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Google Blogoscoped:
10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006 — Here's a new years resolution for the web at large: stop doing silly things to users. Following are top trends that I just hope will not see 2007. — 1. "Our article is too long, let's split it up into many pages."
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Credit Cards With Rewards Are Worth a Look — If it seems like you are getting a lot of credit card solicitations, you are. Credit card companies sent out about six billion letters in the last year. — But if you opened any, you may have noticed a dwindling number of zero-percent balance-transfer offers …
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IT Facts
Andrew / Changing Way:
Naked Conversations — I've read most parts of this book twice, and some parts more than that. So this post is not based on a skimming, or a hasty reading, or even a single reading. I recommend Naked Conversations very highly. (I'll refer to it as NC from this point on.)
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Scobleizer
Chitika Blog:
Chitika Reporting System and Monthly Audits Update — We are working on upgrading our back-end filtering and fraud detection systems to dynamically detect and prevent fraud, improve the quality of the overall network and help minimize the difference between the daily raw click reports …
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The Blog Herald
hexblog.com:
Windows WMF Metafile Vulnerability HotFix — This week a new vulnerability was found in Windows: — Browsing the web was not safe anymore, regardless of the browser. Microsoft will certainly come up with a thouroughly tested fix for it in the future, but meanwhile I developed a temporary fix - I badly needed it.
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Mikko / F-Secure:
Ilfak to the rescue! — Here's an alternative way to fix the WMF vulnerability. — Ilfak Guilfanov has published a temporary fix which does not remove any functionality from the system (all pictures and thumbnails continue to work normally). — The fix works by injecting itself to all processes loading USER32.DLL.
Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
Sigh @ Netgear Support — Sometimes I wonder about companies. I really do. I got a new wireless router this month and decided to try and set it up. It's a Netgear router, which you'd think would work flawlessly. At least I did. Silly me. Here's what happened. — 1. Buy Netgear wireless router
Karen Wickre / Official Google Blog:
A year of Google blogging — This is the 201st post to be published on the Google Blog in 2005. In closing out the first full year of our company-wide effort to share news and views, we thought you might be interested in a few factoids. Since we've had Google Analytics running on this blog since June …
Matt Mondok / M-Dollar:
Microsoft teams up with the sumo of Japanese VoIP — On Wednesday, Microsoft and Softbank BB reached an agreement that will bring VoIP, instant messaging, Internet access, e-mail, groupware, presence and desktop services to Japanese businesses. The suite aims to serve as an integrated …
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Download Squad
Tim Nudd / adfreak:
The 10 most popular AdFreak stories of 2005 — Who said bloggers don't like lists? With a few hours left in the year, we are pleased to present the 10 most popular AdFreak stories of 2005, based on number of reader comments. We're not quite sure how we became a second home for Gastineau Girls fans (or rather, foes).
jkOnTheRun Audio Edition:
jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8- OQO video review — Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8 here (WMV format, 640x480, 39.5 MB, 9.14 minutes) — Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8 here (MP4 format, 320x240, 18.4 MB, 9.14 minutes) — No you're not seeing things, well I guess you are at that.
itch.in:
Bad, bad Coldplay — Virgin Records deserves a spanking. I'll do what I want with the content I pay for, thank you very much. When will they realize that if it's in bits and bytes, nothing's ever secure? — Un. F**king. Believable. This is India, Virgin. INDIA. Piracy started here, dammit.
viruslist.com:
Analyst's Diary — More on WMF exploitation — It was only a matter of time, the first IM-Worm exploiting the wmf vulnerability has been spotted. — We have received multiple reports from the Netherlands about an IM-Worm which spreads via MSN using a link to "http://[snip]/xmas-2006 FUNNY.jpg".
New York Times:
Patents Rejected for BlackBerry — Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, said yesterday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had issued preliminary rejections of two wireless e-mail patents owned by NTP, the holding company that had won a patent infringement lawsuit against it.
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