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Republican bill would ban social networking from schools, libraries

Schools and libraries would effectively have to ban students and patrons from MySpace and other social networking sites if a Republican sponsored bill becomes law, News.com is reporting. Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Republican, ... and fellow Republicans, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert, on Wednesday endorsed...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Michael Fitzpatrick, Web, Web site, networking, social networking

Blog posts 2006-05-11

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Rule change will bring Web 2.0 to federal sites

There's Internet time. And then there's government time. In the case of cookies, the two are wildly divergent. Back in 2000 (that was the year of IE 5 and Netscape 6 and we were four years from Firefox 1.0), regulations were passed that banned government websites from using cookies. That...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Privacy, Web Site, Cookie, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-11

IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened

Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...

Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Google forays into the heart of social networking

TechCrunch is reporting that November 5 Google, in another fit of competitive expansion (check out Google's funding of a trans-Pacific undersea multi-terabit cable), plans to lift the veil on its answer to Facebook. It was foretold in the 'Tech Talk' video presentation by Google’s Ben Darnell to new Google...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, TechCrunch, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-21

Foo Camping

I was invited to Foo Camp this past weekend for the first time and after going, I can definitely see why it's such a big deal to go and why it's become an uber geek event. If you've never heard of Foo Camp, there's a pretty good article over on...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Dell crowdsources innovation

Dell crowdsources innovationI'll make a bet...In teh first week or two every Linux zealot will come out of their basement long enough to say that Dell should install this or that version of Linux on everything. What a waste...Absolute joke siteLots of people who couldnt care less about Dell...

Tags: UNIX, E-mail, Operating systems, Dell Computer Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2007-02-19

Response to Fitzpatrick legislation

There's a general recognition that MySpace should do more to protect kids using the site from child predators. For instance, the NewsCorp-owned service recently hired Hemanshu Nigam, formerly consumer security at Microsoft, as security czar. Earlier this month, Massachusetts called on MySpace to go further and disallow teen...

Tags: MySpace

Blog posts 2006-05-15