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10 Ways to Cleverly Monitor Your Kids on FaceBook

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Facebook is the hub of social activity for many teenagers.Unfortunately, just like any teen ‘hangout’ it can be a source of danger and negative influence, if not monitored. Kids want their privacy and don’t always tell their parents when they experience negative things online. Cyberbullying through facebook has become an ongoing problem with teens. Your teen could be on the receiving or giving end of this issue without you being aware. Inappropriate content sharing, viruses and sexual predators are other issues parents need to watch for on their kid’s facebook pages. So how can you monitor what is happening on their pages without standing over their shoulder when they are online or on their cell?

  1. Befriend their friends – This is not very subtle and may not even work, but give it a try. Send friend requests to their closest friends. If you’re friends with their friends on facebook, you’ll see the conversations they have with each other.
  2. Grandma – If their grandmothers are on facebook, have them send friend requests to their grandchildren. Kids easily say no to their parents, but grandparents generally are not seen as the enemy that parents are. If Grandma cares as much about your kids as you do, she’ll keep an eye out for suspicious behavior for you.
  3. Youth Pastor – Youth pastors love to use facebook to keep in contact with the kids in their group. Make sure your kids are facebook friends with their youth pastor or youth leaders. If you have any special concerns, share them with the youth pastor so that he can keep his eyes peeled for you.
  4. Be facebook friends – Why shouldn’t you be facebook friends with your kids? Some parents have simply made this a requirement in order for their kids to create a page in the first place. Of course, facebook friends still only see what is posted on the wall and not the private messaging that goes on. Kids know this and will use the private messaging to avoid public exposure.
  5. Keylogger Software – This is a software that records every entry that is made on your computer, that includes passwords. By using this behind the scenes software, you can capture your kids facebook passwords so that you can log on to their accounts. You can also read what they have typed in emails and instant messaging. It is ‘spyware’ that works for you, instead of against you.
  6. Norton Online Family – Norton is well known for its security software. It has also created software for keeping your family safe. It can monitor their social network activities, including instant messaging. It also has the capability of setting time limits for when, and how long, they spend logged onto a specific site like facebook.
  7. Piggyback – This is another family monitoring software that integrates with facebook. It is primarily set to function as a gaming monitor and will let you know all the games your child is actively involved in online each day. It also has a system of rewarding your child for positive behavior.
  8. TrueCare – This monitoring software requires the cooperation of your child. You must either be a facebook friend with your child or have your child’s login information in order for this to work. The point of the software is to collect the information for you and send you alerts only if certain words appear. It is focused mainly on the protective aspect of monitoring their activities.
  9. SocialShield – This is a very comprehensive program which will monitor your child’s activity on social networking sites regardless of what computer or cellular device they login from. It will notify you of potentially dangerous activity, including activity that could simply be harmful to their reputation.
  10. Password Holding – This may not seem very ‘clever’ but it certainly is a wise solution for parents. Simply require that you know the passwords used for their social networking accounts so that you can log into them at any time and then do so at least once a week. While you are logged onto their page, be sure and check their ‘archived messages’. They may not even realize that this option is there. You will be able to read any conversations they have had with their friends, even if they were done through the instant messaging feature.

The teenage years are critical and difficult times. In spite of their protests to the contrary, your kids still need your protection and your direction. To ignore their facebook activity is to ignore your responsibility as a parent.

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Go Wireless! 10 Ideas to Cut ALL Your Cables

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

For years, we’ve lived with cords and cables all around our house. The television, the stereo and the computer have all had multiple cords and cables connected to them. We’ve done our best to try and hide them out of site, but they have always been decorating nightmare. They’ve limited where we can place our electronic equipment and by doing so, limited where other furniture is placed as well. Well, the day has finally arrived. It is time to GO WIRELESS!

