The social internet is still in total flux with them growing in terms of member numbers that have swelled immensely, the winner of dominance still remains to be seen as they grow by leaps and bounds day after day. People have been scooping up social site memberships by the thousands with Facebook still at the helm with more members mainly due to it’s roots in the America’s. There are a lot more social sites all over the world, each with their own local favorites like Google’s Orkut, China’s QQ and more. Read more

China has announced a mandatory measure that would have all computers sold in the country to get software installed that would filter the internet locally which is not surprising for they have been monitoring and screening the internet for quite sometime. China has long been blocking access to the many social and news web sites in what they say is a measure that upholds the law, something the rest of the world sees as a continuing repression of the right to information. Read more

Facebook, Twitter and the many other social networking sites are getting the attention of malware makers indeed for their wide open API’s and almost opaque membership that have been attacked and even phished for personal information. Social networks are known for their being opaque to the outside world, a place where one can be anybody they choose with the right information and a few pictures grabbed from some other social photo sharing site. Read more

With access to the internet becoming more and more widespread, and more and more people discovering its ease of use, the practice of plagiarism – which is in a nutshell, copy pasting someone else’s work and passing it off as your own – has been on the rise.

This is why Creative Commons licenses now exist. Aimed at protecting website content, the Creative Commons website offers different kinds of licenses that show how an online author wishes his or her work to be used (or not used). CC licenses are also recognized by law, and ifan author wishes to enforce it against a plagiarist, then he or she has the option to do so.

To get a CC license, simple go to the website, and get the source code for the license you wish to use. Copy it and then paste it on your website’s code.

The secret meetings of the many newspaper giants have been exposed in what may be the next step in the evolution of the newspaper into the modern wired world. Many see the move as about ten years too late and many see it as a simple way for these media giants to simply save their butts which has been on the line for a long time. They may have little choice for as we have seen, many newspapers have been forced to shut-down operations due to the economic crisis that is sweeping the nation. With many local and major newspapers under threat, would they be able to survive the internet age?
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Google has recenty announced the latest feature for their Gmail users. It will be releasing its SMS capability on GMail. Now you will be able to text your friends and loved ones while logged on to your GMail account. And you will also be able to receive text messages directly to your GMail. How cool can that be? It is very easy to use. It hopes to provide the users with greater mobility while feeling at home. Google’s latest feature works like this. You send your SMS to someone, Google has set aside 1000 phone numbers for one user, the phone number that is assigned to that SMS will then transmit the message to you. When the person replies back, the particular phone that sent your message will be the one to send it to your Gmail account. Cool.

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Blu Ray DVDs by Samsung can now play videostream on the Web via Netflix. Netflix is a popular online DVD rental company. This is the fourth partnership made by Netflix with an electronic consumers company. The main goal is to deliver movie titles online rather than through the ever so slow courier service. Netflix has tied up with big electronic companies like LG Electronics which enabled the user to stream movies to Microsoft XBox360 consoles. So for the owners of Samsung BD-P2250 and BD-P2500 Blu Ray players, they can immediately upgrade their devices free of charge so it can activate video streaming from the streaming service of Netflix. The company has a huge library of 12,00 movies and television series episodes. At the moment, Netflix enjoys a huge subscription of about 8million subscribers. And it has become a standard home must have services in the US. Web streaming service called ‘Watch Instantly’ is offered to its subscribers for free.

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This product is intended to trade songs and videos transversely the Internet using “peer to peer” (P2P) networking.

It works like this: thousands of customers install WinMX on their PCs, and freely open their hard drives to each other. As these thousands of people log on to the Net using WinMX, the pool of available WinMX hard drives changes moment-to-moment. Every WinMX user is authorized to search for songs and movies, and then begin downloading and uploading music files to each other. Equitable sharing of music and movies is endorsed, and people will often share gigabytes of files with their fellow WinMX users.

This WinMX P2P network system employs its own custom file sharing client software, created by FrontCode Technologies. The WinMX is highly controversial software because of copyright laws, and WinMX users do risk possible fines and lawsuits.