Archive for 'internet'

Facebook is creeping me out again

I’m coming a little late to the party here because none of my friends buy from any of the partner sites. I’ve only recently heard about Facebook Beacon. Facebook’s EULA has long warned that they would keep tabs on you outside of the Facebook site, but I expected that they would do that through a [...]

First look at AideRSS, the low information diet aid

I came to know about AideRSS through Slaw. It’s a sleek new web application out of Waterloo that’s going to make my first pass of RSS reading more efficient and keep my favourite reader too. Its secret sauce is PostRank. It’s similar to PageRank in that it uses links as signifiers of importance. Unlike PageRank, [...]

A little more on Canadian neutrality

Another Canadian net neutrality site has opened up. This one is whatisnetneutrality.ca. As its name says, it gives a definition of net neutrality and also examples of where it’s being flouted. They have a blog and a list of other resources. The examples page I find most valuable even if I don’t agree with all [...]

Goodbye page breaking ads, thank you AdBlock

AdBlock Plus is a necessity for me to browse at home these days. For the past few years I’ve felt the net is oversaturated with ads, but what finally pushed me over the edge was the relatively recent trend of full screen flash adverts. I’m not talking about the splash screen ads that you have [...]

Neutrality.ca [is now] kicking, [not] flatlining

Update June 8th 2007: On June 5th, Dr. Michael Geist has brought neutrality.ca back up. Courtesy of David Eaves you can see Kevin McArthur’s explanation of the downtime on Facebook. And now, the old post: Neutrality.ca has just shown a glimmer of life. It’s said that it’s been migrating to a new owner for about [...]

IT360 Notes – Ajax in the Real World Part 2

Part two of the seminar. Lots of code I won’t paste. Also explains some of the tools used. firebug at getfirebug.com allows you to expand the DOM at the bottom pane, the active element is then highlighted at the viewing pane also good for css because you can look and see the css for a [...]