  1. Cell phone only – The first thing to go should be your landline. Even if you’ve used cordless phones, they still needed to be plugged into a telephone jack somewhere in the house. The additional extensions also needed to be plugged into electrical outlets. Get rid of the wires and the expense and find a good cellular plan that gives good reception at your home, and your phone calls will be truly ‘cordless’.
  2. Bluetooth printer – Printers have always been an issue. They have needed to be physically connected to the computer or computer network in some way. This limited where you could place the bulky machines. They often ended up taking up much needed space on your computer desk. With bluetooth technology, you can now connect your computer to a bluetooth enabled printer with no cables at all. All you need is an electrical out let to plug it into for its power.
  3. Wireless mouse and keyboard – This one another hassle for our computer desks. We had to find a way to route our keyboard and mouse cords to our computer. We also had to keep that computer close enough for those cords to reach it. No more! Our keyboard and our mouse have both lost their tales and can be operated cord free.
  4. Wireless speakers – More tangles of wires connected our speakers to our computer to give us good sound quality. We can still have the speakers, but we can order them without the wires or have our speakers built into our computer and eliminate the extra units.
  5. Wireless ISP – We even have the option of connecting to the internet itself without using cables. We can use a wireless card from our cell phone provider or we can contract with a wireless ISP that will deliver the internet to their wireless modem sitting in our ‘wireless’ house.
  6. Wireless headset – No more cords are hanging from our ears as we listen to our phone, our ipod or talk over the internet. We can wear a bluetooth headset that provides wireless communicate to our ears and from our mouth.
  7. Get rid of the stereo – We don’t need the stereo to play our music anymore. We play it on our computer, our ipod, cell phone or tablet computer. We can play our CD’s in the computer, if we so desire, or just copy the music from them into digital files that can be shared on all our devices.
  8. Get rid of the TV – We really don’t need it anymore. With the improvement of the screen quality used for computer monitors and a highspeed connection to the internet, we can now watch television shows on the internet. We can access all kinds of television programs online and watch them without commercials on our computer.
  9. Get rid of the DVD player – Remember when we all had to have the big entertainment center to contain our television, our DVD player and our stereo and speakers? Those entertainment centers aren’t selling anymore. We play our DVD’s on our computer, or we simply download the movies direct from the internet and skip the DVD’s all together.
  10. Get rid of the radio/alarm – Even that little electronic item sitting next to your bed isn’t needed anymore. Your cellphone has an alarm built into it and you want to put it on your nightstand while it charges during the night anyways. You might as well get rid of the alarm clock, and radio you can access on your ipod and computer, so why have a radio that’s too big to put in your pocket?

Now, if they could just make our coffee pot wireless, THEN we’d really be making progress!

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10 Reasons Police Officers Would Tweet for Safety

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

Police officers in Scotland have been testing a new tool which uses Twitter as a safety communication alternative. Its following needs a little more time to see if it can achieve the kind of growth necessary to make it a viable tool. Here are ten possibilities that police officers might use the Twitter app for.

  1. Receive crime related tips. The public could tweet to their local officers about possible criminal activities that they notice in their neighborhoods. ‘How’d you know we were here?’ the criminal asks. ‘A little ‘birdie’ told me,’ is the officer’s reply.
  2. Relay safety information. Sending out tweets to notify neighborhoods of dangerous situations, or simply reminders about basic safe practices, is another way they could use Twitter for safety.
  3. Seek witnesses of a crime. Law enforcement is often seeking witnesses and others who have information about a crime. Twitter would be a great way to broadcast those requests.
  4. Receive citizen’s concerns. Twitter is a conversational tool. Police officers can receive input as well as give input. Citizens would feel that their police department was much more accessible.
  5. Emergency alerts. Occasionally, the police need to notify a neighborhood of events in a very short time. Information can move very quickly over the Twitter network.
  6. Missing persons reports. Twitter would also be a great way to get out the word on missing individuals, whether it is a child, an elderly person or just someone who hasn’t returned home when they should. Twitter can reach many people who wouldn’t be reached by television or radio.
  7. Re-routing around accidents. Accidents can shut down traffic. Letting people know that they need to seek a different route in these instances is very difficult to do. Sending out a tweet could be very effective in this situation.
  8. Detour reminders. Detours due to construction tend start on Monday mornings, an easy thing to forget following a weekend off. Detour reminds could be sent out via Twitter to remind commuters of the detours start date.
  9. Traffic slowdowns. Even when traffic isn’t completely stopped or being re-routed, bottle-necks occur during rush hours that might be avoided if tweets were being sent out to notify commuters of problem areas ahead.
  10. Neighborhood crime notices – Often times burglaries occur in your neighborhood, and you aren’t even aware they have happened. Sending out neighborhood crime notices could put neighbors on the alert and hopefully prevent repeats in the same area.

