archived all the stuff from freelancing for wired

11 files changed, 156 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/amazon.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/amazon.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e935e09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/amazon.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Though it could be argued that online grocery delivery services were one of the signs of the Apocalypse from the first internet bubble. But that doesn't seem to phase Amazon, the company has announced it will be [getting to the grocery delivery business][1].
+
+Of course there are already a handful of grocery delivery services out there, but most are very locally based, something Amazon Fresh, as it's called, could change if it succeeds.
+
+For the moment Amazon Fresh will be available by invitation only in the Seattle area and will feature pre-dawn deliveries. Use up the last of the greens in last night's dinner? No problem, just finish up the dishes and head over to Amazon.com to order more and they'll be sitting on the porch when you wake up.
+
+The deliveries will arrive in a "temperature-controlled tote" and there's no delivery charge as long as you meet the $25 minimum, otherwise it's $10 an order for the doorstep convenience.
+
+If you're in the Seattle area and you'd like an invite, you can sign up [here][3]. If you're not in the Seattle area, Amazon is taking expansion suggestions (apparently using the same form linked in the last sentence).
+
+While I'm the type who likes to inspect fresh groceries before I buy them, I'll admit that the idea of a delivery service has its appeal -- I've always regretted that I'm too young to have known that [Mayberry][2]-like world of milk delivery.
+
+[1]: https://fresh.amazon.com/Welcome?
+[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayberry
+[3]: http://fresh.amazon.com/FutureInfo
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/amazonfresh.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/amazonfresh.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be8fb31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/amazonfresh.jpg
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/blackhat.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/blackhat.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..509b433
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/blackhat.jpg
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/blackhat.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/blackhat.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62fc1b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/blackhat.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Black Hat Report: All Your Wifi Are Belong To Us
+
+The Black Hat conference is in full swing down in Las Vegas and already there's some scary stuff coming out, the BBC [reports][1] that one demonstrated exploit allows the attacker to see cookies via wifi.
+
+Robert Graham of Errata Security has created two programs, named "Hamster" and "Ferret," which sniff wifi traffic and grab cookies as people log in to and out of their webmail or social network accounts.
+
+Although the attack doesn't allow the perpetrator to reset your password, it does allow them near full access to your account.
+
+Naturally, if you're using say GMail and forcing it to connect via https, then you aren't at risk. If you'd like to force secure connections to GMail and your browser supports Greasemonkey, check out Mark Pilgrim's [handy script][3].
+
+If you're not a GMail user, check to see what sort of security options your favorite webmail and other online accounts offer, and remember nearly anything you do on public wifi that isn't to a secure site can be snooped using Graham's tools.
+
+If you'd like to check out Hamster and Ferret, Graham says they'll be available later this week from the [Errata site][2].
+
+[1]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6929258.stm
+[3]: http://erratasec.blogspot.com/
+[2]: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1404
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/facebook.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/facebook.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13f8b54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/facebook.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+Social networks initially took the web by storm because they filled a gap in how people wanted to interact over the internet.
+
+Facebook, MySpace and Bebo all essentially offer the same service: a way to manage your personal data and keep in touch with the people you know. But in order to get any real value out of a social network, you have to put a bunch of data in -- your photos, your contacts, your social calendar, lists of interests and written thoughts.
+
+Therein lies the rub. By entering that data into Facebook, you're really just sending it on a one way trip. Need to show somebody a video or a picture you posted in Facebook? Unless they have a Facebook account, they can't see it. Your videos, pictures and all the other tidbits of your life are essentially stranded and cut off from the rest of the web.
+
+Some social networking companies are challenging the closed Facebook model by offering open platforms where data such as personal contacts, videos and photos can be exported and used elsewhere.
+
+On Monday, the contact management service Plaxo launched a new social network called Pulse. The service gives Plaxo users a way to manage their interpersonal relationships and show off their interests on a customizable profile page.
+
+In a sense, Pulse offers the same all-your-data-in-one-place approach of Facebook, but with one crucial difference: It's not walled off. Anything you input directly using Plaxo can be retrieved and used elsewhere as you see fit, and any data you make public is accessible to anyone, regardless of whether or not they have an account. The service is rather limited at the moment, but it's a step in the right direction.
+
+Also, Pulse is no panacea. What the internet needs is a way to take the features of the social network out of the social network and into the larger world. Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion potential viewers. It's time to take our data out of Mr. McGregor's little garden and put it back where it belongs -- growing free and open on the open web.
+
+An open platform for social networking is on the horizon. In fact, we're closer than ever before to being able to ditch the locked-in, closed network for good.
+
+With a little savvy, anyone can create a page that hosts all of the essential stuff one would find on a Facebook profile that can be set up with the same plug-and-play ease. You'll have to store all of your photos, videos, and contacts elsewhere, but at least you'll be able to get to your stuff.
