Dan Morrill
In a world where everyone knows everything about you
Does it matter if Facebook knows you went to Ashley Madison? Google already knows this information if you searched for it on Google, or if there was a Google Ad on Ashley Madison. Does it matter if Facebook knows you went to FetLife (NSFW), if you searched for it on Google (or Bing or Yahoo [...]
I wish that Klout allowed for divergent systems
I like Klout; it is an interesting system that can be easily tweaked to work with the major social systems out there. Klout support most of the major systems such as Facebook, Blogger, Flickr, and others to try to put together a bird’s eye view of how your influence and supporters/followers tend to influence others [...]
Twitter Malware loose tonight 9-18-2011
I have been getting a lot of twitter malware links tonight that uses a pretty simple browser based exploit that is easily caught by just about any anti-virus. But tonight malware links are making the rounds, and unfortunately they are going everywhere. So far have about 3 accounts I follow in the comic book community [...]
Does Twitter Censor hashtags?
There is an interesting hash tag for #occupywallstreet this morning with a protest going on in New York City about the crimes of banks and the rest of wall street. So far estimates are that there are thousands of people in the streets in New York protesting the entire banking system. What is of interest [...]
Cloud Computing in Education
I was up late last night talking to some of my very old contracting buddies from a long time in my past. We were talking about the adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise, and the influence that is having on the ability to hire employees who really get cloud computing, virtualization, security, cryptography, and [...]
Amazon cuts deal with California on Sales Tax collection
This means that the end of the tax free shopping on line party is starting to end, as Amazon cuts a deal with the state of California on collecting sales tax on sales to customers in the state. For Amazon retailers they should not see this, as it will be tacked on at the end [...]
No one is going to love your company like you do
It is not a normal occurrence for a company to try to undermine themselves, but when you are outsourcing something, you want to make sure that your outsource company loves your company as much as you do. Recently we were doing outsource shipping and handling on some of our products, and also just canceled all [...]
Consequences far outweigh the positives with spamming social data streams
While I am not overly surprised that spammers have found that Google Plus (indeed any social network) is an awesome place to sell or otherwise try to engage people with their get rich quick, enlarge your anatomy or other scams, … Continue reading →
A Multi Service approach to social media
When I first started Techwag in 2005, the reliance on Google as a primary source of traffic was the most important design consideration. While I use WordPress, and people have a lot of opinions about the suitability of WordPress, it is a blog first and foremost. Techwag is a blog, it has been a blog [...]
How Comic Book Ink used social media to save their store
The comic book industry is hard, good times or bad times, the entire industry has crashed and burned so many times there should be a hazard warning out for anyone insane enough to get into this industry. The economic recession of 2008 through today has been very hard on comic book stores as customers stop [...]
Pages for Google Plus are truly needed but we also need to talk about identity
Usually I am not one to ask for much when it comes to someone else’s system, but I am seeing in my friends dialog that there is a need for pages. Huddles are good, but if you have ever taught on line for even so much as three seconds, you know how hard it is [...]
That new XXX TLD is going to cost you 209 dollars to register
I buy my fair share of domain names every year some I park, some I sell, and some I wrap a web site around to see what happens with it. I usually pay between 6.95 and 9.95 depending on what extension I want for the domain name. Reports are surfacing though that the new XXX [...]
It is not Facebook that needs to worry about G+ it is Quora
For those of you who have been playing around with G+ over the last couple of days, what started off as an interesting way to share the ephemera of our daily internet lives has turned into some of the best question and answer sessions I have seen outside of Quora. For those who do not [...]
Things I would like to see added to Google Plus
Nice first jump out of the gate, and good for Google for starting to get social networking and social media. The games addition is a good thing because honestly that is what it will take to get people to come along and try out the new system. Games seem to be the lowest common denominator [...]
Microsoft Sky Drive now worth checking out
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