Penguins' Cup hopes fading fast - Canada.com
 Metro Toronto | Penguins' Cup hopes fading fast Canada.com - PITTSBURGH -The Pittsburgh Penguins have an unusual pre-game theme song for a Stanley Cup hopeful -Mission Impossible. The mission is starting to look just that, impossible, after a 2-1, seat-of-the-pants victory by the Ottawa Senators gave Ottawa a ... Penguins lose, face elimination Sens take stranglehold |
Meet Mr. Steampunk: Jake von Slatt
An IT pro by day and a mechanical hacker by night, the Massachusetts man creates retro-futuristic relics with a neo-Victorian flair.
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Homeland Security to host closed-door security forum
(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will host a invite-only conference two months from now that will bring together security experts from law enforcement, Internet service providers, and the technology industry.
The Internet Security Operations and Intelligence (ISOI) workshop will be held on August 27 and 28 at the Academy for Educational Development in Washington D.C. It is expected to draw about 240 participants who will engage in a frank discussion of the latest trends in cybercrime, said Gadi Evron, a security evangelist with Beyond Security who is one of the event's planners.
"It's an organized group of volunteers from all across the industry, governments, and services," he said via instant message. "All trusted people, all people who do something extra than their job... We respond to international threats and mitigate them, and establish global cooperation across borders daily."
The conference will be hosted by the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team, part of the Department of Homeland Security.
This group has met previously in hush-hush events hosted on the campuses of Microsoft and Cisco Systems, and has helped in the response to a number of cyber-crime incidents including the denial of service attacks in Estonia and the recent compromise of Miami's Dolphin Stadium Web site, which was hacked just days before the stadium played host to the National Football League's Super Bowl game.
Because the conference is attended by a pre-screened audience (the press is not invited, thank you very much), presenters at the ISOI workshops offer a deeper level of technical detail than at other events, said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research with Websense, who is presenting in August. "It really helps communicate the struggles on both sides of the coin."
Hubbard will be discussing a new tool he has developed for detecting infections of social networking Web sites, called HoneyJax.
Similar to a "honeypot" computer, which is designed to lure cyber-attackers, HoneyJax "allows you to track exploits in the Web 2.0 world and helps assist in the identification of misuse of these technologies" Hubbard said.
Other scheduled talks will cover topics such as the Estonian cyber-attacks, the use of Web-based mail for spam, and "Phishing and the IRS." Speakers will be from organizations such as Cisco, AOL, McAfee, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Computer Emergency Response Team of Estonia.
The workshops attract a "pretty good spread of people," said Exploit Prevention Labs Chief Technology Officer Roger Thompson, another presenter. "It's really just a forum for security professionals in different disciplines to get together and talk over a beer."
The Online News People Read
The Latest News Headlines—Your Vote Counts, Journalism.org (Sept 12, 2007) What people read and prefer online can be much different than what the news media delivers judging from this study by Project for Excellence in Journalism. Part of what people... (Read on Source)
SEO Chat Forums - How People Find their websites?
Date: September 24th, 2007 07:39 AM - BASTY19 - Untitled Post: Its is hard for us to explain the things or informations you need, because your question is kinda not clear. But lemme guess it and try to correct if i am wrong. Are you asking how visitors can find out a site through a "Search e...
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Cruciforum
Cruciforum: crucially simple: Apparently the most simple discussion forum in the world. There’s exactly one file.
Cruciforum is a very simple web forum, designed to make it really easy to add a discussion forum to a website. If you want to start off some conversation around a bit of code you’ve written, provide somewhere to let people enter feature requests, or just want somewhere to chat with your mates, Cruciforum is for you.
You make a folder and drop the single PHP script in it. Data storage consists of the script writing out HTML files around itself. If you want user accounts, look elsewhere.
Limited use, but I appreciate the simplicity of it. For a small step up in complexity, consider bbPress. For the next step up, try Vanilla. On the other end of the extreme, Invision Powerboard is about the ultimate in this space.
Hidden Linux : Finding Stuff Fast
New Zealand PC World: "The Linux find command is enormously powerful but, like many command-line tools, you need to be a syntactical wizz-kind to work with all its parameters..."
Nokia has second bite at gaming
Mobile giant Nokia begins a second assault on handheld gaming, with the launch of the N-Gage platform.
