My Comments

• Web 2.0 - 04/29/2009
  For a long time, I sort of disliked Web 2.0 because it is an amorphous term, and I try to be linguistically precise. And it just seemed like a marketing term ... marketers certainly picked up on it and called everything Web 2.0 they were trying to market online. Then I read a piece on the subject and the author argued that in fact it is probably a good term because it is so open-ended and it does not quite mean anything exactly. This avoid limiting it. He used another phrase which is probably useful though -- the "read/write" web. There has always been some degree of interactivity on the web, but the degree to which users now co-create with site operators is on a whole different level. And technologies such as AJAX certainly enable some of that functionality being more prevalent and seamless for people to use. However, recently I have heard some talk of Web 3.0 so it will be interesting to see how it is defined. To me it all just part of the "evolving web" -- the web itself evolved from other parents such as Gopher and SGML.
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• Creating a Facebook Fan Page For Your Business - 04/28/2009
  One odd thing is that if you search for Facebook on work.com this article did not come up for me. I actually found it searching on Google. Instead on work.com, only this article appears and it does not even link to Shara's article (which would make sense): Guide to Facebook
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• Creating a Facebook Fan Page For Your Business - 04/28/2009
  This is an excellent overview on creating facebook pages, but if I was going to add anything it would be a discussion on FB pages vs. groups. When do you create one versus the other, or create both, and if you create both for your organization, then how do you use them most effectively with each other. So far I have found this good discussion on the topic: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/facebook-group-vs-facebook-fan-page-whats-better/7761/
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• Facebook - 04/28/2009
  Word Press document unavailable: http://rfacebook.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/tutorial/ not available anymore
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• Spyware Removal - 09/18/2007
  From a user's point of view, it is simpler to have one anti-malware software that handles viruses, adware, spyware, etc. But simplicity doesn't necessarily give all consumers the choices they want. It's a bit like have an integrated stereo system and different components. So while I think we're moving towards integrated malware protection software as the norm, there is a valid technical distinction between the different kinds of threats.
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• Spyware Removal - 01/19/2007
  Some of it has to do with the architecture of Internet Explorer, though I am not certain if IE 7 has more protections against it. Microsoft in the past had placed more emphasis on features such as allowing developers and users to write macros and provide other hooks in their application including IE. Now Microsoft has been pushed to make security the major priority. The other reason Microsoft products, in general, are more the target of spyware, adware, viruses, and security attacks is because of its popularity. Still it's a combination of both flaws in their software and the fact they are the biggest target.
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• Securing Your Wireless LAN - 12/05/2006
  Having stayed at several lodging environments in the past year, I had the impression that they had installed some special front-end software to handle the authentication. By default, you would get to a web page for the motel or hotel, and then you had to enter the login information to access the rest of the Internet. In some cases, there was a single password that perhaps changed daily or frequently. In other cases, if I remember correctly, each room was assigned its own password Ithat probably changed after the guest left).
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• Setting Up a Wireless LAN - 12/05/2006
  You can plug a wireless router into a hub (or router or switch) to allow wireless devices to access your wired network. If you don’t manually assign IP addresses to every device, you have a DHCP server running that assigns addresses dynamically to devices on your network. Most small business LANs also have a single IP address that their ISP provides and use NAT (Network Address Translation) so that each device is assigned a local network address that’s not accessible from outside your network. Most often DHCP is provided in your primary router or the ISP's modem. If you just want the wireless devices to act the same as wired devices, then you want to make sure you DHCP and NAT aren’t enabled. Edit your wireless router’s configuration to disable these Otherwise, everything connecting wireless will be on a subnet which you probably don’t want. If you already have DHCP and NAT running on your network, you could also use a WAP (Wireless Access Point) that lacks DHCP and NAT. However, it is not much difference in price nowadays. As I describe next, one advantage of having a wireless router is that it could act as a backup router for your wired network. It is possible to use your wireless router as the primary router and DHCP and NAT servers. I have done it both ways. For example, you can connect a wireless router to your DSL or cable modem, and then connect a hub, router or switch to the wireless router to extend your network.
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• Spyware Removal - 10/26/2006
  Thanks Scott for the useful additional comments.
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