Robert Giordano

Welcome to my Linkatopia. I like music, photography, drones, and welding. I'm currently rebuilding this entire site, and adding more cool features. See the blog!



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Internet Speed Test - Cloudflare

This tester has more detailed info than the others.

  | Aug 18, 2023

Unknown Influence | Social Media, Democracy and Transparency - YouTube

One of the best discussions of social media platforms I've seen in a while

  | Nov 5, 2022

IP Address Lookup - Free IP Checker Tool | NordVPN

Another good IP Lookup service

  | Feb 4, 2022

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps

The developer got mad because big corporations were using his free software- for free. So, he corrupted it, on purpose. This is what's happening in the world, folks. Both the article and the comments, are interesting.

  | Jan 10, 2022

Signal Vs Telegram-3 Things You Need To Know Before You Quit WhatsApp

Interesting comparison in Forbes

  | Oct 29, 2021

Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site's CTO | Ars Technica

OMG this is bizarre. Did someone hack the CTOs account or was it sabotage from within?

  | Mar 4, 2021

Gab's Response To The ADL and CNN - Gab News

"The ADL should be calling for an investigation into Facebook, where the protests were actually organized. Gab is great for a lot of things, but its not a utility for organizing events."
(The ADL is the Anti-Defamation League)

  | Jan 14, 2021

Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler's Inability to Stay Online Is 'Embarrassing'

"The Pirate Bay, the most censored website in the world, started by kids, run by people with problems with alcohol, drugs and money, still is up after almost two decades..."

  | Jan 14, 2021

The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It

"What donk_enby actually did was an old school scrape of already publicly available information. Using a jailbroken iPad and Ghidra, a piece of reverse-engineering software designed and publicly released by the National Security Agency, donk_enby..."

  | Jan 13, 2021

Publisher or Platform? It Doesn't Matter. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

This article spells out section 230 for anyone who doesn't get it. I'm tired of seeing arguments on BOTH sides keep going in circles.

  | Jan 12, 2021

IP Location Finder - IP Lookup With Detailed Geolocation Data | KeyCDN Tools

This is my new favorite IP address lookup

  | Apr 6, 2020

ActivityPub

  | Dec 12, 2019

W3Counter - Global Web Stats

Global browser, operating system, and screen resolution statistics

  | Feb 2, 2014

GoDaddy Outage Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims Responsibil

Great discussion on this page about blaming the hackers vs. blaming GoDaddy.

  | Sep 11, 2012

Free vs Micro | Megazina | House of Laudanum

...reading Chris Anderson's FREE while performing research on pricing models for an internet service. FREE is a jolly bus-ride through old and new business models, and ideas about market share, pricing, and behavioural economics.

  | Dec 5, 2010

URI scheme - Wikipedia

foo://username:password@example.com:8042

  | Aug 28, 2010

Can't Send Mail Using Comcast? | Search Commander Blog - Scott Hendison

How is anyone going to send email from their own mail.domain.com?

  | May 15, 2010

Thesis Theme PHP Parse Error | Revert to custom_functions.php | Backup and Resto

Loading with sarcasm, this is one the funniest tutorials I've read in a while!!!

  | May 15, 2010

Pirates Board Apple's iPhone App Store | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Great discussion about piracy in the comments! Many interesting points of view.

  | Jan 15, 2010

Odeo Releases Twttr - TechCrunch

This was one of the first articles about the launch of what is now Twitter on July 15, 2006

  | Dec 23, 2009

Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest.net

  | Oct 17, 2009

Newbie's guide to Twitter | Webware - CNET

down near the bottom of the comments, there is a lengthy comment by peterparker1352 that I think is interesting. The comment was posted July 2008. Just proves people can sound intelligent and really have no clue.

  | Sep 17, 2009

17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners and Businesses

Great article to show clients when trying to explain Twitter to them or when they want a Twitter page and have no clue why.

  | Sep 17, 2009

Newly Registered Domain Name Lists

This site lists all domains registered on a given day.

  | Jun 23, 2009

Magnolia still down, but not out | Webware - CNET

Another one bites the dust...

  | Feb 14, 2009

mezzoblue § OpenDNS

This a flaw in the Domain Name System, a fundamental piece of the internet's infrastructure, that allows an attacker to redirect your internet connection. It has been described as one of the most significant internet security problems...

  | Sep 13, 2008

Cuil - The World's Biggest Search Engine

Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else... three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.

  | Aug 25, 2008

DownThemAll! :: Firefox Add-ons

Lets you download all files from a public web directory

  | Jul 26, 2008

HowStuffWorks "Twitter on Your Cell Phone"

How Twitter interacts with SMS

  | Jul 25, 2008

Are Social Bookmarking buttons useless?

