tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263271112009-02-20T18:46:08.184-08:00Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1175723781403192202007-04-04T14:55:00.001-07:002007-04-04T14:56:21.406-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Benioff the Author Strikes Again"><tr valign="top"><td> Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce.com, has done a remarkable job of marketing his company and the software-as-service <a href="http://bookkeepers.near-home.com/" title="Bookkeepers Near Home">business</a> model. But less known is his interest in philanthropy. Through the Salesforce.com Foundation, the company donates 1% of its equity and income, and its employees volunteer significant chunks of time, to worthy causes. Benioff wrote about this in his previous <a href="http://book-stores.near-home.com/" title="Book Stores Near Home">book</a>, Compassionate Capitalism: How Corporations Can Make Doing Good an Integral Part of Doing Well. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/11/benioff_the_aut.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting" title="Benioff the Author Strikes Again">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-117572378140319220?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1175723779381750962007-04-04T14:55:00.000-07:002007-04-04T14:56:19.420-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Gorbachev Asks Bill Gates To Save Russian Teacher From Siberia After Students Use Unauthorized ..."><tr valign="top"><td> Just days after having to stand idly by while the Romanian president talked up how unauthorized copies of Microsoft software helped build that country's IT industry, Bill Gates has another critical issue to decide concerning such "piracy." Over in Russia, Microsoft has apparently been pressing charges against a Russian school headteacher, Alexander Ponosov, who Microsoft accuses of running "pirated" software on school computers. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20070205/122618.shtml" title="Gorbachev Asks Bill Gates To Save Russian Teacher From Siberia After Students Use Unauthorized ...">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-117572377938175096?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1161381548338747512006-10-20T14:52:00.000-07:002006-10-20T14:59:08.883-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Learning Like Kids"><tr valign="top"><td> So the second best thing about being in Bolton yesterday after the amazing group of Year 6 students that were in attendance was that I got to sit in on an introductory Garage Band workshop that and Joe Moretti, and ADE from the UK was giving. We did some blogging yesterday, too, and another highlight from yesterday’s workshop was an impromptu Skype call with Chris Turek from November Learning to ask a question about the software that Bolton was using to support its network. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/learning-like-kids/" title="Learning Like Kids">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-116138154833874751?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1156972392513444032006-08-30T14:07:00.000-07:002006-08-30T14:13:12.536-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Review of e-slate voting systems"><tr valign="top"><td> I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/8/26/22214/0675" title="Review of e-slate voting systems">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-115697239251344403?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1151785457969678962006-07-01T13:20:00.000-07:002006-07-01T13:24:18.003-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Visto: Another Mouse that Roars"><tr valign="top"><td> Consider Visto, a mobile e-mail developer that has sued Microsoft, Research In Motion, Good <a href="http://home-audio.on-topic.net/" title="Home Audio Topics | Everything you need to know about Home Audio">Technology</a>, Seven Networks, and Infowave and accused them of violating its patents. We do work the patents, but we're not a troll," insists a slightly miffed Daniel Mendez, one of Visto's co-founders and its senior vice-president for intellectual property, the guy who works the patents. Even while Visto set out to beef up its core <a href="http://bookkeepers.near-home.com/" title="Bookkeepers Near Home">business</a> it started going after companies it considered patent infringers. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/06/visto_another_m.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting" title="Visto: Another Mouse that Roars">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-115178545796967896?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1150063385497557432006-06-11T14:59:00.000-07:002006-06-11T15:03:05.530-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="SupportBlogging!"><tr valign="top"><td> Here’s the mission: “Educational Blogging” is a positive, tranformational <a href="http://home-audio.on-topic.net/" title="Home Audio Topics | Everything you need to know about Home Audio">technology</a> that is often confused with “Social Networking” sites like MySpace.com. While there are similarities in the web technologies used for blogging and social networking sites, they serve different purposes. The current backlash against social networking sites has the potential to overshadow the benefits of educational blogging. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/supportblogging/" title="SupportBlogging!">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-115006338549755743?