What is Opera Software up to?

“On June 16th at 9:00 a.m (CEDT), we will reinvent the Web.”
http://www.opera.com/freedom/

Tomorrow: Goodbye Live.com, Hello Bing

In case you missed the news, which Google tried to bury by demoing a barely-working communication app to the press at the same time, Microsoft is launching a new search engine tomorrow.
Bing will be replacing their current Live.com search engine. There’s a demo video up until the site goes live.

Bill Gates on changing the world

Maintenance Screens and Updates

“Web 2.0″ sites always have better maintenance screens when they go offline than big companies. PayPal smashed some red text in my face about site unavailability, while Lijit gives you a video to watch:

Delicious: Proof that Symfony is a scalable framework

Back almost a year ago, top social bookmarking site del.icio.us, now just delicious, launched a preview of its version 2.0. At the time they announced it was built on the Symfony PHP framework, what I used for W3Counter. With almost a year going by, and rumors of scaling issues, I worried that perhaps Symfony [...]

How DNS Poisoning Works

This is the first explanation of how DNS poisoning attacks work that I could make sense of without first reading a book on DNS. Interesting stuff: Reliable DNS Forgery in 2008: Kaminsky’s Discovery.

Who knew there was a Chinese version of my site

I was going through the popular pages report for Website Goodies when I came across something strange. Looks like something written in a non-western character set… coming up as a page of my site? Turns out doseo.org copied the HTML and images for Website Goodies and filled in (mostly) their own content. They even [...]

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Kansas State University’s really putting out some interesting videos. Stumbled upon this one, essentially defining “web 2.0″, while reading the SoftLayer blog.

A Vision of Students Today

I would’ve enjoyed that class — those students have a great professor.

Why isn’t my Firefox 3D like the Japanese version?

And why don’t our TV show hosts wear fox ears when covering the browser?