Say it ain’t so, Joe! Over the past few weeks, it’s begun to look like Social Networking, the current darling of the conference and consultant set, might have jumped the shark. I personally would peg the exact point where it went careening off track as the day that Waste Management (the guys that probably run your local honey truck) opened their own social networking site. But it goes far beyond that. Earlier this week Om Malik wrote a very interesting…
After careful consideration, I have decided my Iphone is not a smartphone, as much as it is actually an idiot savant phone. While it does somethings incredibly well, there are others it does marginally, and some it flat out doesn’t do at all. It looks like the release next month of the 3g Iphone will not completely resolve my meager list of needs for the Iphone, so I’d say this is probably really the beta release, whereas v1Iphone would be…
(The link to the article is lower in this post, to ensure the proper text appears in the Techcrunch trackback…) Techcrunch yesterday featured an article by Nik Cubrilovic with the salacious title “WordPress Security Issues Lead To Mass Hacking. Is Your Blog Next?” – from that article: Due to its popularity as a blogging platform, WordPress has become a prime target for hackers looking to take over blogs for search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites they control, traffic-redirection and other…
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Have some fun, when asked for your accomplishments this year, send these to your manager: Successfully engineered soft landing of Phoenix Space Craft on Mars. Monetized image feed via Nasa website, singlehandedly allowing corporation to double revenue projections. Developed and released vaccine for AIDS, saving millions of lives in the African subcontinent alone. Developed plan for World Peace, which will be implemented in 3rd quarter this year. Successfully attained copyright for the word “The” allowing the company to profit from…
Accidentally plugged my Iphone into the charger for my IPod and I came back to find the ominous message “Your IPhone is not working properly – contact http://apple.com/support – at which point the battery died, the screen went black and I rejoined the ranks of the unconnected. So if you’re trying to reach me, your options are extremely limited right now. I’m headed the Apple store this evening to try to get it fixed. General stuff from the weekend: What…
Dixie Chicken, 1977, with Bonnie Raitt – I’m swamped, so this video has to speak for itself – and it does…
My daughter’s third grade class, taught by Ms. Lynne Bannon, has been writing pen pal letters for the whole year with the Sutton Senior Center. Monday, they got to meet their pen pals. NECN carried the story on the television and has posted the video on the web. The girl in the video at the beginning of the story and featured throughout, is none other than the vivacious and talented MacKenzie Cahill, my 9 year old daughter. I’m so proud!
Over Memorial Day weekend Revision3, the online video cast site suffered a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack at the hands of Media Defender, who is a contract Digital Rights enforcer for the media industry. With Leo Laporte and crew this week, Louderback discusses what happened and in doing so gives both an excellent, non-technical explanation of how DDOS works, as well as providing the clearest view into both the digital rights argument and the new media vs. old media…
Sorry for the lack of posts. More one what’s been up really soon. A few random thoughts: Services like Twitter and Plurk on the Iphone are like crack for Geeks. I’ve learned more about scalability in web apps in the past 2 weeks than you can imagine. Somehow we’ve managed to create a whole new class of internet celebrities. Have I ever mentioned how I hate the celebrity factor… Check out the Lenovo Olympics site – Stevie Glas did an…