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  • FaceBook allows macrons and non English Characters in names

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Many Māori and Pacific Peoples use alternative names to their birth names, often adopting an English name to be known by outside of the family. This is also a common practice with many non English speaking cultures in Asia. FaceBook.com in their quest to recognise the multilingual world we live in, today announced a new

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  • FaceBook – your name in the link

    FaceBook – your name in the link

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    FaceBook to offer vanity URL’s the Saturday. The consequences of not getting the right name for your organisation are significant.

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  • Page Squatting

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Page squatting or Cyber Squatting also with sellable ads for sale are becoming popular in FaceBook and Twitter.

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  • macrons on iPhone

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I am investigating how to create macrons the iPhone.  I must admit to feeling like i have gone back 13 and more years in my career to the days when i worked on macron technology for web sites and the PC. Thankfully a task that is now simple and requires little cognition. Like the old days ASCII

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  • International web site accessibility

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Some countries restrict access to popular web sites. Knowing in advance will save you embarrassment and save you time.

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  • Organisations are vulnerable to ID and Brand theft

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The increase in social media use also means an increase in your organisation name and brands being registered by others including your competition leaving you without a Social Media ID.

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  • Online profiles of a deceased person

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I have had the fortunate experience of not knowing anyone with a heavy online presence that has passed away. But I have seen a few social media profiles with farewell messages to the person who has since deceased. This made me curious as to what the average Internet user who has multiple accounts and passwords

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  • International domain name statistics

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    At the end of 2008, there were 177 million registered TLD domain names. Of the 240 cc TLDs there were 71.1 million registrations with 65% of them from only 10 ccTLDs according to Verisign. Of the top ten ccTLDs .cn, .de, .uk, .nl, .eu, .ar, .it, .ar, .br, .us and .au only 3 of the

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  • The power of passive online activism

    The power of passive online activism

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    After wide spread protest over FaceBook’s new Terms of Use claiming perpetual ownership of all information you place on FaceBook.com, they have reverted their Terms of use as can be seen in their latest updated below. In a recent Mashable poll  56% of users were unhappy with the new Terms of Use. Now if our politicians

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  • Hacking the Internet

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    During the recent Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a large international registrar effecting over 7.5 million web sites in 48 hours. I have learnt of an effective Internet vulnerability. I am only writing about it as once you read it, it is common knowledge and is only dangerous if you were inclined to try

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  • Social Networks and Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I finally succumbed to perpetual requests from family and close friends to create a Bebo.com account. We know that Hi5.com is preferred by Thai’s and Orkut by South Americans, FaceBook.com and MySpace.com by a good international mixture. An observation that most intrigues me is that Bebo.com is, as is documented fact more for the younger generations (Gen M etc).

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  • Māori representation on ICT boards

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I have just heard Ernie Newman CEO of TUANZ speak at a Māori ICT conference (of which ironically we had no wireless Internet connection and cell phones were banned). Ernie expressed his vision for Māori and how Māori are creative and should participate more in ICT.  Ernie was asked what TUANZ had done for Māori

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  • Dot tel domain name

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I have often wondered over the years how long the traditional paper based phone book will be in existence and how useful it is in today’s society when we are all connected to the Internet and have instant access to online phone books from all around the world as well as web sites that contain

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  • .РФ TLD

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    With ICANN approving the IDN TLD for Russia, I hope this will start a “fast” flow of other TLD and GTLD’s being introduced in quick sucession. My understanding is that Russia will implement .РФ in June  2009. Then i am assuming they will offer all of thier 2LD’s in Cyrillic Russia already have 2 other TLDs

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  • Google Chrome

    Google Chrome

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Google have released their own web browser. It is called Google Chrome. I am writing this blog using Google chrome as my browser. For the last few days the international media have been busy discussing Google Chrome and reviewing it. So i will just make a quick observation that i find it visually appealing with

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  • .cym TLD for Welsh

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Earlier this week i read this article from Computer Weekly regarding the proposal to create a TLD .cym for the Welsh people. To summarise, the Welsh government have voted to support the creation of a new TLD .cym to identify the Welsh population and to create further financial pathways and a safer Internet for its

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  • Asian Emoticons

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    As a result of networking and making new friends from the Thailand conference, i have had to learn about Asia emoticons. Here is a list of what i have learnt so far. I am interested in any new additions and corrections ^_^ . I am now curious as to what the graphical representation looks like

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  • Getting Creative with Domain Names

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The United Arab Emirates went live with their new Top Level Domain-TLD (Internet Name suffix such as .nz) .ae on August 03 2008. This refreshed my memory of the many opportunities Māori have to be creative when obtaining a web site address. We do not have to stick within the .nz space, not do we

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