Month: November 2007
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links for 2007-11-12
BBC NEWS | Technology | Social networkers warned of risk A quarter of the 11 million Britons who use social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook may be leaving themselves open to identity fraud. (tags: facebook identity internet socialnetworking networking security) ShareThis | ShareThis | Button for Websites ShareThis makes a WordPress plugin that…
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Microsoft vs Mandriva: The plot thickens
Jonathan Carter has an update on the goings on regarding the Classmate PCs in Nigeria: The plot has thickened as more details emerges in a PC World article. The funder of 11000 of the 17000 classmate PC’s is insisting that Mandriva remains on the machines, at least for now. This will have a big impact…
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Active Worlds Embeds 3D Worlds in Facebook
Some interesting developments bringing together social networking and virtual worlds: Active Worlds announced today that they had launched the “Active Worlds 3D Avatar and World Explorer” application, allowing companies and developers to build virtual worlds on the Facebook platform. The company says the application is based on Internet Explorer and ActiveX from Microsoft to build…
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"Lotus Notes/Domino is a dead product”
Eric Mack makes some fantastic points in questioning some of IBM Lotus’ marketing efforts based on real experience out there in the Knowledge Management space in his post “Lotus Notes/Domino is a dead product”. I had stopped by to ask if their search technology could crawl a Notes/Domino database. At which point I was told…
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The Maeslant barrier closed for the first time
I hadn’t heard of Rotterdam’s equivalent of the Thames Barrier, but after reading some news on the latest flood threats, found this on Flickr. Maeslant Barrier II Maeslant Barrier closed in the rain Maeslant Barrier closed in the sun All originally uploaded by dut97 Where some interesting details are included in the description: During water…