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1149460678313821602006-06-04T15:34:00.000-07:002006-06-04T15:37:58.346-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Fog Creek Software Management Training Program"><tr valign="top"><td> Joel Spolsky, who has written some of the smartest and most useful articles on software development done right in his Joel on Software <a href="http://idaho.travelbn.com/" title="Idaho Travel Blog -Things to do Places to see">blog</a>, is also the CEO of Fog Creek Software. As CEO he recently posted an open invitation for would be software managers to apply for paid on the job training at Fog Creek. Joel describes the Fog Creek Software Management Training Program : The key component of this program is rotating through just about every job at Fog Creek Software. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/archive/000285.html" title="Fog Creek Software Management Training Program">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114946067831382160?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1147902289870756302006-05-17T14:42:00.000-07:002006-05-17T14:44:49.900-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Mac OS X 10.4.4 and iTunes 6.2 Update"><tr valign="top"><td> Three things in the Mac OS X 10.4.4 update caught my eye: .Mac now syncs which RSS feed items you have and haven't read in Safari. On the other hand, I am quite pleased that now I no longer have to decide, via the pop-up menu in the lower right hand quadrant of the iTunes window, whether I want to use external speakers via the Airport Express, or my computer's built-in speakers; now there's a third option, that uses both, "Multiple speakers." </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/archive/000292.html" title="Mac OS X 10.4.4 and iTunes 6.2 Update">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114790228987075630?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1147339484175123592006-05-11T02:22:00.001-07:002006-05-11T02:24:44.183-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Surprise! The War On Movie Piracy Isn't Working"><tr valign="top"><td> Software companies and their shill groups have been spreading around reports on the "cost" of piracy, which are made bogus by their assumption that every pirated copy of software equates to a lost sale, which simply isn't the case. The MPAA didn't want to release the study, and it's little wonder why: doing so would not only call into question its previous research, but also be a tacit admission that its "war" on piracy is failing, and failing badly. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060503/086214.shtml" title="Surprise! The War On Movie Piracy Isn't Working">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114733948417512359?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1147339483778250152006-05-11T02:22:00.000-07:002006-05-11T02:24:43.796-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="New version of MovableType"><tr valign="top"><td> All seems to have gone well... except my template and stylesheet are thoroughly bolloxed. I've made a termporary switch to the "old" ones, rather than the "new" ones until I can either port my favored old template and style sheet or shift to one with three columns. UPDATE: I decided to ditch the old template, because templates have changed a lot since I started, and move to a new three-column layout. I'm going to be tinkering with my style sheet and template a lot before I'm satisfied. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/archive/000297.html" title="New version of MovableType">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114733948377825015?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1147337030412700912006-05-11T01:41:00.001-07:002006-05-11T01:43:50.416-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Wikimania Takes Over Online Shopping?"><tr valign="top"><td> Overzealous marketers have been using the phrase "it's the Wikipedia of ______" to describe products for a while now, and wikis have had "all the cool kids are doing it" status for a while, so it's not surprising to see people try to shoehorn wikis in all over the place. But the ability to simply delete content with which one doesn't agree is pretty powerful, and somehow the sites' rebuttal that any user can then restore the content doesn't seem to do much to <a href="http://www.drug-rehabilitation-search.com/" title="Drug Rehabilitation Search">help</a>. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060424/1410244.shtml" title="Wikimania Takes Over Online Shopping?">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114733703041270091?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1147337029750440562006-05-11T01:41:00.000-07:002006-05-11T01:43:49.776-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Another Take-Two Game Gets Re-rated, For Another Third-Party Mod"><tr valign="top"><td> Now, the ESRB, which rates <a href="http://www.blogtelevision.net/" title="BlogTelevision.net: Fresh Videos identified from millions of Blogs">video</a> games, has re-rated another game from a Take-Two subsidiary, boosting the rating of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion from "Teen" to "Mature". The ESRB says that not only did the game's developer under-represent the degree of violence in the game, but also failed to disclose the inclusion of a topless woman in the game, even though, again, it was inaccessible without a third-party mod. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060504/1330202.shtml" title="Another Take-Two Game Gets Re-rated, For Another Third-Party Mod">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114733702975044056?