April 2008 Blog Posts
So we have FolderShare, we have Office Live Workspace, we have SkyDrive and we have MSN Sharing Folders. We have Windows Home Server offering RDP and classic remote desktop if you have a routable IP address. We have CardSpace and LiveID. We have Vista’s Sync Center. We have Vista Photo Gallery and MSN Photo Gallery. All of this and now we have Mesh, adding more duplication to the mix. Whatever happened to the ethos of Office where everything worked together? Now we have siloed programs and development teams who spend god knows how much duplicating functionality that other teams...
You know where I’m going with this right? (I can see Robert holding his head in his hands right now) So eweek and others have reported that PayPal are going to stop the use of "unsafe" browsers, those that don’t include anti-phishing protection or support for EV certificates. Setting aside the kneejerk "They can’t do that" arguments on Slashdot (of course they can, it’s their web site) it would be interesting to see if Paypal stick to their guns as Safari users would get locked out. It makes sense; Paypal is one of the most commonly spoofed web sites with...
After bashing my head against WCF for a few weeks; and attempting to be too clever for my own good I swallowed my pride and took the lazy route to enabling IIS hosting of SharpSTS. Of course now I have massive guilt about the breaking changes I had to make, but such is the price for being cutting edge. So if you want to add a security token service to your web site, without having to host it inside a windows service or command line application you can. Well, it works for me anyway .... Technorati Tags: SharpSTS
So yesterday I received the usual web 2.0 "Your friend wants to connect with you to swap tips on styling your hair" type email. This time it was from TripIt. I ignored it, I’m social networking fatigued anyway, but sharing when I am away from my house strikes me as a bad idea. Nothing new there until this evening. When I got another invitation, from someone else. There was an optout link, so I went to follow it. This presented a problem; it asked me log in. "Why?" I thought, "I haven’t signed up." So just to check I asked...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7328170.stm Sex offenders' e-mail addresses are to be passed to social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo to prevent them contacting children. In the usual "won’t something think of the children" government attempts to legislate lack of parental supervision on the internet; assuming that an email address is permanent and can never change. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she wanted children to be "free from fear". "We need to patrol the internet to keep predators away from children in the same way as we patrol the real world," she told GMTV. Of course in the...