Think first before posting certain facts on Facebook

This is an excellent article about some of the facts you should probably be careful about posting on Facebook. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/28/dcot.socialmedia.privacy/index.html

Think twice about posting:

--your birthdate (can be used for identity theft)

--your mother as a friend (hackers can use her maiden name to answer security questions)

--your vacation plans (burglars can be tipped off)

One way to make your site more secure is to create "lists" that allow complete information to only close friends and family (so maybe you can friend mom after all).

Check out Tim O'Shaughnessy's quotes in Wired, Aug. 09

Tim O'Shaughnessy, from the first OPIM class to graduate from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, is quoted in the Aug. 09 issue of Wired (I know I'm late, but August was not the relaxing month it should have been.) Be sure and check it out: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/17-08/st_hotseat

Tim's had quite a career, starting with the undergraduate project he did for AOL, while taking an e-commerce class. His innovative project ended up in his being hired by AOL in 2004. After a few years with AOL, he went with Steve Case to start Revolution Health. A couple of years ago, he and some colleagues started hungrymachine.com, which rapidly turned into livingsocial.com, when they realized that their facebook applications were going to be where they had the most success.

Read this article to see how the newest microchips are going to be designed. IBM is definitely an interesting company to watch.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.749b76a59aeda926a4a3848bef046ea2.2c1&show_article=1

Amazon vs. Ebay

I thought this article was very interesting: http://seekingalpha.com/article/153585-amazon-vs-ebay-2-charts-say-it-all
Shows how a picture can quickly convey a lot of information. Amazon is continually proving how they are the "gold standard" when it comes to e-commerce methods.

This should be encouraging to many.

As Technology Needs Grow, One Sector Has No Shortage of Jobs ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071202016.html?referrer=emailarticle
)
By Kim Hart
Platinum Solutions, a Reston information technology firm that serves the government, needs to find new employees so fast that it hired four full-time recruiters. At any given time, the company has 20 to 40 job openings, and it recently opened an office in West Virginia that has 65 employees.

Check out Bing.com

Check out bing.com when you get a chance. While Microsoft has a history of copyvcatting others, this actually seems to be more useful than google.com for search in some ways. I just tested it once in a search on a vacation spot we're headed to, and it gave far better results. Please post your successes/failures with this new entry to the search market. I'll be curious to see what you find.

Detroit bailout, put in IT terms

I loved this quote from Tom Friedman (of "The World is Flat" fame), which describes the way we will look back on the Detroit bailout some day, in IT terminology.

". . .our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into the CD music business on the eve of the birth of the iPod and iTunes. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into a book-store chain on the eve of the birth of Amazon.com and the Kindle. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into improving typewriters on the eve of the birth of the PC and the Internet."