Interesting article and something I've always thought was true. The author has a good point that a *few* buttons are a nice reminder for visitors to bookmark your page.

  | Feb 23, 2008

Domain tasting - Wikipedia

By February 2007, the CEO of GoDaddy reported that of 55.1 million domain names registered, 51.5 million were canceled and refunded just before the 5 day grace period expired and only 3.6 million domain names were actually kept.

  | Jan 29, 2008

phpBB ' View topic - Preventing SPAM - Bots and Humans [*Read the First Post!*]

Good article on dealing with spam bots on any platform, not just forums.

  | Sep 24, 2007

Do you have a Facebook?

A little commentary about Facebook and the people behind it that's really kinda scary. Can you say "Big Brother?"

  | Sep 10, 2007

+Ma's Reversing - 3564020356.org

puzzles to solve, encryption, steganography

  | Aug 13, 2007

Search engine SPAM detector

very interesting.

  | Jun 1, 2007

RIAA Radar: Home

The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

  | Apr 9, 2007

MySpace Sues "Spam King"

Sanford Wallace created 11,000 fake profiles using automated software programs in violation of MySpace's terms of use agreement...

  | Mar 31, 2007

Google Logo Images

All the different versions of the Google holiday logos for each year since 1999.

  | Feb 14, 2007

Traditional DNS Howto - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

nice tutorial all about DNS

  | Feb 4, 2007

Spam blog - Wikipedia

This is a growing problem for the blogging community. The question is, what can be done about it?

  | Jan 7, 2007

Sping - Wikipedia

Sping is "spam ping" or "trackback spam". Many bloggers been forced to disable the trackback feature.

  | Jan 7, 2007

testmy.net - Download Speed Test

A good site for testing your internet connection speed.

  | Jan 2, 2007

Gentoo Linux -- About Gentoo

Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need.

  | Dec 22, 2006

VLocate service for web sites

Free service. Shows a map of where all the visitors to your web site come from. Uses the Google Maps API.

  | Dec 21, 2006

Simply Google

A page with links to all of the different Google searches, along with other relevant links.

  | Dec 12, 2006

Bugmenot.com

login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration like at NYtimes.com

  | Dec 6, 2006

"Playstation 3 Browser Specs" by Robert Giordano

Design215 article with screenshots of web pages tested in the PS3 browser

  | Dec 6, 2006

NetFront - Wikipedia

This is the browser used in the PSP (PlayStation Portable) and PS3 (Playstation 3), although the version used in the PS3 is unknown at the moment.

  | Dec 5, 2006

Shacknews - Unpacking the PlayStation 3 Part 2

article mentions YouTube working in the PS3 browser

  | Dec 4, 2006

Bookmark spam - Wikipedia

Bookmark spam is a type of spam affecting social bookmarking, social software websites such as del.icio.us.

  | Dec 4, 2006

Playstation 3 Internet Browser

Official user's guide to the PS3 browser

  | Dec 3, 2006

Pingdom - Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime.

An interesting service, although its $9.95/month.

  | Nov 14, 2006

Google as Big Brother

Awesome article and something to pay CLOSE ATTENTION to!

  | Nov 1, 2006

ModMyProfile.com MySpace Icons, MySpace Tweaks, MySpace Counter

An example of "My World Visitor Map" which uses the Google Maps API to show the location of visitors to your myspace page. Pretty cool.

  | Oct 6, 2006

Stone soup - Wikipedia

An interesting analogy someone made in reference to Digg and other community driven Web 2.0 sites.

  | Aug 5, 2006

jms - A case for the underdogs

A nice article by Jean-Marc Skopek about small web applications taking on the market leaders.

  | Jul 18, 2006

Folksonomies - Article by Adam Mathes, Dec 2004

This is possibly the best article ever written on folksonomies.

  | Jun 11, 2006

IP Address to Country City Region Latitude Longitude etc

If you scroll down near the bottom of the page, there are some good free downloads.

  | Jun 8, 2006

nedwolf - Best Free Online Bookmark Managers

Well, add another one to the list!! Linkatopia is the only Free Bookmark Manager to offer completely flexible privacy options.

  | May 16, 2006

Folksonomy - Wikipedia

  | May 16, 2006

Netcraft

  | May 5, 2006

Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer

  | May 4, 2006

Mazu Publishing - Hosting Tips

Lots of other info about scams and internet marketing

  | May 3, 2006

The PageRank Algorithm

  | May 3, 2006

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide

Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the downloads, web sites and shortcuts that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.

  | May 3, 2006

Domain Tools: Whois Lookup and Domain Suggestions

Formerly whois.sc

  | Apr 27, 2006


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