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Massimo Morelli's Weblog
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venerdì 27 giugno 2003
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Is MMS just crap? MMS Redux: Betting Against the Telcos.
I think in the end the carriers are going to realize that the good old days of SMS are over, that they are going to have to base their business plans on data rates from now on and not artificially created products called "messages." Manufacturers are going to get the message from consumers and start bundling more robust email clients and chat apps. Carriers in a tight market will start offering better data plans and even "free MMS" messages to compete. Small businesses have an opportunity to take advantage of the gap between this future reality and the current situation by creating easy to use, easy to set up email and chat services for mobile devices (integrating SMS push notifications will be key to these services)[Russell Beattie Notebook]
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domenica 15 giugno 2003
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Sometimes someone (in summertime?) ask me what's the meaning of web services. Here we are:
Although there are lots of ways to build server applications, most developers identify themselves with Java, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP), or Windows. Thanks to XML Web services, these Balkan states are now united to a remarkable degree. There are still a few wrinkles, but the interoperability of SOAP stacks is mostly a done deal. When I look at the emerging cloud of services, I see both healthy diversity and reassuring uniformity. [Jon Udell, Infoworld]
9:34:24 AM
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Tim Bray play Gandalf in 1997. I had exactly the same experience in the same year with the same technology (another business contest). Too bad I can't speak of it.
I suppose theres not too much of that low-hanging fruit left, but there was a time when being a Web Guy was like being Gandalf the wizard and James Herriot the country vet all rolled into one.
And, I betcha there are quite a few other low-hanging fruit out there right now just waiting for some geek who knows RSS to come and be Gandalf/Jim. Antibiotic Days. [ongoing]
8:54:10 AM
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sabato 14 giugno 2003
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I had the same experience many times. Usability has yet to come to the mainstream.
Lame Programmers and Credit Card Numbers. Some programmers are so lame that they haven't figured out how to strip spaces and dashes from input. Really. Check Steve's No Dashes or Spaces Hall of Shame for some nice examples. My question for you is this: Would you let a programmer who can't handle sanitizing input anywhere near your e-commerce system? I sure as hell wouldn't. In other news, George Bush fell off a Segway. He's nothing if not funny. To bad he's in charge of the country.... [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
8:55:21 PM
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venerdì 13 giugno 2003
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A good tutorial on firewalls and backdoors:
What is more difficult: constructing the precise SYN-Frag attack necessary to cause a buffer-overflow in a CheckPoint firewall (that is two revisions behind the latest patch-level) to render it as helpless as a router without ACLs, or getting an unwitting user to open up an e-mail attachment? The Enemy Within: Firewalls and Backdoors [Slashdot]
6:40:28 PM
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giovedì 12 giugno 2003
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The W2K problem was a piece of cake. Here it comes the I4 one:
[..]GoogleWatch has an interesting theory: When programming Google, they used standard 32-bit integers to identify pages. 32-bit integers allow you to count up to 4.2 billion, and Google is pretty close to that many pages. It's going to be tricky to upgrade all 15,000 machines to use a larger size integer at once, so maybe this is the reason Google has been having problems lately. [Google Weblog]
11:13:59 PM
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mercoledì 11 giugno 2003
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