As reported by Netcraft in US Government Security Site Vulnerable to Common Attack, The U.S. government site that tracks cyber security risks was recently found vulnerable to cross-site scripting, a technique commonly used in hacker attacks and web site spoofing. Several security sites have published a demonstration of the security hole in the web site […]
Bank Shuts Down Web Site After Phishing Attack
Would you like to lose all of the money in your bank accounts? Fall for a phishing attack. These are web sites which are cleverly designed to look like your real bank’s web site but which actually collect your personal information and hand it over to crooks and thieves. Here is a short story about […]
Coming to a Browser Near You: Microsoft Office Replacement for Free
This press release on Sun’s web site announces the new agreement between Sun and Google for Google Desktop on Sun’s Java platform. That is very nice but the last couple of paragraphs hint at something much bigger: Only the Beginning The distribution of Java and the Google Toolbar underscores Google’s advocacy of Java technology…. The […]
Understanding URI, URL, and URN
Prompted by a question from my wife, I finally went off and figured out the difference between a URI and a URL and a URN. I gleaned my analysis from the W3C’s article, URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations 1.0. This might be the key paragraph: Over time, the importance of this additional level […]
DHTML Utopia Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM
I found DHTML Utopia Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM reviewed in Slashdot. The review makes it sound good enough that I will at least drop by the bookstore and take a look at it… and will probably buy a copy.
Migrate Applications from Internet Explorer to Mozilla
IBM has published an article about porting IE-specific applications to work on Firefox and Mozilla, Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla. Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work with Mozilla? This article covers common issues associated with migrating applications to the open source Mozilla-based browser. You’ll first learn basic cross-browser […]
RSS: The Executive Summary
Demystify the buzz. ION RSS printed* a good article in April titled Of course, you know what RSS is … so here’s an article for your clueless boss. The good news is that you don’t have to be a clueless boss to learn from Nick Aster’s words. * How long will it be until nothing […]
The Future of RSS is Not in Blogs
Sharon Housley of FeedForAll hits the nail on the head in her article The Future of RSS is Not in Blogs. RSS feeds give readers a tremendously powerful tool to find and read the stuff which interests them. Blogs give writers soapboxes from which to spread their witticism. Most people are readers and “should” care […]
Interview with the Search Engine
Reminiscent of the old Eliza artificial intelligence program, and a lot more “relevant,” SatireWire has interviewed Jeeves of AskJeeves.com in their article, Interview with the Search Engine 🙂 You can try talking with Eliza here and read about Eliza in Wikipedia. My thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for finding this and brightening my day!
particletree · API Roundup
Chris Campbell did a very nice job of collecting a bunch of key web APIs onto one page in his API Roundup. Now all I need to find is the time to play with all of them. Thanks, Chris!
Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger
Scoble rants about RSS feeds that aren’t full text. Rather than being “bad,” I think that the style of RSS feed simply tells you something about the author’s motivation. Does he want the reader to have the information? Or is it more important to get the reader to visit the actual web site and view […]
Remembering Netscape: The Birth of the Web
Picture a world without Google, without eBay or Amazon or broadband, where few people have even heard of IPOs. That was reality just a decade ago. The company that changed it—bringing us into the Internet age—was a brilliant flash in the pan called Netscape. For the tenth anniversary of its IPO, FORTUNE recruited dozens of […]
Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange
I have two reactions to Email forwarding amounts to ritual gift exchange from NewScientist.com Doh! I knew that! How do I get paid to do “research” like this? Isn’t that interesting? I’ll bet there are a lot of people who never thought of that. I am a bit fascinated that people actually study this stuff. […]
Google Toolbar
Google just released a Firefox version of their Google Toolbar. This is a wonderful and free tool that can make your web browsing much easier. Installation is a snap and, if you don’t like it, you can simply uninstall. The platypus of the Internet, from the Google Blog, has some details about the development. Or […]
PHP Filters
OWASP has a collection of PHP Filters (a/k/a functions) to sanitize user inputs. I have not used them but they sure look useful!
MIT Weblog Survey
If you use IM or email or blogs, take a few minutes and take the survey. This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically […]
Search gets personal
The Google blog contains this article, Search gets personal, about “remembering” what you searched for and clicked on and using those data to improve your search results. It’s very early but very interesting. Definitely worth a look. Click to check out Google Personalized Search.
Diamonds in the Rough: RSS Aggregators
Would you be interested if I told you that you could have your own, personalized newspaper, for free, cleanly organized, with up-to-the-minute information, and with sources from the local paper, the newswires, the web sites that you like, and people “in the know” who you trust? Get interested because you can have all this. The […]
Straight Line Designs
Boing Boing gets credit for bringing this to my attention. Straight Line Designs creates some of the most unusual furniture I have ever been delighted to see. Coincidentally, their Flash animation is stunningly wonderful! I wish I had that talent. The intro page is cute but the main site menu make wonderful use of both […]
Big Brother is Watching in Chicago
From Slashdot we learn that Big Brother, and everybody else, is watching if you commit a crime in Chicago. Check out ChicagoCrime.org to see where the bad guys are operating in the Windy City. Possibly more practical is this Cheap Gas hack. Hats off to Google Maps, which is providing the underlying mapping data for […]
