Social Networking – Paul's Tech Talk

Win 2 10$ Amazon Gift Cards!

PaulJune 14, 201144 Replies

Another chance to win!

Last month, I gave away two Pairs of eyeglasses. If you weren’t one of the lucky two winners, you can still enter this contest. So it is time to give away something else for this month. I’ve decided to give out two 10 dollars gift cards. This will be an easy to enter and you will also help me in the same process. Like last time, I will be using Random.org to find those two lucky people. So here are the rules!

Rules for entry!

First way to earn 10$ is a simple one. Just sign up for my Mailing List, nothing else is required. If your already signed up, your automatically entered into the running of the first 10$ gift card. Just sit back and wait!

The Second way, Is to tweet:

How to Win a 10$ gift card go to: http://bit.ly/iXi2iA #paulstechtalk #giftcard #free

You may only tweet this once per day, I will be watching the tweets if you start to spam people on twitter, I will know. So don’t do it to many times, or your will be disqualified for the 10$ gift card. The more you tweet the better your chances are at getting the prize, so tweet 30 times and you could be the winner, that is tweet from 06/14/2011 12:01am EST to 07/13/2011 11:59pm EST and I will be watching. Good luck to all the people who enter and We will see who winds next Month!

If you like me to give out even more from Amazon, please bookmark the Amazon link and use that anytime you shop at Amazon and that way I will be able to give away even more cards down the road. For your convience, you can use this bit.ly url to buy from Amazon:

http://amzn.to/jCdF1y or http://www.amazon.com/?tag=paulstechtalk-20

Anytime you use that link, I will make a small amount off the sale of anything you buy that day. So the more you use it the more I will make and in turn be able to give away even more stuff from Amazon!

Good Luck to All That enter

Paul Sylvester

Facebook : Beware Spam for breakfast. (Virus)

PaulDecember 7, 2008

In today’s society, we’ve been to complacent with people with people clicking links for the social group. In one such article on Channel Web, a nice little blog, says this:

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The worm was discovered by IT security provider Kaspersky Lab, which said the threat, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b, is targeting Facebook users by creating spam messages and sending them to the infected user’s friends via the site.

“Unfortunately, users are very trusting of messages left by ‘friends’ on social networking sites,” said Alexander Gostev, senior virus analyst at Kaspersky Lab, in a statement. “So, the likelihood of a user clicking on a link like this is very high.”

[Via Channel Web]

This seems to be a problem people thinking that a link someone sends them is a real good link but actually is a link to a video site. According to this article the links people are sending are actually a fake video link, telling you have to download some update to flash player, by downloading this program. The user gets involved with the virus and the fun begins. So how can you prevent this from happening, two ways one is a very good group of software to make sure you have the latest and greatest video codecs. That too can be something they’ll say you need and if you’ve already installed this list of codecs then you know they’ll not telling the truth and you can quickly get away from the site laughing.

[ad#ad2-left]What’s this program name, it is call the K-lite Mega Codec pack. In this Pack you will be able to play almost everything without having to go download another program. This is done by people who want you to have all the latest codecs installed so you don’t have to go by a program you’ll only going to use once a month.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll no longer have to worry for the most part about codecs. There will be times when you might have to visit that site and update them but that will be far less.

The other thing you must remember is if it says you must update your player. That should be a sign that there is something. I’ll always go to the site and check for example Adobe. If it says I need to update my flash I’ll manually type it into my browser. This way you will know you have the latest updates, if you need to update the flash player by all means go to here and update.

If you got the virus I’d check out my Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware page and that should show you will you need to get rid of the Virus. This virus is very easy to get rid of, just download any one of the anti-virus software and install it. Don’t forget to update the virus database while your at it. That should fix the problem pretty fast. Remember the only way to prevent from getting the virus is YOU.

Social Mythmarking on the Net

PaulMay 26, 20083 Replies

[ad#ad2-left]So I sit here reading about some interesting concepts one totally rock my thought process, making my synapse fire and got me thinking. The article that started this post was:

Is Social Bookmarking worth the trouble? — A really intriguing little discussion on why we bookmark? I say we have several more like 5 types of internet users. These users come in all shapes and sizes, especially small to big.

These users are:

Propagators — bloggers, News, Yahoo, Microsoft.

Aggragators — Social media on the net

Readers — They just read the post but don’t respond

Writers — Those who like to respond to other post

Money Makers — They are in it just for the money!!

So I sit here thinking about all the bookmarking I’ve done this week and understand one thing. I don’t bookmark in the Social networks for myself. I bookmark these sites and areas for other people. It’s like I want to share what I’ve found, sure someone else has found it too but possibility didn’t share it. I on the other hand use some very useful Social outlets:

Friendfeed — This little site is an aggragator of sorts to combine several areas into one nice little feed to be able to keep up with what people say and bookmark. They use 36 different sites including Twitter, Lastfm, Digg, and Youtube. Now I’m not saying this is bad, actually it has very nice to find some gold gems in this little social bookmarking media. I’ve become a better blogger and understand what people are looking for since I have started watching this site.

[ad#ad2-right]Twitter — This is good for shouting out to people what you’ve done like a new way to say “Hey found this awesome site and you need to check it out” or it also good to communicate with your friends on-line when you’ve got no internet access and have only a cell phone. I don’t like it that much but it allows me some modern comforts.

FeedDemon — Now if you’ve read some of my other post this is good for those who like to keep RSS alive and need it. I like it for the luxury of an offline reader. See previous posts about it in detail

Although these are just a small part of what I use in my day to day internet life, I’ve found them to be very useful in keeping up with technology and it makes my days go buy quicker. I agree on a small amount with his post about how I don’t go back to my bookmarks after I’ve bookmarked them on the social media, that is because I’ve got other things to do then to go back. There’s a ton of stuff out there that I want to learn and to see and don’t have time to look back. I would love to hear what others think!! Is Social Bookmarking Bad or good?