So I am out of the country and more sensitive to international issues. It is evidently international check your back up day. Not a bad idea.
Underage socializing
One of the points I always make in explaining the potential dangers of so many online social sites for young people is that most of these sites were designed for a broad market and for many purposes. Hence, being upset because such sites contain content or offer the potential of inappropriate experiences for young people cannot be blamed on the site. You should know what you might encounter.
This said, these sites are attractive to young people for the same reasons they are attractive to adults. The sites offer interesting social opportunities.
This post and “infographic” from ReadWriteWeb offers some data on “under age” use of social sites.
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Google Photo Walks
The idea of a photo walk is hardly new. I tend to understand such adventures as exercises for photographers in which they explore a location together and capture what they see.
Some photographers are now altering this social experience somewhat to explore a location for the benefit of those unable to explore (or no longer able to explore) that location for themselves. The idea of virtual photo walks using Google+ is to take images following the directions of someone else:
By rigging their smartphones to cameras, the photographers take directions during from virtual participants who tell them to snap photos of a particular tree or walk down that road to show them what’s beyond that ridge.
A smartphone I would think would be the easiest way to do this. The immediacy of the experience would be great. Photo quality would be acceptable. What a great base for a classroom project – the variations seem endless.
Check Mac for Trojan
This Ars Technica post indicates that you Mac may have picked up a trojan. Evidently this may be one of the reasons you were notified of a java update a few days ago.
I ran the test on one machine to check it out. The responses the terminal commands generated came back to indicate no problems. If you are concerned about this issue or even running the check, you might do a little looking around to see what you think.
P.S. – Since my original post, another way to check for this problem has surfaced. My link here is to the recommendation from MacWorld. I have not downloaded and try this app.
Apple has recognized this problem
Flickr finds new image editing service
Flickr, the online image and sharing service, has provided Picnik as an online image editor. When Google purchased Picnik, this probably became awkward. Those of us who use Flickr have known for some time that we would no longer be able to edit our images within Flickr beginning later this month.
Today Flickr (Yahoo!) announced that it will now partner with Aviary.
Picnik is still in place and functional, but it is nice to know there is a plan for the future.
Patent Battles
This post from Bloomberg Business provides an interesting summary of the tech patent battles. It is difficult for consumers when companies become self centered and the focus is more on other companies as enemy than on whether actions taken are actual infringements. it is difficult to know how much of this is appropriate. Stealing ideas such as the mouse and GUI interface? (yes I know). The court battles can be more harassment than about actual lose.
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