The newly redesigned Facebook is a move to boost advertising through the placement and proliferation of advertising with prices buttressed with newharvests of “close” personal relationship data and behavior. If you didn’t know that Facebook was about using you and your privacy to make money, you should realize that now. I would think that you’d [...]
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In like a rabbit: 2011 is the year of Internet TV
2010 is the year of the Tiger (Geng Yin) and don’t you forget that. At the rate we’re going, we will all need to speak Chinese in just a few years. Next year is the year of the rabbit. What does that have to do with computers or Internet? Nothing much, except most of our [...]
Computers Internet: PayPal and the Wal-Mart Money Card
I have been privy to some of the bantering going online as to whether or not a Wal-Mart money card can be used as a destination for a withdrawal from a user’s PayPal account. I have the answer for you in the form of an email sent from PayPal to a user whose bank account [...]
Computers & Internet: Twitter onmouseover flaw wreaking havoc
Computer Internet news is buzzing with news of how the Twitter onmouseover exploit has take the microblogging Web site by storm as users try out the exploit for themselves. With the potential to unleash an avalanche of thousands of Tweets from your user account or to redirect you to malicious or offensive Web sites from [...]
Computers & Internet: Keep your religion out of spam (please)
As a Christian, I happen to value my religion. I’m not going to go around telling you that your religion (or lack there of) isn’t any good (after all, that wouldn’t be nice), but still, I value it. Maybe it’s because I take my faith seriously that I get so steamed when people try to [...]
Computers & Internet: PayPal and Big Brother sittin’ in a tree…
Well, isn’t this good news from PayPal and our Big Brother government found in the current ream of policy updates: Taxes. The following acknowledgement [sic] has been added to Section 4.7 (Taxes): You acknowledge that in starting in 2011, PayPal will report to the Internal Revenue Service the total amount of the payments you receive [...]