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Web-based Services

Google Not Being Evil

20 October 2010
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Why does Google want to know so much about you?
The company provides us with services ranging from maps to email, phones to video, books to social media — all free. Why do they do this, and how can the company afford to do this?
The more products and services the company provides for [...]

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Denial of Service Attacks — Cyber Vandals and Cyber Activism Explored

19 October 2010
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When a Denial of Service attack occurs, is it vandalism and mischief, an act of war, or a new form of democratic protest? The answer to that question might depend on which side you are on — it is a bit like the quote that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter“. Regardless of [...]

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How Advertisers Use Internet Cookies to Track Your Online Habits

18 October 2010
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What is behavioral targeting? Is it a violation of your privacy for businesses to track your movements online via cookies? What are cookies, anyway? Are cookies helpful, or do they provide too much information? Should you worry about how much digital exhaust you trail?
Christina Tsuei of the Wall Street Journal explains how advertisers use cookies [...]

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The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time

4 October 2010
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Have you ever wished you could go back in time to see a town or city as it “used to be”? Cities like Ancient Rome, Athens, and Tenochtitlan? What about China’s Forbidden City?
Thanks to a collaboration between IBM and the Palace Museum, you may explore this aspect of Chinese culture and history online via [...]

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Zotero Everywhere — Coming Soon to a Browser Near You

24 September 2010
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How do you organize your references when you are doing research? I’ve tried several different methods, both digital and manual. For a while, my favorite was Zotero, but I did not want to be tied to the Firefox browser; I prefer to use Safari. If there is any one immediate area where I would be [...]

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An Analysis of Topics and Story Sources — Bloggers vs. the Traditional Press

26 August 2010
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Have you ever wondered where bloggers and tweeters find their stories and topics? This is the question asked by journalism.org, in a study conducted to determine the topics and sources of social media stories. Next, GOOD and Part & Parcel collaborated to created an infographic of the results of the study. Dorian Orange created an [...]

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Facebook: By the Numbers

5 July 2010
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The numbers behind the Facebook phenomenon are staggering. Users spend 500 million minutes per month on the site. Seventy different languages are used on Facebook. As of December 2000, there were an estimated 361 million users on the Internet; as of 2010, Facebook alone has 400 million users. As of this writing, the Facebook user [...]

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