I’ve written about Reed Hastings before and needless to say he is a brilliant businessman. And not only would I want to work for him just to learn - this is just the icing on the cake…
When it comes to vacation, Netflix has a simple policy: take as much as you’d like. Just make [...]

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Symantec recently released their 2007 Internet Security Threat Report. Here are some highlights from the report.
1. Microsoft has the most secure Operating System
2. The government sector accounted for 25 percent of all identity theft-related data breaches
3. Microsoft Internet Explorer was targeted by 77 percent of all attacks specifically targeting web browsers. (Maybe you should Get [...]

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Blogger, the blog publishing system owned by Google, is in trouble. A recent study coming out of Microsoft Research called ‘Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers‘ (pdf) claims 75% of Blogspot blogs are spam. (Blogger runs on the blogspot domain)
I find this funny since Chris Pirillo called them out in October 2005 for this [...]

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I’ve been developing web applications built on the RSS platform for just under two years now and I gotta say - sometimes it is painful. For a platform whose acronym means “Really Simple Syndication” and is built upon the idea of easily publishing and consuming content - it is surprisingly difficult to work on. [...]

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I haven’t got to watch the games this year the same style as last year but they have been excellent. Anywho I fell asleep during the Ohio State vs Tennessee game last night after being exhausted from a road trip to Eastern Iowa yesterday.

So what did I do when I woke up? I went [...]

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