Dear PayPal, Safari Isn’t The Security Problem

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

In an interview with Macworld, PayPal asserted that Safari was not secure enough to be included on its recommended browser list. PayPal currently recommends Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 2+, or Opera to its users.
Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer, said, “Safari has got nothing in terms of security support, only SSL (Secure Sockets Layer […]

BINC Professional Search: Yet Another Recruiter To Avoid

Monday, February 4th, 2008

I get contacted by recruiters all the time. In general, I find them sleazy. There are exceptions.
When Charlie Smith at BINC “Professional” Search emailed me, I suggested that he state the name of the company he was working on behalf of when cold emailing potential candidates. Several of my friends have had bad experiences with […]

Multiplicity, Niches & De Facto Social Networks

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

The horror Terry Semel must have felt when his bid for Facebook was rejected… His company’s “me too” social network Yahoo! 360 never became popular and then he couldn’t even buy his way into the hottest web trend. The internet titan failed on both attempts because of too little technology, too little sociology, and absolutely […]

Social Network Interoperability and Why Facebook Still Wins

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

As a showing sign of maturity, the latest discussion around social networks is interoperability.
When Facebook enabled Applications and turned itself into the hottest web platform, it invigorated developers. Suddenly, any web application could gain a social element. The realization of this power came with a new concern: many different entities now owned data and sharing […]

2000 Bloggers

Friday, February 9th, 2007

I noticed that I was listed in the 2000 Bloggers index. Rockin’.

Trackbacks: The Real Blog Spam Problem

Monday, October 30th, 2006

If your WordPress blog is inundated with spam, try disabling Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.) in Options > Discussion.
My blog delightfully ran spam-free for years. Then suddenly, a tidal wave of comment spam hit. I installed Spam Karma, which prevented 100% of the comment spam from appearing on my blog.
However, Spam […]

FOXNews.com Redesign

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004

Everyone agrees. The new FOXNews.com redesign is the worst thing to launch since MSNBC.
Here’s why:

The index page alone is ~900 lines long, weighing in at over 45 KB just in code!
Layout priority is placed on advertisements, not news content, and even the content is incorrectly prioritized. I should not have to scroll through an iframe […]