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Hacking the iPhone 1.1.1

Cell Phone, News, Technology, Video — Josiah on October 23, 2007 at 1:44 pm

Posted a mere 16 hours ago on GooTube is this video of devnull128 hacking his iPhone v 1.1.1. and then playing some hot NES action, among other things to prove it’s really hacked.


SPAM in Mahalo Possible?

News, Search Engines — Josiah on September 5, 2007 at 2:56 pm

Mahalo Penetrated by SPAM
I was browsing Mahalo on this sunny afternoon in an attempt to find information on credit cards (curiously I found nothing) and found what looks to be the first reported SPAM in Mahalo.

On the Jesus in Food page, constructed by Mahalo veteran Jonathan I found the following link:

GoldenPalace.com: Put your face on a grilled cheese WARNING: Pop-Ups

The subsequent website you are taken to when clicking the Golden Palace link has no content relating to Jesus in Food nor does it spawn pop ups in FF or IE6 (as Mahalo warned me it would).

What’s the deal? I thought the Mahalo approach was SPAM proof? Did Golden Palace put up content and then pull the ol’ bait and switch with the editors at Mahalo?

I registered with the site and reported it in the Message Board.

TripAdvisor Acquires Where I’ve Been; Are They Crazy?

Internet Applications, News — Josiah on August 17, 2007 at 7:52 am
Trip Advisor is reportedly paying $3,000,000 for a free application, that runs on another free application (at the pleasure of the latter app). Are they crazy or does this make business sense?

Hmmm, they now own the #1 and #2 apps in this category on Facebook and are displaying a new trend in tech spending.


clipped from www.insidefacebook.com

Just two months after asking, “I Have 250,000 Users, Now What?”, Craig Ulliott has an answer.

In what is by far the largest Facebook application acquisition to date, travel company TripAdvisor has reportedly acquired Where I’ve Been from Craig Ulliott for $3 million.
Update: We are still awaiting comment from TripAdvisor. No official confirmation yet.

The acquisition marks the first major successful exit of a Facebook application since the Platform launched just under three months ago.

With 2.3 million users, Where I’ve Been established itself as by far the biggest travel application on Facebook, leading #2 Cities I’ve Visited (also TripAdvisor owned) by over 1 million users.

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Skype Outage Highlights Mahalo’s Faults?

Editorials, News, Search Engines — Josiah on August 16, 2007 at 3:29 pm
No offense Allen but you’re just plain wrong here. Yes Mahalo doesn’t pick up “new” news as quickly as automated bots, again just like Alexa as long as you understand how the data is collected this shouldn’t be a surprise.

The important question here is; Will the Skype outage of Thursday August 16th 2007 really go down as a “newsworthy” topic? One that would warrant a complete page on Mahalo?

The answer is No, of course not, the story barely belongs in Google’s index as I’m sure it’s already been resolved and 99.99998% of the population didn’t even notice.

As far as Mahalo using social news site to promote original articles I don’t really take issue with that, Jason will just need to be careful not to focus too much on that sort of social baiting. As you can see from Digg, most social communities tend to boil down the the least common denominator as the audience exands.


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Skype’s Outage Another Example of Why Current Mahalo is Doomed

MahaloAs nearly everyone online knows by now, Skype is out of commission. It’s down for the count. I was one of the first people to post about the Skype outage this morning, and since then, hundreds of others have as well. It’s a hot topic on Google Hot Trends (#45), and I am seeing 500 people an hour from my first page Google result.

But where is the Mahalo page? The Mahalo Skype page has 3 headlines of which 2 are semi-outage related. Otherwise, searching for “Skype down” or “Skype outage” provides no result. Yet Google has indexed my page from 6AM and already shows it as one of the top pages.

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Bebo Social Network Top in UK … For Now

Internet Applications, News, Social — Josiah on August 15, 2007 at 8:53 am
I tend to think Steve isn’t going out on a limb much here in predicting that Facebook will overtake both MySpace and Bebo to take the UK Social Networking crown.

Bebo (design wise) looks very much like YouTube, and not knowing the history here I can’t comment as to why.


clipped from blogs.zdnet.com
Steve O’Hear

Comscore data for July reveals that Bebo is now the number one visited social networking site in the UK, overtaking MySpace. Sitting in third place is Facebook. According to the statistics, Bebo registered a total of 10.7m unique users ahead of MySpace which has 10.1m and Facebook with 7.6m.

Bebo overtakes MySpace in the UK

Bebo is also ranked as the second most engaging website in the UK with 8.7b page views – only just behind Google which received 8.8b.

However, I’m going to go out on a limb and make a prediction. Based on anecdotal evidence amongst my friends and colleagues here in London, give it six months or less, and Facebook’s UK figures could look very different. I suspect they’ll be a lot closer to the other two — within the thousands not millions — and could eventually overtake them both.