Roundup Thursday for the Week of 2/10/08
Posted by rebecca
Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:Three star links:
- Happy Valentine's Day, everybody!
- Okay, I apologize for the above link, but I couldn't help myself. Here are some fun facts about Valentine's Day to cleanse your palate.
- TechCrunch discusses how FastCompany has rebranded itself as a business social network. Rand and I are especially pleased to see FastCompany's positive press because they are one of SEOmoz's clients and he and I worked on their wireframe and tested their site before its relaunch.
- Will Critchlow and gang put together a mobile search quiz over at Distilled. Cast your vote on who you think is most likely to win the mobile search race.
- Not only is Google displaying ads for MySpace spam software, it's also allowing them to use Google Checkout. For shame, Google. For shame. As penance, I sentence you to slap the monkey in the banner ad no fewer than 30 times.
- Apparently the Internet helps Americans save more energy every year. If we could power the world's energy from lolcatz, we would solve the planet's energy crisis in about 72 hours. I can has hybrid car?
- The Scientific American asks if all companies have to be evil and cites Google as an example of a corporation trying to do good. I read bits of the article but didn't get through the whole thing because (and this could just be me) when I open up an article online and see an endless sea of blocks of text, my eyes glaze over and I go into "skim" mode. How sad. The Internet has ruined my reading ability.
- Problogger brings us some handy tips on how to write StumbleUpon-friendly posts. It's pretty intuitive stuff, but a handy guide nonetheless.
- At Search Engine Journal Rhea Drysdale asks if SEO is becoming less open and transparent as it once was. Her post sparks an interesting discussion in the comments.
- This new Googlebot design could easily kick Rand's Googlebot's ass. I call for a battle royale, with the loser bot forced to take the winning bot to see WALL-E.
- The NY Times has an interesting article about how "immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry, a synchronized and usually unconscious give and take of words and gestures that creates a current of good will between two people." Ugh, so that's how the stupid Macarena got so popular.
- Shoemoney offers up a great guide to link cloaking, masking, and URL redirection. He does a good job of defining and explaining what each one is. Thanks for the 101, Shoe!
- Matt McGee talks about how you can use your Flickr photos to get a lil' link love and branding to your site. Fun fact: Matt's U2 fan site was ranked by Entertainment Weekly as one of the best music fan sites. How cool is that?
- This Paid Search 101 video had me sheepishly grinning like a big nerdy idiot. I'm sure all you dorky SEOs will find it as amusing (and catchy!) as I did.
- Hitwise has a really cool study about the effects of your site getting "blacklisted" by Google. The effect of getting penalized is graphed, and the results aren't pretty.
- Part 3 of the "Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search" posts is up. The flow chart alone is extremely valuable information on how Google Maps generates their category information. The rest of the post (and parts 1 and 2) is very comprehensive stuff.
- Moz Community News. Bookworm-seo has some community news for us SEOmoz members, and he invites any of us attending SMX West to get together for a drink and a chat.
- The Sheer Complexity of Social Trends. JustFred talks about his earlier experiment and how difficult it is to understand the search engines which are really just trying to understand us. Boy, it sure is difficult to understand ourselves...
- The Ten Commandments Revised. Paz authors a cheeky draft of SEO Commandments.
- How Does a Company Hire the Right SEO? Milan asks the community how to find the right candidate that you can trust with your website. The responses are encouraging and offer a lot of advice and insight.
- MozLovin in Time for Valentine's Day. SEO Columbus came up with a totally scientific formula to determine one's "MozLove" Score. Crash is the only member to have a 100% MozLov score. What a feat!
- Putting the Tipping Point to Work. Vingold talks about Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point, and how you can make the book's message work for you and your business.
- The Problems Faced by SEOs from the Outsourcing Hub of the World. Mani Karthik talks about SEO from an outsourcing perspective and calls for a universal quality of SEO services, regardless of the location.
- Who's Tedster? If You're an SEO, You Should Know. Huge1102 interviews Tedster, aka Ted Ulle, an administrator and SEO guru at WebmasterWorld.
