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Berners-Lee, the British born MIT professor who invented the web three decades ago, says that while there has been an explosion of public data made available in recent years, individuals have not yet understood the value to them of the personal data held about them by different web companies. In an interview with the Guardian, […]

By Martha Irvine — AP National Writer / February 3, 2010 “Remember when ‘You’ve got mail!’ used to produce a moment of enthusiasm and not dread?” asks Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Now when it comes to blogs, she says, “people focus on using them for what […]

If you are tired of spam, or are confused about various security issues related to your cgi-mail or are frustrated with having to configure things like cgi email handlers written in perl, then this simple PHP Mail Script might be for you. This mail script, written in PHP, is fast and light. It records the […]

What percentage of PageRank is lost through a 301 redirect? .. According to Matt Cutts, PageRank is not lost through a 301 redirect .. See the video below .. What is PageRank? .. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page and used by the Google web search engine, that assigns a numerical […]

Back in the day, I would hear my contemporaries going on and on about all of the millions of hits they were getting on their websites. Bragging about their high traffic numbers and selling themselves or their brand based solely on traffic hit numbers. Scoring big with hits isn’t really a big deal when you […]

Why would you ever want to start blocking unwanted traffic to your website? Read on, and discover the many reasons why you should — So, here you are. You just loaded your brand new website, or blog, set up various ways to let people know about it through social networking like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and […]

Meta elements — are tags used in HTML or XHTML documents to provide structured metadata about a Web page. They are part of a web page’s head section. Multiple Meta elements with different attributes can be used on the same page. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata […]

The writing was on the wall for Google, when in April, 2007, it bought DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion. Google, as a Search Engine, has been on the decline every since that time. The mantra, “Do No Evil” .. no longer applied as Google integrated DoubleClick into it’s core ads function. DoubleClick: A history .. DoubleClick […]

Test shows possible security issues about chip use in medical devices. Gasson had a relatively simple chip implanted in the top of his left hand near his thumb last year. It emits a signal that is read by external sensors, allowing him access to the Reading laboratory and for his cell phone to operate. He […]

On October 3, 2009, I originally posted a piece titled, “And Everybody Had The Next Best Thing”. It basically said this: “Developers aren’t in the least bit motivated. So complacent with their job, these developers are, that they’ve nothing better to do with their time, than to keep fiddling with 10 year old technologies. Too […]