The main goal of OuterVillage is to develop a community of technology professionals focused sharing ideas, solving problems, and expanding professional networks.
OuterVillage is similar to other social network sites in that content is rated by the community. Content with the most votes gets pushed to the front. The difference is that OuterVillage only focuses on technology and science related topics.
We will look at cool technology and how it may impact our lives both professionally and person
NebuAd is a highly controversial behavioral targeted advertising system implemented by many leading ISP's, the sophisticated deep-packet inspection appliance based system at your ISP level analyzes customer's websurfing habits delivering micro-targeted advertising to them, the overall approach used to intercept, analyze and alter the visited webpage's html makes it no less then a Spyware and is raising substantial privacy questions.
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Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.
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Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 8.0 for Windows allows you to create the exact server disk image for complete server backup providing organizations with the most comprehensive, reliable, and cost effective server protection. The server disk backup file includes all the server disk data including system, programs, databases, and the like. Is server downtime costing you thousands dollars an hour? Unlike traditional file-by-file backup solutions, Acronis True Image ES sector-level disk imag... Read Full Story
Ever wonder how popular Ubuntu is starting to become? Take a look at some interesting statistics when looking at search popularity. If one looks at the trend of the search volume associated with the keyword "linux" and compares it to the trend associated with the search for keyword "ubuntu" we start to see some interesting results.
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This technology is very impressive, use your mouse to scroll 360° video panorama and Zoom in and out.
More videos at Immersive Media website >>
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There has been a lot of speculation on whether a deal with Yahoo/Microsoft will happen. I feel that this merger will happen and have outlined several reasons as to why this deal is almost a sure thing at this point.
Top 5 Reason Why the Yahoo/Microsoft Deal will Happen:
1) Microsoft needs Yahoo more than Yahoo needs Microsoft. To compete with the threat of Google and other Internet giants Microsoft would benefit huge from a deal like this. It would catapult them into the #1 Internet player... Read Full Story
In an effort to battle security threats Paypal announced today that it will block "unsafe browsers" from using its services. It is trying to step up its anti-phishing efforts. Older web browsers are considered unsafe because the lack many security features the newer browsers have. Paypal said it was "an alarming fact that there is a significant set of users who use very old and vulnerable browsers such as Internet Explorer 4". Some users were still using Internet Expl... Read Full Story
The Open Source Census is collaborative project that attempts to collect and share quantitative data relating to the use of open source software in the enterprise.
The Open Source Census has a tool called OSS Discovery that scans individual machines and generate anonymous reports regarding what open source software that machine has installed. It is completely voluntary and any individual or company can participate in The Open Source Census.
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If you're looking to transition from Windows to Linux but your users are not technically inclined you may want to evaluate Linux XP Desktop 2008. Linux XP tries to emulate the look and feel of Microsoft Windows. The goal being to make the transition to Linux easier for those used to Microsoft like operating systems.
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