- Esteban Panzera's 11 Tips for Appearing at Google Definitions is a very handy step by step on how to get your website to appear as a result for a "define: " search at Google; so handy, in fact, that I promoted his post to the main blog. Well done, Esteban! As for the rest of you, be sure to follow these tips and in no time you can rank for terms like this!
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Juicy eBay stuff - Boston Herald
 New York Daily News | Juicy eBay stuff Boston Herald - By Inside Track Bidding was brisk yesterday on the collection of Roger Clemens memorabilia that The Rocket?s best frenemy Brian McNamee is selling on eBay. Mementos occasion for former trainer Report: McNamee selling Clemens items instead of tossing them |
Bear Stearns Bullish on Web Video
Analyst firm endorses predictions of an online advertising boom.
Attn: Domainers. Pinging Scott Day.
If anyone has good contact info for Scott Day of Digimedia, can you please ping me [brian at scoreboard-media.com] or make an introduction? He’s got something I want to buy and I’m sure their public contact address gets flooded with less-serious inquiries all day long. (Read on Source)
6 dead after gunfire outside U.S. consulate in Istanbul
Armed men opened fire on police at a guardpost outside the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, leading to a clash that a doctor says ...
China Approves Video Site Youku's License (PC World)
PC World - Youku.com became the first of China's three largest online video Web sites to receive government permission to operate, the...
Ease the Safari-to-iTunes Lyric Pasting Task
How to smoothly and easily import lyrics of your favorite music into iTunes.
I'm back
The long school holidays draw to a close, and with it the disruptions to my online-ness. We went to Mallorca , we went to Wales , we went to Torpenhow (the latter set is rather boring because the interesting ones are private. Sorry). So I have to catch up on a whole pile of online stuff, and rant about our stupid politicians. And cut the grass. ... (Read on Source)
Why I never trust new browsers -- Chrome included
... of Chromes benefits is that it is relatively smaller, code-wise, than its nearest competitors (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and so on). Less code could mean less potential exploit vectors ...
The Reds are BAD defensively
But at least they aren’t the worst defensive team, according to this metric. They are ahead of the Rangers and Pirates!!! (Read on Source)
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California Dreamin’
Cameron Olthuis is the Founder of Factive Media, an action sports media network. Follow his storyline and adventures of building an Internet empire here. Find out more about Cameron... (Read on Source)
Geishas available at Crown Macau for Limited Time
Geishas available at Crown Macau for Limited Time.
The KOffice 2.0 beta, part 2: Graphical and charting programs
Yesterday, I looked at the major applications in the first beta for KOffice 2.0. Now it's the turn of the rest of the beta: The KPlato project manager, KChart, the vector graphics editor Karbon, and the raster graphics editor Krita. These four graphical and charting programs have always been among the best-regarded of the KOffice programs. All of them have matured much faster than the traditional office applications KWord, KSpread, and KPresenter. In the case of KPlato and KChart, they have done so because they were limited applications with relatively few features. By contrast, the graphics editors Karbon and Krita have done so by attracting users who were not interested in office applications so much as design.
Men Value Internet over TV, but Sex Trumps Internet
More than two-thirds of men age 18-34 say they cannot live without the internet vs. television, but 74% would rather have sex than surf the web, according to (pdf) a study from Break Media, conducted by Hall and Partners. (Read on Source)
A New Intelligent FileSystem for Gnome
... SQL), but as far as I know Linux lacks this kind of filesystem for the ... beside the real filesystem and having the kernel taking care of all this. /dev/hda1 = ...
Democracy Reborn Nov. 4, Thanks To Online Campaign
Obviously, every journalist and pundit will be falling over themselves talking about the historic implications of this election. Democrats and Republicans alike were gushing and seemed a little speechless about the implications of Barack Obama in the White House. I have my own feelings but that's not what this column is about. For me, this ... (Read on Source)
Your Friday Dose of Woo: Soundscapes on the brain
I had thought about taking the day off after celebrating the 100th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle yesterday, but a skeptic's work is never done, and, besides, my wife's out of town for a couple of days. Given the choice of television, working on my program's section of our cancer center core grant or one of the two other grants I'm currently ... (Read on Source)
Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web
Facebook executives argue that Connect will naturally increase traffic on the site and increase ad revenue as a result. Ms. Sandberg said the company had no plans to explore any other advertising potential with Connect. (Read on Source)
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