these problems solved through tools, not rules.
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  • The biggest was a "safe browsing option" that integrates the HTTPS protocol for secure connections. That technical tweak will help solve a gaping hole that let hijackers grab control of Facebook accounts accessed through public Wi-Fi hotspots.
  • Facebook posted its new security tool the day after CEO Mark Zuckerberg's fan page was hacked.  
  • Maggie O'Connell on 09 Feb 11
     
    facebook takes your data. so does google, to be "free"
Robert Porter

'Like' it or not, online ads are getting personal - CNN.com - 1 views

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Facebook Online Media advertising like Privacy Users Cookies Cnn Article Mozilla Google Chrome Business technology social

shared by Robert Porter on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • industry speak for ads that target users through the use of cookies that can track your internet browsing and shopping history, among other activities.
    • Robert Porter
      Robert Porter on 09 Feb 11
       
      Some people might view this as an invasion of privacy. The use of cookies by the industry to 'track' the users activities sure does point out a valid point. Most consumers would see advertisers as using 'personal' information to target what the users might have more interest in. In the eyes of the consumers this is seen as generally bad, in the eyes of the advertisers this type of advertising would not only keep away the advertisements that people don't want to see for products they don't need, but for advertisements for products they might want and need as the user travels to different sites. Cookies enable for this to happen, and although there is work on the web-browsers to keep advertisers away from information "internet browsing and shopping history". A question is asked though, how much personal information have people been giving away unknowingly?
    • Jeffrey Baudisch
      Jeffrey Baudisch on 14 Feb 11
       
      I think that you have a good point that people find online shopping a invasion of property. I believe though that the risks can be avoided if you are smart about where you shop.
    • Dan Tusler
      Dan Tusler on 01 Mar 11
       
      This can be related to the feed itself in a sense that it works just like a cookie. It tracks everything you do and basically uses the information it collect to try to market a product or get you to spend money. This could be where M.T Anderson got his inspiration for the feed.
  • "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
    • Robert Porter
      Robert Porter on 09 Feb 11
       
      -Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Schmidt has a valid point that what people do on the internet shouldn't be something people want to conceal. Yet there should be limits that advertisers and any site that uses peoples information on. People don't want to know the fact that everything they do and click on in a site will be recorded down as activity and then process to be put into a category. Just like in Feed, where Titus and his friends go to the mall the Feed immediately advertises cloths that they would want, or cloths that the feed thinks they want. Even with no alert the feed does this to Titus throughout the book, even when he is just laying there or sleeping the Feed advertises things that he would want and that he should by those things based on his shopping history and habits, just like these advertisements are foreseen to be becoming.
    • Jeffrey Baudisch
      Jeffrey Baudisch on 14 Feb 11
       
      If our information is so open then should we even put out any information? The Feed uses the peoples information to advertise to them so why don't we let the advertisers do the same and make shopping easier.
    • Robert Porter
      Robert Porter on 01 Mar 11
       
      Because information is vital, people view information (that is helpful) as valid sources of income. Sites that take your information for something can in all their rights, sell it to another advertising company. Hence the source of spam emails. So giving away personal information is a bad idea for you and the site that is distributing your information should not have that right.
  • Robert Porter on 09 Feb 11
     
    The Article By CNN states an uncomfortable outlook onto what might be a more personal advertising than ever before. Big sites such as Facebook and Twitter are mentioned in this article about tracking your 'likes' onto post, businesses, products and similar things among them. Both Google and Mozilla have recognized this as a slight problem as they both are working on a choice to block out cookies (For anyone who doesn't know what cookies are, they are what track your every move on the internet and any site you go to can have access to them, within limits of course). Questions are raised about this though, by both my Anderson and I. If this persist and evolves, would this type of advertising become as radical as it is seen in Feed? Would the advertising for this become more personal? In what limits are these ads allowed to do this within the law? Who would pay nearly 100,000 dollars to advertise in an social site? How far would advertisers go to make more money by 'invading' someones privacy or monitoring someones online activity? All are valid concerns raised from this article, and should be considered as time goes on.
Lany Miller

The Internet transforms modern life - CNN - 0 views

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internet transforms technology

shared by Lany Miller on 01 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • In 1994, most people had to call the bank to check their balances. Or inquire in person, or wait for a paper statement to arrive in the mail
  • experimental browser called Mosaic, followed by an improved browser from Netscape
  • Then along came an
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 09 Feb 11
       
