jamespanderson:

Over the winter something interesting happened. LaunchRock came out and gave startups that are still “under construction” a simple launch page which they can use to collect email addresses and gauge interest. Collecting emails is a great way to get in touch with your potential users when you are…

No particular reason, just a nice picture with a computer theme

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-dm-exploit-2010-10

WARNING: Big Security Loophole In Twitter Can Expose Your DMs

I’m sure there is a reason for drumming up this paranoia article but not sure why, any ideas? (answers on a postcard has been replaced these days by a number of other ways of responding) but since the whole idea of twitter is a public information stream, in many respects DMs seem like either an afterthought or a contradiction in the design.

Really! if hackers wanted to get in, very little will stop them <u>trying</u> and some will succeed if the system being attacked is weak enough, but on reading the posts above my own, it seems clear to me that it’s <b> not the big deal your headline suggests it is</b>  and more of a design flaw that in the main, has been addressed.

If you don’t like or don’t trust, then its very easy, just don’t use it.

S

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/05/internet-explorer-falls-below-50-percent-global-marketshare-chr/#

despite claims from Microsoft, we all know by the time Mozilla created the Firefox browser, even the flaky early versions meant that Internet Explorer was in trouble and not the best browser, and they are still suffering from ver6.0 issues. Even with 9.0 out, it’s got Microsoft has got to learn its not number one any more (it will always dominate with the Windows operating system, and probably office as well for awhile longer) but online is a different beast completely.

Market share based on downloads is not that reliable, after all I have downloaded all of them at different times on different machines, but I am still only one user…. So while your graph suggests it is dormant, it’s cross platform compatibility and browser extensions, will maintain it’s position and when IE eventually falls down, Mozilla will gain momentum.

Chrome may well have had a 3-fold increase in usage but from a small single-digit percentage, could in theory move to as much as 27% percent of the browser market but has less than half of that. Nice idea, but it is still only a small percentage and chrome isn’t that good. Despite having the sandbox function is still flaky at best and not too good at handling flash content (my test bed: Zynga games) this, along with add-ons is where Firefox is strongest.

~S

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/what-microsoft-wants-from-google/7507

There is something wrong with this situation, and apart from it making interesting reading for a great many of us, the rest of the world would laugh at the absurdity if this situation.

This is an industry with conflicting ideals, and like parenting often lead to arguments, but the extent of this recent malarkey is quite frankly absurd. It is market driven and the winner should be the one that offers the best service that the public like and want and all this litigation and threats of court cases doesn’t help anyone. To win an argument you have to start of by being right, but in this and other complicated matters deciding who is in the right and who is wrong… corporate dirty laundry like this shouldn’t be aired in public.

I remember when I was a child and said “I want this, I want that, I want something” often it was a reasonable request, but was always replied with “you cant always have what you want” now, with regards to Microsoft (35) and google (12) it seems that the adult is screaming at the child, and the fact that Google is younger and fitter and bigger and achieving all that it’s older brother has done some of but is falling behind (the numbers in parentheses refers to the age of the company) and  an analogy here that everyone should understand.

A little friendly competition is good for everyone, and to say “I would like….” is a far better way to conduct yourself than screaming and threats. It’s not just the big computer companies, obviously there are other organisations involved here and the counter allegations and screaming even louder to try and be heard means more people will sit up and take notice but by the time its resolved will probably be out of date as a new technology will come along and blow them out of the water.