Filed under: Web services, Microblogging
I've written before about Download Squad friend, Drew Olanoff, and his creative way of kicking cancer in the behind. Count up one more point for Drew and his fight -- Drew Carey just bid 25K for his Twitter name, @drew. All proceeds of the auction, which ends on November 9th, will go directly to The Lance Armstrong Foundation - Livestrong. Better still, if Drew Carey gets 100k Twitter followers before the auction ends, he'll quadruple his bid to $100,000. While Twitter's Terms of Service expressly forbids selling your Twitter name for personal gain, there is no express prohibition against selling it for charity. Full story...
Filed under: Security, Social Software
The security pros at Sophos Labs and McAfee have noticed a disturbing increase in Facebook phishing attacks lately.
Filed under: Utilities, Mozilla, web 2.0
Between address books and buddy lists, our contacts have become some of the most important data that we deal with every day.
Filed under: Security, Web services, Social Software, Microblogging
In response to a bunch of recent phishing scams on Twitter -- all of which took advantage of Direct Messages and shortened URLs -- Twitter has decided to launch its own URL shortener to boost security.
Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers
Few things get blog commenters as heated as software rivalries -- especially browser wars.
Filed under: sxsw
Today there are more cable channels offering sports, more sporting in general -- and more interest in sports than ever before! It is, as they say on the web, a firehose of content.
Filed under: Google, Microsoft, web 2.0
Rejoice, small-, medium- and enterprise-size users of Microsoft Exchange! You can now migrate your company's entire database of contacts, emails and calendars to Google Apps.
Filed under: Utilities, Windows
ImgBurn is an excellent, free application for all kinds of burning tasks.
Filed under: Business, Internet
In the ever-shifting maze of domain names, ICANN, and approved registrars, companies often behave as if their valuable intellectual property is in the crosshairs of evil domain-name squatters.
Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet
Lifeyo is an incredible content management system for someone just trying to put together their first website.
Filed under: Audio, Web services
Our main man Nik Fletcher loves Spotify -- along with just about everyone else on the Continent who has access to the awesome streaming music service.