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Facebook, Find My iPhone 23 Aug 2012 | 11:23 pm
Find My iPhone is a nifty feature in Apple’s iOS that shows a map of wherever a person’s phone is. While the main purpose of this feature is listed as finding misplaced phones, most people tend to pre...
GitHub is Eating the World 11 Jul 2012 | 02:27 am
About 11 months ago, Marc Andreessen, founding partner of venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz, wrote an essay titled “Why Software is Eating the World”. In it, he claims that industry leading cor...
Startup Investment Portfolio Game 29 Jun 2011 | 07:43 am
I read about technology news and startups fairly regularly and often find myself saying “man, I wish I could invest in them”. I thought it would be a fairly fun exercise to compile a list of companies...
A News Feed for your site’s Google Analytics 29 Jan 2011 | 09:44 am
Brain Dump. Google Analytics is a remarkable product that provides a ton of information. My hunch is that most users barely scratch the surface on the full potential of all its features. You can slice...
Facebook Vulnerability: Like Clickjacking 14 Jul 2010 | 08:52 am
The Facebook Open Graph Like Button is susceptible to a type of attack known as clickjacking. Basically, if the like button is embedded on the page you’re on, made completely transparent, then an atta...
Hacking ChatRoulette’s “Report” 10 May 2010 | 02:15 am
While the media coverage for ChatRoulette has largely died out, I was curious to see how the site had evolved in the past few months. After browsing through the site for a few minutes, I quickly disco...
Updated: New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Third-Party Analytics and Services 10 Apr 2010 | 08:36 am
The updated iPhone Developer Agreement includes stringent clauses around the acceptable use of storing, transmitting, and processing user data. Here is the updated section 3.3.9 in its entirety. I hav...
Did you mean: Google Maps 18 Jan 2010 | 07:37 am
Let me ask a simple question. What would you expect to happen if you typed in http://google.com/mapss in to your browser bar? I’d be willing to bet that you’re looking to be directed to Google’s mappi...
2010 Predictions 28 Dec 2009 | 02:08 pm
I’ve quietly been compiling a list of predictions for what’s going to happen in 2010 for the past few weeks, and it will be fun to look back in a year and see how I did. There are a leisurely 40 predi...
Google it with gBing 2 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pm
While the usage and importance of controlling a user’s startpage has declined recently due to search access within the browser, most of the services I use on a regular basis on the web are available w...
