I call it ‘ inbox fear.’ It’s the feeling I have every morning right before I open my email inbox, the dread of how many hundreds of new, irrelevant emails will be awaiting for my undivided attention. Lets face it: email sucks, it’s an ancient part of Internet communication that desperately needs innovation. It’s not just...
Daily Archives: June 1, 2011
NYSE Builds a Specialty Cloud for Financial Markets
The New York Stock Exchange is rolling out a cloud platform for financial services firms that lets them provision infrastructure and access the suite of NYSE Technologies trading services and market data. The cloud, called the Capital Markets Community Platform, was built by the NYSE’s Technologies business division using a variety of VMware vSphere and vCloud...
Special Offer for Early-iStage Startups at Structure 2011
Get editorial attention for your startup and meet the right people to move your business forward. Join us at Structure 2011 on June 22 and 23 in San Francisco, where we’ll be looking at the next wave of cloud technology and services, for an affordable price that even an early stage company can afford....
Anatomy of a PDF Hack
By opening the PDF file with a text editor it is possible to see that there are some encrypted objects. The first circle, object 11, is a command to execute Javascript in object 12. The second and third circles, are a command for object 12 to filter the Javascript with AsciiHexDecode. The main reason...
Eric Schmidt Is a Surprisingly Worried Man
It was a surprising way to kick off a technology conference at a moment in time where any piece of news– big or small– cues up the BUBBLE-OR-NOT Greek chorus of wailing and chest beating. Tech valuations, while almost universally sky-high, are nowhere near as high as the paranoia that we’re in a bubble....
Can Twitter Survive The British Privacy Onslaught?
What is it that the British have against Twitter’s legal department? Not only did the company become embroiled in a legal controversy in Britain surrounding a court order gagging the press from naming soccer player Ryan Giggs as an alleged adulterer, but it went a step further by refusing to hand over the identity...
Friending Is Broken: How Can the Social Web Go Beyond Facebook?
When people talk about making the Web more “social,” what they really seem to mean is making it more tightly integrated with Facebook. But is that all there is? With only a smattering of deliberate exceptions, new sites and apps launch with Facebook Connect to get the network effects of tying into its powerful...
Blip.tv Signs Distribution Deal With Fred, iJustine, And Other Collective Video Producers
Online video is growing up, and so are the young video stars who first found an audience on YouTube like Fred (Lucas Cruikshank) and iJustine. Both are part of the Collective Digital Studios, a talent agency of sorts for Web video stars. Today, the Collective is announcing an exclusive distribution deal with Blip.tv on...
Next Up for Fanhattan: Building a Box to Compete With Apple TV?
Video discovery company Fanhattan just released an iPad app and is working its way onto connected devices. But its next step might be bigger than just launching a channel on someone else’s device; Instead, the startup might follow the Roku path by building a device of its own, or partnering with someone else to...
Planely taps LinkedIn for even easier in-flight networking
Planely, the service designed to help you find out who else is on the same flight as you (thus maximising the chance to meet and network with new people) has just become more useful with the integration of LinkedIn. With Planely, you enter your journey details and it lets you know which other users...