The Internet could soon be a safer place thanks to an American team of technologists. The idea is simple enough; provide areas of the web with immunity. Understanding the viral nature of worms, the team, headed by Scott Coull and Boleslaw Szymanski, want to strengthen defences of a core group of computers.
With recent Twitter Denial of Service attacks (although not immediately related) and other major online viruses, online security has rarely been out of the headlines. Locally of course, we can all set up firewalls and anti-virus systems, both at home and in the office. But with a wider protective shield covering the Internet, working online could become significantly safer.
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It didn’t take long did it? No sooner had Facebook snapped up FriendFeed than they incorporated their live feed style in a ‘Lite’ version.
This stripped down Facebook is only currently available to a selection of Beta testers, of which I am not one, and is offering a service not too dissimilar to Twitter or FriendFeed. The rolling feed of news from contacts isn’t interrupted with irritating applications and endless tabs; just a stripped down communication portal.
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Facebook appears to be an unstoppable juggernaut of a website. It has already dwarfed all of its social media peers, but that, it seems, just isn’t enough. With the acquisition of FriendFeed, Facebook may have just played their greatest masterstroke.
There’s probably a fair percentage of people reading this who don’t have the first idea what FriendFeed is; don’t worry, you’re far from alone. Essentially, FriendFeed is a real-time aggregator; pulling in news and updates from various sources and channelling through a single hub. The instantaneous feed has bought many comparisons to Twitter, but before it could really get huge, it has been snaffled up by Facebook.
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To maintain a fresh and interesting blog these days you need a good source of top quality news sources. Whilst the big guns out there – TechCrunch, Econsultancy and Mashable to name but a few – dedicate time to researching and resourcing the very latest in breaking news, much of the industry remains dependent on re-spinning the latest articles with their own insight.
But with a greater emphasis placed on the immediacy of news, is an RSS feed to most efficient way of unearthing breaking stories any more? RSS will always have a place, it’s where you can go straight to a certain blog and get everything you need in one hit, whilst of course being informed about updates. However, Twitter has now stolen quite a good deal of its thunder.
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