The Root of All Email: J.D. Falk writes about the most recent updates to the IETF RFCs covering email in CircleID. Despite all the acronyms this is an important update as these two standards cover much of what we consider to be “email” in all of its forms. These new RFCs are RFC 5321 Simple [...]
Common Craft produces online videos to explain current technology in an accessible and entertaining way. Their videos are an excellent way to easily point colleagues, family and friends at concise descriptions of technical advances. Common craft also sells licenced versions of their videos for corporate training. Previously, Common Craft produced custom videos (many of which [...]
The Seventh Semi-annual Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) will be held from
November 10-12, 2008 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA
The event is focused on user-centric identity and is held using the open space method. The cost for registration is $50 for students, $200 for those independently employed and $350 for all others.
RSA Conference [...]
Pingdom is a web-based uptime monitoring service that is inexpensive and straightforward to set up. Pingdom offers continuous monitoring of the availability of your online services, notification of failures, notification of service resumption and analytics for availability data. Both email and SMS notifications are available.
The service supports checking HTTP, HTTPS, ping, SMTP, POP and IMAP [...]
Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008: Technorati released its annual report on blogs and bloggers. Given Technorati’s position and history of tracking blogs, the report is well worth a read for anyone tracking blog trends. The report is available in five parts, which were released over five days. Day 1: Who Are the Bloggers? Day [...]
Hotel Network Security: A Study of Computer Networks in U.S. Hotels: A report from Cornell University’s Center for Hospitality Research examining the security of networks provided for hotel guest in 147 US-based hotel. The results are well worth reading. The authors conclude that security is poor in most cases. While the authors point out that [...]
Huge System for Web Surveillance Discovered in China: The New York Times’ John Markoff writes about a recent report by an activist human rights group, Citizen Lab, that details large scale surveillance of text messages sent by customers of Skype/Ebay’s Chinese joint venture TOM-Skype. Citizen Lab members were able to access the logged messages as [...]
People more likely to lie by e-mail: New research summarized by the Social Capital Blog discussing a study on the trustworthiness of people across different communications media. The study concluded that people were significantly more likely to lie in email.
Ambient Email Notifier: An interesting do-it-yourself hardware hacker project to build an LED-based email notification device [...]