Avoid quechup.com, it will spam your address book.
If you get an invitation from a friend inviting you to join a social networking site call Quechup, delete it. Joining up and making the wrong decisions in the process could result in the site spamming everyone in your address book.
The rules for the upcoming Better Newspaper Contest – Advertising Division - were posted on the MPA web site on August 31.
If you need a hard copy, please e-mail bboone@mspress.org.
The deadline for contest entries is Oct. 2, 2007.
Jay Adelson, Digg CEO and Revision3 co-founder, discusses the difficulty in measuring Internet success.
Fancy Formatting, Fancy Words = Looks Like a Promotion = Ignored
Dr. Jakob Nielsen (Nielsen Norman Group) says users tend to ignore heavily formatted areas of a website because they resemble promotions.
It’s a side-effect of banner blindness and could hit you too if you design a site and try to put special focus on something by making it stand out in fancy ways. Nielsen adds that using fancy words instead of plain-spoken English will also increase the chance people ignore a section.
Software via the Internet: Microsoft is making available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software services delivered on the Internet, a practice increasingly referred to as “cloud” computing.
(Cloud applications reside on the Internet and can be run by anyone with a suitable browser. Google’s Gmail service, or Yahoo Mail are good examples of cloud computing.)
The applications that will be included in the installer include Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger 8.5 and Windows Live OneCare Family Safety. A full list of all Windows live services, many of which are browser based and not part of the installer, is here.
What’s Behind the Epidemic of Municipal Wi-Fi Failures?
The dream of wireless networks covering U.S. cities with free and wireless internet access has come to an end, at least for now. As the number of failed or stalled municipal wireless projects continues to rise, the focus has shifted from closing the so-called digital divide to why plans for such networks, in only a year’s time, seem to be dissolving almost daily.
Last week, San Francisco, Chicago and St. Louis all announced significant and perhaps fatal roadblocks in their municipal Wi-Fi projects.
Those of us curious about all things Apple will be checking things out tomorrow. Apple’s event takes place at the Moscone West in San Francisco on September 5 at 10:00 a.m.
An internal memo circulated (and leaked) among employees at Target stores say that one or several “high retail” and “high theft” items will arrive at Target electronics departments after a formal announcement on September 5th.
Among some of the rumors are the possibility of an iPhone nano, or a new line of iPods which are Mac OS X-based with a touchscreen and Wi-Fi capability. Additional announcements relating to the company’s iTunes software and digital media download service are also expected.
Meanwhile, rumors of the Google Phone continue to fly. No one is admitting to knowing what it looks like, or when it will be announced.
An e-mail purporting to be from the IRS offers an $80 cash award by filling out a customer satisfaction survey. The IRS urges taxpayers to ignore this solicitation and not provide any requested information, and reminds taxpayers they do not initiate contact with taxpayers through e-mail. [Link]
Phishers attempt to gain information such as usernames, passwords, or credit card information by pretending to be from a company you might already do business with, in this case, the IRS. Other common phishing e-mails pretend to be from eBay, PayPal, and many banks.
Wait six months after SP1 to tackle Vista, says support CEO
In the meantime, hang on to XP, says David Milman of Rescuecom
August 28, 2007 (Computerworld) — If there’s one word to describe Windows Vista users, that word is frustrated, said the head of a national chain of computer support centers today.
How frustrated?
“Wait for six months after Vista SP1 [Service Pack 1] appears before moving to Vista,” recommended David Milman, CEO of Rescuecom Corp., which operates a chain of IT support franchises. “Microsoft certainly does need to address Vista’s problems [with SP1], but we’re telling customers to stay with XP for at least the rest of 2007 and through much of 2008 if SP1 is delayed to the start of that year.”
Of course, some of us will not have a phone, some will have more than one…
Current estimates reportedly suggest that “nearly 84-percent of the US population will have mobile phones by the end of 2007,” and according to SNL Kagen, that figure should shoot to 100-percent in just six years.
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