by jnelson | Feb 6, 2019 | How the Net Works, News, Our Blog
Fifteen years ago, Facebook was born in a dorm room at Harvard. Unheralded and little noticed at first, Mark Zuckerberg’s baby took over the campus with surprising rapidity. First Harvard, then the Ivy League, then high schools, and by September 2006, the world....
by jnelson | Jan 20, 2018 | News, Online Tools, Our Blog, Security
Surfing the web these days is more like trying to navigate a crowded bazaar than gliding through refreshing vistas of good content. Everywhere you turn there is advertising in your face; banner ads, moving ads, talking ads, all seeking to steal your attention from...
by jnelson | Sep 15, 2016 | How the Net Works, News, Security
Poor Mark Zuckerberg. You’d think that being co-founder and CEO of Facebook, the largest and most successful social media empire ever upon whom billions depend, would be a pretty sweet gig. But the baby-faced billionaire gets no respect. His own page on Facebook...
by jnelson | May 27, 2016 | How the Net Works, News
Computer geeks and math nerds familiar with the concept of algorithms probably smiled cynically at that headline. But for the vast majority of us who aren’t even sure of what they do or even are, it’s a fair description. The term is derived from the name...
by jnelson | May 17, 2016 | How the Net Works, News
This week, the Web exploded over charges that the content of Facebook’s Trending topics feature is decided by humans – including a bunch of young, college-educated contractors in Knoxville, Kentucky. Who, despite their location, according to the Gizmodo report,...
