Monthly Archives: April 2009

Dodgy spam stats…

It’s a long time since I first saw a well known anti-spam service provider pushing out a release saying “~90% of all email received was spam…”  but it still makes me laugh when I see statements like this. The problem … Continue reading

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‘Proper’ spam on the increase

The USA’s bodged anti-spam legislation (CAN-SPAM) means that US companies can send unsolicited commercial email as long as there’s an opt out. I suppose this is a result of the ‘free speech’ laws and advertising lobby groups. Unfortunately one of … Continue reading

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Jivespace: XMPP Notifications ?

There are some cool ideas in the thread linked below, in summary mapping Jive Clearspace spaces to XMPP pub sub nodes complete with the matching access rights. Now that would be very nice. Jivespace: XMPP Notifications ?.

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Twitter attack.

Inevitable. Twitters blog about this. Sophos covering this and more.

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Principle 6: Microsoft tools for developing content must not produce IE specific or Windows-specific results. | Mitchell’s Blog

Brilliant… Principle 6: Microsoft tools for developing content must not produce IE specific or Windows-specific results. | Mitchell’s Blog. People with influence need to speak up about this sort of thing so people making decisions about technology acquisition and use … Continue reading

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IM making the switch…

Well after years using multi-protocol chat programs like Adium to access my Hotmail, Yahoo!, .Mac and Jabber accounts I’ve made the switch to a ‘pure’ XMPP (Jabber) chat client. At the moment that’s Psi as it’s multi-platform running on Mac, … Continue reading

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National Aussie broadband network gets go ahead

Some good news about Au internet access. The Federal Government and private sector will invest up to $43 billion over eight years in a super-fast national broadband network, in the ”single biggest infrastructure decision in Australia’s history”. National broadband network … Continue reading

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Why XMPP will be huge very soon | Potent Flows

Why XMPP will be huge very soon | Potent Flows.

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Competitors logo…

Someone pointed out to me today that one of our local competitors has a fresh web site and a nice graphic in their logo, which is remarkably like ours! You know what they say about mimicking, what do you think?

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