Pardon the article title today, but I was still in the process of getting over seeing excessive capitalization, use of exclamation marks, and internet acronyms on an “official” blog, sponsored by MIT. This morning’s Boston Globe had an article College blogs tell it like it is, about college students everyday blogs which are actually sponsored [...]
Archive for April, 2007
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
My company recently decided to add a message board to our website. We have a very nice email subscriber base, but wanted to increase usage of the website simply to develop more of a community. So this past week I researched some free software, installed it, and configured it. I paid special attention to security [...]
Google’s Website Optmizer
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
So this is cool: Google just released yet another free tool, this one called the Website Optimizer. It’s built into Google AdWords (those “sponsored” links you see on the side of Google searches and on various websites). It focuses on the ability to do A/B ad testing, which simply means presenting a potential customer with [...]
A dim Outlook
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
I finally made the switch. After reading a Lifehacker article which included a poll showing the vast majority of readers use GMail over a desktop application, I decided to peruse the comments and try to figure out exactly why. One of the first comments that caught my eye was that you could in fact use [...]
The Electronic Peeping Tom
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
A research team at a University in Germany recently demonstrated how they could break a common variant of WEP, a wireless encryption protocol, in two minutes or less. WEP has always been somewhat insecure, but I’ve personally used it for a few years now as I had a few devices (such as a Roku network [...]
