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- Attention Bunny
- When Robert Scoble reported on our late night conversation after the Berkeley meat-up Monday night, I briefly panicked when I realized he had really gotten what I've been talking about with regards to attention. Then I calmed down, figuring he'd forget it all after a good night's sleep.Wrong. Tonight, the...
- Tags: Rojo
- Blog posts 2005-10-29
- Attention Metaphor
- The idea behind good technology is calm. GooChat is good and calm. Even as pinheads roam the GooglePlex issuing blacklists against news organizations, engineers create smooth ponds of application space, clean rooms where clarity emerges like a a cupped hand from a mountain brook.You don't agree? Fine. But try GooChat...
- Tags: Portals, Desktops, E-mail providers, Web technology, Instant messaging, GooChat, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Macintosh, portal, Google Gmail
- Blog posts 2005-08-24
- Remix this
- First, a joke I heard about Google and Microsoft. The Google guy says they've been hiring people away from Microsoft. Then the Microsoft guy says they've been hiring people away from Google. Then he says, "Guess who's getting the better deal."Microsoft the white hat. You bet, folks. Microsoft not only...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Winer
- Blog posts 2005-06-29
- 60 Days
- On Thursday, Google laid down a 60-day window for offering RSS support in their Fusion operating system/office suite hybrid. On Sunday night Steve Jobs laid down a 60-day window for RSS enclosure support inside iTunes. Today, as the smoke clears from these two cannon blasts across Microsoft's bow, Bill Gates...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Apple iTunes, 60-Day
- Blog posts 2005-05-23
- Something in the Air
- Sometime when we weren't looking in the past few days, we flipped on the new bit. Not sure how to quantify it, but there's something in the air (Thunderclap Newman for you kids out there just tuning in.) The evidence is overwhelming if subtle: Dave Winer and Jason Calacanis podcasting...
- Tags: Kim Cameron, Bill Gates, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2005-05-13
- Berlind's PodTop
- Updated belowOver the past few weeks, my ZDNet colleague David Berlind has been in the podcasting kitchen whipping up a studio. The latest results are part of Berlind's Transparency Project. Berlind kindly credits me along with Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles and Phil Terrone of EndGadget with helping him...
- Tags: audio, FX Send
- Blog posts 2005-01-20
Additional Resources
- DDoS + Web2.0 == Buckets o' Traffic
- Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...
- Tags: Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.
- A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda item, they haven't set aside the money to support it. Close to 90 percent of the executives...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Mainstream media writes Windows obit
- Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet
- Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
- Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security
- News items 2008-09-05
- Welcome Adam O'Donnell, Sean Portnoy
- We have a few new faces on the blog network--Adam O'Donnell has been added to Zero Day and Sean Portnoy, who is taking over the SoHo networking blog. Adam rounds out the coverage of Ryan Naraine and Dancho Danchev on Zero Day, our security hub. ...
- Tags: Blog, Adam O'Donnell, Sean, Blogging, Productivity, Research & Development, Security, Internet, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft Student Technology Day UK
- Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....
- Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- EIC Podcast: Google Chrome; Apple; Dell and Salesforce.com
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google's Chrome browser, Apple's iPod event next week and my theory that Dell and Salesforce.com should merge. On Google's Chrome browser we riffed on the importance of the launch, how it's really a battle over cookie files...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Sales Force Management, Web Browsers, Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?
- This week I've been putting together slides and preparing for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo New York City. I'm doing one titled "Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications" so it's more of a general talk covering everything from Adobe's stuff, to Microsoft Silverlight, to the mobile world, and now...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- The power of standard protocols
- The power of standard protocolsWhile I'm not an expert in IM protocols......I do agree with the basic philosophy (but you'd be surprised if I didn't). On the whole, compatibility is a good thing, even in the computer industry (where incompatibility has been seen as a competitive advantage for as...
- Tags: Instant messaging, IM, standard protocol, software
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready'
- Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready'Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready'Google Chrome is not SOA ready. Any sites that require more than HTML will fail to fully load on Chrome. Also Chrome has had major issues with trying to click on the back button. Now if someone takes the...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, SOA Ready, Google Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
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