Category: Quick Posts
Ars Technica – Google Earth, other mobile apps leave door open for scripting attacks
Oops, just because it doesn’t look like a browser doesn’t mean it doesn’t suffer the same security holes.
life and times of sha.ddih – Why wireless mesh networks won’t save us from censorship
This is a really compelling argument as to why unplanned wireless mesh networks won’t work at scale.
FarukAt.eş – Micro-payments And The Web
One of the great big problems on the web today is how to make money from publishing content (if your end goal is making money from content).
Shifty Jelly’s blog of mystery – You Guys Are Millionaires Right?
Pretty much exactly my answer when someone asks about pirating software.
Ars Technica – Google drops the axe on its internal renewable energy work
Ars answers my earlier question.
BBC News – Google kills off seven more products including Wave
So most of the products make sense to kill off they either never generated much traction or were already supposed to be cut.
The ALA 2011 Web Design Survey
Take it and tell the world (or really A List Apart and people who read it) a little bit about yourself and everyone else who makes websites.
Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer
I posted about this on Twitter, but it’s still a little astonding.
Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy
First Adobe kills Mobile Flash and now Flex looks like it’s about to wither away.
Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1
Pretty sure I would never have thought of attempting measuring the speed of the TCP packest with JavaScript.