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Diggin Bobbie Gentry

garmonca — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:26:09 +0000

Bobbie Gentry is like a female Elvis, ahead of her time. Her silky, smokey voice will melt you.

Does our government have influence over the press?

garmonca — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:19:51 +0000

Lately, it seems as though our press is no longer free.
A great American, Thomas Jefferson, once said to George Washington “No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free, no one ever will.”

Is our press free?

SMS Gateway

garmonca — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:56:31 +0000

google search results: sms, gateway, smtp, web service

CellTrust developer examples are ok
CDYNE bulk text messages
ActiveXperts is pricing reasonable

ok, so more questions:

can i find diabetes research grants to help with funding?
where can i find coms providers plans?
what language are services written in?

Diabetes Research Plan

garmonca — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:30:54 +0000

ims 201 was cool, but on to bigger and better things…

using the hive to find solutions

Requirements

transfer lots of text messages
minimal cost
web service/database
super duper secure
works with sms/xml
create competition

1 setting up gateway communications

??? gonna research this over the weekend

2programming languages required for multiple interfaces

.NET – i did this
SQL – n this
Ajax/Ruby – haven’t even seen this
Obj-C (iPhone) – and just a tad of this
api/web service programming

3work with service provider on plans find inexpensive to or free medical, use e advertisement incentives for all donors.

popup window with provider logo on reminders
incentives for large donations

Interested in Computer Security?

garmonca — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:03:00 +0000

For those of you who are interested in protecting your computer from unwanted viruses, spyware, malware and the likes, read this article for tips and tricks you can use to protect your PC (or MAC).

Web 2.0

garmonca — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:56:36 +0000

Ellyssa Kroski article, The Hype and the Hullabaloo of Web 2.0, discusses the why’s and how’s of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is a Platform that Harnesses the Collective Intelligence and uses the Wisdom of Crowds to create better, more effective Network. This article sums up Web 2.0 quite nicely.

Search Engine Optimization

garmonca — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:36:30 +0000

In class we discussed searching the static and dynamic web. I found an article that explains how these dynamic webpages are indexed. Since most dynamic web pages contain query strings, or a “?” in the url, the spiders stop at the query string and will not index the page further to avoid “spider traps”. To get around this, the article suggests web masters to include links to important dynamic content on the static pages, remove the query strings and replace the “?” with a “/”, like Amazon, and create pages with good content, META-tags, and keywords. Doing these fewe things could increase your search engine rankings thus increasing your web page hits.

Facebook Tips

garmonca — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:25:04 +0000

For all those out there that love and use Facebook for social networking, I found a great article in PC Mag about how to to do damage control since Facebook will not take down pictures unless it violates their terms of use. It is simple, when photos are uploaded with your image and it is not particularly flattering, you need only remove the tag. While you cannot remove the photo without petitioning Facebook, this fix stops the image from being accessed on future newsfeeds.

Blogging Success

garmonca — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:07:00 +0000

Since blogging is a huge part of social networking and user generated content, I thought the article, Succeed at Blogging the Gawker Way, is great information for the entire class. Douglas points out the inportance of being specific, blogging about your interests, and blog about wierd topics. Not only does the author provide tips on blogging successfully, he includes information on how to get paid $$ for blogging.

Now if only Google focused on the cell phone…

garmonca — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:12:46 +0000

Yet another useful service to the public provided by Google. Google has provided a service to stop drunk emailing. The application is called Mail Goggles. Late Friday and Saturday night, after hitting the send button in your gmail, a list of basic math questions pops up giving you opportunity to think before you send. Now if only Google could focus this technology on phones.