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Video CV

2007-01-17T15:11:00.000-08:00

In few minutes, video CV makes it easy for recruiters to validate the candidate’s language skills, their motivation to work in a specific field, and also to get a good sample of their personality and professionalism.
Video CV is not meant to be a replacement of a final interview. This visual tool was created to help you validate your major requirements quickly and effectively, before contacting the candidate for an initial phone interview.
This is why video CV service guarantees you valuable timesaving during your recruitment process.

example of video CV

Youtube functions

2007-01-17T03:07:00.000-08:00

You tube allows anyone to upload, view, and share freely their video clips with the rest of the world. You can keep your videos private if you want, but that is definitely not the point! All you need is a broadband Internet connection and a recording device (such as a digital camera or a camera phone).
this video clip shows the personal video blogging aspect of youtube as emerging social phenomenon of the next generation internet (don't like the term 2.0 that much). personal video blogging is a even more extroverted further step in exposing yourself to a wide public like personal diary weblogs or podcasts have shown it before real or fake, funny or sad, smart or just dumb, pointless, pathetic or arty - it shows the whole wide range of what is going, a mirror of our society nowadays? it somewhat reminded me of this video ...

History of youtube

Backup your records!

2007-01-16T14:41:00.000-08:00

In the field of information technology, backup refers to the copying of data so that these additional copies may be restored after a data loss event.

Backups are useful primarily for two purposes: to restore a computer to an operational state following a disaster (called disaster recovery) and to restore small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted. Backups differ from archives in the sense that archives are the primary copy of data and backups are a secondary copy of data.

Backup systems differ from fault-tolerant systems in the sense that backup systems assume that a fault will cause a data loss event and fault-tolerant systems assume a fault will not. Backups are typically that last line of defense against data loss, and consequently the least granular and the least convenient to use.

Since a backup system contains at least one copy of all data worth saving, the data storage requirements are considerable. Organizing this storage space and managing the backup process is a complicated undertaking.

example of backup

FaceBook stalking

2007-01-16T14:27:00.000-08:00

Stalking is a legal term for repeated harassment or other forms of invasion of a person's privacy in a manner that causes fear to its target.

Facebook is an English language social networking website, popular among college students. It was originally developed for university students, faculty and staff, but has since expanded to include everyone, including high school, corporate and geographic communities.

"Facebook stalking" is the term that has developed for this typically harmless practice of finding people (or finding their profiles, at least) on Facebook and learning about them without their knowledge or consent.
The facebook is an online social network which, in college code, means quite a useful alternative to homework.
Even though many students may view the facebook as an innocent Web site, the University Police, in conjunction with Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Lampkin, sent an e-mail about two weeks ago to students expressing concern over the facebook and other similar sites.
Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.

Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a company, region, high school or college.
You can use Facebook to:
§ Share information with people you know.
§ See what's going on with your friends.
§ Look up people around you.

http://www.facebook.com/

content management system

2007-01-11T03:31:00.000-08:00

A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. A CMS facilitates the organization, control, and publication of a large body of documents and other content, such as images and multimedia resources. A CMS often facilitates the collaborative creation of documents. A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to Web sites.
Web Content management systems are often used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures.

TV show little Britain

2006-11-23T02:47:00.000-08:00

TV show sex and the city

2006-11-23T02:45:00.000-08:00

SHTTP?

2006-11-15T12:18:00.000-08:00

SHTTP means Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol which is developed by Enterprise Integration Technologies in 1995 to ensure security with commercial transactions on the Internet. A protocol that provides secure transactions over the Web. It is endorsed by a variety of organizations.

An extension to the HTTP protocol to support sending data securely over the World Wide Web. Not all Web browsers and servers support S-HTTP. Another technology for transmitting secure communications over the World Wide Web -- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) -- is more prevalent. However, SSL and S-HTTP have very different designs and goals so it is possible to use the two protocols together. Whereas SSL is designed to establish a secure connection between two computers, S-HTTP is designed to send individual messages securely. Both protocols have been submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for approval as a standard.

S-HTTP was designed by E. Rescorla and A. Schiffman of EIT to secure HTTP connections. S-HTTP provides a wide variety of mechanisms to provide for confidentiality, authentication, and integrity.
Separation of policy from mechanism was an explicit goal. The system is not tied to any particular cryptographic system, key infrastructure, or cryptographic format. The internet draft is fairly clear in its presentation of the protocol, although implementation details are sketchy.
SHTTP meaning

Listen BBC!

2006-11-15T12:16:00.000-08:00

BBC can be a good way to learn english, in their web site you can learn business English, watch and listen video, work grammar and vocabulary and answer to quizzes.

In my opinion, it’s very important to listen English and the best advantages of this way is the free radio. Even if you don’t understand each words, understand the global sens helps for your English.

BBC

RSS

2006-11-08T03:02:00.000-08:00

RSS Really Simple Syndication is a XML-based system that allows users to subscribe to their favourite websites. Using RSS, webmasters can put their content into a standardized format, which can be viewed and organized through RSS-aware software or automatically conveyed as new content on another website.

Programs known as feed readers or aggregators can check a list of feeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that they find. It is common to find web feeds on major websites and many smaller ones. Some websites let people choose between RSS or Atom formatted web feeds; others offer only RSS or only Atom.RSS-aware programs are available for various operating systems.
Client-side readers and aggregators are typically constructed as standalone programs or extensions to existing programs such as web browsers and Email readers.
Many browsers have integrated support for RSS feeds.

