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August 7, 2005
TagCloud
TagCloud is a new folksonomy tool that “searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from
the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds.” This is useful because you can quickly see what tags are…
Scott Berkun project management reading
The Personal MBA is “an entrepreneurial approach to business education.” A key part of this fantastic idea is The Personal MBA 40 which is a list of superior books about business, and two reading groups have been formed to discuss and learn…
AJAX and Windows
There’s a discussion on Slashdot about the potential for disruption in the operating system marketplace, especially Windows, as more applications can be ported to the Web using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). The consensus seems to be that AJAX doesn’t threaten…
August 5, 2005
Discussion about Wikipedia on Slashdot
Apparently there’s been an announcement about tighter editorial controls being implemented by the founders of Wikipedia,
one of my favorite Internet resources. The point of a wiki is to enable
anyone to edit any content as they wish, creating information that…
August 4, 2005
DefCon: Web Service Intrusion — Same Security Holes, New Technology
At DefCon 13, Alex Stamos of iSec Partners gave a very interesting talk entitled “Attacking Web Services”. In summary, there are currently three known web service attack techniques:
Injecting XML into an input box, overwriting tags set earlier in the SOAP…
July 30, 2005
DefCon: Google Ads Phishing Security Alert
DefCon (http://www.defcon.org) is a large annual hacking conference that attracts corporate security personnel, federal agents, and of course, hackers. DefCon is significant since hackers use DefCon as a forum to unveil security vulnerabilities in tools and utilities we use daily. The first…
July 27, 2005
VoIP and telework
The government’s been trying to get more people to work remotely for many years now, with legislation that mandates agencies to enable more staff to adopt this mode of working and prevents government contractors being penalized for the use of…
July 25, 2005
Forecastfox
I started using Forecastfox some time ago and absolutely love it. It’s a little Firefox extension that shows the current and forecast weather conditions wherever you wish in the browser. Until the latest version, the weather data came from Weather.com but…
IBM acquiring PureEdge
Woah! Government Technology reports that IBM is buying PureEdge, the producer of the e‑forms software that’s used by Grants.gov,
among many others. I think this has been in the works for a while now,
given that PureEdge seems to have obtained quite…
July 22, 2005
IT governance and efficiency
Somehow or other, I ended up reading this article on Nicholas Car’s blog about governance of IT purchasing in organizations. It highlights an important point: the governance structure should be focused on the objectives of the business, not as a means to…