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Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF: Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...; Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-16

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News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?: I've become a big fan of Joichi Ito CEO Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart after seeing him speak on a panel at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference. In a room full of many smart people, Mr Ito is one of the smartest. Here is a clip...; Tags: Mr., Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?": The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m users that were doing a better job -- and for free. These seem to be the emerging business benefits from...; Tags: Job, Intuit Inc., Unemployment, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-23
166 Frames of Fame: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Andy Warhol famously said in 1968. Turns out, four decades into the future, the tomato can and Marilyn Monroe pop artist was an optimist. Now, anyone and everyone who wants...; Tags: Blog, Post, Gawker, Warhol, Blogging, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-23

News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of Internet: I spoke with Vint Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay. I asked him about net neutrality and the problems created by Telcos in trying to own the gateways to the Internet. Here is the video, the quality is very high contrast because of...; Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for me: Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meI have to agree: The flat Earth thing is funny.Unlike Vista, no one changed the Earth in an attempt to prove the common belief wrong.Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meTom Servo!Crow!The ads aren't that bad, it's just retro.RE: Microsoft'si mentioned all...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), App£e, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, flat-Earth, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-22
News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Updated:Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?: [Updated with video.] I'm spending a few days at Fortune Magazine's invite-only Brainstorm conference. It's an excellent lineup of speakers and the audience is full of top tech industry luminaries. Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, was just on stage and he spoke about trying to harness...; Tags: Intuit Inc., Social Media, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Icahn says he can't: Add Carl Icahn to the list of parties trying to figure out what to do with Yahoo! who can't. If he had a solid idea of how to set Yahoo! apart from Google, in particular, or Facebook and MySpace, along the way, he would have been...; Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Icahn, Corporate Governance, Channel Management, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-21
News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft: Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...; Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarter: Levi Strauss: SAP rollout 'substantially' hurt quarterWhoa Nellie.....Through the magic of Google alerts I discovered something I said five (count 'em 5) years ago was used to bolster the notion that an ERP implementation SAP specifically was the cause of Levi-Strauss' revenue problems in Q2 2008.I really would have loved...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Sarbanes-Oxley, Cultural Change, SAP AG, Levi Strauss, ERP; Discussion threads 2008-07-19
Spam coming from free email providers increasing: After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...; Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Immobile Apple: It's 11:33 a.m. Friday. Approximately 66 and a half hours since Apple Support acknowledged receipt of my request for help on syncing calendar and contact data from my iMac to the "cloud,'' i.e., MobileMe servers wherever they are. Re-request sent after 48 hours. Still...; Tags: Apple Inc., 3G, Desktops, Web Browsers, Recruitment & Selection, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-18
iPhone 3G GPS - Is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?: iPhone 3G GPS - Is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?Is it a battery issue for the turn by turn?Some have said a a turn by turn would be a massive drain on battery performance. Could it be that Apple actually wants a 3rd party...; Tags: Engineering, iPhone 3G GPS, antenna department, GPS, IS IT, Garmin Ltd., Apple iPhone 3G, Apple iPhone, battery; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus': The Linux creator has some harsh words for creators of the OpenBSD operating system, as part of a wider critique of what he sees as self-centered behavior in the IT security industry Linux creator Linus Thorvalds has labeled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys",...; Tags: Information Technology, Industry, OpenBSD, Bug, Attack, Linux Creator, Torvalds, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Linux, Security, Software, Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel, Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia; News items 2008-07-17
News to know: Google; Microsoft; eBay; SAP; Apple: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google's second quarter: What to expect Deb Perelman: The Techie Hall of Shame Phil Wainewright: How much is a unit of cloud computing? Joe McKendrick: Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it' Robin...; Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets; Blog posts 2008-07-17
MSearch (exe): MSearch application with the help of which you can always find the necessary file if you have at least a part of its name or content, or approximate time of its creation. It's enough to have just a part of the file name to find it. For example, the name...; Tags: Name, File, Msk Pocket Software; Software downloads 2008-07-17
What MobileMe Could Use ...: ... is live tech support. If you have a problem -- like say, the entries you make on your iCal on your desktop Mac don't sync with MobileMe but the entries from a PC laptop do -- you can't just call 1-800-APL-CARE (1-800-275-2273) and get any...; Tags: Response, Mr., E-mail, Desktops, Online Communications, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-16