+
+Start by setting up a blog. Say what's on your mind. Unlike your blog on Facebook or MySpace, everyone will be able to read it.
+
+From there, you can pull in your photos from Flickr or Zooomr, show off your impeccible musical tastes hosted at iLike or Last.fm, share your favorite web bookmarks from del.icio.us or ma.gnolia and put up a list of your most recent reads using Shelfari or LibraryThing.
+
+All of these servies have open APIs, making it easy for third-party developers to build widgets for displaying public data stored there. As a result, a dearth of such tools exist.
+
+Need to keep up to date with your friend's activities? Pull in a feed from their blog or from their Twitter page. The Upcoming event notification service has a dead simple code generator that will create a widget listing all of the events you plan to attend, as well as those your friends are interested in. Like to chat? Meebo offers an embeddable widget for AIM chatting, and Jaxtr does the same for SMS. You can even drop in a Skype button that lets your friends call you with one click.
+
+One of Facebook's unique features is the "everything in one place" feed, but you can build such a thing yourself. Just create an account at one of the many feed re-mixing sites like Yahoo Pipes, FeedShake or >FeedBlendr. Plug in all the feeds from the various sources you want to track and paste the resulting URL into a widget on your site. Voila.
+
+The free blogging software from WordPress has all of the functionality to let you embed these widgets and RSS streams. WordPress also has a thriving plug-in ecosystem, so it's likely a developer somewhere has done much of the dirty work for you.
+
+An even easier option is to use a sharable and customizable start page from Pageflakes or Protopage. Pageflakes in particular allows you to build a customized chunk of cyberspace that aggregates all of your desired content just like Facebook, which you can then publish publicly (Pageflakes calls this a "Pagecast"). And beyond a simple user registration, Pageflakes doesn't lock in any of your personal data.
+
+It's entirely possible to replicate most of the features of Facebook without getting sucked into its black hole, but there's still something missing. This is where it gets tricky.
+
+At this point, "friend" relationships remain unique to social networks. The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people's identities on the internet. The absence of this secret sauce -- an underlying framework that connects "friends" and establishes trust relationships between peers -- is what gave rise to social networks in the first place. While we've largely outgrown the limitations of closed platforms, no one has stepped forward with an open solution to managing your friends on internet at large.
+
+We would like to place an open call to the web programming community to solve this problem. We need a new framework based on open standards. Think of it as a structure to link individuals sites along familiar lines of friendship, a way of defining micro networks within the larger network of the the web.
+
+One possibility is the microformat XHTML Friends Network (XFN) which defines the relationship between the linker and the linkee.
+
+Some developers are beginning to offer easy-to-use tools which can create XFN code (WordPress and Movable Type both offer templating solutions), but use of XFN isn't yet widespread, and the data format doesn't offer any tools for managing friends. While a code snippet placed in a page can convey who you are and how you know who you know, the format doen't provide any way to utilize the information.
+
+Such a "mirco-network" standard may sound daunting or even impossible, but nearly all the tools we've mentioned so far started small. Blogging grew from a few people trying to easily publish web content on a daily basis. Del.icio.us started with one person looking for a way to manage his bookmarks from any machine. Even Facebook started with a few college friends trying to better plan their social lives.
+
+Eventually, an open network will emerge. Let's make it happen sooner rather than later.
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/p b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/p
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28b34f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/p
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Plaxo is set to officially launch its new social networking tools, dubbed "Pulse," on Monday, August 6th. With Pulse Plaxo would appear to be  gunning for Facebook's all-your-data-in-one-spot status. We looked at the beta version Pulse last month and [found it a bit unstable][1], but one thing Plaxo has going for it that Facebook lacks is openness.
+
+Plaxo will offer export options for all your data, contrasted with Facebook's so-called API, which really amounts to sending your data on a one-way trip over the event horizon.
+
+Other than the ability to export and use your data elsewhere, Plaxo's new networking features closely mirror those of Facebook -- you can add various data streams, such as blog posts, Flickr photos or Amazon Wishlists. Hopefully Plaxo will add more services before Monday's launch.
+
+Like Facebook you can then see your friends’ streams on the site and subscribe to their feeds.
+
+But despite its openness Plaxo's service is no panacea for those fed up with Facebook's walled garden; the company is still dogged by its reputation for annoying spamming users and many will likely shun the new network on that basis alone. 
+
+There's a beta test version of Pulse up on Plaxo right now, but it has some issues and number of bugs (Google Calendar sync has been disabled), which will hopefully be worked out before Monday's launch.
+
+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/plaxo-one-pim-a.html
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/parallels.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/parallels.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43692bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/parallels.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Last week, VMWare announced its Mac virtualization software, Fusion, will be out of [out of beta on August 6][3], and now, not to be outdone, the original Mac virtualization solution -- Parallels has released a new public beta update.
+
+Unlike the last couple of betas from Parallels this one if free and open to annoy with a Parallels 3.0 license or a trial license which can be obtained by e-mailing the company.
