On Message with Ben Gross

ongoing - OpenID at Work: Tim Bray writes about Sun’s recently announced internal OpenID service. Sun is now offering an OpenID provider, but only for Sun employees. This means that third parties could theoretically allow people from Sun to log in via their OpenID relying party service and know that the individuals were in fact [...]

A Guide to CSS Support in Email: Campaign Monitor put out a revision to its excellent guide to using CSS in email. They tested their finding on 22 webmail and desktop email clients for a comprehensive overview that they summarized nicely for quick reference.
Tuning and Feeding: My best practices for getting the most out of [...]

The 3 Loops of Designing for Audience: Gregor Hochmuth has a nice write up on the loops of audience interaction for engaging your audience in modern social web services. He uses specific examples with the Twitter messaging service, but his guidelines would apply to many services. His loops are: 1) Users building a model of [...]

SSH is the de facto way to establish a secure connection with a command line interface. It is an essential too for people who regularly manage Unix servers, networking gear, and a variety of other devices.
There are now three SSH clients that will work on any iPhone or iPod Touch with access to the iPhone [...]

Nerdy nerds only: Version 1.0 of Chandler officially released: James Fallows of the Atlantic writes about the public release of Chandler. The Chandler Project is the long running open-source personal information management and messaging project from the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF). The project was routinely criticized as a boondoggle, but may have begun to [...]

DoxPara Research: Is the personal blog of Dan Kaminsky, the researcher who discovered the DNS flaw. His posts are a good source of information for following the effects of the flaw, additional vulnerabilities, and current mitigation strategies.
Kaminsky Details DNS Flaw at Black Hat Talk: Brian Krebs summarizes Dan Kaminsky’s long awaited Black Hat talk describing [...]

The Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2008) is less than two weeks away. The conference includes presentations and papers from both academic and industrial researchers. CEAD is one of the only events focused on messaging research. The conference has been uniformly high quality in previous years and all papers from previous events are [...]

Bookmarks Are Dead. Long Live Bookmarks: Jeremy Wagstaff writes about the current state of bookmarks and bookmark synchronization tools in his Loose Wire blog. He discusses the latest release of the Delicious service, PersonalBrain, and what these might mean when combined with new services such as Twitter.
iPhone Calendar Syncing: Daring Fireball’s John Gruber writes describes [...]