Category: Facebook

One of those things that needs to be said every once in a while…

The Wrong Kind of Nerd – Committed (Sonia Harris)

One of those things that needs to be said every once in a while: There’s more than one way to be a fan. Not everyone likes the same stuff, and that’s okay. More importantly, not everyone who likes the same stuff you do likes the same things about it that you do…and that’s okay too.

It looks like Apple has stopped releasing security fixes for older versions of MacOSX.

82% of enterprise Mac users not getting security updates

It looks like Apple has stopped releasing security fixes for older versions of MacOSX. “Microsoft has been taking heat for discontinuing Windows XP after supporting it for more than 12 years. I think Apple might be able to do a little better than 15 months.”

On Facebook

Vaccinations have done far more good than harm for the general health of the…

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/01/growing-up-unvaccinated-a-healthy-lifestyle-couldnt-prevent-many-childhood-illnesses.html

Vaccinations have done far more good than harm for the general health of the population. If you're opposed to vaccination in general, you're effectively asking to return to the days of severe childhood diseases, many of them with lifelong complications and high mortality rates.

On Facebook

You know, it seemed to me that three hops from a “suspicious” user would encompass way too many people…

MetaPhone: The NSA Three-Hop

You know, it seemed to me that three hops from a “suspicious” user would encompass way too many people to be a meaningful limit. Someone actually did some math on real data. It turns out that a lot of numbers are connected through common hubs of activity…like, say, T-Mobile’s voicemail number, or Skype. If suspicious user X ever checked voice mail on the same carrier you have, you’re only two hops away.

On Facebook

Responsive Design Won’t Fix Your Content Problem

More on Responsive Design. It’s a great way (probably the ideal way) to make your site work across devices. But you still need to tailor your content, too. They’re complementary approaches.

Responsive Design Won’t Fix Your Content Problem

For years, we’ve told clients to serve the same content to every platform. We explained that Responsive Web Design allows content to squish itself into any container. Is it any wonder, then, that the…

Responsive Design Won’t Hurt Your SEO

I love how responsive design is seen as this new idea, allowing your website to adjust to different display sizes and types… when it was one of the original design principles of the web.

Google’s Matt Cutts: Responsive Design Won’t Hurt Your SEO

There are fewer SEO drawbacks when using responsive design versus a lightweight mobile version, but a mobile site can work just as well as responsive design, as long as you avoid dividing your PageRank…

Waterworld: The Right Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile

An interesting metaphor, and it certainly fits with the way I’ve looked at Google, Amazon, and Apple’s strategies.

Waterworld: The Right Way to Think About the Battles in Mobile

Here’s the frame that I use: Apple sells systems. Google sells services. Amazon sells content. Microsoft, in general, sells software, although that’s changing now.

On LinkedIn

Ugh. So apparently, getting court-approved access to records wasn’t enough for the NSA. They’ve…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html

Ugh. So apparently, getting court-approved access to records wasn’t enough for the NSA. They’ve tapped the links between datacenters within Google’s and Yahoo’s internal networks. Google, for their part, has already started moving toward encrypting traffic on their internal net.