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A four-pack of tech news stories

January 26th, 2011 by David Bradley >> 1 Comment

The latest four-pack of tech news stories from David Bradley

  • LinkedIn Labs | InMaps – Visualize your LinkedIn network – LinkedIn's InMaps experimental tool lets you visualise the connections between you and your contacts.
  • Usenet grows to 9 terabytes of data every day – Usenet traffic has increased from 5 Terabytes per day in January 2009 to almost 9 Terabytes of traffic per day two years later. In case you don't know Usenet pre-empted the web by a decade and was there long before Napster, AudioGalaxy and Bit Torrent letting people share messages, images, music, and movies. Still is.
  • Facebook adds an s – The incredibly embarassing, for Zuck, hacking of his Facebook fan page has caused hilarity and concern in equal measure across the tech blogosphere. But, it has at long last forced Facebook's hand so that they are set to add the little s to their http:// so that secure is the default browser setting. Hopefully, Twitter and other loginable services will follow suit and quickly.
  • Tweak your Google to find what you want – Ideally, a simple Google search will give you exactly the results you need. When it doesn't, here are the best ways to tweak your web searches to help you get relevant results.

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  • David Bradley // Jan 26, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    Looks like InMaps has gone down, presumably because of user overload because of the sudden recent publicity. Luckily, I got my map done just before that happened and have a short post scheduled for tomorrow on the subject.