The effectiveness of Twitter has already been demonstrated in marketing and social networking of many kinds. It would only make sense to make use of a tool that is so readily available. It remains to be seen whether you will start to see tweets from your local police station, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

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10 Corny Jokes About Really Fast Things

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Speed and smiles just seem to go together.  When mixed with something corny you can’t help laughing at the silliness and absurdity.  It can help when times are boring and you need a curl of the lips. Do you have your own fast tales?  We all have heard them at one time or another.  They do help in many ways. You can’t drive on the freeways without appreciating how people do, at times, seem to leave their brains at home while driving.  Perhaps the next time you’re stuck in a traffic jam one of these jokes will come into your head, and make the time pass easier.  Maybe they will be something to share during your commute on the bus?  It all is for fun, and to give you a snicker or two in the process.

  1. Click It! Japanese scientists have finally invented the ultimate in cameras.  It has a shutter so fast that it can take a picture of a woman with her mouth closed.
  2. Shocking. The problem with the latest electric cars isn’t that they are too slow.  The problem is that you have to stop often to find an outlet just to plug in the extension cord.
  3. Catch. The Javelin catching team is looking for faster new members to replace the ones with slow hands.
  4. Underwater Thrills. What has two wheels and goes 60 miles an hour underwater? Motorpike and Sidecarp. Together they don’t have three wheels.
  5. Zoom. When is a race car not a race car? When it pulls into a driveway.
  6. OOPS. Why did the leper get stopped for speeding?  He couldn’t take his foot off the accelerator.
  7. Riding The Rails. A train was moving to slow. Then it stopped. A lady passenger saw the conductor outside and asked what was wrong? He said there was a cow on the tracks.  The train started up again then stopped five minutes later. The lady saw the conductor again and asked, “What happened? Did we catch up with the cow again?”
  8. Thud. What do truckers call slow turtles? Speed bumps.
  9. But It Read. Cop pulled a lady over for doing one hundred on the freeway. He asked her why she was speeding. She insisted I was just obeying the sign she saw back there.  The cop said, “that was the highway number not the speed limit!”
  10. I’ll Pass. Guy was riding his bike and had a front flat tire. His buddy came up in a Cadillac and offered him a ride by tying his tire to his rear bumper. Then told him to ring his bell when he wanted to stop. Then another guy came up who had a Lincoln and the two cars decided to race.  The cops caught up with them in a helicopter and radioed the patrol cars, “don’t arrest the two cars, arrest the guy on the bike, he’s ringing his bell and trying to pass!”

Not recommended to tell a traffic cop when expecting a ticket. Still hopefully they will give you a chance for a smile, when a frown from speeding is coming.

