Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on May 25, 2006 by CyberNet.

Yahoo has joined up with eBay in hopes to knock Google and MSN out of the shopping ring. eBay was apparently get worried with Google’s free classified services and their payment service (a future PayPal competitor) that is currently being tested. They will offer a co-branded version of the eBay toolbar for Yahoo customers.

Also, one of the biggest things in my opinion is that Yahoo merchants will now be able to use PayPal as an accepted form of payment. This will allow customers to feel more secure about transactions they are performing with merchants they haven’t purchased from before.

News Source: Yahoo News

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One topic that is always sure to strike up a nerdy conversation is whether you should let your browser store your passwords. There is the obvious security risk of what happens when someone gets remote access to your computer, or even worse physical access. We’ve seen plenty of utilities that are able to quickly extract anything that isn’t protected by a master password, but the bigger issue is that not all browsers (like IE) even support a master password.

So what do you do? One option, albeit not my personal favorite, is to not have the browser store the password at all. As one of our commenters pointed out there is a good compromise in a situation like this, where you can get the convenience without forfeiting the security. The key is having the browser remember only part of the password, and then you typing in the latter half of it manually. Here’s a better breakdown as to how this works:

1. Go to a website that requires you to login.
2. Enter in your username, and then in the password field enter in only part of the characters. For example, only enter 10 out of the 15 characters of your password.
3. Submit the form, and the website should say the login failed (since you didn’t enter in your full password in the previous step). However, you should have still been prompted by the browser to save the password (like in the screenshot above). Go ahead and save it.
4. The next time you have the browser autofill in the username and password all you have to do is type in the remaining 5 characters.

A good way to take advantage of something like this is to make the part the browser remembers extremely hard to guess. You should use letters, numbers, and characters for that portion since it’s only the tailend of the password that you actually have to remember. Here’s an example:

My username: cybernetnews
My full password: 8^leU-4T_cybernet
Have the browser save this part: 8^leU-4T_
All I have to type in at the end is: cybernet

Unfortunately this solution doesn’t actually work in Chrome since it doesn’t prompt you to save a password until it knows it went through successfully, but it does work just fine in Firefox and Internet Explorer. Since Firefox already supports using a master password I’d say this is less important there, but it’s more useful in IE since your passwords are always up for grabs with very little work.

A big thanks to mOrloff for the tip!

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This article was written on May 09, 2008 by CyberNet.

YouTube isn’t just a place for the homemade videos of your last surprise birthday party. It has become a place where individuals, companies, presidential candidates, musicians, and others, are able to share a piece of themselves with others. Not only are a variety of people represented on YouTube, but different brands are represented as well. Recently Custom Communication Ltd out of the UK who specializes in social media, put together a list of some of the top brands on YouTube.

It would be one thing if these brands purposely created videos for distribution on YouTube to enhance and strengthen their brand (some do), but what has happened is that some brands are often represented on YouTube after a 3rd party created a video, and it’s not always in a positive way. To make it even “worse,” many of these videos become extremely popular. Whether these videos affect the brands in a positive or negative way, we’re not sure, but here is the list of the top 10 brands on YouTube based on the number of views each video has received.

Below you’ll find a “YouTube viewer” to make it easy to switch between the videos, but it only works if you have JavaScript enabled. Here are the top 10 brands on YouTube, for good or for bad…

1. Nike – ” Ronaldinho: Touch of Gold” – viewed 22,838,929 times
2. Pepsi – “PEPSI (Britney Spears, Beyonce, Pink – We Will Rock You)” – viewed 14,491,813 times
3. McDonalds – “Fast Food Freestyle” – viewed 11,822602 times
4. Coca-Cola – “Diet Coke + Mentos = Human experiment” – viewed 8,651,351 times
5. Unilever – “Dove Evolution” – viewed 6,806,502 times
6. Disney – “Internet is for Porn (requires adult verification by YouTube)” – viewed 3,308,799 times
7. Budweiser – “Banned Super Bowl 2007 Bud Commercial” – viewed 2,204,028 times
8. Microsoft – “Microsoft Surface Parody” – viewed 2,098,435 times
9. IKEA – “Banned Commercial – Swedish Midsummer” – viewed 1,519,859 times
10. Toyota – “Top Gear: Killing a Toyota Part 1” – viewed 1,178,365 times

Source: Social Media Influence [via CenterNetworks]

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This article was written on May 06, 2008 by CyberNet.

