AOL 9.0 Accused of Behaving Like Badware

AOL 9.0 Accused of Behaving Like Badware

I've often thought that AOL had a bad habit of bundling 3rd party software without the consent of the user. Guess it's going to take peer pressure and public humiliation to change it.'Doh - Don't be evil guys

The iPod Useless

Glad to see that others agree that the Shuffle is a dumb way to make a 'cheaper' Ipod

YouTube - such great heights

YouTube - such great heights



And here's the "Original". Still one of my favorites. Probably speaks to the romantic geek in me.

Emptybottle.org - Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator

Emptybottle.org - Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator

Only seems appropriate somehow

Session Manager :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software

Session Manager :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software: "Session Manager saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. Additionally it offers you to reopen (accidentally) closed windows and tabs. If you're afraid of losing data while browsing - this extension allows you to relax..."


Okay -- after seeing the feature in the (lastest ?) Opera build --- I wanted it! Now I don't have to fear the unavoidable dread of patch tuesday -- my machine deciding to shutdown my apps (and my browsing history) --- now I've lost all my working note from blogger X, and group Y, and pron Z

Darwine - FAQ

Darwine - FAQ: " Is the Darwin/Mac OS X release of Wine currently able to run Windows executable (.exe)?

No. We are currently working on integrating an x86 emulator in wine in order to run Win32 exe on a PowerPC Box. But on Darwin-x86 a Win32 .exe should run within wine with a limited effort."


Coming soon to Leopard?

Port Scanning in JavaScript - SPI Dynamics

Port Scanning in JavaScript - SPI Dynamics

Imagine visiting a blog on a social site like MySpace.com or checking your
email on a portal like Yahoo’s Webmail. While you are reading the Web page
JavaScript code is downloaded and executed by your Web browser. It scans
your entire home network, detects and determines your Linksys router model
number, and then sends commands to the router to turn on wireless
networking and turn off all encryption. Now imagine that this happens to 1
million people across the United States in less than 24 hours.
This scenario is no longer one of fiction.

Welcome to the brave new world of Web 2.0
I love the fact that Steve Gibson's begging people to default browsers to disable Javascript. Backlash to AJAX on it's way.

Interview with Guy Kawasaki

Interview with Guy Kawasaki: "One last thing: If I were Yahoo, I would stick three engineers in a garage and tell them to create 'Yowser.' This would be world's greatest browser; it would encompasses the latest, greatest web developments: all-encompassing IM and chat, photo sharing, video, collaborative screens, Flash, social networking, whatever.

Give this browser away; and oh, guess what, the default search engine is Yahoo's, not Google's. The features of the browser should be so good that people will not care that it doesn't default to Google. How hard could this be? A six month project if three engineers are doing it in a garage. Five years if you put one hundred programmers on it."


Rice -- quick before somebody else thinks of it....

Engineers: DC Power Saves Data Center Dough

Engineers: DC Power Saves Data Center Dough

Dang that Westinghouse

AOL Removes Search Data on Group of Web Users - New York Times

AOL Removes Search Data on Group of Web Users - New York Times: "The incident “wasn’t a violation of the AOL privacy policy,” a spokesman, John Buckley, said, then adding, “It was an absolute violation of what is our corporate policy: not to do stupid things.”"


Hmmmm - now we're all in trouble

Techcrunch:Blog Archive AOL Data: First Web Interface Up

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » AOL Data: First Web Interface Up

Okay -- now Techcrunch is just being an asshat

TechCrunch: AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data

Techcrunch: Blog Archive: AOL Proudly Releases Massive Amounts of Private Data

AOL goofed -- sure. But I love reading in blogs about how AOL goofed, and pulled the data -- but then cites where the data is mirrored. Why isn't that being flamed? I've got a word for that -- but it's not publishible on this G rated site.

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Where it all went wrong? WorldCom, AOL in deal for CompuServe

WorldCom, AOL in deal for CompuServe:

We sold off ANS to WorldCom.

As I reflect on where it all went wrong - I keep coming back to the day we decided that the pipe itself wasn't a valuable commodity. Yes, they are expensive, yes - we'd have to build out a network --- but oddly enough --- it turned out that nobody would build one for us, nor would they (re)sell us theirs at 'wholesale' prices.

Shortly after it was announced that a deal was in the works that would solve AOL's looming broadband problem --- don't worry management said (the "we're making history company meeting"). The deal, it turned out, was the Time Warner merger. So Broadband for AOL members had arrived? NOT.

Now if the synergy of the Time Warner merger would have panned out - we could have had AOL branded cable broadband. But apparently we promised we wouldn't in order to get the nod from the G-Men. And heck even if AOL/TW didn't agree to that - the protection of fiefdoms would have prevented it. I'm kind of hard pressed to think of any successful project that tried to integrate this "happy" dysfunctional family.