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10 Reasons Wireless Internet is Slower than Wired

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

By: Laura Backes

There’s nothing like the untethered freedom of wireless internet. Having the flexibility to get online from a variety of locations is a beautiful thing. But why is it that you seem to always be sacrificing speed for the sake of mobility? What is it about wireless internet that slows you down? The following are 10 reasons why wireless internet is slower that wired:

  1. Firstly, wireless signals are subject to interference from physical obstructions like walls, metal objects, etc. This will decrease signal strength and, therefore, overall performance.
  2. Electrical noise when transmitting through the air will also adversely affect wireless performance.
  3. Because wireless is usually being transmitted via an omnidirectional antenna, much of the signal is lost to the wireless device, which is receiving only a fraction of the available signal.
  4. Routers typically run at 54Mbps. Broadband wired internet speed on ethernet can be 100Mbps. So the capacity of the wired connection may exceed that of your wireless router, even if it’s connected to the same broadband source.
  5. This can also be a function of the wireless standard that you’re using. 802.11n, for instance, is capable of 300 Mbps speed, while 802.11g speeds are in the aforementioned 54 Mbps range.
  6. Proximity to the router will affect speed. The further you are from the source, the slower your speeds.
  7. Your wireless device is sharing the available bandwidth with all other devices on that wireless network. Think of it on terms of water pressure,and trying to run a bath while the kitchen sink and the clothes washer are both running.
  8. Positioning of the antenna can affect the wireless signal.
  9. Speed differences between wireless and wired are going to be most significant when transferring files between devices on the same network.
  10. Wireless encryption, a security necessity when transmitting through the air, also slows down the signal.

Although any wireless router is rated for speeds in excess of most broadband speed, the nature of wireless transmission makes it susceptible to conditions that can adversely affect performance.

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10 Things I Don’t Understand About Internet Phones

Friday, May 13th, 2011

By: Laura Backes

I’ve been seeing quite a bit of advertising for different internet phone services. They show happy people throwing away their phone bills and acting like it’s the best thing since sliced bread. I’m retaining a certain measure of skepticism, but maybe it’s just because I’m afraid of things I don’t understand.

  1. What is it? – Since this is fairly new technology, my first question is what is this and how does it work? Most people grew up with land line telephones and now have mobile phones and have a basic understanding of how they work. Internet phones are a foreign concept that I need explained.
  2. Does it work anywhere? – Living in a rural area, my next concern is if this system will work everywhere or only in largely populated areas. For those of us who only have one option for internet to begin with, will our local service support this phone system? What about the people I’m trying to call?
  3. Are there hidden fees? – Some of these internet phone services are supposed to be free, but I’m always skeptical about that. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, so what’s the catch?
  4. What are the equipment costs? – One thing I’m sure of is that you’ll have to purchase some kind of equipment to do this and I need to know how much it will cost. Can you use the phones you already own or not?
  5. Will this interfere with other internet activities? – Can you talk on the phone and still surf the web or check your email at the same time? If you can, does this slow everything else down?
  6. How is the sound quality? – How do internet phones sound compared to land line or cell phones? I need to know if the quality will be better, worse or the same.
  7. How quickly will it be obsolete? – Technology is changing so fast right now, that I always worry about how quickly the latest equipment becomes obsolete. By the time I get my internet phone system set up and start to get used to it, will they come up with something better and cheaper?
  8. What about customer service? – There seem to be so many different companies involved in making this work. Who do you call when it’s not working right and do they just pass the buck and blame someone else or will they get it fixed?
  9. Are international calls the same price? – I know that the internet is worldwide, but I’m so used to the idea of international calls being very expensive. Does the internet phone work the same all over the planet for the same price?
  10. Why doesn’t everybody have it? – If this is the best thing ever, why doesn’t everybody use the internet for their phones? Are there problems I don’t know about or are they all just as skeptical as me?

I can clearly see that I have more questions than answers. I’ll have to get on the internet and do some research. Then I probably should find someone who already uses internet calling to find out how they like it. Maybe getting my questions answered will eliminate the fear that’s holding me back and I’ll find out I can actually save some money on my phone bills.

This is a great guest post from a friend of DSLService-Providers.com, Jan Schultz who normally writes for the team over at Change of Address (.org).  She brings up some good points and hopefully by working through this on our site Jan will get the answers she is looking for…  In any event she definitely has earned herself an email and call from the Internet Service Guy!

