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Microsoft to Enforce Antispam Plan. “Microsoft will soon put some bite into its Sender ID antispam plans. The software giant will check e-mail messages sent to its Hotmail, MSN, and Microsoft.com mail accounts to see if they come from valid e-mail servers, as identified by the Sender ID… The company is strongly urging e-mail providers… Continue reading Microsoft to Enforce Antispam Plan

Needed – A Dramatic Redefinition of “Search”. The enterprise search market has become a crowded and complex space dominated by a few big players where the goal is to find old documents and static web pages. The utter futility of returning 670,000 results to a person who really only cares about the first 10 has… Continue reading Needed – A Dramatic Redefinition of “Search”

IM Best Practices For Security Managers. In 2001, the CEO of eFront, a Web-site affiliation service, found that hundreds of his instant messaging (IM) conversations had been stolen and posted online. The logs included details and sensitive commentary on business partners—and that was just for starters. In light of that incident, and similar threats today,… Continue reading IM Best Practices For Security Managers

Personal servers – via Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare. Man oh man I sure wish MT had WYSIWYG editing. I wanted to post this a coupel of days ago – but….. it took too long to….. Anyway – here's some cool shit Adam Rifkin is talking about personal servers – and what Rohit is thinking… Continue reading Personal servers – via Adam Rifkin and Rohit Khare

The IE team is blogging and hiring. Shhh, don't tell anyone, but Dean Hachamovitch, the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team, told me that they are hiring. Interested in working on a next-generation browser product? Passionate about standards, security, tight code, a great interface, accessibility, usability, and all those other “ity's” like quality? Jobs… Continue reading The IE team is blogging and hiring

A black hole theory zapped. Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking yesterday conceded he was wrong about a long-held idea about black holes, backing off a theory that had raised the tantalizing possibility that the collapsed stars were swallowing information and sending it to alternate universes. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

State & Local Government on the Net. Check out this directory of the websites of state agencies and city and county governments. You can browse the directory by state, and the counties & cities, or you can browse by topic (such as legislature, jobs, & libraries). … [LibrarianInBlack]

aggregator with a tivo touch. Spent a little bit of time on my code today, still not sleeping all the way through the night without a painkiller so I kept my coding sesion short 🙂 Here's what I have running now, 2 folders on my desktop, one is named subscriptions and whenever I want to… Continue reading aggregator with a tivo touch

Porting Visual Basic to REALbasicREAL Software has published a guide for porting Visual Basic applications to Linux and Mac OS X using REALbasic, which is compatible with all three platforms. “Visual Basic and REALbasic are very similar, so Visual Basic users quickly become familiar with REALbasic,” said Geoff Perlman, president and CEO of REAL Software,… Continue reading Porting Visual Basic to REALbasic

Inside Look at Birth of the IPod. A former manager of the company tasked with making the hit device tells of the glitches that almost killed it, how Apple strained to keep it secret and how Steve Jobs molded it to his liking. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]