Social Network Mayhem

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Scenario: You spin up your browser and search for someone on the Internet. Some of you load up Google – others choose Yahoo – and yet some of you surf to social sites like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, Tagged, Reunion, Classmates and (catch my breath), and so on. Irregardless of where you search, what happens next is the same: You get slammed with a deluge of results and then find yourself sifting through a lot of irrelevant clutter.

A closer peek at this social network mayhem and we notice all sites try very hard to do one thing — keep you social. ‘Try‘ being the keyword. With the advent of AJAX and site design improvements now happening everywhere — quite justifiably — social networking has become an awkward gob of repetitive bells and whistles (some cool and others weak) that make one social site [not so] different from the other.

What we need–

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Wikipedia Scores Big Through Transparency

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Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, reached out to the world last year and asked for volunteer donations in support of his massive online encyclopedia operations. He did this with hopes of funding 6 million USD for their 2009 fiscal operations. They made it. And it was no small feat [for a non-profit] considering costly requirements like these-

  • Nearly three million USD in projected technology costs
  • Almost two million USD in projected accounting and administration costs
  • Salary for 23 folks on staff
  • 300+ servers on the farm
  • And more

One of the most respectable moves a company can make in gaining outside interest and support is to display their operations as transparent as possible. Wikipedia [does] and did a great job conveying their transparency through info pages like their annual fiscal plan document or their frank Q&A page.

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New No-Cost Security From Microsoft?

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Come off it Microsoft — you know your own platform like no one else. I would have expected you to offer a ‘free’ security solution for your operating systems starting back in the Windows 3.1 day.

Well, in the latter half of 2009 [as reported by Redmond on their PressPass site] the software giant will finally launch their no-cost comprehensive protection software for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. And Microsoft offered these shocking words in their news release-:

“To address the growing need for a PC security solution…..

Growing need? This tells me that the folks at Microsoft don’t yet get security.

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The $100K Tech Contractor

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It is hard to believe what IT engineers expect in the way of compensation nowadays — especially those in civil service. I would moreover expect a sense of urgency and introspect from anyone pulling down a decent salary [especially from the United States Government]. However, the complacency madness marches on.

With the U.S. economy crumbling and jobs evaporating, it is time to listen to the alarms and rise to the occasion. What makes you worth your weight in pay? Let’s take a look at just a few points-

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Ramping IT Up

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Rich Chuckrey here. The agenda is simple: blog on current real-world technology employing critical analysis, fair reporting and raw opinion. The goal is to leave no IT stone unturned. We will look at topics like Microsoft’s attempt to buy Yahoo [now without the Jerry Yang roadblock], upcoming IT initiatives under Barrack Obama’s administration, current Web 2.0 vs. The Semantic Web vs. Web 3.0, and anything else technical and worthy of bringing into the TechMiso spotlight.

Involved in IT policy and planning for an organization inside the U.S. Department of Defense, I consider government a prime target for criticism and review. A good chunk of my content will also be spent targeting IT issues in and around government — Uncovering deficiencies [and efficiencies] in projects, procurement, budget, security and staffing while closely inspecting their influential factors — good and bad. I will provide comment on IT decisions made in government offices from the President on down to our small town Mayors.

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TechMiso Launches

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Welcome to TechMiso and Happy New Year!

TechMiso is here now on the scene to serve up the freshest tech soup with exotic tech ingredients from around the globe. We will whip IT up and serve IT hot, steamy and scrumptiously palatable. Sprinkle in our weighty opinions, add some inviting debates and there you have us — TechMiso.

With technologies so advanced and so dispersed in the world, it is our goal to provide clarity through a wide scope of insightful commentary — A pinch of the world wide web; a drop of nanotechnologies; heaping spoonful of procurement; simmered ROI models; human resources al dente; dab of patents; and so on. We will discuss the blogosphere and how it connects people and informs. We will look at government technology — are they asleep at the wheel or are they taking the lead. ‘Is’ technology linking us together in the world or are we suffering from broadly splintered silos of information and services. And so on.

We look forward to your readership and all your feedback.

TechMiso is cooked by Scott Jarkoff and Rich Chuckrey with input from their associate chefs — Reviving the IT Revolution.

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