Why Did Google Want Blogger?. Google’s recent purchase of Pyra Labs, maker of a weblogging tool called Blogger, has generated much speculation about why the popular search engine did the deal. One man who worked closely with Pyra thinks he knows the answer. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
Exploiting and protecting 802.11b wireless…
Exploiting and protecting 802.11b wireless networkshttp://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,31255,00.asphttp://www.practicallynetworked.com/tools/wireless_articles_security.htm
Wardriving How-To
Wardriving How-To Here are links to other HOWTOs and relevant documents.The Linux Wireless LAN HOWTOhttp://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/The Wireless HOWTOhttp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Wireless-HOWTOThe Linux Laptop HOWTOhttp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTOThe Linux PCMCIA HOWTOhttp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTONetStumbler – Windows and Hermes based wireless cardshttp://www.netstumbler.org/index.php
Reed Elsevier Third Largest Online…
Reed Elsevier Third Largest Online Company: Reed Elsevier yesterday claimed the unlikely title of the world’s third largest internet company by revenue: it generated online… [PAID: the economics of content]
Turkey Assesses Question of Kurds…
Turkey Assesses Question of Kurds. One of the most intractable hurdles for negotiators has proven to be Turkey’s bitter history with the Kurds. By Dexter Filkins. [New York Times: International]
USAToday.com Tests Registration: USAToday.com on…
USAToday.com Tests Registration: USAToday.com on Thursday began requiring users to answer three demographic questions to access some stories, joining competitors like NYTimes.com and WashingtonPost.com. The… [PAID: the economics of content]
There’s more than one way…
There’s more than one way to read RSS. Joe Friendly’s NewsGator solutionJoe Friendly explains how to scan items efficiently with NewsGator: There is a much better way to use it. Store all your newsfeeds in one folder and then use the “Group by…” feature to organize them by feed name. You can then navigate through all your feeds using the…
*Wi All Fi in a…
Wi All Fi in a Yellow Subcompact: Cory Doctorow and others form the Wi-Fi caravan from Portland to San Francisco on Feb. 21 with the technical assistance of VIA Technologies. A multi-car, high-speed, mobile Wi-Fi network. Pull over and set a spell boys, and spin us some bandwidth.[80211b News]
Recommended reading [1].
Recommended reading. Nathan Ashby-Kuhlman: Can your CMS do different layouts? World Wide Web Consortium: Common HTTP Implementation Problems BBC News Online has redesigned. See the site’s announcement and site’s FAQ page, and read reactions by Ben of Magnetbox and Craig Saila Netscape DevEdge, Netscape’s developer site, has redesigned in all CSS. The best part: Designer (and CSS guru) Eric Meyer…
Danny Sullivan [1]: “Google has…
Danny Sullivan: “Google has long said it has no intention of becoming a portal, but so far, it’s hard not to see the acquisition of Blogger as adding a portal feature in the same way that Yahoo did when it bought GeoCities.” [Scripting News]