I found out about this quiz from American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on This Week in Tech (TWiT) and thought sharing this information is important. This quiz (yep, its a quiz to demonstrate how harmful they can be) tells you the data accessible to third party applications when you give these small quizzes. Worst part [...]
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Part II of The Unfinished Internet. Here Vint Cerf discusses the new challenge, how to extend Internet to different planets and what are the issues associated with TCP/IP that does now allow that.
Interplanetary Internet – Vint Cerf from Kumar Veetrag on Vimeo.
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10:51 AM – Vint Cerf is already here, presentation is up and hall is almost full.
11:01 AM – Introduced by someone from Computer Science department. Widely recognized as father of internet because of his contribution to TCP/IP. Currently holds position of Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Pioneering work in packeting technology and won many [...]
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Earlier this year I did a podcast on Facebook platform and why it is attractive. But since then I am losing interest in Facebook’s capabilities and thus this blog post. In that podcast we discussed how Facebook connect/Google connect are going to be used as openIDs and would help build communities around external sites. Those [...]
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A set of tweets in a language I don’t understand made me think of about the problem of twitter groups. Many a when I tweet I face the problem that I am going to annoy my followers who are not interested in certain topics such as F1, Cricket or Web2 technologies. Since we have [...]
Twitter suspended the account ‘F1‘ 3 weeks back and after I lodged a complaint I got a auto-generated response 2 weeks later. I filed my request again today like this:
I own the Twitter account @f1 for more than 2 years and have 4000+ followers. I have been using it for broadcasting Formula1 related news and [...]
This post is in response to the questions asked by Mr. Tweet on his blog:
I have been using twitter for almost 2 years now and was expecting some popularity but not of this level. My opinion about Aston Kutcher Vs CNN, I do not like what is going on. It is just a publicity stunt [...]
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Last few weeks have been extremely busy and was completely away from Blogging and Podcasting. Today I had some time and tried WP-FB Connect Plugin to enable commenting on my blog using Facebook login. Seems like it is working now, but I am more excited about the feature where we can have comments in thread [...]
For last few months, I have been thinking about the kind of content we are creating over the Facebook. The issue is not regarding the content but its usage, specially with Facebook as the owner of the content.
The problem started arising with the amount of applications mushrooming for the FB platform. Users are promoted [...]
Twitter, the best service that I am aware of. OK, I won’t get into my love for Twitter, but this post if about Tweetdeck, twitter client, that changed the way I use twitter.
These were my main issues that I was facing
There were a set of people I wanted to follow, but didn’t want to read [...]
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