CanSecWest Vancouver 2007
Register Conference Dojo Speakers Agenda Past Events Hotel & Travel Contact — CanSecWest 2007 — The eighth annual CanSecWest conference will be held April 18-20 2007, a t the Mariott Renaissance H...
From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet
"ONLY connect," the English novelist E. M. Forster admonished mankind. I don't think, however, that he meant that we should connect exclusively, or continuously. — Habitual users of a new, free com...
Mayor of Boston bans Boing Boing
Jake tried to access Boing Boing from Boston's free WiFi network and got this notice — topped by the seal of the Mayor of Boston no less! Banned in Boston — first they came for the Mooninites, then t...
This is your life, according to Google
Google's latest project is called Web History, and it offers registered Google Account users a chance to peruse not just their account history with Google, but one's surfing history. "Imagine being a...
Myth crushed as hacker shows Mac break-in
Dino Di Zovie was able to remotely break into a Mac as part of a contest designed to illustrate security flaws in OS X — A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a $10,000 prize as part of a con...
MacBook hacked in contest at security event
update VANCOUVER, B.C.—Shane Macaulay just got himself a free MacBook. — Macaulay, a software engineer, was able to hack into a MacBook through a zero-day security hole in Apple's Safari browser. T...
From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet
"ONLY connect," the English novelist E. M. Forster admonished mankind. I don't think, however, that he meant that we should connect exclusively, or continuously. — Habitual users of a new, free com...
HandBrake 0.8.5b1 Released
"I don't want to go on the cart! I feel fine. I... feel... happy!" — After a 14-month hiatus, a brand new development team, a project forked then unforked, and literally hundreds of revisions... ...
Mayor of Boston bans Boing Boing
Jake tried to access Boing Boing from Boston's free WiFi network and got this notice — topped by the seal of the Mayor of Boston no less! Banned in Boston — first they came for the Mooninites, then t...
Microsoft hit with patent suit over .Net
Vertical Computer Systems is suing Microsoft for allegedly using without permission its patent for a 'method of generating Web sites' as part of the .Net framework — Vertical Computer Systems is sui...
Generate a Contact Us Form With Your Email Address, No Scripting
Do you want to add a simple "Contact Me" page on your blog but fear of spam is holding you from sharing your personal email address on the webpage ? No problem, check out Contactify. — Contactify c...
AMD gooses Opteron to 3 gigahertz
Advanced Micro Devices has begun quietly selling new 3GHz versions of its dual-core Opteron server processor. — The new "special edition" models, the 2222 SE and 8222 SE, feature higher performance ...
Auditioning in a Video Résumé
Dr. Ronald R. Rawitt, a New York City psychiatrist, is shy. When he gets nervous, he slips into "aha" and "um" mode. As someone who often lectures, this is a problem. It is also an issue because he...
BUYYOURFRIENDADRINK UPDATE: IT WORKS!
I'd initially been skeptical about BuyYourFriendADrink.com (BYFAD), the Web site that just opened today (see previous coverage) in which you can remotely order drinks for your friends that they can re...
Web Startups and the Lying Liars that Lie About Them
Bloggers tell lies when they review startups? No, no - they just stretch the truth a little. OK, a lot. Inspired in part by Paul Kedrosky's Top Ten VC Lies, I whipped up 10 semi-truths that we tend...
Official Google Mac Blog Hacked
The official Google Mac blog got hacked - well, specifically, someone got ownership of the blog and posted the following: — <<Yo! — Yo! This is crazy.. I tried to register this and I could! :) —...
Eric Schmidt Interviewed by John Battelle
John Battelle interviewed Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, at Web 2.0 Expo four days ago. Eric Schmidt answered questions about Microsoft, the DoubleClick deal, users' privacy, YouTube and the future of G...
How much video content is too much content?
This week I've put up tons of videos. I know there's no way many of you are watching them all, but we're living in a Google World. What's that? It's a world where there are billions of little bucke...
MODERN AND AWKWARD: The six things you can't say in Silicon Valley
NICK DOUGLAS — God, these people are uptight! The recent tiffs over some startupper dissing the women of Microsoft and another startupper's wandering wifi sniffer reminded me one of the reasons this ...