Yahoo, just like Google, has decided that they need to start taking steps to protect users from malicious search results that they might be serving up. They’re calling the new feature SearchScan, and it is powered by McAfee’s SiteAdvisor. You can actually get a SiteAdvisor browser add-on yourself that will do almost the same thing, but the people who are actually aware of SiteAdvisor’s existence are probably not the ones that need it the most. Yahoo’s implementation, on the other hand, will reach out to anyone that performs searches on their site!

As seen in the screenshot above the warning that Yahoo displays is a lot less discreet than Google’s, although Google does take users to a warning page before letting them actually visit the site. Plus I found that Yahoo was actually flagging more sites than Google. Many of the ones Yahoo/McAfee deems dangerous seem to slide by whatever kind of detection system Google is using.

What’s really nice is that Yahoo not only checks to see whether a site contains malicious downloads, but it also flags those that sell your email address. Here are the three different warnings that you’ll possibly see in the search results:

• Browser Exploits — These are sites that can stealthily harm a user’s computer or install malware simply by visiting the site. Beginning today, any such sites or pages included in McAfee’s data will be removed from search results automatically.
• Dangerous Downloads — SearchScan will display warnings next to search results for sites that offer potentially dangerous software, such as viruses, spyware or adware. Users often may be unaware that these can be passed along with the screensavers, games and other software downloads.
• Unsolicited Email — SearchScan will alert users to scanned sites that send unsolicited emails or inappropriately share email addresses with third parties.

There are a few SearchScan settings that you can configure as well. Optionally you can disable the service all together, or you can even have it remove any results that have been flagged by McAfee for one of the above reasons. Yup, you can have it hide the malicious sites so that you never even have to see them.

Kudos to Yahoo for adding this much needed system, and now I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that people actually listen to the warnings.

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This article was written on February 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

Weekend Website

Web 2.0 is a pretty big deal with new start-ups popping up all over the place. There are so many of them, that’s it’s nearly impossible to keep up with them all.  One that we haven’t mentioned yet, but is starting to appear all over the radar is an online community called Imeem.

Imeem is full of users who are able to join public communities, or private communities where they are able to upload and share a variety of media like photos, videos, music, even blogs. This media can be tagged, and then added to playlists.

Over the last few months, they’ve been on an uphill trend with their traffic with tremendous growth. It probably won’t be easy street making it to the top though.  They have tough competition along the way like MySpace and Facebook.

I use MySpace and Facebook myself, but there are several attractive things that have made me consider Imeem. 

—Privacy—

Privacy is one of the first things you might like with Imeem because they give you options. You can make it as private as you want, or as public as you want. Your options for viewing content include:

• Viewable by your friends
• Viewable by your friends, and your friends’ friends
• Viewable by all users
• Publishable on the Internet

Other social networks offer some form of privacy, but don’t offer all of the different options that Imeem does.

—Features—

First, you must register before posting your media, but once you’re registered, you’re all set to get started.

• Integrated chat client makes it easy to connect with your friends.
• Create profiles for any of the topics that you’re interested in.
• Connect with commenting, content rating, and tagging.
• Content can be embedded on a variety of sites like Blogger, WordPress, Digg, and Del.icio.us
• Pulse – gives you a real-time look at what people are up to.

All of the features work well together, and when your friends update, you’ll receive notifications of what your friends are doing so that you can view their content and comment.

—Community—

As with any community sharing service, copyright is an issue.  Imeem relies on their community to report items that would violate copyright law by flagging the content. 

Who would use this service? Well, just about anyone. Right now they’re experiencing a lot of growth in the United States with the younger tech savvy crowd. Besides individuals, groups are also getting in on Imeem like artists, bands, schools, etc.

—Wrapping it up—

One of my favorite features is the playlists that users create. Imeem has them organized into different categories like rising, falling, most played, etc. Everything is organized so that it’s easy to find what your looking for. The use of tags really helps as well. You can find these “top ranked” lists for music, videos, and photos.

Below is an example of what a music playlist would look like embedded into your site. 

 Overall I was impressed with Imeem.  Their user interface is pretty simple, and easy on the eyes. Signing up takes just a minute and can be done here. With the recent growth they’ve experienced, who knows how far they can go!

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