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Why It’s PayPal’s Fault, Not The Browser

April 27, 2008

About a week ago there was some buzz floating around about how PayPal may block Safari because it doesn’t have phishing protection built in. This has since been retracted by PayPal:
PayPal: No plans to block Safari
A representative for PayPal on Friday said the ecommerce firm is developing features to block customers from logging into PayPal [...]

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-04-04

April 4, 2008

Have I told you how much I love the "Merge all windows" button in Safari? #
G’night Twitterville, headed to bed early tonight, hoping for a productive day tomorrow! #
My plumber is here to fix my washer… but my house’s main shutoff valve is broken #
@acafourek thanks for the nod on your blog! It’s [...]

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My Ideal Job

April 4, 2008

By way of looking introspectively at my self and my ambitions I have a pretty good idea of my ideal job is at this point. I’ve known for quite some time that being in the service of the public and working toward a greater good is in my blood. My mother was a teacher and [...]

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Crossing The Skills Divide

April 3, 2008

There is an almost constant drone of phone calls and emails in my life right now, I’m right in the thick of finding a job for when I become available in May. It hasn’t been an easy road, but I’ve made great strides in my approach, the types of jobs I apply for, and the [...]

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links for 2008-03-16

March 16, 2008

15 Reasons Why Blogging Matters More Than Ever | Six Pixels of Separation – Marketing and Communications Blog and Podcast – By Mitch Joel at Twist Image

6bone Webserver

Comcast to beef up network with new 100Gbps optics

Threat on Juicy Campus gossip site lands student in jail

The Pirate Peacock? How NBC wants to both filter and use [...]

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Pie In The Sky – Comparing Current Offerings

February 21, 2008

Comparing Current Offerings
Amazon:

Very Inexpensive (+1)
Very powerful (+1)
Recently had its first major downtime event (-1)
Very flexible in terms of OS, applications, etc (+1)
S3 storage service provides a good platform for archive storage (+1)
Bring your own Machine Image is a good thing, use what you’re familiar with (+1)
You cannot upload and download files using FTP/SFTP as with [...]

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Pie In The Sky – Where Mosso Has it Right and Wrong

February 20, 2008

Where Mosso’s The Hosting Cloud Wins and Looses
Mosso’s The Hosting Cloud promises to offer all of the stability, uptime, and processing power of competing grid/cluster products without the management headache.

This is in distinct contrast to Amazon’s cloud computing services, they provide the machines and that’s about it. It’s up to the user to provide the [...]

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Pie In The Sky – Where We Are Now

February 18, 2008

Where We Are Now
The pulse of the Internet is in a constant flux and we in the new and social media fields are no different. As the first post in my Pie In The Sky series I thought I’d provide you with some links and resources to get familiar with the latest advances and information [...]

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Solving Problems and Creating New ones

February 12, 2008

This post was inspired by Chris Brogan’s post Problems.
I consider myself not only a problem solver in the traditional sense, but I think I do a good job of taking those problems, and solutions, and making something more out of them. I don’t think that just solving problems is the answer, you have to take [...]

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The Future of Contributr

February 6, 2008

Contributr is a project that is near and dear to my heart, it’s an idea that I had several months ago and me and a team of 3 developers have been working on it since then.
Monday we presented our final product to a panel of journalism industry professionals, Adobe AIR specialists, and the good people [...]

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