December 04, 2008Canadians' digital connections
http://netfamilynews.org/newsletter.shtml#newsitemEElyVpklFkwFZZ They're "fast becoming a culture of technological chatterboxes," the Toronto Star reports. A recent national survey of nearly 1,100 Canadians by Angus Reid Strategies found that only 18% of people in Canada do not own a cellphone but, at the other end of the spectrum, 18% couldn't live without their mobile phone. As for email, 64% check it at least daily, and 31% "can't resist the temptation" to check...Posted bymaida 0 comment(s)This post has received 0 clips and 0 burys Hacks in social sites
http://netfamilynews.org/newsletter.shtml#newsitemEElyuAAlFAxtvB What I mean is, hackers (not malicious ones) have something to say about social-networking sites. Thousands of them gathered at two conferences in Las Vegas this past week, the Associated Press reports. Here's the important part: Hackers are seeing intruders in social-networking sites who "commandeer personal Web pages and possibly inject malicious code." They look for flaws in sites' code that allows...Posted bymaida 0 comment(s)This post has received 0 clips and 0 burys More global-socializing data
http://netfamilynews.org/newsletter.shtml#newsitemEElyEuVpyyoFPQ Once you get past Tagged.com's and Facebook.com's amazing growth figures this past year (774% and 270%, respectively, with Bebo in third place at a respectable 172%), the worldwide membership of these sites is a little less jawdropping. But that international appeal probably explains a lot of these sites' growth. Friendster hasn't grown as much, but 88.7% of its members are in the Asia/Pacific region,...Posted bymaida 0 comment(s)This post has received 0 clips and 0 burys  |
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