Jon's Network

I heard from Daniel about ChaCha. I’ve never used a mobile search service nor had the slightest clue how they work, but I was impressed enough by the answer they sent Daniel that I figured I would try it out. I texted “Is the Bald Eagle and endangered species?”. About 5 minutes later I received [...]

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Some interesting new research out of ETH Zürich showed that Firefox’s Auto-Update mechanism works the best at keeping users updated with the latest and safest version compared to all other major browsers. The report, Understanding the web browser threat, used Google’s browser data from the last 18 months to figure out a lower bound on [...]

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Here is a cool app to add to my list of single-field web apps. Down for everyone or just me? via Daring Fireball

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Christopher Abad I don’t know him. Check it out punk.

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Much of the web-application attention is focused on applications that were not traditionally on the web; applications like CRMs, word-processing or spreadsheets. Yet, the Web at its finest packs a greater punch in a smaller amount of space. Google web search is the most used web app on the planet, yet it needs only a [...]

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News.com published an article wondering what legal action could be taken against users and makers of ad-blocking software: Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal It’s ridiculous for site-owners to worry about this. Users that go through the hassle to use ad-blocking browser plug-ins are unlikely to click ads in the first place. This [...]

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I recently needed tell a web designer some colors that I liked for a new website I’m working on. I wanted to be specific to try and get the mock-up right as soon as possible. I looked around and tried some color scheme tools. There is a list of some of them at the WordPress [...]

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I may like company X’s algorithms for scanning traffic but hate their GUI. Why does one have to be attached to the other? Rob tipped me off to some commentary by Mark Curphey about taking advantage of the long-tail phenomenon that the internet has made possible. What Mark essentially suggests in part 1 is that [...]

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Google Docs aren’t a replacement for MS Word. Eric Schmidt even said so during his keynote interview at the Web 2.0 Expo. Google Docs enables collaboration says Schmidt. Google has done a great job at that. I now use Google Docs almost daily, but it’s not an environment I would want to work in all [...]

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One of the more memorable talks at the Web 2.0 Expo was Alex Stamos of iSEC Partners. Here it is in a nutshell: There is no browser security model. We are all screwed. He offered a good introduction to XSS and Cross Site Request Forgery, discussed some attack examples and ended with a security analysis [...]

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