TechSheep

the sheep make us look unique

Archive for November 13th, 2007

View Wall Street Journal Online articles from Digg (Kevin Rose/Digg the Blog)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

View Wall Street Journal Online articles from Digg  —  The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and you’ll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to Digg.  The Digg buttons have started appearing on WSJ.com articles tonight.  —  Digg on.

Source:   Digg the Blog
Author:   Kevin Rose
Link: […]

Daily Agenda - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Jonathan Schwartz (Oracle)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Daily Agenda  —  Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Jonathan Schwartz  —  Oracle OpenWorld Appreciation Event - Cow Palace  —  Social Networking, Web 2.0, and Flexibility Point the Way to Fusion Applications  —  The future of Oracle applications is centered on a deceptively simple strategy …

Source:   Oracle, The World’s Largest Enterprise Software Company
Link:   http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/index.html

Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network (Saul Hansell/Bits)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network  —  Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360.  Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems …

Source:   Bits
Author:   Saul Hansell
Link: […]

Google Redefines the Clickable AdSense Area (Philipp Lenssen/Google Blogoscoped)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Google Redefines the Clickable AdSense Area  —  Similar to what Google has been doing with ads in search results, they also now restricted the clickable area in AdSense (the kind of Google ads webmasters can include on their pages).  Instead of allowing a click to be triggered …

Source:   Google Blogoscoped
Author:   Philipp Lenssen
Link:   […]

Marvel Comics shows its marvelous colors in online archive (USA Today)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Marvel Comics shows its marvelous colors in online archive  —  The comic book industry makes a long-delayed step into cyberspace today when Marvel Comics unveils the industry’s first online archive of more than 2,500 back issues, including the first appearances of Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.

Source:   USA Today
Link:   http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-11-12…

Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME (Stefano Mazzocchi/Stefano’s Linotype)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME  —  Sun released their “free java” source code under the GPLv2 to both win the free software crowd and capture peripheral innovation and bug fixing from the community.  For the java standard edition (aka …

Source:   Stefano’s Linotype
Author:   Stefano Mazzocchi
Link:   http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/

Bank intern busted by Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion] (Owen Thomas/Valleywag)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Bank intern busted by Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]  —  Who says Facebook is the province of the young?  Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters.

Source:   Valleywag
Author:   Owen Thomas
Link:   http://valleywag.com/tech/your-privacy-is-an-illusion…

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-061 - Critical (Microsoft)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-061 - Critical  —  Vulnerability in Windows URI Handling Could Allow Remote Code Execution (943460)  —  Version: 1.0  —  General Information  —  Executive Summary  —  This update resolves a publicly reported vulnerability.

Source:   Microsoft
Link:   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin…

Murdoch says WSJ Web site to drop fees (Associated Press)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Murdoch says WSJ Web site to drop fees  —  ADELAIDE, Australia - News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, dropping subscription fees in exchange for anticipated ad revenue.  —  “We are studying it and we expect …

Source:   Associated Press
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071113/ap_on_hi_te…

Connecting the Social Graph: Member Overlap at OpenSocial and Facebook (Alex Patriquin/Compete Blog)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Connecting the Social Graph: Member Overlap at OpenSocial and Facebook  —  OpenSocial is a Google-led initiative to get into social networking (in a bigger way than Orkut) and, purportedly, to create “open standards” so users can access their data on any social network.

Source:   Compete Blog
Author:   Alex Patriquin
Link:   http://blog.compete.com/2007/11/12/connecting-the…