Web 2.0 Wednesday Podcast
It's Web 2.0 Wednesday and with the Web 2.0 conference in full swing it looks to be a fun and information packed Podcast! If you would like to join the conversation please join the TalkShoe.com room and dial in to the bridge. (Read on Source)
Buy Cool Clothes to Look Cool
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Wikipedia remains go-to site for online news (Reuters)
Reuters - Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
Battling Click Fraud One Click at a Time (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - It's an issue that is costing search engine marketers millions of dollars each year. Click fraud is the act of repeatedly clicking an online advertiser's pay-per-click ad with sinister motives. Since the advertiser has to pay for each click the ad receives, fraudulent clicks can be very costly when foul play is involved. Take, for example, the competitive vendor who wants to bleed his rival's ad budget dry. Or, it could be an angry customer who is trying to get even with a merchant.
Personal details show up in a recent spam attack
A recent spam pretending to be from the Better Business Bureau included personal salutations and information, says TippingPoint engineer.
Rodriguez: I deserve to be in F1.
Team, GP2 frontrunner Roldan Rodriguez reckons that he is deserving of a place among motorsport's elite next season. The Spaniard, who only graduated to GP2 this season and is expected to remain with the Minardi Piquet Sports team in 2008, admits that he has one eye on the evolving situation at Spyker, which confirmed during the Chinese (Read on Source)
The Who's Who of Designer Handbags Turns One
The Purse Page, an extensive treasure-chest of reviews of designer purses, has celebrated its first birthday by adding a new, interactive rating system. (PRWeb Oct 22, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/Q291cC1Db3VwLVRoaXItTG92ZS1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Debian update for xen-utils
... to know the next time vulnerabilities are fixed in this product? - Description : Debian has issued an update for xen-utils. This fixes a security issue, which can be ...
Separating Web Spam from Quality Content - What are the Metrics?
Use of common, high-commercial value spam keywords like "mortgage," "poker," "texas hold 'em," "porn," "student credit cards," and related terms (Read on Source)
CafePress Acquires Imagekind
Anyone who's been dying to own a really fancy t-shirt or coffee mug may be in luck; reports indicate that CafePress has acquired Imagekind, a sort of artists' community and marketplace.
Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning
Management guru Peter Drucker noted that companies attracting the best knowledge workers will "secure the single biggest factor for competitive advantage." We and other forward-looking companies put a lot of effort into hiring such people. What are we looking for? At the highest level, we are looking for non-routine problem-solving skills. We ... (Read on Source)
Check Up on Your ISP with Switzerland
OStatic: "So how do you know if your ISP is playing fast and loose with your packets? That's where Switzerland, a new tool from the EFF, comes in."
Bloglines beta now just Bloglines?
Took at look at Bloglines beta this morning, which is how I usually start my day and noticed a few things. Firstly, although 'beta' is still in the URL it's been dropped from the page. Secondly, they've changed the look... (Read on Source)
NVIDIA's desktop chips also risk failure?
NVIDIA's mobile graphics faliures may be only the sign of a larger problem affecting desktop hardware as well, says a claim by the Inquirer. Four video card makers have allegedly reported unusually high failure rates in boards made using NVIDIA's G92 and G94 chips, which are used for most mid-range GeForce 8800-series cards, 9800-series cards and ...
Can An Image of a Pretty Woman Boost Conversion?
Why is it that live chat icons always feature pretty girls with a headset? Why not have a good looking guy with a headset? Is the strategy that men will want to talk to a pretty girl? And women may be more comfortable talking to another woman than a man? I don’t know. But a recent [...] (Read on Source)
No, Websites Shouldn't Roll Their Own Encryption
Ben Adida calls out Apple for the poor security of its MobileMe web applications and AppleInsider for its misguided defense of Apple's design. Most users know that a special "lock" icon in the corner of their browser is a signal that the contents of the current website is encrypted in transit, protecting it from third-party eavesdropping. Evidently, users of MobileMe have been alarmed that MobileMe applications don't take advantage of this feature, even when sensitive information is being transmitted. Appleinsider says this is no big deal because Apple uses "authenticated handling of JSON data exchanges" to ensure security, and as a result SSL is unnecessary. Moreover, "if Apple applied SSL encryption in the browser, it would only slow down every data exchange without really improving security, and instead only provide pundits with a false sense of security that distracts from real security threats."
As Adida points out, this is way off base. A malicious individual may discover a security hole in the unencrypted part of the site that Apple's engineers didn't think of. Encrypting the entire session, rather than just the parts that Apple thinks are security-sensitive, provides an important extra layer of protection. There's also a more fundamental problem with AppleInsider's argument: without SSL, the user has no real assurances that he's talking to Apple, rather than a third party executing a man-in-the-middle attack (perhaps using a poisoned DNS cache). SSL requires servers to present a certificate signed by a recognized certificate authority in order to prove that it's the website it claims to be. That makes it difficult for a third party to masquerade as a legitimate SSL-encrypted website.
