Shadi Almosri
Twitter is the new youtube!
What? Is shadi going crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up. Most people (including me) saw this as Google “getting into the video business,” and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation. But as we all know, making money from consumer driven video ain’t a cakewalk, and hosting that video is really, really expensive. So why did Google really buy YouTube? My answer, which of course looks brilliant given it’s 20/20 hindsight: YouTube was a massive search asset.
How twitter could be a real threat to google
Google’s search engine is so dominant that it’s hard to imagine how anyone could knock the Mountain View company from its pedestal. And yet if history is any guide, such reigns never last. IBM gave way to Microsoft, which now has been usurped by Google.
Cloning ePassports – Bypassing Airport Security
The government plans to use ePassports at Immigration and Border
Control. The information is electronically read from the Passport
and displayed to a Border Control Officer or used by an automated
setup. THC has discovered weaknesses in the system to (by)pass the
security checks. The detection of fake passport chips does not
work. Test setups do not raise alerts when a modified chip
is used. This enables an attacker to create a Passport with an
altered Picture, Name, DoB, Nationality and other credentials
Preparing…
As the design is going up, i think it’s soon time for the portfolio!
Rapid application development (RAD) – Part 1
In recent months I have been asked questions various times regarding development methodologies for web 2.0 applications. The way I have become accustomed to work in the current web climate is to use what is known as rapid application development or RAD for short. RAD is an application development technique that incorporates the use of prototypes, iterative customisation, and CASE Tools.
Latest Facebook Social Virus – codecsetup.exe – Google links
There is currently a new undetected facebook spam virus spreading around with the use of spoofing a google url and mimicking the youtube video sharing site.
Ten Questions about Google Chrome
Four years ago, I blogged about rumors that Google was working on a Web browser. I found them intriguing, as anyone would, but no such browser ever appeared, and Google became an enthusiastic Firefox booster. The blogosphere pretty much stopped pondering the possibility of a Google browser, and so did I. But now all has changed…
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008
Before the Eternal September, but after the Great Renaming, I learned about the world on Usenet. A few years later, on ancient computers at unsociable hours, I met friends I still have today. We “spewed” about our teenage lives in ways that would be familiar to any MySpace blogger circa 2008, but that were radical, strange, and comforting in 1993. We made faraway friends, burned photos to CDs and mailed them to far away lands with way too many stamps. We were the first Net kids, really…
Lonely Root of 3
I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic
I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such [...]
Monitizing hyperlocal social networking: iPhone 3G + GPS + Social Networks
Jennifer Leggio today wrote a blog on ZDNet that brought up an interesting point about adding GPS functionality to social networking to allow for various updates and influences related to users and their friends.
This got me thinking about the wealth of information that social networks currently hold on a particular user to enable them to [...]
