I have reported on this virus a few times and with good reason, its a doozy. When I first read an article about it I thought it was appropriate to send the word out. But then MSNBC came out with their own report that basically said there is nothing to worry about. Well like I said then, if you aren’t in the tech industry maybe you should stick to reporting on what the tech industry is doing rather than trying to provide technical advice to your readers. They insisted their was nothing to worry about with this virus and called it a dud basically.
Apparently Conflicker is poised to take over about 30% of the world’s PC’s which amounts to about 300 to 350 million computers! That sure sounds like a dud to me MSNBC. The worst part is that the 2nd part of the virus is about to drop and no one even knows what it is intended to do. So that certainly is nothing to worry about if you don’t like using your computer or having your data entirely destroyed or any of a million scenarios that a serious virus could potentially bring about.
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It appears the growth of Twitter is growing. That makes sense right? Well its pretty obvious that most people on the web are becoming familiar with Twitter and it seems to go hand in hand with the growing popularity of texting in general. But few could have seen this kind of growth when the application was first launched. But as the saying goes, what goes up must come down and Digg appears to be going down. According to this article they seem to be struggling for breath.
But will the same happen to Twitter?
Well I keep saying this and maybe I am wasting my breath but I really see it losing popularity. Why? Because people are gaming it like crazy. I just saw a group forming whose only purpose was to follow each other in order to artificially inflate the number of followers that the people have. Why? Because apparently some are seeing the number of followers as a gauge of who to follow. I guess some weighting system is needed but a lot of people are trying to wade through all of this mess including developing apps that can basically “see through” this mess. One idea was to put weight on the number of retweets a person has but I looked at the chart and all it seemed to me was a list of the same exact people with the most followers. Time will tell…
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I came across this article the other day and being an avid Google supporter and Google Apps user ( I use dozens of them) I was a bit disappointed. Now I guess I am complaining about my ability to use a no charge program but for one of the biggest corporations in the world I guess I would think they can afford it. Not to mention that when we use the word free, sure its free of charge but it certainly is not free of advertising. Not to mention the majority of Google programs that we use track our every move which in turn leads to more advertising or rather “better” advertising.
Also as the article points out, lets not forget that “When Google Apps first launched in August 2006 it was free and described as “a service available at no cost to organizations of all shapes and sizes.””
The other thing to consider is the price we pay in using them. For every Google app that we use that another company makes a similar product we are taking away from their potential revenue. Now when this comes to Microsoft I am not going to be offering anyone a tissue but when it comes to smaller companies then yes I take issue.
Another thing I take issue with is how Google enforces usage on some of their programs. I offered to help my wife set up a blog using blogger for her students but after getting everything set up I quickly realized that it required that the students have a Gmail account to even have access. This is really disappointing to me and frankly reeked of Microsoft. We ended up having to dump the whole project because you can’t force public school children to sign up for Gmail.
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I guess most people don’t follow statistics or probably even care about how popular their favorite social networking site. They might not even know what social networking is other than “that thing that they talk to their friends on” Well now Facebook has gained so much traction and is now more that just gaining traction its full speed ahead and no stopping now. Its not nearly twice the size of Myspace worldwide!
(Oh and if you are on Facebook you probably new how popular it was already…duh!)
