A couple weeks ago I was trying to get access to a site that Karl Susman had set up in his hosting account for a new website. He created a new user for me to access that specific directory on the server. Somehow we got permissions or the password messed up and he then deleted the ftp user account so that he could recreate it. The files were also deleted…all of them. Four hours later, when talking with the hosting…
Jim Louderback of Revision3 and all around great guy has a Tekzilla review of the new Lenovo U-1 hybrid tablet/laptop that David Churbuck from Lenovo (and one of the founders of Reel-Time.com) has been hinting about for some time. Jim says it’s the best new tech he’s seen at CES and although I’m not there, it is the best of the products I’ve heard about yet.
The past two have been very interesting if you follow the technical goings on at Google. In no particular order, they have released, at least in beta format: Google Chromium OS – the Google operating system which offers about all the functionality most folks would require to surf the web, get email, write basic docs, etc. Google Goggles – a system that allows your Android based phone *(Android is their mobile phone os) to use it’s camera to identify via…
When I worked in the Atex marketing department, we lived and died by what we could get published in Editor and Publisher. The once vaunted trade journal was the place you wanted to get mentioned, the measure of your having “made it” in the print world. Those days are now gone – from E&P themselves: Editor & Publisher, the bible of the newspaper industry and a journalism institution that traces its origins back to 1884, is ceasing publication. An announcement,…
The permalink – nothing could be more core to the concept of blogging, and indeed, content management. In it’s early inception, it was the one link to rule all others. The problem is that with the advent of microblogging systems like Twitter, the permalink has been devalued and now faces possible extinction. From Wikipedia: A permalink, or permanent link, is a URL that points to a specific blog or forum entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives. Because a permalink…
I got the notice last night that WordPress 2.8.6 was released to fix a pair of security holes. So I hopped right into the admin console from my Iphone and in 2 minutes, it was updated. If you have a WordPress installation, I urge you to update right away as well. This will almost certainly be the last release prior to the much anticipated release of 2.9 which is our next major (feature related) release. Aaron Brazell had a great…
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corp, said that he was going to have Google blocked from all New Corp. websites. That means something From EditorandPublisher.com: The Chairman of News Corp. said in an interview with Sky News Australia (reported here in MediaWeek U.K.) that once the newspapers get their paywalls, News Corp. plans to pull its content from the likes of Google and others. Murdoch said: “We’d rather have fewer people come to the Web site and pay. Consumers…
(Disclosures: I work for Namemedia, who is technically a competitor of Internet Brands, owners of vBulletin. I also run several sites that use vBulletin and spend a significant part of my work week working in vBulletin code…) Over the past month, there’s been a slowly erupting feud in the vBulletin community over the new pricing structure that was announced for vBulletin 4.0 by Internet Brands. You see, back in the day, the original vBulletin license cost $185 (originally $160 I…
I’ve had a few launches recently and a few of them are worth mentioning. The Afternic Domainer’s Advantage – this is a knowledge center for use by Domainers, which is fully integrated with the AfternicDLS.com site. For those who aren’t aware, Afternic is the world’s largest premium domain marketplace with over three million domains available for sale. The Domainer’s Advantage site is a fairly standard WordPress installation that makes use of several fairly standard plugins. Special features: Integrated news feed…
A new WordPress release came out last night. Unlike the previous, this is what they are calling “a hardening release”, i.e. it is generally designed to make the code base more secure, but doesn’t fix any known vulnerabilities. As with all minor level releases, I suggest you update as soon as possible, if for no other reason than to stay current. From their blog: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within…