Academic research of Twitter will continue to grow within the next year as marketers, politicians, and individuals struggle with understanding the importance of the answer to the question, "What are you doing?" in the electronic age.

The death of Google Research Datasets and the rise of the Amazon Web Services for public scientific data is important because it yet another signal that Amazon, not Google, may be the major player in experimentation with cloud computing services and data storage for scientific research.

Phishing is an attempt through targeted email to get a user to reveal confidential information ranging from account numbers to passwords.  As opposed to classic spam, these messages appear to come from service providers where users have account.  The counterfeit messages are very difficult to detect as fakes, with their creators copying official logos, phone numbers, etc. [1]

Humans are a social species with a deep need to share experiences.  From Neanderthal cave drawings to modern Web page, we have always exploited readily available technologies to share data.  Today we see increasing changes in societal behavior regarding information sharing as social networking technologies are leading to the proliferation of deeply personal information being shared in online public environments.  This trend is important to track because it opens opportunities for a more data driven view of our lives but at the same time may be redefining the modern conception

The concern is that if P2P traffic generally embraced UDP for file downloads this traffic could become unmanageable and crowd out other TCP-IP network uses.  Richard Bennett, an author for The Register, describes one potential UDP nightmare, "When this traffic is immune to congestion control, the remaining half will stumble along at roughly a quarter of the bandwidth it has available today: half the raw bandwidth, used with half efficiency, by 95% of Internet users. Oops."