Since the creation of the <form/> elements people have been wondering about the ownership and copyright of content created online. From email and message boards in Web 1.0 to blogs and Twitter in Web 2.0 the same fundamental questions remain.
Lately, Twitter has been the focus. Twitter is actually pretty clear about it’s [...]
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User Generated Content Ownership
First CVE
I just found out the other day I found my first bug worthy of being a CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) Candidate: CVE-2008-3747. Low profile, but I guess still a potential vulnerability.
I must admit I didn’t know that the database is funded by the National Cyber Security Division of the United States Department [...]
Summer Of Code 2008
Google announced the project lists for Summer Of Code 2008. Some of the more interesting projects from my perspective:
Adium
Data Detectors for Adium
Dojo Foundation
Native cryptography API for Google Gears
Dojo-Charting improvements
Dojo GFX Enhancement
FFmpeg
AAC-LC Encoder
MLP/TrueHD encoder
Apple Lossless Encoder for FFmpeg
Gallery
Facebook / Flickr Style Image Region Based Tagging
Inkscape
SVG Fonts
Joomla!
Multi-DB support, and Database abstraction layer implementation for Joomla!
The Mozilla [...]
Matt Mullenweg On Ads
Ran across this quote today which I just had to blog from WordPress.com’s Matt Mullenweg since I found it funny:
“We decided to show ads only on certain pages, only to the people who were sort of random drive-by visitors…if you use Firefox, you’ll never see an ad, no matter what, mostly because I like Firefox.”
Also [...]
Enhancing Security With Nonce
A little while back I read about how WordPress was implementing Nonce to help enhance security. What I like about this technique is that it doesn’t rely on referrer checking (which is faulty at best).
Today I implemented that on a project I’m working on, rather similar in style to WordPress. I [...]
WordPress takes over Browse Happy Campaign
WordPress is taking over Browse Happy. The announcement is here. WordPress has been a big Firefox supporter for sometime. Hopefully we’ll see some new content soon.
Kevin Smith and Open Source
Fellow Jersey Guy Kevin Smith aka Silent Bob has a WordPress powered blog and a distinct SpreadFirefox “Get Firefox” badge on the lower right.
Apparently Silent Bob, isn’t so silent when you look at his site. One of my favorites just got a bit cooler in my book. Silent Bob rules.
[Hat tip, [...]
Firefox Counter Plugin for Word Press
Matt Mullenweg just emailed me that he incorporated my changes for the firefox counter plugin. You can now get Thunderbird stats with the following code:
< ?php firefox_count(‘thunderbird’); ?>
Another toy is still in the works (waiting on something still). Hopefully you’ll see something soon.
No more Spam!
Google, MSN, and Yahoo… plus a ton of blog developers sat down and came up with a fix. And there talking about rapid rollout on this one. Google Blog has the details.
Basically you need to have your blogging product of choice ad
<a href="URL" rel="nofollow">LINK</a>
to any link a visitor can add themselves (trackback, comments, [...]
