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Monday, 17th May 2010

EFF: Your Browser Has a Fingerprint

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published results from a study of nearly half a million website visitors' browsers and concluded that the settings configurations exposed to sites we visit are close enough to unique to identify repeat visitors with a high degree of accuracy even if cookies are deleted. Highly granular version numbers…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Business Plan Competitions: Valuable Tool or Waste of Time?

Entrepreneur and professor Steve Blank authored a blog this morning that expressed his opinion that business plan competitions are useless to startup culture and should be scrapped for business model competitions. Business plan competitions are just what they sound like: students are encouraged to submit a business plan and a winner is selected…

Chris Cameron comments

Surprise: Traditional Blogging Platforms Still Reign Supreme

AltHouse, Citizen WElls, Economist's View: These are some of the most popular blogs in the world and their streams of daily posts get hundreds of legitimate comments. They are published on Blogspot, WordPress and Typepad, respectively. A report published today by data analysis service Postrank concludes that legacy-hosted blog platforms are still…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

SAP Sapphire Now: A New Energy and the Changing Roles That Come With Sybase

When we talk to companies, you get a sense of what matters to them, what is the future and how the organization in question fits into the market. At the SAP Sapphire Now press conference this morning, it was a bit of a mixed bag. Overall, the actual production at Sapphire Now is outstanding. It's a co-conference, being held here in Orlando and…

Enterprise Alex Williams comments

Lazyfeed Redesign Goes All Web 2.0 on its Bad Self

Lazyfeed, the site we previously described as a "super-simple feed reader" is coming out with a whole new design today that not only makes everything even lazier, but changes the core purpose of the site itself. Instead of just watching "live updates on every topic you care about, simultaneously," the site is now the "super-lazy way to blog about…

Mike Melanson comments

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