This is an interesting discussion on some ways to change the way a user enters their password to gain access to a web application. Interesting Nielsen recently suggests the dropping of password masking. The Problem with Passwords by Lyle Mullican
Archive for February, 2010
Internet ‘poised to beat papers for ads’
By Simon Canning, The Australian: The internet advertising industry has missed breaking through the $2 billion barrier it had expected to clear last year. However, the head of the Internet Advertising Bureau has tipped the medium could now top newspapers at more than $3.5bn as the biggest advertising channel as early as 2013.And video is [...]
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
ElasticSearch is an open source, distributed, RESTful search engine built on top of Lucene. Its features include: Distributed and Highly Available Search Engine. Each index is fully sharded with a configurable number of shards. Each shard can have zero or more replicas. Read / Search operations performed on either replica shard. Multi Tenant with Multi [...]
Strategies for Building Dynamic, Decisive .NET Applications
I am reading this White Paper today, here is an abstract: A business must be decisive, based on decisions that are accurate, timely, consistent and easy to change. And businesses rely on IT to build systems that enable and automate decisive results. For organizations implementing applications on the .NET platform, IT has the opportunity to [...]
Microsoft leaves Linux-based FAST customers stranded
From CMS Watch: Buyers of the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST’s Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) got some bad news the other day: It’ll now be necessary to switch to a Windows server platform, or else move to some other product for enterprise search. Microsoft Corporation, which as you may recall acquired FAST two years [...]
Firebug for Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari
Firebug Lite: Firebug is an extension for Firefox, but what happens when you need to test your pages in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari? The solution is Firebug Lite, a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate some Firebug features in browsers that are not named “Firefox”.
Fairfax iPhone strategy?
Extracted from NPA: Media is to launch iPhone apps for its masthead news sites within six months – and it will charge readers. iPhone apps for The Age, Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald and WA Today websites are in development, according to Darren Burden, Director of News and Platforms at Fairfax Digital. No decision has [...]
Facebook alters Microsoft ad deal
From Bloomberg: The world’s biggest online social networking service, Facebook, has ditched an exclusive banner advertising deal with investor Microsoft in favour of an expanded internet search and text advertising deal with the software giant.In the swap Facebook will take back control of banner ads on its web properties as Microsoft continues to try to [...]
Paywall humiliation. Surprised? I’m not.
Extracted from an article by Peter Preston: IT LOOKS as though a giant brick knocked out a paywall. Three months ago, Newsday on Long Island, one of America’s big dailies, started charging readers $5 a week to visit its website. This was the digital future, embraced by Rupert Murdoch and the New York Times, as [...]
Fairfax Digital adds better mobile support
Better support for mobile devices on smh.com.au and theage.com.au: One of the most frustrating things about reading Tweets on a smartphone, can be the time it takes for linked articles to load. Whilst smartphones can technically handle full web pages, the page size and flakey 3G connections often provide a less than ideal user experience. [...]