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Archive for March, 2009
Blogs Worth Reading on a Daily Basis – Part 3
Mar 31st
In our second installment of our “blogs worth reading” series we introduced you to a number of Japan, Security, Technology and Startup blogs we thoroughly enjoy reading on a daily basis. Coupled with our first installment highlighting Apple, Design, Electronics and Entertainment blogs, we have introduced you to 24 sites we feel are worthy of your time. In our final installment we will be covering the catch-all Blogroll category as well as blogs from some of our real-life friends. Once again, hang tight and allow the us Miso lovers to once again point you and your browser to a few excellent blogs.
Skype On The iPhone – Coming Soon To An App Store Near You
Mar 31st
With more than 400 million users around the world, Skype is set to make their grand entrance onto the smartphone scene and bump that 9-figure subscriber number just a little bit more.
Brad Stone of New York Times reports in his March 29 blog post that this Tuesday the world will welcome Skype for the iPhone.
This is a long anticipated launch that stands to shake up cellular carriers’ monopolies on the smartphone market. Or will it?
Blogs Worth Reading on a Daily Basis – Part 2
Mar 28th
In our first installment yesterday we introduced you to our ten favorite Apple, Design, Electronics and Entertainment blogs. In Part 2 of our blogs worth reading on a daily basis series, we offer our thoughts and analysis of blogs in the Japanese, Security, Technology and Startup categories, hopefully exposing you to a blog or two you were not previously familiar with. Sit back and allow the TechMiso crew to once again point you and your browser to a number of excellent blogs we find quite beneficial.
Blogs Worth Reading on a Daily Basis – Part 1
Mar 27th
There are thousands of web sites available for your reading pleasure. Each one of those sites are competing for a slight chunk of your time each day, including our beloved TechMiso. Many of us simply do not have the time to thoroughly examine the countless blogs available for evaluation, so how do we determine which RSS feeds are worth reading on a daily basis? Simple – allow the TechMiso crew to point you towards a number of high quality sites we consider extremely valuable and definitely worth your time each day.
Cloud Computing Conundrum At Coghead
Mar 26th
Just as cloud computing picks up steam and recognition, Coghead’s PaaS cloud is closing down on April 30, 2009. Their failure to raise funds and monetize their business model is forcing all Coghead users into offloading data and rewriting their specialized drag-and-drop database applications.
Coghead’s conundrum is one to take note of and typical of the risk involved with moving operations into a cloud computing environment. Lose your cloud provider and your faced with data migrations, application redesign and even worse – company downtime.
The Future of Music Is In The Clouds
Mar 25th
The music industry is hell-bent on selling shiny little plastic discs rather than innovating in a space sorely in need of modernization. The litigation campaign so clumsily wielded by the geniuses behind the Recording Industry Association of America has done absolutely nothing to deter the rampant music piracy running amok through society today. If they truly desire to remain relevant, rather than focusing their efforts on the misleading “education campaign” the recording industry should be concentrating on the one area destined to be the future of music – cloud computing.
Adobe Exploit Scare A Crock
Mar 25th
Panic! Unseasoned IT staff saw Adobe’s recent security vulnerability as promise of devastation and widespread compromise. In fact, if you practiced ‘defense in depth,’ your network is safe and sound.
Like every other exploit, this one too was accompanied by the frightening canned phrase:
“These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition.”
New Facebook Layout is a Challenge for Management
Mar 24th
Unless you have been on the run from the police for the past couple weeks, you are already well aware of the radical layout changes to the Facebook home page. Most people have had an opportunity to test drive the new features, formulating an opinion on whether or not the modifications are worthwhile. Regardless of your thoughts on the new layout, it is important to point out that drastic layout changes of this nature are a huge challenge for the company managing the web property. Contrary to popular belief, most changes are not done on whim!
HTTPS Aloof On Gmail, Facebook And Other Major Websites
Mar 22nd
Google does a disservice to its Gmail users by not turning on HTTPS by default — as doesn’t Facebook, MySpace, Hotmail, Twitter and other websites that require you to log on with username and password.
These and other sites not using SSL for their logon page could almost be called negligent in their [lack of] support for user privacy.
So why is the ‘S’ in HTTP’S’ important?
Government Must Embrace Social Networking, Not Ban It
Mar 21st
President Barack Obama was the first candidate to make extensive use of social networking tools during his campaign for the presidency. His campaign used these tools so the average user benefitted from visiting Obama’s various web sites and social networking profiles. With Obama at the helm of the United States, one would expect the President to force a bureaucratic culture change, ushering in a new era of governmental use of social networking and embracing the web. Unfortunately, the government has both embraced and banned social networking in the same breath.
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