Archive for March 12th, 2008An anonymous reader writes “The NSA’s once small National Cryptologic Museum is bigger and superior, with new more immersive exhibits like a reconstruction of a listening post from the Vietnam war. The place seems to be caught between the urge to keep your mouth shut and the pleasure of telling war stories. In time, though, the story notes that the need to tell stories wins out. Has anyone visited lately?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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BBC Offers iPhone Version of iPlayer, Accessible to Linux Users TooPosted by: in Rights Onlinesmallfries writes “After a long battle with Linux users in the UK, the BBC was forced into releasing a flash version of the iPlayer streaming service to fulfill their obligations to license-fee payers. After claiming that development of Linux and Mac versions of the iPlayer would take two years, Auntie Beeb has rushed to support the iPhone. iPhone users ‘can be trusted’ because their platform is locked down … so the beeb opened a non-DRM hole in the iPlayer to support them. This was guarded by the extreme security of User Agent strings! Long story shut, Linux and Mac users have made their own non-DRM, non-microsoft platform from firebug and wget. UK users can now watch (and keep) their favorite BBC shows.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. mikesd81 writes “Wired is running a story about GoDaddy shutting down a police watchdog site called RateMyCop. However, GoDaddy can’t seem to give a consistent answer as for why. From the article: ‘RateMyCop founder Gino Sesto says he was given no notice of the suspension. When he called GoDaddy, the company told him that he’d been shut down for suspicious activity. When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto says is nonsense. “How can it be overloaded when it only had 80,00 page views this day, and 400,000 yesterday?” Sesto says police can post comments as well, and a future version of the site will grant them to authenticate themselves to post rebuttals more prominently. Chief Dyer wants to get legislation passed that would make RateMyCop.com illegal, which, of course, wouldn’t pass constitutional muster in any court in America.’” Read more of this story at Slashdot. CountrywideKB Yahoo! Finance India Finance Application Center Finance Unit California Department of Finance: Home Yahoo! Finance Finance And Budget Business Finance Finance Briefs Credit Cards - Research, Comparisons and Applications Index - Department of Finance - W. P. Carey School of Business Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0  Once upon a time if you wanted to share files too massive to send as email attachments, you would upload them to an FTP site. But not everyone has an FTP site lying around, and so web services like YouSendIt, MailBigFile, and Driveway have stepped up to the plate. While YouSendIt it probably the most familiar name of the bunch, the service only lets users send files up to 100MB for free. For bigger file transfers you need to pay a fee. EatLime has a 1GB file size limit (although you need to register for a free account to send files bigger than 100MB). That alone doesn’t make the service very special. But EatLime also has one killer feature that most other services lack: You can share download links with others before you’ve completed uploading a file, and they can start downloading while you’re still uploading. EatLime, formerly known as YouSwap, also has a nice clean interface, simple to use tools for managing your files, and a contact manager for keeping track of the folks you regularly share files with. Filed under: World wide web, Web services, web 2.0  When you send a URL to a friend, it’s probably a good idea to include a note letting them know why you sent it. But if you’re too lazy for that, you could always just highlight the snippet of text you really want them to read. Awesome Highlighter lets you markup any web page and then share the results. All you’ve to do is enter the URL of the page you want to highlight, and then choose the text to highlight in yellow. When you’re completed, just click the “Done” button in the Awesome Highlighter toolbar and the page will be saved to your account (if you haven’t registered for an account pages will still be saved, but you won’t be able to see them if you visit the site with another browser). You can also share links to highlighted pages with others using a TinyURL style shortened URL. [via MakeUseOf] Filed under: Web services
The site lets you create four types of questions: multiple choice, yes/no, rating, and ranking. You can have multiple questions on one poll, and you can optionally be notified by e-mail when a user completes your poll. When your poll is set up, you’re presented with the main poll link (to give to the people you’re polling), and a view link so you can see the current results. Feel free to take our sample poll or view the results. Filed under: Internet, Video, Web services, Google, web 2.0 One of the moves that has made YouTube successful is the capability to embed YouTube videos on any site. Now YouTube is going a few steps further and giving web developers tools that will let users upload and edit YouTube videos from any web page. What that means is you can essentially build a web page that lets visitors upload videos of kittens and puppies doing cute things, send video responses to one another, edit their video metadata, and never ever have to click through to YouTube, although all of the transcoding and file hosting is taking place on a Google server. Web developers can also customize the look and feel of the YouTube video player using a new Javascript API. [via ReadWriteWeb] Filed under: Fun, Internet, Blogging, Productivity, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
The Digg-clone is only about half a year old, and as you can see in the picture on the right, only the the most established of social sites get a mention. Yet del.icio.us, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Fark, and other bigger, older, and more established sites haven’t made the cut. This NYT-Mixx button is money for the young company, and you can bet you’ll hear (or read) the word “Mixx” getting mentioned more often in the future. Now, in order to finish the site’s initiation process into the world of established bookmarking sites, we need to turn its name into a verb ex: Did we Mixx this article? Yes, we love Mixxing stories (for the record, DLS has no official preference as to whether or not its members like to “Mixx” posts). yahoi writes “The disco-era File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is making a comeback, but not in a good way — spammers are now using the old-school file transfer technology to serve up bot malware, and even as a backdoor into some enterprises that neglect to lock down their oft-forgotten FTP servers. Researchers at F-Secure have spotted a new wave of exploits that use FTP — rather than a malicious URL, or an email attachment — to deliver their malware payloads because few gateways scan for FTP attachments these days.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. |
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