Yahoo! Password Leak #security

Yahoo! Password Leak Gina Smith writes about the Yahoo! password leak inTechRepublic and adds a link were you can check whether your password was leaked. I changed my password as soon as I heard, and hope you did too. Luckily my password was not exposed in a form that Sucuri could detect. Even if you were not in the list you should change your password, as this could just have been a partial list and your password could still be floating around. View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post »

Yahoo! Nooooooooo…. #security

Yahoo! Nooooooooo…. *sigh* Yahoo! What did you do? Unencrypted passwords? Please tell me it isn’t so… /me = speechless Nearly Half a Million Yahoo Passwords Leaked – Slashdot An anonymous reader writes “Some 450,000 email addresses and associated unencrypted passwords have been dumped online by the hacking collective “D33Ds Company” following the compromise of a Yahoo subd… View or comment on Daniël Crompton’s post »

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…

Image source Radio Nederland Wereldomroep

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 …

Image source D’Arcy Norman

The power of RSS in Social Media Syndication in Content Curation #amplify

Inspired by @svartling I started playing with amplify, and added it to my Social Media Syndication Network Flowchart which I’m updating.

The way I’m setting it up focuses on the way your message can be spread in your information stream, by making your information stream more visible. This naturally includes the regular blogging (RSS) and microblogging applications, and events which are interesting for 3rd parties. For somebody like me who produces many Likes, Social Bookmarks and other items I discovered that the value of being able to extract and automatically curate items from the feed such asTwitterFeed and del.icio.us.

TwitterFeed can be used to extracted items and post these to a number of platforms based on keywords, although the keyword filter has always been poor and their OpenID implementation half-hearted.

Another RSS feature comes from del.icio.us, which in my opinion is one of the only Yahoo! product which hasn’t been exceded by a far superior Google product, del.icio.us produces multiple RSS feeds, specify feeds can be extracted based on the tags which are assigned.

Naturally FaceBook, Twitter and other services produce their own RSS feeds, the another great Yahoo! product Yahoo! Pipes gives us the ability to curate content multiple sources, which can all be used for external sources and for people like me who discuss multiple subjects which can be curated in different ways.

RSS has never been the exclusive domain of blogs, but they are more powerful than most think.

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The power of RSS in Social Media Syndication in Content Curation #amplify

Inspired by @svartling I started playing with amplify, and added it to my Social Media Syndication Network Flowchart which I’m updating.

The way I’m setting it up focuses on the way your message can be spread in your information stream, by making your information stream more visible. This naturally includes the regular blogging (RSS) and microblogging applications, and events which are interesting for 3rd parties. For somebody like me who produces many Likes, Social Bookmarks and other items I discovered that the value of being able to extract and automatically curate items from the feed such asTwitterFeed and del.icio.us.

TwitterFeed can be used to extracted items and post these to a number of platforms based on keywords, although the keyword filter has always been poor and their OpenID implementation half-hearted.

Another RSS feature comes from del.icio.us, which in my opinion is one of the only Yahoo! product which hasn’t been exceded by a far superior Google product, del.icio.us produces multiple RSS feeds, specify feeds can be extracted based on the tags which are assigned.

Naturally FaceBook, Twitter and other services produce their own RSS feeds, the another great Yahoo! product??Yahoo! Pipes gives us the ability to curate content multiple sources, which can all be used for external sources and for people like me who discuss multiple subjects which can be curated in different ways.

RSS has never been the exclusive domain of blogs, but they are more powerful than most think.

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Blogging using del.icio.us #microblogging #tagging

del.icio.us, as I still call it, is a social bookmarking, tagging or folksonomy site. Friends of mine and I believe folksonomy is part of the move towards a semantic web, but that’s not what I want to talk about here.

Most readers have noticed that I post my del.icio.us links to my blog, but I have been doing more than that for the people who have been paying attention. I have been adding messages in the notes section as microblog entries for my blog, giving a brief description of the context in which I found it.

del.icio.us microblog example

This is a nice simple way to add more information to my blog, and feel the need to elaborate with pages of text.

Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet

I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an issue that it needs to be implemented for each service separately. It relies on the same protocol HTTP and should be easy to reliably reverse this. Almost all url shortening services rely on 3xx redirection to forward the request using the Location header.

Using the example of the short URL for this post “http://wp.me/phhhb-ul“:

HEAD /phhhb-ul HTTP/1.1
HOST: wp.me

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:22:53 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
Location: https://webhat.wordpress.com/?p=1881
Content-Length: 0

Specifically 301 is used as search engines – such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing – will index the real address rather than the shortened address. Naturally this can be done by a twitter client too.

A url can be put into this script which recursively checks the url. Example run:

$ php http.php http://bit.ly/b0Y2ds
Connect to: bit.ly (128.121.254.201)
Redirection to: http://wp.me/phhhb-ul
Connect to: wp.me (76.74.254.123)
Redirection to: https://webhat.wordpress.com/?p=1881
Connect to: webhat.wordpress.com (76.74.255.123)
Redirection to: http://specialbrands.net/?p=1881
Connect to: specialbrands.net (72.233.2.58)
True URL: http://specialbrands.net/?p=1881

Quite simple really.

I left @Bloglines went to @GoogleReader *ducks* #rss #feeds

Some of you may have noticed an important change in my feed, I am now using Google Reader, you may not know that I stopped using Bloglines. It feels a little like when I changed earlier this year from using Yahoo! to Google search. I am really upset at the guys from Bloglines, they have such a good product, but it wasn’t moving forward. Like Yahoo! they waited to long and lost me, a loyal customer. I send error reports, suggestions and offered help.

It’s strange as it looks like usage is on its way up:

Statistics By WolframAlpha #google #yahoo!

Thanks to this article I discovered a feature of WolframAlpha, I can ask for the number of Google yearly visitors and the amount of profit Google made^[1] in the last year and get profit made for each visitor in dollars ($), or converted into Euros (€):

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And using this I can compare companies to each other^[2]:

1. google yearly visitors/google profit
2. google yearly users/google profit yahoo yearly users/yahoo profit