We posted eight months ago about Google calendar’s lack of respect for private data. Chris Pirillo has a found a clever demonstration of this: just search for “user password” in public events, and you’ll come up with a huge list of usernames and passwords of all sorts. We’re not holding our breath for Google to [...]
Just checked this out, it’s easy: Log in to SonicLiving Click ‘share+subscribe’ at the top Click on one of the “Moz./IE” links Copy the URL (will look similar to http://sonicliving.com/user/9999/cal.ics) Log in to Mosuki Click on add feed on the bottom right of the calendar page Paste the URL from step 4 into the URL [...]
The all-public, all the time nature of the newly popular microblogging site Twitter just bit one of its users. Here’s what happened. Steve Rubel, a senior executive of major marketing company Edelman posted that one of the company’s clients, PC Magazine, “goes in the trash,” despite his “free sub[scription].” Whoops. Now, PC Magazine is probably [...]
We hope you like Mosuki’s new design. We do. Lots. Send us comments, complaints or any feedback here. Many thanks to Sandy, who provided us with this much-needed facelift. There are some other changes too. You’ll notice that we now have delicious and reddit buttons on published events, as well as the old digg buttons. [...]
uncov.com has a good post, “Meebo is What’s Wrong With Web 2.0,” about those troublesome Web 2.0 apps with poorly written JavaScript, which use too much memory or CPU. It’s shocking to me how many big-name sites have this problem. It’s not that hard to write quick, efficient code, in JavaScript or in any other [...]
The “blog-o-sphere” has been abuzz with discussion of a new security vulnerability dubbed “JavaScript Hijacking.” While not strictly a “new” vulnerability (it’s just a variant on CSRF), it is worth mentioning that Mosuki’s home-grown AJAX toolkit is completely immune to this type of vulnerability. JavaScript Hijacking requires that a site use JSON, and Mosuki doesn’t [...]