On Message with Ben Gross

The Web 2.0 Expo 2007 will be held from April 15th - 18th, 2007 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. The event on emerging web technologies includes a conference, an expo showroom floor, workshops, and birds of a feather sessions.
The MySQL Conference and Expo is co-produced by O’Reilly Media and MySQL AB and [...]

Yahoo! says that it will offer unlimited email storage as part of it’s upcoming 10th anniversary of Yahoo! Mail. The announcement includes a short description of the history of Yahoo! Mail from it’s roots in the acquisition of RocketMail and the initial 4MB storage limit. It’s an interesting read. The new storage quotas will gradually [...]

Today Google released a Flash based Google Talk gadget. Overall the user experience is smooth and the tabs for individual chats are handled well. Links from YouTube, Google Video, and Picasa are recognized and the content can be viewed from within the gadget. The Talk gadget joins official gadgets for many other services such as [...]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently suspended thirty-five Pink Sheet stocks that were touted in “pump and dump” spam. The suspensions were part of the SEC’s “Operation Spamalot” and will last for ten days. This move is intended reduce the amount of stock related spam, especially if the SEC continues to suspend new companies. [...]

The RSA Conference 2007 has made available video of select keynotes as well as audio of select sessions, and podcasts from conference speakers and participants. The material will be online until mid-May 2007. Anyone can may listen to the audio and podcasts, however individuals who did not attend the conference will have to register and [...]

NPR has a piece scambaiters. These are the individuals who reply to the 419 email scams in order to take up the time and resources scammers would otherwise use to defraud other people. Along the way, some of seek fun, revenge, and “trophies”. In one classic, well known scambaiter Mike Berry convinces one of [...]

Last week, Mark/Space released a preview version of their Missing Sync synchronization software with support for most BlackBerry models. The Missing Sync for BlackBerry supports Apple iCal and Address Book, Microsoft Entourage as well iPhoto and iTunes with a multimedia capable Blackberry. Versions of The Missing Sync are also available for Palm, Windows Mobile, and [...]