Ashton Kutcher, the official White House Twit.
If you are one of Ashton Kutcher’s 2.5 million followers on Twitter, then you may have noticed his apparent elevation to official White House Twit.
On Sunday Kutcher said; “I’ve been asked by the white house to twet this” (sic)
He then linked to a White House blog post urging people to get tested for HIV, [...]
Social Networkers living in the danger zone. Too much information is dangerous.
Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter users are more vulnerable to financial loss, identity theft and malware infections than they realise.
Social networking sites encourage users to behave in risky rays, the survey of more than 1,000 users by security firm Webroot found.
Three in 10 people admitted they had been attacked by cybercriminals through social networking sites [...]
Google is blamed for disappearing fish
A Community Support Officer in Humberside has fingered Google Maps as aiding fish thieves in their quest to raid garden ponds for Koi Carp.
Is Google becoming the tool of choice for burglars and petty criminals?
Following revelations that Google Streetview was being used by burglars to target vulnerable homes, it is now being partly blamed for [...]
Web slows after Jackson’s death.
The death of Michael Jackson almost caused the internet to fall over last night. The last time I recall anything like this happening was on 9/11 when all the big news sites almost dropped off the net under the sheer weight of traffic, and phone networks jammed with people, including me, trying to contact relatives [...]
Read moreSmartphones pose security risk, says government minister
Smartphones pose security risk, says government – Telegraph: “Lord West, the government’s security minister, has warned owners of hi-tech mobile phones that they are in danger of having their personal information hacked. “
In fact they are no more vulnerable than your average laptop on the internet, especially if you’re using a public WiFi access point. [...]
“The Billion Dollar HTML Tag” and what it means to you.
It’s really a Billion Dollar Attribute, but who’s counting.
Marissa Mayer is VP of Search and User Experience at Google. In a keynote speech at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference she recounted how a single simple change to the Google search results page improved the page load time. Not by much, but enough to improve the user [...]
Total Search Queries Are Up For Facebook And Down For Google
If this is a major shift in the search habits of web users then it’s a major story. However the figures are for one month only, April to May 09, and could well be a simple blip. It’s interesting though that searches on the major search engines are all down while Craigslist has seen the [...]
Read moreOutlook 2010 will use the Word rendering engine for HTML emails.
A major trending topic on Twitter today is the report that Microsoft is planning to abandon using the Internet Explorer rendering engine to display HTML emails in favour of the Word rendering engine in Outlook 2010.
According to http://fixoutlook.org/ this is tragic news. Email designs will have to revert to table layouts. No CSS elements, no [...]
Google Adds Facebook Friends to Results
We’ve just noticed a rather interesting and potentially alarming new feature of Google searches. When a Facebook user’s profile is returned in Google’s search results, you can now see the user’s location (or network) and a random selection of their friends, as shown on their public profile.
There doesn’t appear to be any special markup in [...]
Read moreWood Pellets in Spalding. The Environmentally Friendly Heating Fuel
“Wood pellet fuel is a renewable, clean-burning high-density biomass fuel made from recycled wood waste or sawdust.
The use of biomass fuel is a ‘carbon neutral’ process,the carbon dioxide released by burning is balanced by that absorbed by the tree during its growth.
Wood pellet fuel is manufactured from sustainable resources, is Carbon neutral, clean and easy [...]