Good day,
Some of you may have a Joomla based website. On January 5th, there was a security update. And then again on February 3rd and March 6th and March 16th and on April 4th.
Some of the updates were not all that important but others were. You may, if you have a Joomla website, wish to log in and run some updates. You don’t want any security vulnerabilities.
Some of these gadgets are pretty neat…
First, we have a way to recover your passwords by using your power cable.
There was a study finding that the smaller the screen, the more productive you are with the gadget. (Obviously, there is (usually) less to distract you on smaller screens.)
And finally, credit card theft is now getting more serious.
It should come as no surprise that Facebook is being sued. But this lawsuit is because Facebook is stealing more from Yahoo than Yahoo is taking from Facebook.
What is this all about? According to the April 9, 2012 issue of Fortune, Facebook is using more technology that Yahoo has patented than Yahoo is using of Facebook’s. And Facebook is using 5 times more of Amazon’s patents than the reverse, so look for another lawsuit on that later. Usually, this ratio between all these companies is 1:1, ensuring that everyone uses each other’s technology with impunity. So where will this all end up? Nowhere. They’ll all trade a little money and get right back to stealing from each other again.
But there’s more Facebook news. Their new Timeline push is getting them in hot water, too. And that’s besides them crying foul on clickjackers while they plan to make even more money off their users. Helpfully, though, you can now be served legal notices via Facebook. Wait… that’s not really helpful, is it?
And then there was that whole fiasco with businesses asking for potential employee’s Facebook passwords. First of all, no. Second, even Facebook didn’t like that idea – no doubt they’ll have some kind of premium business search which will let Facebook charge businesses to see who is complaining about them.
Do you recall GoWalla? Facebook bought them to get into the location sharing market, more or less. In the end, Facebook couldn’t make that technology work financially.
On the upside, Facebook predicts they will top a billion users by August 2012 and Google + is not far behind with 800 million. Wonder why Google and Facebook don’t like each other? It’s all about competition.
Facebook search has always been atrocious. You can really only search for what people put in their profile information or their page name. If nothing turns up in that search, Facebook provides a Bing search which does not really include much from Facebook.
The April 2, 2012 issue of Bloomberg was all afire about how there was a blurry screen in the background of a recent Zuckerberg picture. It appeared to be some kind of Facebook search prototype. That seems a stretch to make that jump, but Facebook has hired a prominent engineer from Google. Not one involved in search, but he seems a smart fellow.
The thing is that people aren’t in the habit of searching Facebook for very much. It’s actually easier to go through all your friend’s lists of friends than it is to use the search function. Perhaps a new search will help make Facebook a place where you can find your friends and local businesses.
A few weeks ago, we met a local entrepreneur whose startup is providing a very, very valuable service. What do you do-do with all your dog’s doo-doo?
You’re probably very busy with work and family life and you probably look forward to weekends outdoors in your yard with friends. But you forgot that Rover has been filling your backyard with fecal landmines. How much better would things be if you had someone just show up and take it all away?
That’s why we’re posting about this service. Now, our headquarters is not in their service area of the capital region of upstate New York, so we can’t speak personally about their performance. We also aren’t getting any kickbacks or commissions out of promoting them.
What we can tell you is that the owner of the company is a decent guy who is just trying to provide a valuable service and we can agree with that. Check out their residential rates and the rest of their website before you contact them.