Oct. 26, 2007
Few facts from Facebook founder
The Tech Chronicles
Who is Mark Zuckerberg, anyway?
”Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, and the current it-guy of the Internet, took the stage to kick off the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco and said, well, not much.”
IT is a commodity for Wal-Mart
RoughType
Nicholas Carr is the author of the best selling book Does IT Matter.
“I never viewed computers as anything more than necessary overhead,” Sam Walton once said. Nevertheless, after I wrote “IT Doesn’t Matter” back in 2003, critics would routinely present Wal-Mart as the killer counter example to my argument that information technology rarely provides a competitive edge anymore. Wal-Mart had famously set itself apart from its retailing rivals, IT analysts would point out, by building a lot of highly customized IT systems that its competitors were hard-pressed to match.”
Kids hold Internet secrets
Tech dirt
Dennis Yang says now that more and more of our lives are online, it’s common to hear that torrid details of our lives somehow end up on the web browsers of potential employers doing background checks.
”Now, parents are now being warned that family secrets may be outed by their children, whose blogposts and comments may be a source of potentially damning information about their parents. The article claims that parents have lost jobs from their children describing their laziness, drug habits, and drinking problems. Police have arrested a woman, using her son’s tales about his mother buying him and his underage friends a keg of beer as evidence. Perhaps instead of blaming the Internet for getting caught, perhaps these parents should take a look at themselves first, since it was their own illicit or inappropriate behaviors that actually got them in trouble in the first place.“
