Technical Tidbits™

How about that? I’m giving you a quickie this Friday!

A few things I wanted to let you know….

Just in from Google Hosted News: Obama to YouTube Weekly Address

US president-elect Barack Obama is to make the first YouTube address to the
nation on Saturday, recording a talk not just on radio but also on video, a
spokesman said Friday.

“President-elect Obama will record the Weekly Democratic Radio Address on
video and radio,” spokesman Nick Shapiro said.

There is more to the story but you can read it yourself here:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jBiuUwfVUn3jECNK5449eVRQR3fg

(Don’t want to be accused of stealing their content!)

Next item you need to know: Twitter apps: fun or dangerous?

This comes from one of my twitter friends and a LinkedIn connection/Group member. It seems that before the election, a website appeared out of thin air that was supposed to be a mock vote for the candidates. It required you to login to your twitter account from their website.

You know what’s coming, don’t you???

You got it!

As of this writing 24,372 people have given their Twitter IDs and passwords to this cool little application, which incidentally is owned by M, Krishnapriya  in Bangalore, India.   I am not even suggesting that Twitmarks is a malicious site. I am just showing how easily people give up their credentials. There are dozens of these sites.

My friend goes on to say much more in this blog post and another. So I’ll provide you the links here to visit and read for yourself. This blog is worth visiting! I am going to add his site to my favorites because I’m learning a lot from him too!

So here are the two important links you need to read further:

Twitter apps: fun or dangerous?

Twitter is Doomed

I do hope he’s wrong about Twitter being doomed! I like it! Probably too much!

The final thing you need to know: CISCO: Chance to win $10,000

This is not a hoax. Not a circulating spam mail. This is a legitimate contest sponsored by CISCO!

Time is wasting so you need to check out this YouTube video immediately!

That’s it for right now. But if I come up with some more quickies, I’ll let you know!

Have a great weekend!

Debbie