Yostivanich

Category: Technology

  • Soon We Will All Be Stalkable

    Sorry for the lack of posting over the last few weeks. I had finals and yeah that is ’nuff’ said. Something interesting has been occurring over the last several weeks though with regards to Facebook. I now have just about the entirety of my family whom I communicate with me on Facebook, even my mom […]

  • Daily Links April 9th, 2008

    Lots of news from Yahoo in it’s efforts to fight off the takeover offer from Microsoft. Yahoo announced they will go through a two week trial period outsourcing their search ads to Google News Corp is in talks to join with Microsoft in it’s takeover offer for Yahoo AOL and Yahoo are looking at joining […]

  • Daily Links April 8th, 2008

    I keep finding that there is a ton of stuff day in and day out that I want to talk about but I don’t have the time or it isn’t really needing a full blog post to devote to. However I still wish to inform people about some of the most interesting stuff I find […]

  • Changes To My Online Presence

    This week has been an interesting week for me in terms of what I am doing online with my various social networks. Reducing the number of websites/social networks that I have Moving away from Facebook and more to FriendFeed Loving and Using Ping.fm heavily So what exactly am I doing with each of these? I […]

  • Apple Pushes Safari Through Apple Software Update

    Apple which is legendary in some circles as being described that it can do no wrong, well that just proven as not true today. The big story of the day is that Apple pushed onto Windows users via the Apple Software Update, Safari 3.1. What occured is that if you have iTunes or QuickTime you […]

  • Facebook’s Newest Privacy Features

    Facebook this morning released a system of new privacy controls for user profiles. These controls allow you to create groups or lists of friends. You can then apply very specific privacy rules to each of these lists or even one particular friend. This is a huge step forward in my opinion and one that I […]

  • Computer Science and it’s Ethics or Lack Thereof

    Recently, I had a class project in which I had to track down a code of ethics for my career field, computer science. In the course of this research, something astonished me. First, that it was pretty much impossible to find a local company that had a code of ethics for their staff programmers and […]

  • Trent Reznor Does Something Different and Succeeds

    Trent Reznor, the front man for Nine Inch Nails, who has widely been acknowledged as one of the most important artists in the music industry. Trent Reznor has released a new multi-part album, Ghosts I-IV, with both a Creative Commons license and an innovative pricing scheme. The first 9 tracks are available as a free […]

  • Object Oriented Programming Is Not an Excuse for Forgetting to Design Your System

    This post is dedicated to a lecturer that I am taking a class with this semester at Texas Tech University. This person doesn’t like object-orientated programming (OOP), which I do love (I <3 Java big time). His main argument against Java and other object-orientated based programming languages is that it pushes people away from developing […]

  • Social Networks and Business

    Recently I’m having the chance to view how a business works with social networks and social media. So I wanted to discuss some of the lessons that I am learning in this experience and what exactly are some of the ways a business can use social networks to help themselves. The main goal of a […]