The BBC news announced today that The British Library wants to archive every British website, for posterity. This GREAT IDEA has been dedicated quite a bit of air time on TV and radio – as well as coverage on the BBC website.
The coverage is all about how important it is not to lose these websites, as they are a part of the Internet’s heritage. They say that we don’t want to lose these sites for ever – Good point.
But – The service already exists!
f you want to protect your online accounts from hackers, rule number one is to select strong, hard to guess passwords.
However, a recent report by the guys at Internet security firm Impervia, suggests that Internet users are still relying on the same kind of predictable passwords that they used a decade ago.
Password strength
Impervia released a list of the top 20 passwords, which were found when RockYou.com was hacked last month. According to Impervia, these were strikingly similar to the passwords used on Hotmail.com, when that too was breached almost 20 years ago!
Starting with the most commonly used, the 20 most popular passwords were…
The government of Finland has just announced plans to offer a 100 megabit broadband connection to every home and business in Finland!
This follows on from their declaration last year; that a broadband Internet connection is a human right – and that every home in Finland will have a minimum 1 megabit per second connection.
100 megabit connection by 2015…
Everyone’s talking about the Apple Tablet, nick-named the Apple iSlate. So, here’s a quick prediction for all those tech pundits and bloggers expecting ‘game-changing’ hardware from Apple, in their big announcement this week.
Here’s why I think you “might” be disappointed…
Here are a few technology related sites / blogs I highly recommend you check out.
TWiT – This week in tech
Crave – From CNET
The BBC website technology pages
Here’s why I recommend them.
As regular readers will notice, the Tech News Blog has changed a lot this week.
Originally, the blog was on the Thesis theme; which is one of the cleanest looking Wordpress themes on the planet. However, I found Thesis way too hard to adapt and modify myself.
For a few months, I tried using a glossy looking theme, but it looked way too glossy; like a technology website (CNET / ZDNET) – rather than a tech news blog (Scobleizer / LouisGray.Com)
Whilst I wanted the clean simplicity of Thesis, I needed a theme that gave me 100% freedom to design, tweak and modify the blog myself – without having to learn HTML/CSS or hire a expert. So, I decided to use Headway (I’m now an affiliate) instead.
Here’s why!
I was reading this post on mashable earlier, from one of my favourite tech bloggers, Jennifer Van Grove. It’s about a new ‘tweet notification’ feature that Twitter are planning to add, for people who use the Twitter website to tweet.
Twitter business model to include advertising?
This got me thinking. In recent weeks, Twitter has made a number of significant improvements to the functionality of the main Twitter website. Most recently we saw the addition of the superb Twitter Lists feature, but Twitter are ALSO working on a new retweet feature too. These improvements have one thing in common; they render web-based apps like Tweetdeck and (my favourite) Seesmic Desktop less and less essential.
Here’s why this matters…
Many Windows Vista users feel they were unpaid beta testers and that Microsoft has used their time and their error reporting with Vista, to help them produce Windows 7. I agree! In fact, many people have suggested that Windows 7 should have been rolled out as a Service pack for Vista.
Here’s why…
So, bloggers failing to declare that they are taking money or freebies for writing reviews / posts, could soon be fined up to $11,000. Whilst this may stop a few smaller blogs writing undisclosed posts for PR firms, it’s hardly going to stop the big blogs – which are rewarded very highly for the coverage they give certain favoured brands. Here’s why!
When Matt Mullengweg announced that Wordpress.com was installing RSS Cloud on it’s 7.5 million blogs, something amazing happened!
All of a sudden, blogs on the Wordpress.com platform became almost real-time. In other words, posts will be broadcast almost immediately; allowing bloggers to both deliver real-time content to their RSS subscribers AND potentially share real-time comments with their readers. Here’s why I think this is such a big deal!
Users are investing a lot of time and effort building social networks and getting their content onto various third-party sites – never really knowing if all that hard work will be undone after an acquisition or a provider going broke.
Understandably, the question a lot of people are now asking is; “who or what can I trust?”
Here’s the answer!
So, FaceBook has acquired FriendFeed – But why? It wasn’t for the platform and with a quarter of a billion users, FaceBook didn’t need to buy the relatively small FriendFeed user-base either.
However, by acquiring FriendFeed, FaceBook have bought something, which is of massively greater value to them as a company!
Mozilla has released the next version of their massively popular Firefox browser – FireFox 3.5. This latest version comes with a few new features and some important improvements. Read on for a quick review of what you need to know…
Someone recently asked me why I do not post here every day. The answer is actually really simple. There’s not enough actual tech NEWS in the areas I cover, to justify it. When there is, I report on it. But when there’s nothing of value worth sharing, what’s the point in just getting “stuff” out there?
For example, over the past week or so, CNET has reported on the kind of box that Windows 7 will come in! (Seriously, I’m not making that up!) Mashable has reported on a Pizza Hut special offer. Read on…
If you are a regular Twitter user, you will already know about the massive screw-up that has happened over the past 24 hours.
Is this yet more proof that Twitter’s team are too focused these days, on hanging out with their new celebrity friends – to engage their users and provide what their users want? Read on….
