Montag, 27. Januar 2003

BusinessWeek: How to Milk an Apple "In the $160 billion PC market, a 3% market share should be enough to fund Apple's research-and-development push." 8:44:29 PM    comment []

Targeted advertising It's what we have been promised, uh? Advertising tailored to our profiles. Right. But what about context? Some ads just don't fit in some pages. This is what I just got on Wired. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] This is just too funny! Thanks Paolo! 12:34:59 PM    comment []

Net recovers from cyber attack. The internet appears to be recovering after a virulent computer worm crippled online traffic over the weekend. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 11:16:58 AM    comment []

Virus Hits ATM's and Computers Across Globe. The vulnerability of the internet was underlined this weekend as the most serious computer virus attack for 18 months led to a sharp slowdown in network traffic. By Iht.com. [New York Times: Technology] "The lesson here once again is that companies are taking a risk by not installing patches," said Mr Gollotto. Do they have a clue? Why on earth would SQL Server ports in any way be accessible from the public Internet? How can anyone be so stupid to run a box like this without the protection of a very decent firewall? I'm amazed by the sheer stupidity and the lack of knowhow by Windows-endorsing folks! 10:14:36 AM    comment []

'Slammer' Feared to Strike Again. Security experts feel the global worming attack that fried much of the Internet this weekend may not be done wreaking havoc. They say unpatched systems may get slammed again at the start of the workweek. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 10:11:07 AM    comment []

Crime Is Soaring in Cyberspace. Skilled thieves and employees are stealing millions if not billions of dollars a year from businesses, say consultants who track cybercrime. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology] 7:50:57 AM    comment []

Rise of the Uber-Browser. Now that I've started using NetNewsWire to read blogs, I find it frustrating to be constantly switching back and forth between NetNewsWire and Safari. This led me to wonder: should RSS capabilities and browsing capabilities be merged into a single "uber-browser" application? Do news readers like NetNewsWire and Feedreader contain functionality that should be absorbed into browser applications like Safari, Chimera or OmniWeb? Or is the opposite true? Should some minimal browser functionality be incorporated into NetNewsWire? OmniWeb already contains a very nice bookmark scheduling/updating mechanism. Imagine if you could bookmark an RSS XML file and have a browser transparently present it as a folder in your bookmarks, complete with an unread count and child items that represent blog entries. This mechanism would mesh nicely with bookmark scheduling/updating schemes that exist already in browsers. Or consider the other direction. NetNewsWire could instead embed a rich HTML control and manage the display of blog entries for you. One idea I had about blog entries in NetNewsWire is the idea of applying user stylesheets to blog posts so that you could format the blog entries according to your own chosen templates. In effect you could pick the "blog theme" to apply to the HTML snippet pulled out of the RSS file. Another idea along those lines would be allowing authors to somehow specify links to author stylesheets that could be loaded and applied when a snippet is read from HTML embedded inside RSS. Then the author's look could be preserved without having to go back to the original blog Web page. Yet another irritation is how difficult it is to subscribe to feeds. I'd like to be able to click on an RSS file link in a browser and have it automatically pass that off to my news application. One click should be all it takes to get me subscribed, whether that click happens in a mail app, a Web page, or inside NetNewsWire itself. A protocol handler would work for this. I think of this as being somewhat similar to the "view-source:" protocol supported in many browsers, i.e., you could just say "rss:original-url" or "feed:original-url" and have the appropriate application configured to handle feed subscriptions. Tabbed browsing has a role here as well. The same person who voraciously devours news feeds is the same kind of person who loves being bombarded with lots of information, and tabs provide one with a means of efficiently handling a lot of information. This makes Chimera's ability to open URLs sent from other applications in tabs very cool, and might help obviate the need for an application like NetNewsWire to build tabs into its own display. I've heard a lot of people state that RSS and news aggregators are for "geeks" and "blogging enthusiasts," but I simply don't believe that to be true. It should be possible to make an application for managing a large amount of information flow that is accessible to mainstream users. Browsers are trying to make information easier to manage with smarter bookmarking systems and page management capabilities (tabs), and news readers are emerging that (in effect) push new information to you in as it's posted and allow you to switch rapidly between different information sets as well. There is also an eerie parallel one can draw on the editing side between conventional Web page editors and the need for specialized blog editor applications. Mozilla has MozBlog for this purpose. Should personal blog management become the domain of a specialized application, a sort of uber-editor that can handle HTML editing/publishing but also blog management/publishing, or should it remain as a Web application like Movable Type that you use a browser to access? [Surfin' Safari] 7:50:10 AM    comment []

Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft flaws. The Sapphire worm that hit servers running Microsoft SQL is a wake-up call for anyone who thought the Internet had become a safer place following increased attention by corporate and government leaders. [CNET News.com] 7:47:23 AM    comment []

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