The scheme works because the authentication algorithm is baked into the browser and can't be changed by the website being visited. In contrast, if the authentication is performed by JavaScript code that was supplied by the server you're trying to authenticate, the "authentication" process is completely useless. A man-in-the-middle attacker can simply substitute his own bogus authentication script for the real one, and no one will notice the difference. So even if you have complete faith in Apple's ability to write secure authentication algorithms, you can't trust a non-SSL website purporting to be from Apple because there's no way to be sure it's actually an Apple server.
Training ordinary users to follow good security practices is notoriously difficult. Widespread user understanding and acceptance of the "lock" icon in their browsers is arguably the most significant improvement in web security since the web was created. It's extremely counterproductive to undermine use confidence in SSL by telling users to put their faith in Apple's magical homebrew crypto algorithms instead.
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Unilever names Nestle's Polman as CEO, shares leap
LONDON (Reuters) - Unilever Plc/NV named Paul Polman, a consumer goods veteran who missed out on the top job at Swiss food group Nestle SA last year, as its new chief executive on Thursday, sending its shares surging.
Photos Reveal Myanmar's Large And Small Predators
Using remote camera traps to lift the veil on Myanmar's dense northern wild lands, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have painstakingly gathered a bank of valuable data on the country's populations of tigers and other smaller, lesser known carnivores (see photo attachments). These findings will help in the formulation of conservation strategies for the country's wildlife.
BOOK HAS BOLD, FRESH PIECE OF BILL O'REILLY
BILL O'Reilly. Big man, big frame, big mouth. Big disclosure: I'm a fan. Sept. 23 comes his memoir "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity." Long back he sent my embargoed, not for sale, uncopyedited, bound manuscript with: "Here's something that might make...
Debian: New phpmyadmin packages fix several issues
... on it. Updated packages are available from -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - Debian Security Advisory DSA-1641-1 security@debian.org Thijs Kinkhorst September 20, 2008 - Package : phpmyadmin Vulnerability ...
10 Reasons I like Staying At The Stratosphere In Las Vegas
As I wrote the other day I often stay at the Stratosphere when I come to Las Vegas by myself. Here are the reasons why: Automated Check in - You know those machines you check into the Airport with and they spit out your boarding passes and your good to go without waiting in line. The [...] (Read on Source)
Comparing The Mortgage Bubble To The Patent Bubble
Bessen and Meurer have a brief, but interesting post noting at least some similarities between the "mortgage bubble" that resulted in the current financial crisis with the ongoing "patent bubble." In both cases, as they note, you're dealing with products where its not clear at all what the "rights" actually cover:
What happens when you give out lots of property rights, but nobody exactly knows what those rights cover? Yes, that might describe software/business-method patents and the result is costly litigation, disputes and a net disincentive for innovation.I'm not convinced the analogy holds, but it's something to think about in terms of recognizing how we've been seeing an ongoing patent bubble inflating pretty rapidly over the past few years. It's certainly nowhere near as big as the mortgage bubble, but it's still a pretty decent sized bubble, at this point.
But that also describes recent markets in collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. And with these markets, as anyone who has read a newspaper (some people still do that) during the last month knows, the result is a bit more ominous.
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Webinar Shows Marketers How to Beat a Bearish Economy through Social Media
White Horse, a fast-growing digital agency with an expanding emerging media portfolio, invites marketers to attend a complimentary Webinar to learn how to recession-proof their market share using social media strategies. (PRWeb Oct 21, 2008)
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I didn't know you could do that in Linux!
Here are 12 tips, tricks, tweaks and techniques to make you say "I didn't know you could do that in Linux." Sure, not every one may be your cup of tea but here are 12 items to help you have the most positive Linux experience you can and to show why Linux is a superior operating system to other alternatives.
UberVu To Clean Up The Blog/Twitter/FriendFeed Conversation Mess
London based uberVU is about to launch a discussion-tracking product that will aggregate comments, Twitters, FriendFeed comments, trackbacks and other information about any URL (like a blog post) on the Internet. (Read on Source)
Microsoft says perceptions of Windows improve
Speaking at a technology conference this morning, Bill Veghte, the senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows Business, said that perceptions of the Windows brand had improved because of the company's $300 million ad campaign.
He said that Microsoft tracks perceptions of the brand across three core groups -- empty nesters, twenty-somethings, and parents.
"In a statistically significant fashion, we moved the perception of Windows positively in September and we moved it again in October," he said. "We have not done that outside a product release since we started the perception studies on Windows in the late 90s."
IRL teams avoiding job cuts despite economic woes
As NASCAR teams slash jobs in this strained economy and Honda withdraws from Formula One, IndyCar Series teams are traveling in a different direction. (Read on Source)
Fear, Greed And The Google Parallax View
Yesterday, I listened to an interview with Canadian businessman Stephen Jarislowsky. Jarislowsky is one of Canada's richest men, our version of Warren Buffet. And he said something simple but profoundly important in the interview: Greed is strong, but fear is stronger. (Read on Source)
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