Close to a quarter of children in the UK between the ages of 8 and 12 are able to get around age restrictions imposed by social networks Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, according to a survey by online identify firm Garlik.Because of this the majority (72%) of parents are monitoring their kids online activity. Twenty-five percent of parents secretly login to their child’s social networking page and over a quarter (26%) have created their own social networking profile to monitor their kids.
More Employers Monitoring Workers Internet Use
More than one-fourth of U.S. employers have terminated employees for misusing email and one third have fired an employee for abusing the Internet according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute.Twenty-eight percent of employers who have fired a worker for email misuse did so for violation of company policy (64%); inappropriate or offensive language (62%); excessive personal use (26%); breach of confidentiality rules (22%); other (12%).
MySpace Develops Parental Monitoring Software
In recent times, MySpace and sexual predators have become closely associated terms in the minds of parents and lawmakers across the nation. The social networking site is currently developing software designed to allow parents to more closely monitor their children’s MySpace activities.
Simple Tool for Website Monitoring
For quite a while now, I have needed a simple website monitoring tool that would check the uptime of my websites.
ASP.NET 2.0: Health Monitoring
The ASP.NET 2.0 provider model has once again amazed me.
Got Monitoring? Pingdom Has It
A Christmas gift from Sweden for webmasters and server administrators offers a free year of website monitoring, without strings attached.
Four Keys To Brand Monitoring
Forrester Research reiterated the importance of being aware of what people say about your brand online, and noted the four key parts to successfully evaluating potential brand monitoring solutions.
ColdFusion and Server Monitoring
Unlocking the CF Server Black Box
Finally, Somebody Ranks Brand Monitoring Services
If there was ever a research report I’d like to get my hands on, it’s this one from Forrester.
Variable Monitoring with Autos, Locals, and Watch Windows
This article is an excerpt from the book: Murach’s ASP.NET 2.0 Web Programming with C# 2005.