May 2009
2 posts
Google Latitude Now Lets You Publish Your Location... →
“Google says that since Latitude’s launch, users expressed interest in sharing their location with people who are not their Latitude friends.”
Now you can! In these two blessed locations.
It’s taking them awhile to copy Fire Eagle… They’ll get there.
March 2009
1 post
February 2009
2 posts
On the Google Talk Phishing Attack →
And so it begins…
Phishing attack spread through a google talk message of ”Hey check out this video! http://…” where the resulting page asks you to “Log in to Google Talk to see this video”
Welcome to the world of password anti-pattern phishing.
January 2009
2 posts
Combining OpenID and OAuth for Login + Data... →
Interesting detail of the flow Plaxo has used to let people invited with an @gmail.com address log in directly from the email using their Google Account (OpenID). The sign in process also requests access to the user’s Google account info and Contacts (OAuth) which can be imported and save the user the work generally required to create an account on yet another social network.
I don’t...
Installing mySQL gem on OSX
I’ve been changing computers a lot lately and I always wind up googling the specifics of installing the mySQL gem… generally comes down to typing the path wrong, /usr/local/mysql/bin rather than /usr/local/mysql.
Anyway, this is the correct command:
$sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
December 2008
1 post
