Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
Email secrecy won’t save you from spam — The spam wars aren’t going away soon but treating public email addresses as secret is of no benefit — Last week, I needed to get in touch with a colleague, an academic who’d recently changed universities; I didn’t have his current email address …
Xperia X10 Blog:
Xperia Play – The official name for the Playstation Phone? — Ever since the first rumours of the Playstation Phone started, we’ve wondered what name Sony Ericsson plan to use for the phone. All of the rumours pointed to SE branding it under the ‘Xperia’ brand and now we can reveal …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Undue process: how Uncle Sam seized BitTorrent domain names — Back in November, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Andrew T. Reynolds signed an affidavit asking a judge to put five domain names under the control of the US government. All were accused of contributing …
Royal Pingdom:
The most reliable (and unreliable) blogging services on the Web — Blogging services have been around for a long time, with pioneers like Blogger paving the way for WordPress.com and more recent arrivals like Tumblr and Posterous. There are millions upon millions of blogs out there, many of them residing on these services.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Domain Exodus Continues As Torrentz Dumps .COM — The Internet’s second biggest BitTorrent site is dumping its .COM domain. In an apparent response to the US Government’s Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement recent seizures of domain names, the site moved to a new home.
Joe Mullin / paidContent:
The Details Behind The Government’s Recent Domain-Name Seizures — When Immigrations & Customs Enforcement agents seized 82 web domain names over the Thanksgiving weekend, it was an unprecedented event—not just because of the scope of the seizures, but also because the web sites grabbed included …
Facebook Developer Blog:
Making registration simple and social in just a few steps — Today we’re launching a new registration tool that gives website owners the ability to offer quick, easy and social options for sign-up. — It is an excellent alternative to using Facebook Login (formerly Facebook Connect) when:
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteMobile:
Apple’s Best Kept Secret: Ad Hoc Installs for Testing Purposes — One of the major pain points in developing mobile applications for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) is testing those apps. As we’ve noted before, the traditional testing method is time-consuming and cumbersome …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Apple’s Best Kept Secret: Ad Hoc Installs for Testing Purposes — One of the major pain points in developing mobile applications for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) is testing those apps. As we’ve noted before, the traditional testing method is time-consuming and cumbersome …
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Security Guru Launches iPhone App To Hack Colorblindness — Security researcher Dan Kaminsky wearing a shirt that reads “I (heart) color.” It’s illegible to the red-green colorblind. — In 2008, security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered and helped develop a patch for one of the most …