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10 Reasons Countries Ban FaceBook

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Not everyone has freedom to access all areas of the internet. Many countries restrict the internet access of their residents by blocking the use of certain types of sites. Social media sites, like Facebook, are one of the most frequently banned in these countries. Why would a country ban the use of Facebook? Here are ten reasons.

  1. Use by revolutionaries – In many of the recent revolutionary activities around the world, Facebook was a connecting medium for the revolutionary leaders and a means to gather support.
  2. Political speech – Countries which attempt to control political speech have recognized the power of social media to communicate ideas quickly to large numbers of people. This can be very threatening to the regime in power.
  3. Religious speech – Those countries where religion is controlled by the government have seen the openness of religious speech on the Facebook platform. They see the sharing of religious ideas as dangerous to their control in that area.
  4. Women’s rights – Facebook is also considered to be a possible platform for encouraging women’s rights in societies where women have been limited in their roles and their personal freedoms.
  5. Closed media – Many countries have closed media policies. The news people have access to is filtered through government approval. Facebook would provide them with the means to hear news reports outside the government filters.
  6. Human rights reports – Human rights activists have used Facebook to publicize the abuse of human rights in some countries and gain global support for their causes.
  7. No borders – Facebook has no borders. Individuals and groups can openly communicate with each other. For those countries which control who are restrictive about who can enter and who can leave their country, this type of freedom is very threatening.
  8. Easy access to populace – The viral nature of Facebook communication is one of its biggest threats in these countries. The ability to quickly communicate information and ideas to a large amount of the local populace and the outside world is recognized as being dangerous to their control of the general populace.
  9. Virtual meetings – Facebook allows dissidents to meet virtually instead of in a physical location. It also allows for the hiding of their identities.
  10. Information control – In general, countries ban Facebook in order to try and control the flow of all kinds of information. Knowledge is power, it has been said. If you limit the knowledge of the people, you limit their power.

This is a good reminder, that we should not take our personal freedoms for granted. There are actually more countries in the world that restrict personal internet access than there are that give their citizens the right to choose for themselves.

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Internet News Sites to Not Follow

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

While there are many reliable, easy to navigate news websites on the web today, there are some that just don’t make the mark. Good news sites are spaced well, allowing the reader to view their content easily , aren’t one-sided and never distract the reader with unnecessary gossip rather than facts. Here are some news websites that don’t allow the reader to feel engaged and focused but instead distracted.

  1. www.foxnews.com. Fox News is packed with the latest information but not quite in the way we want to see it. The website is very distracting with a busy and cluttered news outlay. There is an extensive amount of unnecessary commentary on their homepage, which gives readers a false sense of the amount of facts versus opinion offered.
  2. www.aol.com. While AOL works hard to bring attention back to themselves, their working even harder to revamp their website full of news and the most up to date information for its viewers. Wanting to turn the website into a premier destination for content like YouTube or Yahoo, it will be hard to pull off in a unique way.
  3. www.gamesindustry.biz This website, although it offers a significant amount of news updates is too busy and distracting. It has a lot of flash images that distract from the main news stories on their homepage, and is very cluttered in general.
  4. www.okmagazine.com OK Magazine is a low quality gossip magazine that is known for putting false, trivial information on their website and in their print magazine. While there website isn’t difficult to navigate through, there are some grammatical errors that can make a reader wonder about the professionalism behind it.
  5. www.freerepublic.com This political news website could be a lot better than it is, but the problem is, it’s hard to read and navigate through. The home page is messy and there aren’t main tabs to connect you with various themes of the site. As a website devoted to conservative activists, it has a ton of information but not enough images and direction to lead the readers to the abundance of information!
  6. www.drudgereport.com While the Drudge Report is a heavy traffic news website, it can be confusing to navigate through for the first time. Arriving at their home page, the articles aren’t in content form but rather links. The problem is, the links aren’t categorized in any way, so readers spend a lot of time searching through dozens of daily links instead of the convenience of reading them right there.
  7. www.nationalenquirer.com The National Enquirer is known as being a top gossip magazine but also for running stories with incorrect information about celebrities, movies and the media. The website doesn’t give you much room to click on one link before the unrelated advertisement next to it pulls you to their website. The homepage is crowded to make it enjoyable.
  8. www.weather.gov This website has over sixty million followers, but it’s not well designed. While it could be great, it falls short with too much business on the home page, and a very simple design and features throughout. The map is confusing and as a whole it doesn’t offer enough information.
  9. www.usda.gov This website offers a standard template so at first glance, it’s not visually stimulating at all. It resembles a typical government website with bland color themes and basic information that more often than not, leads its readers to links of different government and state websites.
  10. www.havenworks.com Until you go to havenworks, you won’t believe the amount of information that can be crammed onto a homepage. It’s as if they tried to stuff every major news story they could from the entire year onto their website. While it provides readers with an abundance of information, it can be very difficult to read and leaves no room for readers to tell which category ends and another begins. While there goal was to provide readers with any news related information on the web at one place, the result doesn’t pan out to be easily to read or navigate through.