There also are other applications that can convert a RSS feed into several usenet articles, viewable through the major newsreader software such as Mozilla Thunderbird or Forté Agent.

example , here you can install RSS: http://pretty-rss.snyke.com/

What is cybercrime?

2006-11-07T04:18:00.000-08:00

Cybercrime is a term used broadly to describe criminal activity in which computers or networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity.

Although the term cybercrime is usually restricted to describing criminal activity in which the computer or network is an essential part of the crime. This term is also used to include traditional crimes in which computers or networks are used to enalbe the illicit activity. Examples of cybercrime in which the computer or network is a tool of the criminal activity include spamming and certain intellectual property and criminal copyright crimes, particularly those facilitated through peer-to-peer networks.

Examples of cybercrime in which the computer or network is a target of criminal activity include unauthorized access (i.e, defeating access controls), malicious code, and denial-of-service attacks.

Examples of cybercrime in which the computer or network is a place of criminal activity include theft of service (in particular, telecom fraud) and certain financial frauds.

Finally, examples of traditional crimes facilitated through the use of computers or networks include Nigerian 419 or other gullibility or social engineering frauds ,identity theft, child pornography, online gambling, securities fraud, etc. Cyber stalking is an example of a traditionl crime, harassment, that has taken a new form when facilitated through computer networks. Copyright crimes can be a strange example : piracityisacrime

As I'm concerned, I never been victime of ciber criminality. To protect yourself, you must have different sort of programs like firewalls.

About You Tube...

2006-10-26T06:46:00.000-07:00

YouTube.com was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in February 2005 who were all early employees of Pay Pal.
The story is already well known: the three founders were searching for a way to share video taken at a party of fellow Pay Pal employees. See the first video of You Tube.

YouTube is a popular free video sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clip. The wide variety of site content include movie and TV clip andmusic videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging. It is staffed by 67 employees.

The website is a place where anyone with a home video can post it online and create an endlessly entertaining diversion for bored office workers, who've been watching 40 million clips a day.
At present, YouTube is one of the fastest-growing websites on the World wide Web, and is ranked as the 10th most popular website on Alexa far outpacing even my space's growth. In its short time on the web, YouTube has grown quickly and received much attention.

In August, YouTube received around 68 million hits making it one of the most popular manufacturing websites. The company is looking to sell the Web address and find a new home for its Web site even though the company uses the Utube.com name to advertise to customers overseas.

The big news about Youtube.com is that Google bought it. Google acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock. The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment communities with Google's expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising on the Internet.

"The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," said Eric Schmidt

See Youtube

About "Social Networks"

2006-10-22T10:59:00.000-07:00

A social network is a social structure made of nodes which are generally individuals or organizations. It indicates the ways in which they are connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual acquaintance to close familial bonds.
For example, on the internet, my space is a big "social networks". People can share their information and hobies. According to me, I use msn messenger to chat with my friends.

What is DRM?

2006-10-22T10:47:00.000-07:00

Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers (or copyright owners) to control access to and usage of digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work.
These two terms refer to technologies that control or restrict the use and access of digital media content on electronic devices with such technologies installed, acting as components of a DRM design.

For example, DRM enables the artists who create music to reap the benefits of their labor. If a user pays a dollar for downloading a song, a part of that dollar goes to the music company, and some percentage of that part goes to the artist. Although hundreds of millions of copyrighted songs have been swapped over the Internet, tens of millions of songs have also been paid for since the advent of legitimate online music services
See Napster.

What does the expression “web neutrality” involve?

2006-10-22T08:44:00.000-07:00

Net neutrality is this:

"If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level." by timbl

Control of information is hugely powerful. In the US, the threat is that companies control what we can access for commercial reasons. (In China, control is by the government for political reasons.) There is a very strong short-term incentive for a company to grab control of TV distribution over the Internet even though it is against the long-term interests of the industry.

Regulation to keep the Internet open is regulation. And mostly, the Internet thrives on lack of regulation. But some basic values have to be preserved.
For example, the market system depends on the rule that you can't photocopy money. Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social basis of the Internet, and, now, the society based on it.

What is the most important development on the web?

2006-10-12T02:51:00.000-07:00

Wifi undoubtedly created a deep revolution in people's minds.
Wi-Fi was developed to be used for mobile computing devices. It's is now increasingly used for more services, including internet and Voip phone access, gaming, and basic connectivity of consumer electronics such as televisions and DVD players, or digital cameras.
A person with a Wi-Fi can connect to the Internet when in proximity of an access point. Wi-Fi also enables connectivity via peer-to-peer allowing devices to connect directly with each others. This connectivity mode is useful in consumer electronics and game applications for example.
Wifi undoubtedly created a deep revolution in people's minds.

What is Podcast?

2006-10-12T01:13:00.000-07:00

Podcast is a method of publishing audio and video files to the Internet.
It's a crisp way to describe the technology used to push audio content from website down to consumers of that content, who typically listen to it on their i-pod or other audio player that supports mp3 at their convenience.
Users can receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost.

example: Captain Morgan