Probably the most poignant statement in this article by Wired Magazine is “Welcome to Web War one.”
Long story short, protesting something via good-old-fashioned rioting is so passe. If rioting typically involves looting, what is going on beneath the guise of the bot-net attacks?
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
This was not the first botnet strike ever, nor was it the largest. But never before had an entire country been targeted on almost every digital front all at once, and never before had a government itself fought back. “The attacks were aimed at the essential electronic infrastructure of the Republic of Estonia,” Aaviksoo tells me later. “All major commercial banks, telcos, media outlets, and name servers — the phone books of the Internet — felt the impact, and this affected the majority of the Estonian population. This was the first time that a botnet threatened the national security of an entire nation.”
I have been a heavy user of the Google Apps ever since they let me through the door. It is my solution of choice for my clients needing collaboration tools like basic email and calendaring. So much easier than managing POP/SMTP servers and awkward-looking open source calendar apps. Now, they are getting more and more press but I keep holding on to the dream that it will fly under the radar just enough to stay free yet continue to keep improving. However that makes sense!?!?
Google Apps: Poised to be a contender Google today introduced a major upgrade to its Google Apps hosted suite of communication and collaboration applications. As businesses grow increasingly comfortable with the hosted model, this cheaper alternative to Microsoft’s core Office applications could come to be seen as a viable replacement option by more and more enterprises. From: InfoWorld | Google Apps: Poised to be a contender | February 22, 2007 06:29 AM | By Caroline Craig
It certainly isn’t a perfect solution but it works. One less thing to worry about + Google usability = good things.
A fantastic video from the Today Show (January 2, 2007) on a.) Identity Theft and b.) a client, Trace Security - MSNBC Video More to come…
technorati tags:Trace Security, Security, Technical, Identity
I would love to go to this thing. If you want to make a donation and plead my case to my wife, give me a shout.
adaptive path » new york city » designing for interaction
Designing for Interaction
New York, NY — October 25, 2006
Interaction designer Dan Saffer will cover the four approaches to interaction design; design research techniques; traditional documentation and new ways of documenting applications; designing for multitasking, adaptation, and hackability; service design; and the future of interaction design.
Who’s this workshop for? Designing for Interaction is for new designers and anyone interested in interaction design, as well as more experienced designers who want a deeper view of and new methods for practicing interaction design.
tag: interaction_design, design_workshops, research_techniques
I have been evaluating MANY packages for standardizing/expediting my development process. I have kicked the tires of the Yahoo UI for long enough and have made the decision to move forward with it. I am sure there will be times when I will want to use Prototype, my custom templates, etc., but I vow to resist that temptation and stay true to the cause.
An excerpt from the Yahoo Developer Network site:
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses. Download the entire library, its documentation and examples from Sourceforge.
The library’s developers blog at the YUI Blog and the YUI Library community exchanges ideas at ydn-javaScript on Yahoo! Groups.
tag: yahoo, yahoo_ui, yahoo_developer, yui, interactive_web_applications, developer_network, css_resources, core_css, ajax
