Author: Nancy Raskauskas, Senior Editor

App of the Week: Readability

App of the Week: Readability

Posted by | Jun 2, 2010 | , |

This week’s app is not a phone app but a cool little bookmarklet that you can use on your PC or Mac. It comes from experimental labs at arc90 .If you are one of those finding that you need glasses more and more or, that after a whole day on the computer, things are getting just a little too fuzzy, this is for you. Go to http://go.cosmicthings.com/readability/ Select the settings that you would like to see your text in . You can pick from Novel, ebook, Newspaper layout and more.. You can choose a size for the text from...

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The Return of Pac Man-Thanks to Google

The Return of Pac Man-Thanks to Google

Posted by | May 25, 2010 | |

Google celebrated May 22, the birthday of Pac-Man by making their google doodle a playable version of the game including an “Insert Coin” button to get it started. The Search site was bombarded with users not searching, but playing Pac Man. Everyone was sad when they discovered it was only to be for 48 hours. Well now you can keep on playing Pac Man if you go to...

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Zuckerberg Sucks It Up- Admits Flawed Facebook Privacy Policies

Zuckerberg Sucks It Up- Admits Flawed Facebook Privacy Policies

Posted by | May 25, 2010 | |

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO has heard and finally assimilated all of the negative press and the criticism from government representatives and other groups and he is responding by : 1. admitting the errors of his ways concerning privacy on Facebook 2. addressing the privacy concerns by introducing new settings to Facebook. Here is the editorial, in its entirety, that was posted in the Washington Post and also sent to other agencies: Six years ago, we built Facebook around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. If we give...

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App of the Week: Seesmic

App of the Week: Seesmic

Posted by | May 24, 2010 | , |

As you may have heard me say before I prefer Seesmic over Tweetdeck as a Twitter application. However it seems that I and other Seesmic users have been waiting forever for the cute little Seesmic Racoon  to show up in theiPhone  app store. Even the Blackberry has an app for it. But the iphone Seesmic app is finally here. Just like in the BlackBerry version, Seesmic for iPhone includes baked-in support for Ping .fm since it was acquired back in January. You can manage multiple Twitter accounts and your Facebook account within the app, along with saved searches, trending...

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Social Networks Caught Passing on Your Data to Advertisers

Social Networks Caught Passing on Your Data to Advertisers

Posted by | May 23, 2010 | , |

As reported last week by The Wall Street Journal, despite the fact that social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook say it ain’t so, they are sharing, without user consent,data with advertisers that may lead to the ad companies figuring out user’s personal information such as addresses, real names, etc… According to the Wall Street Journal: The practice, which most of the companies defended, sends user names or ID numbers tied to personal profiles being viewed when users click on ads. After questions were raised by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes. By...

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