this post is a daily aggregation of all news links from onsaas . this post is automatically generated everyday at 1145pm utc. daily cloud feed nov 21 2008 making money from saas cloud providers are better at securing your data than you are it management podcast 26 change management ca amazon adobe ntrglobal aria systems autotask and salesboom.com discuss ......
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image via wikipedia geoffrey k. pullum professor of general linguistics in the school of philosophy psychology and language sciences university of edinburgh has written a marvelous verse in the style of dr. suess that explains the proof that the halting problem is undecidable in a clear and humorous way. the verse is called scooping the loop snooper pdf. if only all ......
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image via wikipedia when i first read pentagons new map and heard tom barnett talk about how he analyzed geopolitics i realized that here was an theory a geek could love. tom uses concepts like and system adm inistratio n to talk about how the world does and ought to work. i got to interview tom about his second book blueprint for action and im anxious to......
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image via wikipedia yesterday a federal judgeironically the same one whod ruled earlier that guantanamo prisoners werent entitled to civil review ruled that five men held there for seven years be released . there was insufficient evidence that they were involved in any crime. in fact thats maybe too charitable. if you read the details it seems like the governme......
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in the spirit of transparency kynetx has published our operationa l procedur es and practices online. as we gain more control over our infrastructure automation well also have realtime operationa l informat ion and statistics. id appreciate feedback on whats there. keep in mind this isnt out dream but rather were trying to present a true pi......
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image via wikipedia today i had to do a job interview with a candidate in chile. he had skype and wanted to use it. i was leery because i had four people on my end who needed to be in on the call so usb headphones werent going to cut it. we decided to press forward and try the call with the mbps internal speakers and microphone. it worked beautifully we could hear ......
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image via wikipedia jordan hubbard apples director of engineering of unix technologies spoke at lisa 08 last week. most people are commenting on the date he gave for the release of snow leopard 10.6 the newest version of os x. i have to admit im ready for some stability improvements but i was much more intrigued by the details of his talk pdf......
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the topic of p2p file sharing inside the enterprise recently came up in a conversation i was having. i count myself as pretty enlightened on these kinds of things but beyond getting large linux distros quick or sharing disk images virtual machines and virtual appliances i had a tough time thinking of legitimate reasons an enterprise might support it or even allow it. the other si......
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a story in sundays ny times about obama surrendering his blackberry caught my attention. until jan 20 2009 whatever he writes on it is private. after that its all public. who among us could live with that kind of requirement not many. its a sad irony that weve constructed a public worldand believe me this extends far further than the presidentwhere ......
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image via wikipedia theres been considerable discussion about obamas intention to appoint a chief technology officer for the united states. count me as a supporter of that move. its almost cliche to say that technology plays a vital role in the us economy and our place in the world. of course when i say cto i mean cto and not cio . and i think that the job......
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the iiw is an unco nferenceq uot where ideas related to usercentric identity are discussed in an open freeform manner and conversation topics are determined by the event participants. last week i went to the internet identity workshop held at the computer history museum in mountain view california. people manage their online identities across the range of websites services co......
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papalars via flickr this post on the death of advertising was my 4000th blog post on technometria. kind of snuck up on me. the mountain picture has nothing to do with blogging or anniversaries or milestones. i just liked it. tags blogging milestones......
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john mccrea david recordon and joseph smarr recorded a special edition of their video podcast social web tv at iiw this week. their guests were max engel of myspace eran hammer of yahoo dick hardt of sxipper paul trevithick of parity and doc searls of the berkman center for internet and society. steve gillmor recorded a techcrunchit show with david recordon of six apart kevin ......
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dave winer dave winer wrote yesterday about the death of online advertising . he says ive been saying it for as long as people have been building businesses on advertising on the web its not a longterm thing. now were at the end of the road. assuming the economy comes back from the recession depression thing that its in now when it does we wil......
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computer history museum about a month ago kaliya and i had a serious conversation about possibly having to cancel the internet identity workshop this time. registrations were not coming in as fast as usual and no one had committed to any of the major sponsorships. i was concerned id end up personally eating the cost of the conference if we moved forward. shortly after that ping i......
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im sitting in a session at internet identity workshop that is discussing what standardized support browsers could provide to all authentication systems. right now all browsers support one usern amepasswo rd over http authentication . authentica tionrsquo s come a long way since 1993. dick hardt of sxipper made the observation that users view whatrsquo s i nside the chrome......
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yesterday i found out about tweetdeck an adobe air application for managing twitter. tweetdeck is much more than a way for watching your tweet stream and posting tweets. tweetdeck is a dashboard for twitter . you can create separate panels for example to follow searches. yesterday i was using it to follow three different searches related to internet identity workshop and seeing tweet......
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joel spolsky joel spolsky and jeff atwood built stackoverflow.com a site for programmers to ask other programmers questions. if you havent been over there you ought to check it out. they have some very nice concepts for building a community site and its nicely done. joel and jeff have been discussing programming and the building of stack overflow on their weekly show o......
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wpa or wifi protected access is one of the primary means of protecting wifi hubs. ars technica reports that erik tews a phd candidate from germany is prepared to present a paper at pacsec this week that explains how he was able to crack it. the exploit doesnt actually crack wpa keys but does allow an attacker to sniff a packet make minor modifications to the checksum and......
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i am writing this post for all of you coming here after reading the fast company article listing the 13 most influential women in web 2.0 . here is my slide in the deck where you can see the picture bob took in full glory. just to be clear i am part of more then the openid community i facilitate the internet identity workshop that i cofounded and coproduce with phil wind......
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utah governor jon huntsman who was reelected with 78 of the vote was quoted in a washington post article on rebuilding the republican party asking was there anything that went right for republicans over the last several years utahs republican governor jon m. huntsman jr. predicted a broa d discussi on of the future of the party with virtu......
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jeff atwood talks about the problem of detecting urls in text. the problem as jeff points out is that lots of interesting characters are legal in urls including parens. so writing a regular expression to distinguish between these two urls is hard but not impossible my website http www.exam ple.com4 1 httpen .wikipedia .orgwiki pc tools 40centra l point so ftware......
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i really wasnt expecting the flood of emotions that came over me tonight after watching the obama speech but also after letting it all sync in. i was filled with these intense flashbacks to my old apa rtment82 21 it was a doctors office that was formerly a house that had once again become a liv ework82 21 space the day that 911 happened. i was just out of col......
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via lambda the ultimate a pointer to a paper by alessandro warth and alan kay pdf called worlds controlling the scope of side effects. i didnt get as much out of reading the abstract as i did from the opening paragraphs of the intro suppose that while browsing the web you get to a page that has multiple links and it is not clear which one if any......
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jonathan yarmis from amr research just told the story of someone who visited his house to pick up some kids and forgot to put the car in park. she went in the house as her car took off down the driveway. it ran over a power transformer and then crossed the street and came to rest 150 yards into the trees on the other side of the road. the woman became aware that her car was on the move when merc...
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