http://chainedtotheweb.com ... ramblings from a new-media & web 2.0 junkie Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:07:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My ears are burning, all 729-million of them. Well, that number is from 2004 so I'm likely to have more ears by now and thanks to Watchlister I can tap into a large number of the conversations being had about my products and services. No, Watchlister is not surveillance software - ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1035 Undoubtedly you have completed the rest of that phrase as, "isn't gold".  In this case you're only partly correct.  In this case, it should be, "isn't gold. Sometimes it's Google Chrome".  Google Chrome is the terrifically shiny new browser from our friends at Google and like most Google applications they ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1115 [greytube]i_ncr1Ee9e8[/greytube][greytube]1MjNm3oQwZE[/greytube] From Evernote: Remember everything. Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. What does that really mean? In short, Evernote wants to be your mobile brain. Pretty ambitious ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1034 Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo. I really enjoy when smart people do interesting things to music and hardware. When they manage to combine the two, something truly wonderful happens. As I don't 'surf the 'net' I only found out about this recently. It ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1033 I was chatting with a friend of mine via Skype and somehow Katy Perry came up at which time my boyfriend reminded me that she had a song called "I Kissed A Girl". Considering that I hate Jill Sobule's song of the same name I assumed it was a ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1032 According to a recent article in PC World about the disclosure made by Nitesh Dhanjani on his site, it appears that the situation may have a greater impact than expected. While I have to laud the creativity of combining two attacks (what's not to like about the 'you lay them down ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1031 I got a new laptop this week to replace the machine that had been on loan during my time at ITA Software. I have to admit, the only reason I chose the MacBook Pro when asked on my hire form was simply to have something different than what ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1025 Certain ISPs have been shown to rate limit or block BitTorrent traffic sent by their customers. While there are multiple reports of this on the web, only a few ISPs have admitted that they manipulate BitTorrent traffic. And, to date, it is hard for users without networking expertise to gain ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1024 From the 04/30/2008 Sun Press release: Canonical Ltd. and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), today announced the inclusion of OpenJDK-based (http://openjdk.java.net) implementations in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server and Desktop editions, furthering the promise of Sun's open source Java technology initiative. In addition, the NetBeans 6.0 Integrated ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1023 A recent attack has compromised somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 pages with a SQL injection attack. The vulnerability seems to be limited to Microsoft's IIS and is easily defeated by the end user with Firefox and the "NoScript" tag. The automated attack takes advantage to the fact that Microsoft's IIS ... http://chainedtotheweb.com/archives/1022