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Bill de hÓra:
Hey, I'm back — The GWA is back and following GET links again. No big surprise there - the web is going to be rife with this kind of automation before the decade is out. Here's the deal - if you are in the business of allowing the use of GET for something like 'logout.php', the GWA has you more or less bang to rights.
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David / A design and usability blog:
The Google Web Accelerator is back with a vengeance David — Google has reintroduced their Google Web Accelerator with a vengeance. It was evil enough the first time around, but this time it's downright scary. — In version 1., web masters at least had a fighting chance as the GWA identified …
Shapdaddy / thefifthrule.com:
Got a Mac? Want Front Row? You're In Luck! — A buddy of mine just sent me a torrent for a hack version of the new Front Row application for the new iMacs. Download the torrent file and get the contents (2.8 mb file) follow the read me and you're golden! — Installation:
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Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends — Taking a long-term view isn't easy nowadays. — Even the recent past seems blurry at times. Google's just seven years old, but it's hard to imagine life before instant search. Broadband has been widely available for only a few years …
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
A LIST BLOGGER OPENLY RECOMMENDS CLICK FRAUD...WHO'S HAT IS BLACK? — To be honest, I normally think rather highly of Mitch Ratcliffe, but this anti blogspot spam comment is off the mark: … What is the best that would come out of that? Spam blogs would quickly and easily be built elsewhere …
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Geraldine Geraldine / LES BLOGS 2:
Les Blogs 2.0 preliminary program — Introduction — Why have we started to organize the Les Blogs conference ? — A frustration. I have always been so sorry that there were not enough cool conferences around the Web generally in Europe. If you are European, you have to go often …
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Rumors of Sun-Google Hosted Desktop Suite Quashed — Sources close to the joint efforts between Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base. — Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans …
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Geo-Targeted RSS Ads Surprise Advertisers — Google has quietly been running geo-targeted contextual ads in RSS feeds for several months, but many advertisers, agencies, and analysts contacted by ClickZ were surprised to learn about the placements. — "I don't think most advertisers know it's going on …
BBC:
BitTorrent user guilty of piracy — A Hong Kong man has been convicted of movie internet piracy in what is believed to be the first case involving BitTorrent file-sharing software. — Chan Nai-ming was found guilty of copyright infringement for distributing three Hollywood blockbusters using BitTorrent, said a court official.
Michael Singer / CNET News.com:
Ready for a 20-inch laptop? — How big is your laptop? Fifteen inches? Seventeen inches? How about a massive 19- or 20-inch wide-screen LCD model? — With so many DVDs featuring letterboxed or wide-screen versions of films, consumers' fascination with larger screen sizes is changing …
Benjamin Pimentel / San Francisco Chronicle:
Making signatures more secure IBM is developing new technology to foil forgers — Forging someone's signature is one of the oldest and most popular forms of identity theft. — But what if a forger were required to imitate not only the look of your signature but also how you went about writing it …
John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Dot-com lesson feared lost on venture capitalists — During the dot-com boom, venture capitalists bid up the values of consumer-Internet companies such as HomeGrocer.com, Pets.com and Kozmo.com — only to suffer the consequences when the money-losing companies imploded.
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Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Give Up, Gizmondo — You'd have to be crazy to launch another portable gaming system right now. — Sony is waging war on Nintendo's market share with its popular PSP. Nintendo is pulling out all the stops to fend them off with its Nintendo DS and Game Boy lines.
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Weak Defense...But Getting Better — The latest update in our rolling feature on wireless security: Oct. 24, 2005: This articles describes concerns and best practices for wireless security and is periodically revised. — Worried about your wireless network's default security? You should be.
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Daily Wireless
Ivan Sulic / ps2.ign.com:
Bratz Rock Angelz — Let's start a band! But whatever shall we wear? — October 24, 2005 - Bratz Rock Angelz has me at an unfortunate disadvantage. It seems I'm not a young female fashionista between the age of four and 14 who might also enjoy becoming an international rock sensation.
