Archive for 'web'

The EC-GC spoof is toast, whodunnit?

(Screenshot snagged from straight.com.) I remember when Telus shut down thousands of websites to take down their union’s website. Serverloft might have just done the same. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article on the takedown of the Yes Men site. I did find an article from straight.com which claims to have the original complaint. The [...]

Fooling around with Wave

I’ve received two e-mails from Google today. They’re both regarding Wave. First, there’s the e-mail saying that my name was put forth by a Googler (thank you to the chap from #hacklabto, you know who you are) for a developer sandbox account and please fill out this form with your desired usernames. The next was [...]

Mozilla Weave in its current form, where it might go, where I want it to go

I’ve installed a recent version of Weave on my server. The server is 0.3, the client is 0.4. Weave is Mozilla‘s syncing protocol that aims to let Mozilla applications and extensions keep the same settings, saved passwords, histories, bookmarks and the like. This’d be useful for me because I use four computers on a regular [...]

Pinboard vs Delicious: there’s room for both

Techcrunch has a pretty strong line on Pinboard. The title of their review gives it away. If you want to know a bit more about Pinboard then take a look at Back To Basics: Ditch Delicious, Use Pinboard. I’m not sure I agree. The value of social bookmarking sites is heavily rooted in the network [...]

Giving Ohpan beta a go

I discovered Ohpan by A Type Studios through Twitter and decided to give it a go. You can too if you check out their latest blog post to find one of the beta keys. The ones that work as of this writing are ATYPE1 and GENYTO. It’ll ask you to log in through an OAUTH [...]

Where’s the microblogsphere?

When talking about microblogging I often see this question asked: “What can you say in 140 characters?” My answer is “Maybe a sentence, sometimes with a citation.” That falls within 140 characters but it’s missing too much, which is why I’m writing this short post. Most people I talk to hear “microblogging” and put too [...]