smart computer use?

If you use Facebook, you could become prone to highly targeted ads. It sound crazy from an article standpoint, but time will tell if the reality of the new ad system will affect users of Facebook positively or negatively.

The wait (and hype) is finally over. After weeks of speculation and red herrings, Facebook’s new ad system (imaginatively titled “Facebook Ads”), has been revealed. So, what is it? Put simply, it’s an ad system that allows businesses to track users’ activities on the web (and on Facebook) to deliver product referrals and targeted advertising.

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From the 20Q.net web site:

20Q is an object, a website, a company, and a phenomenon. It first gained popularity as an online game (20Q.net) where users log onto the website and play against an artificial intelligence (A.I.) foe. Players think of an animal, vegetable, mineral, or other object and 20Q guesses what the player is thinking in twenty questions or less.

Try to stump the artificial intelligence here.

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I always like stories about clueless computer users. I don’t have anything against clueless computer users. We all are pretty clueless about using computers to some degree.

The World Wide Web provides a new arena for computer stupidities. Now users can be stupid to a world wide audience. Fortunately for us, most of them are too confused about what the web is to figure out how to get on it.

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This is some good stuff, www.ff0000.com, the web site of Red Interactive. It’s fun for a business to business web site.

Take on the roll of a strange, drawn looking character and run around the screen interacting with other site users.

Yet another way to kill some time while sitting in front of a computer. You’ll have a good amount of fun flying up to the cloud line and typing communications to other site users, if anybody else is visiting the site at the same time.

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Mushroom Life. An interesting grid-based adventure. Click on the grid, create mushroom patterns, run the cycle, watch them grow. Watch them die. Watch them emerge in interesting sequences across the map.

Definitely check out the suggested patterns towards the bottom of the page. They product interesting results.

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