Apple launched iCloud a couple of weeks back with much fanfare. The service is meant to improve the lags, vulnerabilities, and complications of MobileMe. And neither is particularly bleeding-edge technology. Apple’s efforts (as is so often the case) were to simplify and beatify the experience of cloud computing for the consumer (whether on Windows or […]
#Tech: The Cloud Can Bring Liberty. The Cloud Can Bring Danger.
O Liberty…! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? Thomas Bailey Aldrich The history of technology is the history of liberty and loss. We gained a stylus and wax and left the need to memorize everything. We gained a smartphone, and forgot how to write legibly. With great freedom comes great responsibility, and the […]
#How-To: Review & Refresh Settings On Your Facebook Business Page
We have discussed the ways to set up a Facebook account as either an individual or a business, and how the differences can be important for how your organization wants to reach out to people. We have also encouraged the use of the ‘Events’ feature in Facebook to advertise upcoming functions. But with so much […]
#Social Networks: How to Block Facebook’s Face Recognition & Tighten Other Privacy Settings
Facebook continues to push the edge of the envelope when it comes to making inroads into what users can consider “private” or not. The latest foray into this porous arena is face recognition technology. I quote heavily from a Fast Company magazine article: “By adjusting its interface, Facebook has now enabled “tag suggestions” to many […]
#Tech: Security Of Cloud Computing Up For Debate
One of the oft-touted statistical arguments about air travel is that driving to the airport is the most dangerous part of a flight. A variation of that theme was stated by Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix, in a panel debate over cloud computing and security. As we have noted here, Amazon’s services went down a […]
#Tech: Cloud Reliability As Critical As Cloud Security
As more information, entertainment, and even software moves toward ‘the cloud,’ we meet both new freedoms of access and flexibility as well as new needed skills and risks. For most of us (including this author), envisioning the end of huge hard drives and CDs to deliver content is stressful: How can a whole movie (at […]
Tech: Cloud Computing Can Contain Legal Catches
Though the US lags behind most of our post-industrial counterparts in high-speed network services, more services and content are moving online with each passing month. Many of us are getting our entertainment from ‘the cloud,’ and a growing number are putting our information back up into that cloud. For nonprofits, so-called ‘cloud computing’ holds a […]