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October 2007

Magic Firefox Phishing Message

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Pleasantly surprised to see this, and I didn’t even know it was checking for me: Firefox phishing error message (not that I would have fallen for it 🙂

Is Facebook the new Google of acquisition-lust?

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In the past, clever [tag]entrepreneurs[/tag] (yours truly not included, alas) have built companies and products with a very specific plan or desire or hope or scheme to be acquired by some deep pocketed parent-to-be. Perhaps create a bit of MS Windows Software that looked just like an Office App...

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Steven Pinker on Why We Curse

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I know that access to my blog is blocked at least by EMC (heard so from friends there) so I will refrain from quoting this article’s first word: > “*ucking became the subject of congressional debate in 2003, after NBC broadcast the Golden Glo...

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[GEEKY] Weakness in Mac OS X Software Update

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Everyone loves how much easier Mac OS X makes it to install software. Well sort of. It’s a place where new users easily get stumped. What the heck are those .dmg files anyway, and where’s the installer? Well this post isn’t about that. After all, it wouldn’t count as [GEEKY] if that’s all it did. Be...

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Hackers and the elections

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In New Scientist Tech, an interesting article about hackers and the elections: > “The web may not deserve its reputation as a great democratic tool, security experts say. They predict voters will increasingly be targeted by internet-based dirty tricks campaigns, and that the perpetrators will find it easier to cover their tracks.” (from Hackers could skew US elections”) Read the whole thing here.

Temporary phone numbers and eBay

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When you are selling or buying something on the web, say eBay or Craigslist, it always is a question whether to give your ‘real’ phone number out. I just came across Numbr.com (credit Lifehacker, and several others) which appears to have a neat solution to this. Simply, it gets you (for free, but doesn’t everything have to be free nowadays?) a temporary phone number which will anonymously forward calls to your real number. Simple and useful. Check out Numbr.com.

Is Newser this weeks Daylife?

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Newser.com is a new news site, with the tag line: “Faster, Smarter News.” Seems like it does some kind of automatic classification of news by one of 9 major topics and organizes it automatically and attractively. It may or may not be trying to personalize what it displays for me. To my eye it is similar to Daylife.com. Remember Daylife? It flashed pretty good a few months ago, but haven’t really heard much more about it. Again I am not sure whether it does any personalization or how that works. As someone who follows these kinds of products pretty closely, I don’t immediately see the key differences. Do you?

September 2007

LinkedIn has photos, finally

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Finally, welcome to the 20th  century, [tag]LinkedIn[/tag]: > “It’s taken four years for LinkedIn to add photos, when every other [tag]social network[/tag] has done it forever. The site for business professionals has always kept a conservative, business-like tone. But although it says the decision has been driven by members, LinkedIn could not have escaped noticing that business people are using sites like Facebook to network both personally and for business. Adding photos ticks a box marked ‘we can be as friendly-looking as Facebook too guys’.”

Shelby is back from Liberia

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My friend Shelby has been living and blogging from Africa over the last year or so. From reading it you can tell what a unique experience she has had, and that she comes back a changed person. Welcome back, Shelby! Check out this post from Plantains and Palm Trees: > “[snip…] Going from Liberia to the US, my overwhelming thought is always this: It’s not that they’re poor and we’re rich. It’s that they’re incredibly poor and we’re incredibly rich. [snip…]” Read her blog, there are lots of other interesting and revealing stories.