Originally aired in February, 2001 – via the Google Operating System blog.
Spotify hacked, time to change password!
Short snippet from the Spotify blog. It’s time to change your password my friends.
Dear Spotify user,
Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise our protocols. After investigating we concluded that this group had gained access to information that could allow testing of a very large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one. The information was exposed due to a bug that we discovered and fixed on December 19th, 2008. Until last week we were unaware that anyone had had access to our protocols to exploit it.
Not cool Spotify, not cool. Not good for PR or security online either for that matter.
187 goes Twitter
Over the last few days I’ve increased my Twitter activity, it’s mainly because the normal early adopters of DMT (we’re all late adopters really), namely the 187 circle have found their way there. Joel, Rick and ‘even’ Missy Kumlin have all joined in. So far, Joel’s the only one with any activity, but I’m sure others will follow.
Makes it worth even having an activity to see what’s going on in everyday life, so keep it up! It’s extra special that we’re now so spread out; covering Sweden, Ireland and Australia. In about four months, we’ll all meet up on a boat somewhere in the Swedish archipelago.
Toys “R” Us just spent $5.1M on Toys.com
It’s a bit unclear at what bid it actually started, but first reports from DirectNavigation indicates that it was somewhere around $2.9M. There was probably a lot of things happening in the background, but this was at least when the real action started.
It’s not really that outrages that Toys “R” Us would be in on such a deal, nor is it surprising that National A-1, owners of domains such as free.com, boys.com, and girls.com would be in there either. I guess what comes as a surprise to many people is the end tally of $5.1M. Not cheap, I agree. But considering there are 344M results on Google for the word ‘toys’, the right brand, the right shop, and the right time – it shouldn’t really be a problem to get that back quite quick. To digg into it a bit deeper, I used the AdWords Keyword Tool to check out the word ‘toys’. This is what you’ll find (click to enlarge):
The right domain would obviously help here. Plus, what this does to the brand probably can’t be measured.
Loved the comment by Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch:
Who says real estate is dead?
Fascinating Videos – “Did you know”
“Progression of Information Technology”, researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Bronman.
The second is labelled “Did you know 2.0″ and includes new and updated statistics, it’s produced by XPLANE.