      The feed was a new way life, and so is the internet, and since it was introduce to many of us early in our childhood we have become very dependent on it.
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  • Today, the audience for the Web numbers more than one billion and is growing
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 09 Feb 11
       
      In feed the amount of people who are currently using the feed is everyone, and almost everyone in our society uses the internet.
  • According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, fewer than one in seven Americans were online in 1995.
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 09 Feb 11
       
      A few people just used the feed int he book, and when the internet was beginning to become huge, only a few people (less than seven) were using it. Now, everyone has a feed,and everyone uses the internet.
  • Lany Miller on 01 Feb 11
     
    How the internet is taking over what people used to be able to do.
Hailey Kolb

New app helps Catholics confess on the go - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • not intended to replace the confessional. Instead, it's designed to complement the act of confession, offering a "personal examination of conscience"
    • Hailey Kolb
      Hailey Kolb on 09 Feb 11
       
      i disagree because if you have this app for confession how would somebody use it to complement the real thing?
  • Hailey Kolb on 09 Feb 11
     
    This app allows people to confess right on there phones/ipods without actually going to church. This is an example of how technology is taking over.
gabriel reid

Sunday's Super Bowl the most high-tech ever - CNN.com - 0 views

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super bowl

shared by gabriel reid on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The stadium's most visible piece of tech is what's billed as the world's largest high-definition video screen: a $40 million, 600-ton video board with 25,000 square feet of displays. It's 72 feet tall and 160 feet long. (Everyone seems to like the high-tech board, with the possible exception of NFL punters.) And, consider this as you nestle into your man cave. In addition to the monster screen, there are another 3,500 46-inch high-def screens scattered throughout the rest of the stadium.
    • gabriel reid
      gabriel reid on 01 Mar 11
       
      this just shows how much technology we put into somthing as simple as sports do we really need all thoes tv screens whats the point
  • gabriel reid on 07 Feb 11
     
    this talks about the super bowl and the technology in the stadium and how much it basicly cost
  • Hank von GnarSlayer on 09 Feb 11
     
    Interesting article, Gabe. It seems to me that technology will never stop getting bigger and better; with all the inventors in the world at the same time, technology has proven to be quite a competition.
Elizabeth Hughes

Online schools clicking with students - CNN - 0 views

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shared by Elizabeth Hughes on 10 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • a new form of schooling
  • hundreds of thousands of students
    • kaylyn kilmain
      kaylyn kilmain on 10 Feb 11
       
      many students can stay home and go to school online.
    • Billy Mahoney
      Billy Mahoney on 11 Feb 11
       
      This also relates to the feed because Violet is home-schooled.
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 17 Feb 11
       
      so what? lol what does it do to their disadvantage of going to school at home and online??
  • online
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  • class runs from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m
    • Hank von GnarSlayer
      Hank von GnarSlayer on 17 Feb 11
       
      Haha! What Crazy Hours! This is a wild way to learn huh? Wouldn't you miss the wholesome environment a school provides for learning?
  • finds time
    • kaylyn kilmain
      kaylyn kilmain on 10 Feb 11
       
      the pros for having the ability to have schools online is for those people who don't have time in the day to go out and go to school.
  • orking her full-time job at Hewlett-Packard and raising her three children.
  • 110,000 online students
  • half its total student body
  • With your pajamas snug, your feet clad in bunny slippers, and a tub of ice cream on the desk, your computer glows in front of you. The clock reads 2 a.m. In other words, time for class.
    • Hank von GnarSlayer
      Hank von GnarSlayer on 17 Feb 11
       
      Hah! Time For Class! This is inspiring people to be lazy to get what they want. Do think sitting around wearing women's bunny slippers at night is a good way to spend your class time? Online school seems to be inspiring kids to sit around getting fat and avoiding classmates all in the comfort of their own home!
  • Janet
    • Elizabeth Hughes
      Elizabeth Hughes on 01 Mar 11
       
      How could any students work for home if they made their own hours. They would not get anything done.
  • orking, married women in their 30s or 40s, who are reimbursed by employers and looking to boost their career prospects.
    • Elizabeth Hughes
      Elizabeth Hughes on 01 Mar 11
       
