InfoMusing

There’s No Hiding Out on the Internet

There are people who are so concerned about their privacy and their anonymity that they want to remain completely anonymous online, yet they still want to take advantage of what the Internet has to offer. Is that possible?

Well, sort of. To hide your identity on the Web, you have to not only hide your data, but also stay a step ahead of programs that log your activities.

Regarding your data, you must hide your demographics (name, address, city, state, ZIP, phone); your financial data (credit card, expiration dates); and the hardest thing to hide — your computer (IP address).

Read the full story at Internet Evolution

CRM Vendors Glom Onto Social Media

Every IT manager has had one of those late nights — a server crashes, a software update goes haywire, an installation of a new product takes several hours longer than planned. We’ve all been there. But with new CRM technology from Microsoft, you might be greeted next morning by multiple vendors proposing new solutions for you.

Let’s say that at 10 p.m., instead of just sitting and stewing over the technical glitches, you tweet: “Banging my head with frustration over brand X’s 10.1 upgrade.” Those tweets, or maybe some comments on your Facebook page, could really help you to vent and reduce the pent-up frustration.

Read this entire blog post at Internet Evolution.

Monitoring Your Blog

One of the most frustrating events about running a blog, or any website, is when the site is not operating at 100%.  Kevin just posted a blog on Has BloggingTips been down for you in response to some to some feedback from some visitors who “commented that the site has been down for them at one point or another.”

It’s somewhat counter-intuitive, but it’s actually easier to solve a complete site outage than an intermittent outage.  If the server crashes or the telecommunications lines to your servers go down the result is that life sucks – but the resolution is pretty clear.  It’s clear and obvious how to resolve these disasters.

Read the full story at BloggingTips.

Feedly – Blog Reader or Magazine?

If you read a number of blogs, perhaps even too many blogs, then Feedly could be the best RSS blog reader for you.  Feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page. The only downside is that Feedly is built upon Google Reader and Firefox – you need both to play.  Feedly displays your Google Reader feeds in a magazine-like format, allowing you to browse over multiple categories, preview post pictures and all your read items are synchronized back to Google Reader.

Read the full review at BloggingTips.

Bing Materializes Quietly Against Wave Backdrop

Last Thursday, the technology world saw a demonstration of both approaches on the same day. Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) took the innovative road by announcing Google Wave — an approach to online communication that does not fit neatly into any current classification. Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT)’s announcement of Bing, in contrast, is a “new” approach to Web search.

Google had a live demo for thousands of developers; Microsoft had a flashy canned demo for hundreds of executives. No surprise which company won the social media battle — developers and the Web world fawned over Google Wave. Meanwhile, the most quoted comment about Bing was that it stands for “But It’s Not Google.”

Check out the entire blog at Internet Evolution.