NYT Mobile Devices, Internet TV, & Geolocation Services Top Targets for Cyber Attacks in 2011 As 2010 wraps up with a month full of leaked documents, DDoS attacks and spam and database breaches, it's hardly surprising that security experts are predicting a rise in cybercrime in 2011. According to McAfee Labs, the top targets in the coming year will be some of the most popular technologies, services and platforms, including mobile devices… Audrey Watters View comments
Amazon History: Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched Here's a fun artifact from internet history: an old Usenet posting, now archived in Google Groups, seeking "extremely talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet." (Screenshot below.) That posting, by Jeff Bezos in August 1994 for a company then called Abracadabra and funded primarily by Bezos's parents' retirement… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Tools Select Blocks of Ruby Code in Vim with rubyblock rubyblock is a custom text object for Vim for selecting Ruby blocks. Drew Neil, the developer, explains: "In Ruby, a block is always closed with the end keyword. Ruby blocks may be opened using one of several keywords, including module, class, def if and do. The rubyblock plugin is aware of each of these." Hack Klint Finley View comments
Products 5 Enterprise Startups to Watch in 2011 # 1: DokDok As 2010 draws to a close we're taking a look at a few enterprise startups that show promise and that we haven't covered on ReadWriteEnterprise. DokDok wants to bring document management into your email. Unlike Mainsoft's harmon.ie (which we covered here), DokDok doesn't seek to eliminate email attachments. The DokDok team accepts that… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Predictions 2011 Predictions: Richard MacManus Over December we've reviewed the top Web products and developments of 2010. Now it's time to look ahead to 2011. The ReadWriteWeb team is always thinking about what's next, so in our final series of 2010 we attempt to predict the big stories of 2011. Predictions are of course a tricky business. The braver the predictions, the more risk of them… Richard MacManus View comments