      Why would parents work for this if they thought this would help their future? how did they think this?
  • kaylyn kilmain on 10 Feb 11
     
    even schools are online, the social life has changed the average person doesn't need to have face to face contact to talk or learn.
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  • Billy Mahoney on 11 Feb 11
     
    even schools are online, the social life has changed the average person doesn't need to have face to face contact to talk or learn.
  • Tori O'Kane on 18 Feb 11
     
    This shows the dependency for technology the world is developing. That we as a nation are willing to substitute interaction through out the school day with online learning.
  • Victor Shen on 18 Feb 11
     
    The idea of the On Line schooling is great because people can save time and doing the school work at home, but in another way, people will be controlled by the technology,like the people in the book feed was controlled by the feed
Robert Porter

Amazon sales pop as Kindle e-books overtake paperbacks - Jan. 27, 2011 - 0 views

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sales amazon kindle book paper back overtake

shared by Robert Porter on 28 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • OK, bookworms, now you can declare Armageddon: Kindle e-books have overtaken paperback books as the bestselling type of content in Amazon's bookstore.
    • Robert Porter
      Robert Porter on 28 Jan 11
       
      "Ok, bookworms, now you can declare Armageddon"... This alarming yet realizing statement states that there is a potential danger of the extinction of paperback books. Yes, that is an exaggeration for just one yearly report, yet if this yearly report is the same annually, then that could actually mean the extinction of books, hard copies that is. The kindle has many great aspects to it, it can hold dozens of books in its small case, the books are fairly cheaper, and the portability of it lets users carry around more information in a less encumbering way. Yet as stated in the description box of this article there is certainly many possible negatives to the kindle. Yet as said before this isn't much to worry, yet as technology replaces many things withing life, books just really aren't meant to be replaced, although that doesn't mean that the kindle has to disappear for that to happen. 
  • In fact, for every 100 paperback books sold, Amazon has sold 115 Kindle books since the beginning of the year, the company said.
    • Robert Porter
      Robert Porter on 28 Jan 11
       
      Adding on to the previous sticky note, this divide between books and Kindles doesn't seem really much of a huge difference at a 100 to 1155 book, on paper that is. Yet for every Kindle (Lets say the Version 2 of it) can hold over 1,000 books. So say (not practical numbers but to support the argument) 500-100 books are downloaded onto the kindle, so that would be around 5,075 to 111,500, while the paperbacks still remain at 100. The amount here is greatly different, as books are now becoming E-Books, it could set a expatriation date on when the last hard copy of a book is printed. 
  • Robert Porter on 28 Jan 11
     
    This article states that the sales in amazon's ( which is one of the biggest online retailers) 'Kindle' have oversold the sales of paperback books. Although it's not necessarily alarming, it is something to think about, as actual copies of books are being replaced by a single piece of technology. As it's assumed in M.T. Andersons book 'Feed', the thought of reading books in an actual hard copy seems to be looked at as embarrassing as writing is now look at to be embarrassing in the scene where Violet and Titus are talking. Questions are raised about this particular subject; although there is always a positive to certain things, there is undoubtedly a negative; what is that certain negative? Is it, if there is some certain situation where technology is somewhat not excess able (aka, world war 3, some variation of the Bubonic Plague, or something where technology and humanity are separated as it couldn't be maintained) and 500 years later, most of the recent copies of book or even 1000 year old books are on electronic copies only, and for those generations of people not being able to read from the? Would'nt reading from the screen become tiring, and enables a more subtle way to skip some of the reading? Some things really just seem to be left alone as is; maybe this is one? Cushing Academy, transformed their whole library to an E-Book library, what is this saying about educated the youth, and what precedent does this set for the future? As changing things to suit our technological needs seems great. it has a very subtle uneasy feeling to it.
Lily Pelanne

2010's Top Celeb Fashion Trends - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

social Leisure

shared by Lily Pelanne on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
    • Lily Pelanne
      Lily Pelanne on 09 Feb 11
       
      My Sister has many of these and they are awesome!
    • Lany Miller
      Lany Miller on 17 Feb 11
       
      Really? That's cool lil! hahahahahahah :D
  • Lily Pelanne on 09 Feb 11
     
    This explains the top few fashion styles of 2010. This relates to "Feed" by the feed giving out the latest fashion trends.
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