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Verizon Unleases new RAZR iPhone Killer, Or Not

Hardware, News — Josiah on August 10, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Verizon and Motorola have very quiet and very ignored for the last few months as the storm from the new iPhone is in full swing. Today comes the announcement of the next generation RAZR 2. Featuring an external display (amazing!) and touch sensitive keys and bluetooth support (didn’t it already have that? or did they just de hobble it?)

I’m underwhelmed. But maybe Verizon and the RAZR can grab people looking for a high quality “phone” that don’t need to surf the ‘web’ and watch videos of dogs skateboarding.


clipped from news.vzw.com

Verizon Wireless Introduces The MOTORAZR(2) V9m


Next Generation RAZR Features External Display and Touch-Sensitive Keys and Bluetooth Support

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless, the nation’s leading wireless company with the most reliable wireless voice and data network, and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), today announced the sleek multimedia MOTORAZR2 V9m will be available to Verizon Wireless customers in September. Offering a combination of sophisticated style and Verizon Wireless’ first-class multimedia features, the MOTORAZR2 V9m is perfect for customers seeking a sleek, music-centric multimedia mobile phone.

Verizon Wireless
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JS-Kit Makes Adding Functionality Easy Peasy

Internet Applications, News, Widgets — Josiah on August 10, 2007 at 8:13 am
While I tend to disagree with most assessments that installing blogs, forums and other PHP scripts is a hard task, JS-Kit takes even the small hurdle away with their widgets.


clipped from venturebeat.com
JS-Kit offers simple comments, ratings and other widgets

jskit.jpgJS-Kit, which lets people with basic HTML skills add interactive features to their websites, has raised $1.2 million from The Entrepreneurs Fund III.

It is the latest investment in a widget company, and comes at a time when the major widget makers, RockYou and Slide, are trying to figure out how to monetize their vast audiences.

JS-Kit’s main selling point is its simplicity. By cutting and pasting a few lines of HTML, anyone can add a comment board, polls, or a ratings system to a website. This is notable because the technical skills and cost required to add something like a ratings system can be bothersome and expensive for the small publishers that constitute the bulk of JS-Kit’s network of 5,000 sites.

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VentureBeat says Forbes will Buy ClipMarks

Business Tech, News, Social — Josiah on August 8, 2007 at 8:21 am
Holy crap!

As I was browsing this AM looking for stories to clip+posts I see this on Techmeme>VentureBeat.

There’s going to be a lot of press and traffic to the CM site/service in the next few weeks. Let’s hope they handle it well!


clipped from venturebeat.com
Forbes buys social bookmarking site Clipmarks

picture-1.pngClipmarks, one of the many startups that helps users collect and organize information from around the web, is being bought by Forbes Magazine, an inside source tells us.

The New York-based startup lets you select text, photos or videos on web pages, then use Clipmark’s bookmarking feature to save the URL and your selected information to your Clipmarks folder. From there, you can share your “clips” with friends and colleagues and even search to find the most popular clips on the Clipmarks site.

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Google Not Going After Digg & Netscape … Yet

News, Social, Web 2.0 — Josiah on August 8, 2007 at 7:58 am
Mashable had the hot steaming news about Google’s new commenting system for it’s News service.

Before you start getting all giddy it’s only open to companies and organizations “related” to the news story. Beyond the editorial nightmare what surprised me was the restraint here by Google. They could have started the process of Digg/Netscape annihilation by bringing Social news to the “true” masses.

Oh well, I’ll give them 6 months.


clipped from mashable.com

If we said Google News has added comments, you’d probably say “finally”. In fact they are adding comments, but with a twist: the US version is letting people or organizations who are part of a news story add comments to it.

Here’s how it works: if you search for your company or name and find stories, you can send an email to news-comments@google.com. Include your comment and contact details, plus a way to verify that you’re from that company – owning the email address me@relevantcompany.com may be enough (you need to reply to a mail sent there, not just spoof it – see the help section for more info). If approved by Google, your comment will appear beneath the story like this.

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Mozilla Has Pajama Geek Parties with Hackers

News, Privacy & Security — Josiah on August 6, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Yes you read that title right, ha.ckers has the poop on a little sit down with the Mozilla crew where some “gauntlet’ was thrown down by way of a business card. Yeah I don’t know either….

To quote ha.ckers directly they said they were invited to a “Mozilla “milk and cookies pajama party””


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web application security lab
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Mozilla Says “Ten Fucking Days”

At this point Mike Shaver threw down the gauntlet. He gave me his business card with a hand written note on it, laying his claim on the line. The claim being – with responsible disclosure Mozilla can patch and deploy any critical severity holes within “Ten Fucking Days”:

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