Scams on the Internet never cease to amaze me.  Some of them are sophisticated, some subtle, and some are just downright absurd.
I’d recently discovered a mailbox that I had left unattended for several years.  It had no anti-spam tool monitoring it, so it was mostly filled with really obvious spam messages and phishing attempts [...]

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When Google first released the 0.1 version of their Gears browser plug-in back in May 2007, I thought for sure it would be only a matter of a few months before we saw web applications taking full advantage of an offline mode, maybe a year at max.  I think I may have grossly underestimated [...]

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Earlier this week I wrote about Google’s TOS (terms of service) which grant Google an irrevocable right over the content you post through their service.  I took a look at Twitter’s terms of service, and found a rather different story which I thought is worth mentioning:
We claim no intellectual property rights over the material [...]

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Life always presents challenges.  But you don’t need to read that from me to know it’s true.  Without a doubt, we’ve all had our moments of feeling like we’re on the brink of total doom and permanent darkness.  But even in an economic climate like this, where we all grow weary of frequent news of [...]

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When it comes to who actually owns the content you post online on your favorite social networking sites, the devil is in the details.
I happened across a great blog post from Chris Bucchere, founder and CEO of BDG – the folks behind The Social Collective.  In response to a post about Robert Scoble losing his [...]

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It wasn’t long ago that everyone was buzzing about web mashup tools.  They were supposed to be miraculous pieces of software that would be able to bring together different disparate web applications, built in any language, and smash them together into one uber-cool application.  Alas, the term mashup is now out of fashion – or [...]

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I seem to have picked up a much larger share of Australian readers over the last few days, which is just fine by me – I love Australia.  In fact, my cat’s name is Sydney, named after the city of course.  Here she is with kitten cuteness overdrive mode engaged.

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