2011 Redux Be Careful Whom You Befriend on Social Networks We all know that cyberspace can be a nasty place, but a new study from Bitdefender shows exactly how easy it is to compromise personal information across social media. The study found 100 people at random that fit into two categories - professional IT security workers and hackers - and used a phony social media account to gain each individual's… David Strom View comments
Features R.I.P. The Golden Age of Tech Blogging (2009 - 2011) The Web publishing world was saddened to wake up this morning to the news from three nights earlier, repeated from a presumably reputable source, of the passing of the Golden Age of Tech Blogging. The Age apparently succumbed to complications following a series of seismic shifts in the industry, brought on by corporate media interests who, despite… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments
Case Studies Hosting a WordPress Blog on OpenShift If you’re using WordPress, the options you are mostly likely to use are to run your own stack, use a shared hosting provider that offers WordPress or to go with WordPress.com. With the rise of PaaS offerings like OpenShift, though, why not run WordPress there? As it stands, most PaaS providers are largely targeted at custom code rather… Joe Brockmeier View comments
Analysis 5 Things Dropbox Competitors Need I got all excited this morning when I saw a link on Hacker News to BitPocket, one of the latest so-called “DIY Dropbox” offerings that’s open source. The excitement faded pretty quickly when I hit the GitHub repo and found that it’s just a “small but smart script that does 2-way directory synchronization” without… Joe Brockmeier View comments
2011 Redux Op-Ed: Stop Feeding Facebook, It's Time for Moderation The answer is to moderate our use of and dependence on social media, especially Facebook. Frictionless sharing, the act of passively notifying social media of all manner of activity, scares the hell out of me. Not just because of the obvious privacy implications. Frictionless sharing turns up the volume on useless information and simultaneously… Joe Brockmeier View comments