A good website will be structured to balance content and a well designed homepage to grab the reader’s attention and have them coming back for more. There will be clear categories and tabs guiding them easily throughout the site, and the content will relate to the overall intention of the website. These websites listed failed in one of those categories. Although many of them provided excellent content, they may have been lacking in other areas, but you’ll have to see for yourself.

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10 Recent Internet Start Up Flops

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

While there have been many successful businesses thanks to the internet, there have also been some flops. For every successful internet company that the public has heard of and recognize, there are many more that failed before they even had a chance to market themselves properly. Internet businesses can be just as competitive, if not more, then in-house businesses and while some are well known and others ran their course without many people noticing, here are some of the biggest internet start up flops since 2008 worth mentioning, remembering and then as fast as they came and went, forgetting.

  1. www.geocities.com As part of Yahoo’s site which they purchased for $3.57 billion, it didn’t go off with a bang. Constant problems made this startup a failure from the start and by 2009 they called it quits. It opened in January 2009 and closed by October of the same year.
  2. www.renesola.com A manufacturer of cutting edge solar wafers, their intention for this green based company was promising, but by 2009, the company witnessed its stock price drop by 40%. Like many solar tech companies experience, renesola.com suffered the chance of making their technology profitable.
  3. www.arcsight.com Some businesses fail because of companies unable to go public in a successful way, and arcsight.com is one of them. Although they raised over $50 million (which was $25 million short of their $75 million goal) arcsight.com closed down on its very first day of trading.
  4. www.makosurgical.com Mako plasty allows orthopedic surgeons to help improve stiff and aching knees through knee surgery using their software called Solidworks 3D CAD software. While they expected to raise almost 100 million dollars, they failed short by raising only $63.8 million.
  5. www.ata.com Ata.com was a Chinese company that based its product on learning software. While it was predicted be one of the best and most lucrative IPO’s in 2008, it failed during the same year when its stock lost 15% after it went public.
  6. www.beenz.com The Beenz Company was a competitor of www.flooze.com who also went under but luckily Beenz cut their losses before it got to the point of bankruptcy.  Beenz attempted to create a company that lets consumers earn online currency by shopping online or visiting certain websites. The beenz currency could then be used towards participating merchants but in June of 2008, it was considered one of the biggest dot com disasters.
  7. www.webvan.com The overall premise of webvan was a good idea in theory. They promised speedy grocery delivery  but they grew so fast and in the end, barely made a profit. To make a delivery, the customer had to be home during their hours of operation which many people were not, and in the end it just didn’t make sense. Webvan is missed by many though, without a grocery delivery service to replace them!
  8. www.kozmo.com The idea was a good one, but in the end, it didn’t pan out like investors hoped it would. You can order anything from plants to snacks at any time of the day or night with no delivery charge and receive it within one hour. Kozmo.com eventually offered a small $10 delivery fee but by then it was too late. The company was in over their heads after spending $280 million in investment expenses.
  9. www.pets.com Pets.com offered a simply product. For any animal lover with dogs, cats, birds, turtles, fish and others at home, they would provide pet products and deliver them to your home, thus giving a convenience way to order your pet products in the convenience of your home. While it offered a good product, its marketing tactics weren’t successful and in the end, losing money partially due to their free delivery policy.
  10. www.mvp.com With the initial funding of nearly $65 million, the company’s intentions just didn’t meet the consumer’s needs for an online sports retailer. They did their homework and had major sports stars headline the company including Michael Jordon but the result was closure.

