MySpace.com is teaming up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a campaign to extend MySpace’s reach and counter the expansion of their common rival Facebook Inc. The alliance came together after Myspace’s campaign to allow users to search the web while still being logged onto their host website. Myspace is trying to accomplishing such [...]
December 9, 2008
Terrorist Attacks Relating to New Technology
By Hannah Ringheim
This article describes how new technologies not only apply to everyday consumers, but that they are also utilized in dangerous aspects. I thought it was intriguing in that it presents a new vision of the dangerous effects of technology 2.0. The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India were actually made possible by the [...]
December 9, 2008
The Need for More Security in Cyberspaces
By Hannah Ringheim
I found this article in the New York Times, and I thought it was interesting and somewhat ironic. The article describes a government and technology panel on cyber-security that believes the federal government should stop its’ reliance on passwords and “should enforce a stronger authentication.” What exactly does this stronger authentication imply?
It means [...]
December 9, 2008
Sports Fans Are Driving Web 2.0
This short article talks about the influence of Fans in Web 2.0. My final paper has a similar topic.
The dead tree media are continuing to come around to Web 2.0. To wit: the announcement yesterday that venerable leather-helmeted Sports Illustrated is making a big boy move and will acquire sports community FanNation. [...]
