If you haven’t noticed yet, a lot of the useless sections of this site have been removed. The microblogs are also gone since they were kind of redundant. Nevertheless, I still have the urge to post random thoughts that I would like to share. So I will keep this information within the blog which is probably the best place this type of information can be listed.
So this is not a rant but observation which made me question whether humans are capable of seeing further then their nose. [...]
I was going though some feeds that have been aggregating for a few weeks without my supervision and I came to realize that the Web is on fire.
It is not just the hype which is obvious when it comes to things such as AJAX and Web2.0 but it is also about the other things yet to be seen. I see social networks that serve all kinds of purposes popping everywhere. Commercial, private, open, whatever, they all agglomerate people in a very, very rapidly. [...]
A huge part of what we do is to spot trends and have a look at them before it is too late. Today I would like to talk about Live Mesh, a technology you are probably not very familiar with but it is a brand new thing and it will hit the streets in the next couple of months. Therefore, it is a good candidate for abuse from attackers, bot masters and other friendly inhabitants of the Undernet.
The idea is very simple. [...]