Internet

One thing we do at my company is search engine optimization. We don't do a massive amount, but as a small company it is another revenue stream, and that matters. I was concerned about the "Penguin" search algorithm that Google implemented causing negative effects for my SEO clients, but honestly, I haven't seen any significant difference.

I read an article today about a Pew survey that showed 78% of American adults use the internet. Or, looking at it in my preferred glass half full mode, nearly a quarter of Americans have decided, "Nope, Martha. This interwebs thing is just a fad, not gonna do it."

I went on my Google+ page this morning and it looked waaaay different. I think it looks much nicer, actually, but I haven't played around with it much so far. It reminds me of the new Facebook look since they implemented time line. I'm not sure how much more functional the changes made Google+, but hey, you can't stop progress.

Apparently Google has been listening to some our concerns about privacy. A more cynical person might suggest that Google wants to address folks' concerns before the "gubmint" steps in and starts regulating.

After years of resisting implementation of support for H.264 video in Firefox, Mozilla suddenly announced they were on board. What happened to cause them to change course on something they fought for so long?

There has been noise lately about a proposed "privacy bill of rights" intended to protect the personal data of individuals.

We need to set up complete video chain from IP camera at remote location, to encoder,  to QoS network set up, to maximize upload capacity for high quality video to stream to our servers and from there to the web viewable by 1,000s of viewers.

Google's Screenwise data collection program has made the headlines as Google offers payment in return for Internet users allowing all of their internet activity to be tracked. Ok, that sounds fair enough. You know they are looking, you are getting cold hard cash (or room temp gift cards), and they get valuable information in return.

I haven't had an opportunity yet to read all of the changes to Google's privacy policy, but from what I understand it says that information from one part of Google can be shared with other parts of Google. It is still under the same roof, so to speak. What does it really matter whether Google part A shares your data with Google part B?

With two different standard setting bodies, HTML is not a single consistent version as once envisioned.

I know there is software out there that is intended to defeat CAPTCHAs, but it doesn't work well on a lot of CAPTCHA systems and we still get automated account creation and spam. Is it really worth their time to solve all those CAPTCHAs just to post an offer for knock-off jewelry or fake brand name shoes?