http://www.socialblogroll.com/rss/ social blog roll http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/358648426/geek-chic.html Sometimes it’s the small things in life that matter. A few months ago my favorite hacker Dan Kaminsky discovered a fundamental flaw in the design of the Internet. it can be exploited by almost any hacker out there, and he made the effort to manage the politics of cooperation behind the scenes with major ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/356701592/clear-security-laptop.html Another example of the fast and loose behavior of today’s wanna be businesses comes with the CLEAR program’s misplaced laptop computer. CLEAR is a security program sanctioned by the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). You may have seen the CLEAR people at airports, pitching their program as a fast-track through ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/375562176/working-4-google.html I know this will come as a shock to many of you, but I’ve accepted a position working for Google effective September 1, 2008. After 5 years of full time independence as a Competitive Webmaster and SEO Consultant, and after building out hundreds of web sites for my own publishing network and a collection of ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/367549087/google-sucks.html This week Google started blocking people from using Google’s search engine. If you try and use advanced queries, such as you might use when you are trying to understand why Google is not indexing certain pages, you get a block message and are prevented from using Google: Google Error We’re sorry…but your query looks similar to ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/358706604/pubcon-lasvegas-2009.html Pubcon this year has 6 concurrent sessions. Yes, 6. That means no matter how hard you try, you can only attend 16.7% of the sessions (on average). Is ths one of those “monetization” strategies that encourages companies to send teams instead of individuals? I am reminded of attending Society for Neuroscience meetings where 50,000 people attended. ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/366170243/risk-reward.html I want to publicly thank Google for helping me show my corporate clients that they should not be running or trying to run automated rank checking tools. Just about every client asks for a tool to automatically check position in Google. and most big companies insist on it. So that page at Google.com that clearly states “automated rank checking ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/360049074/triiiiiiiiiiibe.html Seth Godin has a new book coming. It’s called “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us“. Seth is a popular guy and writes popular books. It should be popular. He’s also a marketing innovator, notorious for doing things differently in obvious ways (so every notices that he’s doing things differently). To pull that off, he ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/367517129/message-message.html It seems every time I read what Mark Cuban writes, I disagree with him. Are we living in the same world? Obviously not. If he didn’t make headlines on Techmeme so much, I doubt I would ever read him these days. This time, in “The Platform is the Message“, billionaire HD movie developer Mark Cuban ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/381777772/google-chrome-privacy.html Update: If you landed here for information on Google Chrome, you may want to read a more recent post “Google Chrome: Bait and Switch“. Google released Google Chrome today, their new web browser. Why? While you ponder that question, I note that the data clearing “Clear browsing data…” link in the Google Chrome Tools menu does not ...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/johnon/pDvU/~3/382576308/bait-and-switch.html Yesterday I tried downloading Google Chrome and couldn’t…. the “Download” button just launched a Windows installer. I already had it installed, I wanted to download the file. Huh. I copied the “terms of use” to a file to look at it closely later. Obviously Google has made available a windows binary for the initial release, ...]