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Twitter: #googlewave #TiGra #electricdreams Now that Google Wave is out of beta and open to all, I’m seeing a lot of comments in the Twitterverse along the lines of ‘So what? What are you supposed to do with it?’ Google has a few ideas of their own, as shown in the screen clipping (right) taken from...
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Book Review ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly Maarten Balliauw Packt Publishing I set out to learn ASP.NET MVC with this book with some trepidation, as the preview release of ASP.NET 2.0 was already available. My concern was that the book would be out of date. However, that proved not to be the case. Maarten Balliauw...
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We use BE Unlimited as our broadband provider of choice. They are faster and cheaper than most of the competition and I’ve been blown away by the quality and helpfulness of their customer service. We live in semi-rural Wales, yet we get 24Mbps downstream speed. BE also recently began offering a line...
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I’ve written several times on why I think free software is harmful ( Open Source or Microsoft ; The Zen of Free ; Free Software: Good vs. Evil ?). The unfortunate precedent of giving things away for free on the Internet can result in a race to the bottom. Some software developers are conflicted about...
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On Monday 21st February, I’m giving a live demo to some local entrepreneurs and academics to show how, for me, Windows Live Writer has revolutionised blogging. Some of the topics I’ll cover and expand upon during the demo are: My Approach to Blogging Visual appeal trumps content (but the content must...
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Have you been following this fascinating series on BBC 2? It examines some of the social and cultural repercussions of one of mankind’s greatest achievements – and it’s not all good! Today, I find it quite impossible to imagine life without The Internet, yet only 20 years ago, I had never even heard...
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I’ve had a miserable experience with RSS feeds in Outlook. There are feeds (suc as those from teh Stack Overflow Trilogy sites) that I just know should update at least every few minutes, yet Outlook often takes an hour or more to show any changes. Today after an email exchange with Jeff Atwood (@CodingHorror...
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This amazing free report by Imperva presents an analysis of over 32 million compromised user passwords, obtained in the Rockyou.com breach . The report lists the top 20 passwords used, and here they are: Is your password in the list? If so, I’d consider changing it PDQ. Share this post: | | |
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Everything You Do is Marketing I see lots of individuals and worse, businesses who project a shoddy half-assed online persona. Businesses should really understand this: everything you do says something about your company . Your online presence is perhaps the biggest piece of marketing you’ll ever do...
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Yahoo groups have been the home of ASCOM and astronomy support for many years now and there has not been any realistic alternative. However, Yahoo has its problems: advertising, mangled emails and a truly awful search facility. It’s difficult, at best, to find even information that you know is in there...
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For some time I’ve been following the progress of the Stack Overflow Trilogy of web sites ( StackOverflow , ServerFault and SuperUser ). Now, anyone can set up their own site, based on the same engine. The new service is called StackExchange , it’s provided by Fog Creek Software and it’s currently in...
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Remember a while back I was having a dig at Multimap , aka Bing Maps? One of my main criticisms was that the map area was too small compared to the advertisements. Guess what happened? Then Now Well, that’s a bit better. Now how about those very annoying and distracting flashing, blinking animated advertisements...
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Hmmm, I was using Facebook today responding to a ‘relative request’ when suddenly up pops this: Nice one Facebook. Fail ! If you see a dialogue like this one, do not click it! It is bogus, it takes you to a web page that makes up bogus malware infections in an attempt to get you to part with your money...
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That’s Google’s motto, the standard that they’re supposed to live by. In some ways, they do live up to it, but in some very important ways, they fail utterly. I’m fed up seeing things like this when I try to reset IE to factory defaults: Google , if the user likes your search page, they will reconfigure...
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Not my words, but those of the legendary Seth Godin . This is what I mean when I say “Facebook is a useless waste of time”. Listen carefully to what Seth has to say. There are wins to be had for businesses in the field of social networking, but generally they happen by accident and are only useful to...