Forbes Gaffe: Prints Private Chat Between AP Reporters. How to Correct Online Publications.
The Forbes Gaffe Ok, now that I got your attention with the title, this is about more than Forbes’ Royal Gaffe. But first things first: Forbes mistakenly printed a “story”, (update: original deleted, see saved copy) which isn’t a story but private chat between two AP reporters, and should not have been published at all [...]
Spam: Probably the Most Interesting Speech of the Day at Gnomedex 09
Had the opportunity to listen to one of the older purveyors of Pill Spam on blogs, Pligg, and other social networks. I owned a Pligg site there for a bit and was intimately wrapped up in the Pligg comment spam issue to the point where the stie was actually shut down by the ISP due [...]
Will Gears kill Software plus Services?
Microsoft still advocates their Software plus Services strategy. And they do have a point; some software will always require to be installed and executed locally. More advanced software like Adobe Photoshop is an obvious example, but even software that has plenty of web alternatives such as Evernote can benefit from having a desktop client. But [...]
PaaS, Trusting Beyond Its Initial Hype
Image via Wikipedia Friday, I wrote about the shutdown of PaaS vendor, Coghead, and wondered how one can minimize the risks involved with such scenarios. Unless we figure out a way to minimize such risks, it will be impossible to convince enterprise customers to trust their applications on top of PaaS. Let us take a detour and check out some of the players [...]
Credit Crunch Has Reached the Blogosphere
The Credit Crunch has reached bloggers: it is now a WordPress Theme by Eric, developer of the lightweight theme I use on my personal blog. Eric is also the developer who first turned Google Chrome into a theme… Before you ask, no, I haven’t found a "Recession" WordPress theme – yet. On (somewhat) related note, [...]
Are Cloud Computing and Open Source Arch-Enemies?
Image via Wikipedia Are Open Source and Cloud Computing anachronistic enemies? You’d think so, if you read GNU creator Richard Stallman’s interview in The Guardian: Cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time. "It's stupidity. It's worse [...]
Is Twitter Being Used to Attack Blogs? We Still Need Social Feeds.
By Zoli Erdos on January 14, 2009
An older post on my personal blog, If Scoble Thinks He Found Bad Startup Marketing, He Ain’t Seen Nothing received several comments this morning, all showing the same structure, pointing back to Twitter accounts – some are clearly spam accounts with only this one update, but others appear to be real users, although I am [...]
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