Better attorney photos for your law firm website. There's nothing worse than a law firm website that has lame photos. Well, actually firm websites that completely lack attorney photos are pretty bad, and amazingly not all that rare. Anyway, I mention this topic because a friend of mine in Seattle is a photographer who specializes… Continue reading Better attorney photos for your law firm website
Broadband as common as electricity
Broadband as common as electricity. Pick up your mobile phone and watch your favorite TV show. At home, on your computer, download a feature-length movie in no time at all. If you live in South Korea, it is an everyday reality to have always-on superfast Internet — broadband — both in your cell phone and… Continue reading Broadband as common as electricity
Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets
Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets. Ever been interested in how botnets work? The Honey Project has released an interesting paper entitled Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets. In the research, they discuss the tools, tactics, and motives of attackers who run botnets. A botnet is a network of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by… Continue reading Know your Enemy: Tracking Botnets
Groove Networks Site Powered By ColdFusion
Groove Networks Site Powered By ColdFusion. Ray Ozzie (best known as the creator of Lotus Notes) created Groove Networks to create software to simplify how groups work together, and Microsoft has announced plans to acquire Groove Networks. Several of you have written to tell me that the Groove Networks Web Site is powered by ColdFusion.… Continue reading Groove Networks Site Powered By ColdFusion
Microsoft Acquires Groove Networks: Three Years Too Late, Four Years to Impact
Microsoft Acquires Groove Networks: Three Years Too Late, Four Years to Impact. Shared Spaces announces the release of an independent Strategic Viewpoint report assessing Microsoft's acquisition of Groove Networks. Authored by Michael Sampson, the 7-page report: ” … works through what is ahead for a combined Microsoft and Groove entity, and ultimately concludes that Microsoft… Continue reading Microsoft Acquires Groove Networks: Three Years Too Late, Four Years to Impact
Dollar Woes
Dollar Woes. AT. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS), which acts as a bank for the world's central banks, has just released a study showing that the ratio of dollar deposits held in Asian offshore reserves declined to 67% in September, down from 81% in the third quarter of 2001. India was the biggest seller,… Continue reading Dollar Woes
‘I set out to prove those Rails folks wrong’
‘I set out to prove those Rails folks wrong’. Steven R. Baker was “…depressed by web development”, but he also pretty sure that “…sophisticated applications wouldn’t be any easier to build with Rails”. So what did he do? He gave it a try: So I did what any self-respecting skeptic would do: I set out… Continue reading ‘I set out to prove those Rails folks wrong’
The Adsense Economy
The Adsense Economy. USA Today looks at how small publishers and bloggers are making money via Google Adsense, a self-serve program that enables anyone to put contextual ads on their site…. [Micro Persuasion]
Novell Packs Plenty in SUSE Linux 9.3
Novell Packs Plenty in SUSE Linux 9.3. Like Ragu, it's all in there: Centrino support, latest OpenOffice, virtualization tools, iPod file transfer and Mono, to name a few of the 3,000 open source packages. [Datamation Product News]
Microsoft ties the knot with Groove
Microsoft ties the knot with Groove. My former employer purchased Groove today, making official what was already a very close working relationship. I’d like to be optimistic about what the acquisition will mean for the information worker part of Microsoft’s business. But let’s look at the track record that the Information Worker business unit has… Continue reading Microsoft ties the knot with Groove