Susan Landau explores Internet security and the attribution problem
Susan Landau gave a talk at Harvard today on her latest policy work on cybersecurity. Landau is a noted privacy advocate whose public advocacy work goes back to the crypto wars of the 1990s. Together...
View ArticleThe tricky mix of payment, identity and trust
A new O’Reilly/PayPal report on web-native payment platforms, “ePayments: Emerging Platforms, Embracing Mobile and Confronting Identity,” is now available for download. Among the topics covered in the...
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ePayments Week: Where adds context to PayPal
Here’s what caught my attention in the payment space this week. EBay buys a hyper-local friend for PayPal EBay’s purchase of Where, a mobile app for finding local deals, gives the gift of context to...
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A Manhattan Project for online identity
In 1993, Peter Steiner famously wrote in the New Yorker that “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” In 2011, trillions of dollars in e-commerce transactions and a growing number of other...
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Visualization of the Week: Visualizing the Library Catalog
WorldCat, the world’s largest library catalog, has launched a new interactive tool that lets users visually explore the catalog, specifically the relationships between WorldCat “Identities.” A WorldCat...
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Demoting Halder: A wild look at social tracking and sentiment analysis
I’ve been holding conversations with friends around a short story I put up on the Web last week, Demoting Halder, and interesting reactions have come up. Originally, the story was supposed to lay out...
View ArticleFour short links: 19 December 2011
The History of Version Control (Francis Irving) — concise history of the key advances in managing source code versions. Worth it just for the delicious apposition of “history” and “version control”....
View ArticleFour short links: 17 February 2012
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did — predictive analytics moves faster than family communications. (via Sara Winge) JSHint — a tool to detect errors and potential...
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Big ethics for big data
As the collection, organization and retention of data has become commonplace in modern business, the ethical implications behind big data have also grown in importance. Who really owns this...
View ArticleFour short links: 12 July 2012
Mozilla Persona — single sign-on for the web. Interview with Alan Kay (Dr Dobbs Journal) — The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean,...
View ArticleFour short links: 13 June 2013
The Unengageables (Dan Meyer) — They signed their “didactic contract” years and years ago. They signed it. Their math teachers signed it. The agreement says that the teacher comes into class, tells...
View ArticleFour short links: 13 August 2013
How Things Work: Summer Games Edition — admire the real craftsmanship in those early games. This has a great description of using raster interrupts to extend the number of sprites, and how and why...
View ArticleFour short links: 19 August 2013
choir.io explained (Alex Dong) — Sound is the perfect medium for wearable computers to talk back to us. Sound has a dozen of properties that we can tune to convey different level of emotions and...
View ArticleFour short links: 2 September 2013
sifter.js — library for textually searching arrays and hashes of objects by property (or multiple properties). Designed specifically for autocomplete. (via Javascript Weekly) Tor Users Get Routed...
View ArticleFour short links: 25 September 2013
Salesforce Architecture — Our search tier runs on commodity Linux hosts, each of which is augmented with a 640 GiB PCI-E flash drive which serves as a caching layer for search requests. These hosts...
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Your money or your life
I know it’s hard to run a large company. I know that organizations can get too deep into their own visions to imagine conflicting values. I realized yesterday, though, that: Microsoft ruined their...
View ArticleFour short links: 21 April 2016
Bribing Miners to Regulate Bitcoin — interesting! A somewhat conspiracy-theoretical take on an MIT proposal to layer identity onto Bitcoin. Features repurposed DRM tech, no less. Tesla Model X Quality...
View ArticleFour short links: 22 April 2016
Why The Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous to Everyone — read with Fortune’s take on the Tech IPO Market. “They profess to take a long-term view, but the data shows post-IPO stocks are...
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