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Gmail
Hits The Small Screen
Mobile phone users can now access Gmail on their preferred handset's browser,
and Google has included a few features to enhance the mobile version too.
Google
Talk Jabbers A Jingle
Specifications created by Google and Jabber for carrying VoIP and video will be
released as an open set of extensions...
Google
Unwiring Mountain View
Google has been installing the radios and equipment necessary for nearly two weeks
to provide its home base of Mountain View with wireless broadband access.
Christmas
Comes Early To Gmail
Google followed the addition of two new extensions for the Firefox browser with
the announcement of two new features for the Gmail service.
Everyone’s
Search For Britney Spears
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The short time it took for the idea of structured blogging to be brought back
to Earth makes the 18-month timeframe of Moore's Law look like a glacial epoch.
Editor's Note: Structue could turn the blogosphere into a version
of Google Base, but will bloggers buy in to Structured Blogging? Will you? Tell
us why at WebProWorld.
We covered Structured Blogging
after Marc
Canter announced the Structured Blogging Initiative at the recent Syndicate
Conference in San Francisco.
The idea would have bloggers take an approach to blogging that makes their posts
easier to navigate and sort. Canter told WebProNews they would be shipping plug-in
code for blogging platforms Moveable Type and WordPress.
The Structured Blogging site tells more about how its concept can make blogging more useful. With a structure in place, anyone can build an application or a service to draw from a blog post:
Using Structured Blogging, job listings can be created, posted, searched, and found by any service; buyers and sellers of goods can publish what they want to buy or sell and have those posts searched and listed by any number of search services.
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It only took a few hours to pass for Paul Kederosky to treat Structured Blogging like a mallard flying too slow over a duck blind. He summarizes in three points why the extra effort needed for Structured Blogging won't happen:
1. People are lazy
2. People are lazy
3. People are lazy
To Kederosky, intelligence "belongs in the network and in the algorithms." People aren't going to be bothered to pull up that extra form depending on the content they want to post.
Commentors on Kederosky's blog offered various views supporting his comments or defending the Structured Blogging approach. Performancing's Nick Wilson wrote "(T)hey're all so busy congratulating each other on how clever they are that they fail to grasp some of the most fundamental points about people and technology entirely."
PubSub co-founder Salim Ismail defended the concept in his reply: "There are three key benefits for users: 1) it looks nicer, 2) it'll get found more easily, and 3) they retain ownership of the data."
A comment by Blogaholics' Arieanna that "Structure will reduce my creativity" got a clever response from Hashim Warren: "That's not true for everyone. Haikus have a strict structure yet they actually breed creativity, not hinder it."
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David is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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Google
Safe Browsing May Be Unsafe
By David Utter
The new Firefox plug-in from Google that helps to thwart phishing schemes may
itself pose a problem to uses due to a security flaw.
Dr. Szell: Is it safe?
-- Marathon Man, 1976
Maybe not, Christian. Nitesh Dhanjani posted some concerns he has about the Google Safe Browsing plug-in for Firefox.
Every request made while using the plug-in goes to Google. Dhanjani tested a legit site and a phishing site, intercepted the traffic, and observed that behavior. The first problem comes with the data being sent to Google:
Every request is transmitted to Google over HTTP, i.e. in clear-text.
Clear-text means plain, easy-to-read text. Dhanjani writes that if a web application is set up to send your information to a site with a GET request instead of a POST, and someone is sitting on the network between the user and Google with a packet sniffer, they can easily see your credit card number or any other personal information.
GET figures in Dhanjani's second issue with the plug-in:
The extension sends the entire GET request to Google. If a web application were to send private information via GET parameters, this will now be transmitted to Google.
So even if no malicious parties are camping out on the wire and sniffing that information, it's still traveling in the clear to Google. Typical uses won't know if their bank or credit card company uses GET or POST for web applications; Dhanjani believes a lot of web applications don't use POST.
Let's hope a few people in banking and financial IT pick up on this and check out their applications. Is it safe?
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Continued Focus on Content
The concept of quality content is being emphasized by both search engine and SEOs
alike. We at WPW are playing our part also as you can with the recent launch of
the WPW Content Discussion
Forum. Yesterday, I featured a poll
related to this very subject and the response was pretty receptive.
Today, we have a post providing some information about migrating your site to
a CMS system. This can be a monumental chore, especially for sites with pages
number in the triple and beyond digits. Take
a look at what DCrux
offering and you may find out it's not as daunting as you once thought. Take care
and have a great weekend.
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Why
and when to consider a CMS
I heard a couple of designers going on about CMS-based web sites being the next big thing. Which means this will be the next thing everyone recommends, whether appropriate or not.
A simple rule of thumb is content management strategy and a CMS go together. In general, don't have one without the other.
CMS systems can be used to manage a lot of media: text, images, sound and video.
Strategy concerns using media and CMS effectively towards some objective. Without
objectives, you may get an unsuitable CMS that only makes the site construction
easier for the 'designer.'
Unfortunatly construction is not design. Design isn't about getting the technical
end done and cashing the check, it's about user effectiveness. Ease of construction
does not mean ease of use.
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