Tag: web & tech
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GPS Moblogging, another first
Two years ago, my sister was moblogging with full GPS support (click Location Info) in Japan on Tokyo Tidbits. Now, a full two years later, her boyfriend has cobbled together several services and a bluetooth-enabled GPS device which talks to her Nokia 7610 phone to do the same thing. Ah progress.
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Department of Defense can’t keep secrets
The Pentagon recently posted a heavily censored document concerning the accidental shooting of Italian intelligence agent, Nicola Calipari, on their website but forgot that blocked out text in digital format isn’t really blocked out. You can find links to the source materials at Memory Hole but the real news is that the Department of Defense…
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GPS Photoblog
So totally cool. My sister has hooked up a GPS unit to her cell phone and is moblogging with coordinates. She did this before, back in 2003, but that was in Japan, high-tech gadget heaven.
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Microsoft AntiSpyware
James LaLonde, who used left Microsoft to work for Network Associates as the head of their operations in Asia, used to joke that his business was safe so long as Redmond stayed out of the anti-virus business. With all the hubaloo over securtiy and spam, Microsoft announced plans to address it in the recent Windows…
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SiteDigger 2.0
Foundstone, a subsidiary of McAffe publishes software called SiteDigger. The publishers describes it’s purpose: SiteDigger 2.0 searches Google’s cache to look for vulnerabilities, errors, configuration issues, proprietary information, and interesting security nuggets on web sites. The package is free for the download and all you need is a Google API key to run it. Obviously,…
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A9 Yellow Pages, teaching an old dog new tricks
I would be remiss if I didn’t pile on to the hubub about Amazon’s new Yellow Pages search over on the A9 site. John Battelle’s got the scoop on how it was put together. In short, Manber and co. (urged on by Jeff Bezos, who Manber says was "very involved") strapped GPS-enabled digital video camera-cum-terabyte…
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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet
Only a day out and someone’s already created a bookmarklet to make it easier to add tags to your posts. Technorati Tags: technorati, folksonomy, tools
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Technorati Tags
Our friends at Technorati have launched a service that pulls together a view of the blogosphere through the lens of user-defined tags. The growth of user tags in services such as Flickr and Del.icio.us have broken through the dilemma of the Semantic Web which was struggling for a standard taxonomy to help define it. The…
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Run, Robot, Run
Honda made a robot that can run.