Chad Lieberman
What in the World is Klout?
In this modern day era of communication, it can be hard to juggle or even begin to measure your online based contributions.
With the easiness of writing a blog post like this one, write on a forum, send a tweet or Facebook status there are just too many sites and social networks to keep track of. Internet based company “Klout” has solved and is continuing to engineer algorithms to understand a persons total influence on people and topics across the internet.
Chrome OS & Why It Could Be Useful
You might be asking “What are these new Chromebooks that have hit the market lately??” I’ll tell you-Google has now launched their own operating system called “Chrome OS” and its exactly what it sounds like, their web browser “chrome” as an operating system. Forget all those use less programs on a PC or mac that take up unnecessary space, the chromebook uses only a web browser and media player.
What I Like About Google +
Google has just launched their new social network called Google Plus. Google+ offers some cool features and I wanted to share some of my first impressions.
- Circles: The way you can organize friends is impressive with their simple drag and drop feature. It also lets you share information more effectively by only sharing to certain circles.
- Hangout: Although I haven’t video chatted yet, I think that Google’s video chat application is a going to be a big success when more people are joined. Google hangout allows you to talk with up to 10 people and also has a sweet camera switching feature that changes to who is talking. This can be great for socializing, collaborating or group projects.
- +1 button: The plus one feature is going to be great tool to utilize when saving links you like searching Google. It will also be a strong way to see what your friends like when the site grows.
Facebook + Skype = ?
The biggest social networking site in the world, Facebook has launched a video chat application yesterday. Joining the social media giant is Skype, which was just recently bought by Microsoft for some 8.5 billion dollars. This mutually beneficial deal provides Facebook access to a great free video service which offers more user interaction, and Skype with a connection to the worlds largest social networking infrastructure.
The Future of Security: Protect Your Information
With the recent news of the group ANONYMOUS hacking millions accounts filled with secured information from Sony’s Online Entertainment, businesses and internet users are in disarray trying to protect their information. With the ever-growing use of technology for everyday tasks, such as online-banking, e-commerce, and social media, a lot of information about yourself is stored across the internet. The importance to protect your information is at an entirely new level.
New Top-Level Domains
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced it’s timeline for the accepting of new top-level domains. We are all used to the regular top level domains such as (.com, .org, .net, and so forth) but, ICANN will soon receive applications from public businesses and private enterprises to buy their own. That means that domains such as .music, .news , or even .sony or .ipad are going to be available for purchase.
Search Engine Optimization Tips
Building a website is the primary step to establishing yourself on the internet. What a lot of people don’t realize is that just by having a website, it doesn’t mean that your going to be found. To increase traffic to your site, a lot of thought and effort needs to go into “Search Engine Optimization” and marketing. How search engines determine the “most-relevant” website that matches your searched criteria are made up by some of these factors:
IPv4 Runs Out…
Last week the internet ran out of IP addresses to hand out. What does this mean? An internet protocol address is a numerical label assigned to a device such as a computer, printer, or smartphone used to communicate in a network. Every time you send an email or communicate with a network, your information is labeled with an IP address. So, since we have run out of them this mean that no new devices can connect to the internet. Don’t worry though, they are working on a new version of IP addresses called IPv6 which has over 340 trillion, trillion, trillion address but the thing is unsure is how well the transition will be.
