Walled Gardens are never very effective. They may work for a period of time to isolate a nation or organization, but they inevitably fail. On the short list that comes to mind: The Great Wall of China, U.S. Isolationism in the 19th Century and AOL in the 90′s. Countries, by very definition, are walled gardens. [...]
Categories: Tech
Tagged: currency, money, policy, walled gardens
Just watched the Google IO stream regarding the release of Google TV. My thoughts: Good: The platform is open. This is the way to go, and will allow developers to go hog wild and develop things that even the Google engineers couldn’t envision. TV/Web Integration. The Google TV platform appears to have great web and [...]
Categories: Tech,Television
Tagged: google tv, googletv, htpc, iptv, Television
HBO GO has been in the works for a while now, and is an indication of what some networks are trying to do to add value to their subscription rate. Offering video for streaming online is definitely a benefit to a premium channel like HBO. And it is a glimpse as to what the future [...]
Categories: Reviews,Software,Television
Tagged: newmedia, review, Television
Currently I am in the Computer Science Master’s Program at West Chester University and I am focusing my research on Location Based Updates in Social Media and their societal and security implications. So you can say I think about this topic more than most normal people do.
FourSquare is a growing service that allows you to “Check in” to restaurants, grocery stores, museums and just about any place you can imagine. However, I have seen several of my friends checking in to locations which, I must say as a security research student, set off warning bells. Although I am calling out FourSquare specifically, these also apply to just about any other location based software where you broadcast your location to other folks, whether they are your friends or the general public. GoWalla and BrightKite are in the same boat.
Without further ado… here is my list of top FourSquare Security Faux Pas (after the break…)
Categories: Social Media,Tech
Tagged: geotagging, Security, Social Media, society, tips
EDID stands for Extended display identification data and is what many computer monitors and televisions with a VGA/HDMI use to tell the PC what resolution they support. Which, in theory at least, is great. However what I recently found out is that many LCD and Plasma televisions do not broadcast the correct 16:9 resolution via EDID, [...]
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