FaceBook Turns on @facebook.com Address

FaceBook Turns on @facebook.com In the last days Facebook turned your @facebook.com mail address into the default one shown on your profile. You can change it back on the About page of your profile. Wisely they didn’t put it in your Account Settings as it would easily be found there. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post »

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Create Documents from GMail Conversations #blogging

Using GMail daily I hadn’t noticed the item Create a document in the menu before yesterday, I decided to try it out and I really like it. The function allow you to turn an entire conversation into a document which is stored into Google Docs with the push of a button.

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The quoted text contains all the included markup, altough it doesn’t include the sender details, it removes all the quoted text it recognizes. What it doesn’t do is truncate the text below the “sig dashes” (“signature cut line”, “sig-marker”, or “sig separator”), which is what I expected.

I create many post based on conversations I see on mailing lists, or other place. This feature makes it easier to collect all the text of the conversation, as the sender is not included it is necessary to through source text to attribute the quotes to the correct person.

Nice feature!

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OS registers to DNS #security #risk

Recently on NANOG I saw the item below, I was thinking about what this actually means. A computer would – similar to DynDNS – register itself and it’s hostname to a DNS server using some kind of authentication. Naturally I immediately thought this was a brilliant plan, and didn’t understand why nobody, with the exception of DynDNS, had thought of this before. The immediate afterthought was that this would be easy to implement with a soft-token, which is the software equivalent of a physical token like RSA’s SecureID, or complicated to implement with PKI infrastructure.

From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Re: mailing list bounces

It will be much better when the OS’s just register themselves in
the DNS. Humans shouldn’t have to do this when a machine renumbers.
Named can already authenticate PTR updates based on using TCP and
the source address of the update. For A/AAAA records you setup a
cryptographically strong authentication first.

DynDNS uses username password, which is less secure than the cryptographically strong solution that Mark Andrews mentions below.

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A catalog of this year’s risky articles #2010

Risk is something which can be difficult to evaluate for the average person, there is a lot of work which goes in to learning not to do the two things that people usually do when they are confronted with risk:

1. Ignore
2. Overreact

Facebook is the new Portal for Insurers and Banks #social #finance

It looks like every man and his dog needs to have a Facebook page, even banks…

@Google and @FaceBook battle over the back of @FriendFeed? #social #feedburner

It has been almost 1.5 weeks since Google’s FeedBurner removed the Frie…

Prosper allows loans to fund Kiva projects #microfinance

Some days ago I tweeted to Prosper, a personal loan marketplace, whether they…

Social Revolution – Do You Get It?

I don’t really think most people get “it” when it comes to …

Secret Google campaign against Hyves? #social #networking

Just noticed that Google Translate translates the name of the Dutch social ne…

Company Policy or People #hr

I find a 400 plus page manual of office policies and job descriptions for eac…

Social Media Syndication – Feedback Loop

In the last two days I’ve not been posting so much, and focussing on up…

Google Scribe – Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits #google

I started playing with Google Scribe and wanted to see if patterns emerged so…

@Google, please stop with the language! #google

I have my Google account set up with English as the preferred language, my br…

Did The LinkedIn Certificate Expire Again? #linkedin

For the last 2 years LinkedIn has been running a bad poor IT management depar…

Advert: Reserve your Agile/SCRUM Pack #scrum #agile

When I just started I too had trouble with getting all the items I required t…

GMail Quota and Statistics (follow-up) #google #gmail #dashboard

On August 11th 2007 I exceeded my GMail quota, I blogged about it here. At th…

More SMS banking by M&T #sms #bank #risk

Brian Szymanski send a reply to me concerning another bank implementing SMS b…

Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet

I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is…

Is RevTrax violating FaceBook privacy policy? #facebook @RevTrax #privacy

I just read an article Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell in the …

China acquires more than China… #hacks

This morning/night China’s networks were sending rerouting messages to …

Implementation of Security #risk

The lack of trained and experienced computer security people working in small…

ING reveals names using account numbers #bank #risk

Last week I saw an episode of a popular Dutch Ombudsman program Kassa, they r…

Musing: Why can I fly solo?

After seeing a program about a lifecoach trying to find the time to get his p…

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This year’s articles about programming #2010

In 2010 I was less focussed on programming articles on the blog than previous years, still I have managed to create some interesting articles with code in 2010. This is an overview of the activity:

Sync Web with Phone #html #javascript #scratchpad

Having some fun today with QR codes, JavaScript and the Google Analytics URL …

The Structure of a Daily Scrum #agile #scrum

The only questions that are asked in the Daily Scrum, aka Stand-Up, are: What…

Features I Still Miss in Mail #mail #email

UPDATE: GMail has introduced my number 3. YEAH! (Gmail introduces Priority In…

YouTube Channel Unsubscribe #bookmarklet

I like YouTube, and often subscribe to new channels and unsubscribe after a w…

PCI is nice (or what I do) #pcidss

Since I started working for my company I’ve been exposed to PCI DSS (Pa…

Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet

I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is…

VeriSign PIP Browser Certificate workaround (PIN Request) #identity #openid

VeriSign – Personal Identity Portal is a OpenID provider with multiple …

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The Gist of the Idea #crm #mail

Playing with Gist today, although it can always be difficult to adapt to a new interface the advantage that Gist has is that it uses keyboard shortcuts which are intuitive over multiple platforms. And naturally that it can show CRM statistics over the interaction between my, my company and my contacts and extracts the data from multiple platforms, including Mail, FaceBook and Twitter.

It’s also possible to grade people by importance and get a level of data from them which I need to get. Gist also has the option to “auto-magically” select the most important content, reducing the amount of information which is presented to me. Although Gist believes that removing all Tweets and FB posts will create a more manageable list of people and companies, rather than changing the level of importance to display.

A future feature I would like to see it the ability to translate or remove contant in languages I don’t understand or location based information.

Fail whale solution for Twitter #failwhale @twitter

Many years ago while working for a large ISP we had occasional outages due to bugging software or being over capacity. Mail was the biggest problem, with many people – even on the dial-up network – POP-ing^[1] their mail every 5 minutes. We had rolled our own mailserver and we were constantly fixing our infrastructure to give our customers the highest quality. Yet we still had the occasional outage which caused our helpdesk to be flooded with calls from people whose mail client gave a pop-up message with an error message.