Image by luc legay via Flickr Hey everyone, guess who is having a party at their house! Well everyone in the whole world knows at this point if you have been following people on Twitter. One of the basic rules of social networking is always work to keep yourself safe. If you post a link and a password to a protected page or web site, someone is going to simply follow the process and guess what, you got party crashers. It is not like you could really host all 4000 of your favorite twi... Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase As Azure gets closer to its release date of 01 January 2010 – the biggest question is what kind of support can you get for open source systems or programs like PHP. With AWS (Amazon Web Services) you can get Linux and native PHP support, and you can do the same with Rack Space Cloud computing. Microsoft though is still focusing on the core windows systems with Azure and the Azure platform, but has added a specific series of SDK’s and modules to help Ruby, PHP and J... Read Full Story

It is with a real sense of loss that the Pirate Bay closed down today, and while the news is all over the place from Torrent Freak to more mainstream sites like Gizmodo and Life hacker, this is a real loss to anyone who was interested in what was being downloaded. Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase I have wanted one of these for a while and thought I would have to wait until the holidays to get one, but fortunately social spark had an opportunity to take a look at the Eye-Fi card and I found it to be as much fun as I thought it would be. If you are anything like me – you usually leave pictures on your camera for days if not weeks (for some it might be months) before you pull them off. Then you are searching for USB cables, or the battery goes flat on t... Read Full Story

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08 http://ff.im/-baFgK # Citizen journalism: I'll take it, flaws and all http://ff.im/-bcpGZ # The death of the middleman http://ff.im/-bcXHH # Enterprise 2.0 Caffeine: Let’s Debunk the Non-Debate http://ff.im/-bcY9r # Zynga shows just how slimy advertisers can get http://ff.im/-bcYAQ # The Disintermediation Era http://ff.im/-bcZ3I # Paul Carr's piece is rubbish (and disgusting) http://ff.im/-bcZaI # 6 New APIs: Find Used Cars, Freelance Workers, Foreclosur... Read Full Story

Image by gordasm via Flickr In one of those about time kind of things, Seattle’s own Something Weird video, probably the best place on earth to find rare, hard to find, or out of print videos launched a new 5.99 download video on demand from their web site. For folks who love B-movies and other strange oddities from the film world, this is probably the best news of the whole day. Something Weird has been playing trailers on their site for over a year now (if not longer), but the addit... Read Full Story

Many people know I wrote a book, “Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere” that is case study based on what has made and what has not made a successful blog from the 10,000 foot level. Like many authors, I tinkered around with many different ways of generating press and interest in the book. Some of this was geared towards giving away a free download PDF of the final version of the book to see if that would generate any interest, but the numbers coming back are making me seriously question the idea... Read Full Story

Many people know I wrote a book, “Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere” that is case study based on what has made and what has not made a successful blog from the 10,000 foot level. Like many authors, I tinkered around with many different ways of generating press and interest in the book. Some of this was geared towards giving away a free download PDF of the final version of the book to see if that would generate any interest, but the numbers coming back are making me seriously question the idea... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia Control your info has taken administrative rights to hundreds of groups on Facebook this morning – which is going to prompt a stampede of fear across the Facebook landscape. Looking at the security of social networking – this is going to be a bad day for many groups on Facebook. The group Control your Info has taken over a large number of groups (some reports of upwards of 300) overnight to highlight the security issues with the Facebook system and administration o... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia Control your info has taken administrative rights to hundreds of groups on Facebook this morning – which is going to prompt a stampede of fear across the Facebook landscape. Looking at the security of social networking – this is going to be a bad day for many groups on Facebook. The group Control your Info has taken over a large number of groups (some reports of upwards of 300) overnight to highlight the security issues with the Facebook system and administration o... Read Full Story