How to make the best use of your Google+ profile

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Back when I was in­vited to Google+, it took me less than a week to realise what a big phe­nomenon it would be­come; and while it felt good to be a part of that be­fore public re­lease, I also real­ised I had to leverage its power and in­teg­ra­tion to my be­nefit: spe­cific­ally to be­nefit my on­line pres­ence, my web­site and so […]

Why SOPA may be America’s worst mistake

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America seems to have come out with a new (al­though hardly an in­nov­ative) way to censor links it feels vi­ol­ates copyrights–although the fact that they do not have to jus­tify them­selves makes one wonder if they will not also ban le­git­imate links that work against them, as many have begun to see. The Stop Online Piracy […]

Google+ vs Facebook: 10 reasons why Google+ is far better

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As PCWorld rightly pointed some­time out last year, the com­par­ison of Google+ vs Facebook (which the masses gen­er­ally draw) is an un­even one. Google+ is a far bigger pic­ture for Google than one might ima­gine: my own way of put­ting it, as I have said to many of my ac­quaint­ances, is that Google is on its way […]

On why I think it is too early for biometric identification

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Passwords have be­come ob­solete’ was what IBM Speech CTO, David Nahamoo, said–at least effectively–in IBM’s Research News blog. His main point was that our cur­rent use of iden­ti­fic­a­tion and se­curity, our trusty pass­words, were a) really in­suf­fi­cient se­curity b) hard to re­member. (Incidentally, I sus­pect Mr Nahamoo has over 50 log-ins to re­member.) IBM 5 in 5 Security […]

The Nike Air Jordans Ritual

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Along the lines of Apple’s cus­tomary iPhone frenzy which sees people waiting overnight to buy their latest Apple gadget1, Nike’s latest shoes in its flag­ship model, Air Jordans, led people to swarm the mar­kets in a mad rush in the US, fighting over their pair. Police Intervention While they could have stood in a line and they […]

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