Twitter PostsI have never experienced a level of simultaneous hate and love for any technology like salesforce.com. I’ve been developing on the platform for almost two years, and it’s truly astonishing how powerful and incredible it is, while also sucking so profusely. Of course, this is all from a developer’s perspective and not an end user’s.
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I found this really interesting:
U.S. Enables Chinese Hacking of Google
Providing a backdoor into large technology infrastructure for whatever reason has been shown not to be sustainable over time. The US government originally wanted a cryptographic skeleton key into any widespread encryption, which was abandoned for many of the same reasons that Schneier mentions in the […]
I did some thinking recently about Facebook Connect. With its proliferation and certain sites marketing it pretty heavily, I got to thinking about why I generally don’t want to use it. It boils down to the fact that I’m not sure what particular interaction any site or application using Facebook Connect will have with my […]
Connecticut community college computer systems are at risk of becoming infected due to users performing non-work related activities. A newsletter was sent to all staff and faculty which loosely said: “Don’t do non-work related activities online or we will confiscate your computer!” I feel this was a little harsh, especially since I’ve not worked with […]
Last.fm is my favorite thing online. What is it? It’s much more than an online radio service. Add a mix of social networking to streaming music and ooh statistics, and you have last.fm in a nutshell. For every song, every album, every band, every genre, and every tag there is a dedicated statistic page all […]
Facebook. Myspace. Livejournal. Youtube. Last.fm. Deviatart. There are so many websites that people use to put themselves ‘out there’ for the world to see. My generation is a generation of communication and identity. And yet, my generation is also the generation of internet piracy, and also the generation that came up with anonymous web browsing […]
Psychologically, the commercial world is rather daunting. Stores are built not only to appeal to the public but to also overstimulate one or more senses. We see this in large department stores as well as grocery stores and even small shops. I repeatedly see customers in a trance-like state in the shoe store I manage. […]
In my last post I went on a slight rant about the Pirate Bay. Hopefully by now, our readers know where we stand on internet piracy- i.e. it’s an illegal activity and illegal activity is bad. But the question still remains: is bit torrent therefore as a protocol bad?
First off, bit torrent, for those of […]
With my BlackBerry on at last legs, or the battery at least (I hope), I figured I would use a blog post as an excuse to do some research on possible new phones.
Since I’m a technologist, I try to choose devices that will inform me somehow on the market. Since I don’t own an iPhone, […]
Texting on the one hand is amazingly simple and time effective. On the other, they are still limited length-wise and more and more people use “txt shrt-hnd” which to me is just lazy. Instant messaging too has its drawbacks…especially when going mobile. Sadly IM turns into “txt shrt-hnd” because of the allotted length of the […]