Archive for 2007

M Dot: Web’s Answer to Mobile

There is an interesting blog post discussing the preferred URL for mobile websites. “Whoever thinks the web is sliding ever-so gently onto mobile phones hasn’t spent much time mucking around in the cellular browser. The mobile Internet is kicking its way there, with a lot of confusing choices for consumers – dot mobi, WAP, mobile.name.com. But I’ve noticed a trend lately of Internet companies using m.name.com, or M Dot, to go mobile.” Full Post: http://gigaom.com/2007/05/11/m-dot-webs-answer-to-mobile/ CNET Video: http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-27548.html?k=%22queue%22tag=cnetfd.vid It... [read more]

Web Design World 2007 – Seattle

Here’s another one to add to my personal development wish list! From their website: Web Design World — the most authoritative conference for Web design professionals — returns to the Seattle Marriott Waterfront, July 8-11, 2007, with updated sessions on Web 2.0, Ajax, CSS, XML, usability, accessibility, information architecture, Photoshop, and much more. I’m drooling over their agenda….if you’ve been to this conference before, post a comment to give us your feedback!  [read more]

SANS Security 519: Web Application Security Workshop

For our webpub web developers, this SANS training might come in handy. Its a SANS Security 519 Workshop on web application security. Quoting from an email from EDUCAUSE: “This two day workshop focuses on the latest tools and techniques to provide data to those intended while keeping out the bad guys. Students will have the opportunity for hands-on experience detecting and preventing cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection along with increasing their understanding of authentication, session management systems and their vulnerabilities and how to best defend. …Who should attend... [read more]

personal portal pages

There are two fun personal portal pages I’ve been playing with lately. One is iGoogle, the other is Netvibes. You need to set up an account for both (obviously) but I found Netvibes to be the faster of the two to set up. With iGoogle, you are limited to their services (which is nothing to sneeze at, really: Gmail, google maps, et cetera). With Netvibes, you get to pull in RSS feeds from any website, plus display Flickr search results (search for “the adventurer” and you’ll see our wonderful hand model) and display any iCalendar you subscribe to – plus a whole lot... [read more]

Digg.com Nearly Explodes Over Movie Codes

Did you hear what happened on digg.com yesterday? When some of its users posted a 16-digit hexadecimal number that is used to lock up HD-DVD movies, Digg removed their posts and terminated their accounts. That’s when the action really started happening…from Boing Boing: The AACS Licensing Authority, which controls the anti-copying technology underlying HD-DVD, sent out hundreds of legal threats to sites that had posted the key, including Digg. It appears that Digg took a pro-active stance and began to seek out new examples of the key and delete them immediately, instead of waiting... [read more]