+
+The new beta features improved integration in Coherence mode including support for Expose, which means you're Windows apps will zoom and stack just like your Mac windows. Other new features include (taken from the [Parallels blog][1]):
+
+
+>*	The Image Tool is back at full strength and completely compatible with snapshotted drives. Using the image tool, users can:
+*		Convert virtual hard drive format (plain to expanding, expanding to plain), 
+*		Enable/disable the "undo disk" option, which will erase all changes made during a session at shutdown. It's ideal for those of you doing a lot of testing or working in school settings), 
+*		Easily enlarge a virtual hard drive if you're running out of space.
+*	Explorer, the free utility that lets you browse and work with your VM’s hard drive even with the VM is off, now also works with VMs that are suspended.
+*	iPhone support in XP and Vista. Yes, I realize the irony of syncing an Apple device with Windows running on a Mac, but lots of people need to hook their iPhones up to Outlook. Try not to judge.
+
+I haven't tested the new features yet, but I'll be taking a look over the weekend. If you'd like to give it try, [grab a copy from the Parallels site][2], but keep in mind that this is a beta offering, don't try to use it on mission critical machines.
+
+[1]: http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-parallels-desktop-beta-starts-today.html
+[2]: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/beta
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/vmware-fusion-f.html
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/suprnova.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/suprnova.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f034b81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/suprnova.jpg
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/suprnova.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/suprnova.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3e1390
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/suprnova.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+It Lives! Pirate Bay To Re-ignite Suprnova
+
+Suprnova.org, the king of the early bittorrent trackers, was shut down nearly three years ago after tremendous pressure from the French anti-piracy group RetSpan, but the notorious Pirate Bay has vowed to bring it back.
+
+The original owner of Suprnova.org, Andrej Preston has reached an agreement with the Pirate Bay to turn over use of the domain name, paving the way for the return of Suprnova.
+
+Like the Pirate Bay Suprnova was a torrent tracker and search engine for finding movies, TV shows, and more -- some legal, some not. But the rebirth of Suprnova will see the site limited to torrent indexing, rather than tracking.
+
+The Pirate Bay also says that a new community site will be launched that will be linked to both Suprnova and The Pirate Bay -- [SuprBay.org][2] is the new domain.
+
+Founded by Preston, who is Slovenian, in late 2000, Suprnova.org paralleled the rise of bittorrent as a file-swapping tool, and in many ways is at least partly responsible for its popularity today.
+
+For his part, Preston tells [TorrentFreak][1], "I know that domain has some nostalgic value and some people would be more then happy to see it back online. I don’t use it, and TPB is the only team that I know will use it correctly."
+
+[1]: http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-about-to-relaunch-suprnovaorg/
+[2]: http://suprbay.org/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/yelp.jpg b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/yelp.jpg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a2e1180
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/yelp.jpg
diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/yelp.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/yelp.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c6a9e51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.30.07/Fri/yelp.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Yelp, the social reviews, site has launched a new API which allows developers to query the site and display returned data on their own sites. The API allows developers to create mash-ups using Yelp data and nearly any other source -- so long as it is not review.
+
+The API features the ability to:
+
+>*	retrieve business review and rating information for a particular geographic region or location.
+*	display review information for a particular business.
+*	determine accurate neighborhood name information for a particular location.
+*	track recent reviews for a particular business.
+*	display pictures of highly rated local businesses and of the top reviewers for that business.
+*	determine a particular business' review and rating information based on the phone number for that business.
+
+However, before you get to excited consider the following restrictions:
+
+>You May Not:
+
+*	Collect end-user ratings or reviews of local businesses on any website that uses the Yelp API or Yelp Content;
+*	Aggregate Yelp Content alongside content from other sources (e.g., you will not create aggregate ratings combining ratings from Yelp and other sources);
+*	Display Yelp Content on any web page or application page that includes local business reviews from another source.
+
+I can see where Yelp wants to be the one and only source for reviews, but it seems like, it Yelp is really as good as it thinks it is, it wouldn't need to limit the competition. After all Google Maps API, the Flickr API and dozens of other site contain no such restrictions.
+
+Another drawback: the default format for returned data is [JSON][1] rather than the more standard XML. You can also request that Yelp return its response in "pickle" (serialized python) or PHP, but if you're not down with those three languages you're out of luck.
+
+For more info, check out the Yelp developer site and be sure to have a look at the great little [Google Maps-Yelp mash-up example][2] for some idea on how you can use the new API.
+
+Perhaps at some point Yelp will come to its senses and remove the silly restrictions on what is otherwise quite a nice little API.
+
+
+[1]: http://www.json.org
+[2]: http://groups.google.com/group/yelp-developer-support/browse_thread/thread/ad36e66bd7bb48d4
+[3]: http://www.waxy.org/links/
\ No newline at end of file