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1147318723586941852006-05-10T20:36:00.001-07:002006-05-10T20:38:43.593-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Sanford Spamford Spyford Wallace Gets Hit With Spyware Fine"><tr valign="top"><td> In the early days of spam, there was no spammer more notorious or publicity seeking than Sanford "Spamford" Wallace. He was proud about his spamming and was always seeking more attention for it. In 2004, he was accused of being in the spyware game, tricking people into downloading his fake anti-spyware software by claiming that users had spyware that his software would remove (when it really did the opposite). </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060504/1250204.shtml" title="Sanford Spamford Spyford Wallace Gets Hit With Spyware Fine">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114731872358694185?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1147318723217328002006-05-10T20:36:00.000-07:002006-05-10T20:38:43.230-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="Ubisoft Ditches Starforce... But Looks For A Replacement"><tr valign="top"><td> A couple weeks ago an upset owner of a Ubisoft <a href="http://www.blogtelevision.net/" title="BlogTelevision.net: Fresh Videos identified from millions of Blogs">video</a> game sued the company, claiming the copy protection scheme used on it, made by controversial copy protection software firm Starforce, opened up huge security holes on computers. However, they claim that they're going to replace it with another copy protection scheme, potentially putting themselves right back into the same problematic situation. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060414/0317210.shtml" title="Ubisoft Ditches Starforce... But Looks For A Replacement">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114731872321732800?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1145380819652354722006-04-18T10:18:00.001-07:002006-04-18T10:20:19.663-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="More VCs Recognizing The Problems Of Our Patent System"><tr valign="top"><td> Back in December, it was great to see a VC, Greg Blonder, point out why he felt patents hurt innovation , while also taking his fellow VCs to task for their excessive interest in patents. When VCs are investing in companies they're always hoping for some sort of "sustainable competitive advantage" and too often they incorrectly believe (or, perhaps, they just want to believe) patents represent evidence of a sustainable competitive advantage. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060414/0120234.shtml" title="More VCs Recognizing The Problems Of Our Patent System">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114538081965235472?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1145380818583929732006-04-18T10:18:00.000-07:002006-04-18T10:20:18.593-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="On &quot;Serious&quot; Blogging"><tr valign="top"><td> Rice begins by referring to the "Ivan Tribble" articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education , asserting that "Too many academic bloggers have taken Tribble and similar commentaries seriously" then makes an initial overture to his central point, his concern regarding "the general seriousness that has immediately encased a fairly novel form of writing." In short, it seems to me that Rice is really saying not, "don't take blogging so seriously," but "why aren't you all more like me?" </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/archive/000294.html" title="On &quot;Serious&quot; Blogging">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114538081858392973?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1145380074647049132006-04-18T10:06:00.001-07:002006-04-18T10:07:54.650-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="GoDaddy As The Potential Catalyst For A New IPO Bubble"><tr valign="top"><td> Back when Google went public in 2004, there was a lot of talk about how it would open up the IPO market for tech companies again... but that turned out to be wrong. To really open up the market again, there would need to be a lower profile, but still well known, company to successfully hit the market. While there has been some talk about how slow the tech IPO market has been there certainly have been some companies going public. There were no "brand name" tech firms going public. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20060413/0316243.shtml" title="GoDaddy As The Potential Catalyst For A New IPO Bubble">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114538007464704913?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26327111.post-1145380074267853912006-04-18T10:06:00.000-07:002006-04-18T10:07:54.273-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><table class="post_body" summary="ICANN Adds To The Cost Of Doing Business In Asia"><tr valign="top"><td> While they've decided to pretend they never brought up the idea of an .xxx domain , ICANN did move forward with plans to add a .asia top level domain to all of the other top level domains that companies don't want, but will be forced to buy. All the countries in Asia already have their own TLD, of course. Like almost all of the other TLDs ICANN has approved, these aren't needed and only serve to make companies feel like they have to buy more domains. </td></tr></table> <dl> <dd><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20051205/1015230_F.shtml" title="ICANN Adds To The Cost Of Doing Business In Asia">Continue</a></dd> </dl> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26327111-114538007426785391?l=software.technologybn.com%2Findex.html'/></div>Technology Monsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10906480395491492599noreply@blogger.com0