There’s a well known rule of thumb that for all businesses trying to make it, 50% of them will fail. Whether you are building a company from your hard earned savings or borrowing from investors, the risk is great that your business may not succeed.  Do you have a product that fits in your niche market or is it too similar to many of the other businesses already succeeding? Before trying your hand as a business owner, take a good look at the failures of those businesses listed above and start your internet business the right way – by learning the lessons of others.

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10 Impacts Al Gore Seriously Did Have on the Internet

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

Former Vice President Al Gore has gotten a lot of flack over the years for his statement saying that he ‘invented the internet’. Although many have laughed at that as a guffaw, Al Gore did have a very large impact on the development of the internet as we know it today. Others who were directly involved in its development are not hesitant to give him credit for the big part, he did play.

  1. Education of governmental leaders. As a member of congress in the 1970′s, Gore had already taken a great interest in the advancement of computer technology. He understood both its current usages and the huge potential benefit for the future. Gore was known for continually boring his colleagues with discussion of the topics, in an effort to inform legislators on the topic.
  2. Early leadership in high speed communication. Understanding that he would need to convince government leaders of the advantages available to government entities in order to gain support, Gore initiated hearings on how high speed communications could improve government’s response to disasters.
  3. Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986 In the 1980′s, Gore continued to press the government to pursue further study of the capabilities and advancements that might be made available through networking computer infrastructures together.
  4. The Gore Bill. The High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 was introduced by Al Gore and signed by President Bush. This bill allocated $600 million for the National Research and Education Network, which brought together government, industry and academia in the development of what Gore termed ‘the information superhighway’.
  5. “Infrastructure for the Global Village” This was the title of an essay written by Al Gore and published in Scientific America. The essay laid out the purpose of the bill he was presenting in 1991 and how essential he felt it was for the development of this network, which would eventually link millions of computers together.
  6. Mosaic. This was the name of the first World Wide Web browser developed due to funding provided under the Gore Bill. Team development members credit the government funding in bringing about the technology many times faster than it could have been done through private enterprise.
  7. The information superhighway. Al Gore is credited with coining this term and strongly encouraging President Clinton to immediately pursue development of a national information superhighway that could eventually be accessed by all Americans. For the first time, the scientific community and government were making a full embrace.
  8. Federal Information Technology. An executive order issued by the Clinton-Gore administration, this ordered the heads of all federal agencies to make the information of their agencies available to the public. This followed the development of the first White House web site on the internet.
  9. Data security. Vice President Gore was also a huge promoter of increased data security through encryption. He was one of the first to recognize data security as a law enforcement issue.
  10. Public accessibility. Continually, throughout his career, Al Gore maintained a focus on making information technology accessible to the individual households of American citizens. He was not  content with having this technology available to educators, industry and the government. He truly believed that access to information was what bring the American people to the forefront of the world in the area of technology.

Though his impact may not have been achieved from a computer lab, it was very strongly felt in the technology centers that benefited from his efforts of leadership within government circles.

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