Since not everyone has their own in-house librarian, Aardvark is a service that may be of interest to you. Publicly launched in October 2009, Aardvark didn't take long to get a lot of attention and was just acquired by Google this month. Aardvark, found at vark.com, is a social search engine that doesn't seek to return pages but instead responses from people with knowledge in … [Read more...]
Follow-Up: Firefox Phishing Site Taken Down
I got a lot of positive feedback on my article Is Your Firefox Genuine? Phishing at its Phinest! where I identified a site that had repackaged Mozilla Firefox and wrapped it up in a bunch of malware. The site was getting a decent amount of traffic, I suspect, because it was advertising itself well and was often the top sponsored result for Firefox-related searches on Bing. I … [Read more...]
The Bad Buzz for Google Buzz
There has certainly been plenty of articles making the rounds of tech news sites covering Google Buzz, so I don't feel like I need to cover the topic of what it is and what its purpose is. More interesting to me, however, is the privacy concerns, security issues, and backlash that Google is receiving. After all the hype of Google Wave died down and resulted in a hardly used, … [Read more...]
ICSI Netalyzr – Know your Connection
I have another guest post over at Freewaregenius, this time on ICSI Netalyzr. It's a free service that helps you know the ins-and-outs of your connection to the Internet. It can help troubleshoot network problems, issues with your router, and capabilities of your ISP. Check out the details in my article at Freewaregenius: ICSI Netalyzr - Know your Connection. … [Read more...]
The Book Seer – Book Recommendations for What’s Next
The Book Seer is a very straight-forward web app that would be useful to anybody looking for recommendations as to what they should read next. When you visit the site, you see a gentleman in the background with a speech bubble over his head. The speech bubble has two blanks where you put the title and author of the last book you read as if the guy is saying it. Both title and … [Read more...]