I thought Google had won a major victory as its Apps Education Edition was embraced by more and more colleges.  But, at least as far as Gmail is concerned, Facebook appears to have trumped that move – the social network’s messages can now act as emails.

As the name implies, private messages are supposed to be private. As legal system might imply, they may not always stay that way.

Computer Messages May Not Be Private

Social traffic is fantastic because:

• It’s highly targeted
• It’s immediate
• It’s low cost and often free

The downside is because of it’s interactive nature (which contributes to it’s virality), spam marketers will always try to flood you, and drown out your message with their spam.

This includes, but is not limited to:

Have you ever submitted a story to a social site like Digg and then messaged a few of your friends through AIM and told them to vote for it? There is nothing wrong with this but they probably know what you are up to, here’s why.

Usually when users vote on stories, they go to the homepage of a site such as digg.com, roam around, and then vote on stories they like. But when you spam your AIM buddy list and get people to click on a direct link to a Digg story URL it shows up in Digg’s logs that they came directly to that URL.

An AP-AOL study reveals some surprising, and not so surprising, data about instant messaging.

Do you believe in magic?

This article is an excerpt from the book: Murach’s ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with C# 2005.

With new developments in the mobile market happening almost continuously, I thought it was worthwhile to visit some of the recent highlights.

Devin Reams notices that Google’s Firefox Send To SMS extension reserves the right to log all of your text messages, and I’ve checked, and the same policy applies to a similar feature in Toolbar 4.

Microsoft with some help from the New York Attorney Gerneral’s office has won a $7 million settlement from Spam King Scott Richter.

We need to position blogs correctly, now more than ever, as businesses realize their potential….

As spam mailings continue to permeate email inboxes around the Internet, the majority of those who receive spam accept the unsolicited emails in stride, almost as if it’s an expected occurrence when using the Internet.

We would like to give you several situations, when you may need custom development and programming to improve Microsoft CRM functionality. This overview is for programmer, software developer, IT specialist, database administrator.

Teens and Young Adults Still Dominate But At-Work and Mobile Usage Is Growing Rapidly.