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Wired News: MySpace Parent Cheat Sheet

Wired News is running a brief guide to MySpace for parents, because, if you are a parent who is clueless about MySpace, there is a good chance you track on Wired News, right? Oh, maybe not. But something there caught my eye: danah boyd is quoted as saying “Don’t go on and engage in surveillance. […]
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Is Internet Explorer passing notes

Paul Visco was playing with some of his pages and discovered the “clipboard exploit,” which allows a web page to capture whatever happens to be on your clipboard. If you are using IE, check it out. But don’t have anything interesting on your clipboard, ’cause I bet Paul is watching… Do I need to mention: […]
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Fading Love for Gmail

I was tentative in starting up with Gmail. Email is the lifeblood of everything I do, and I couldn’t risk not having it work. Luckily, it did work, consistently and well. And I love the little bits and pieces that Google keeps throwing at it. I like when it automatically offers to map an address […]
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Multi-touchscreens

You wouldn’t think adding more than one touchpoint would change the utility of touchscreens much. Watch this video and think again. It’s been clear for a while that our processors and storage capacities have outstripped our human-comuter interface. I can see getting a lot done with a touchscreen that really worked this quickly and effectively. […]
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