Facebooking during office hours

October 14th, 2009

What is the first thing you do once you reach your office? Fat chance, most of us will log in to Facebook to check the latest updates of our friends. What if one day, when you tried to log in to your Facebook and is greeted by the message “This site is prohibited” message? It turned out that your company has restricted the access to social networking sites. The increasing of Facebook phenomenon is raising employer concern with the worry that employees will waste time on Facebook for personal networking.

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Search providers battle

October 6th, 2009

It seems like the word “search” is already synonym with “Google”. Has Google become a generic word, or we rely more and more on search engines? Generation nowadays usually will rely on search engines to get information. In fact, apart from Google, there are many search engines available; such as Ask.com, Baidu, Bing, Cuil, Yahoo and many more.

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Google Sidewiki

September 29th, 2009

Remember the old days when we will refer to Wikipedia for any information? Or how many of us will actually go to a forum to get more trusted views and opinions? Now, you can get information contributed by others from your browser.

Google announced Google’s New Sidewiki’s Service, from their blog on Wednesday, 23 September 2009. While some of the Web folks are surprised to hear about this service, most of us still do not know.

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Privacy online

September 18th, 2009

Most of us spend a lot of time surfing the Internet. One main concern of going online is privacy. Is your privacy protected online? Although it seems like you are the only one surfing in front of your computer, there are many invisible ‘eyes’ monitoring you.

Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe have ranked 10 America’s Most Trusted Companies in Privacy. eBay is ranked at the first, and Facebook at the tenth. So folks, do not worry about your privacy if you have a Facebook account!

China banned Twitter, Facebook & Youtube

September 13th, 2009

I can’t access all this three Social Media websites now.

According to Internet news, China blocked top 3 social media community since July 2009. No exact reason announced and acknowleged by China government.