LinkedIn email love

In the age where pretty much each and every websites considers it its duty to ask for your email address and subscribe you to some kind of mailing list or notification system, it is still rare to see an email integration done right.  Showing bad examples is not my favorite approach to treating the problem, … Continue reading LinkedIn email love

On how Google+ will succeed

The Next Web blog runs a piece by Tom Anderson in which he explains why Google+ is not at all a failure many journalists paint it to be.  It’s quite interesting really, I do agree with a lot of it. While perhaps all social networks need to capture subgroups of people to chew away at … Continue reading On how Google+ will succeed

How broken is broken?

The Register runs an article with the title “AES crypto broken by ‘groundbreaking’ attack“. Inside the said article they have the following quote: This technique is a divide-and-conquer attack. To find an unknown key, they partition all the possible keys into a set of groups. This is possible because AES subkeys only have small differences … Continue reading How broken is broken?

On working remotely

Here are a few notes on working remotely from a person who has first hand experience with that: In terms of communication I think remote employees are a massive benefit to a company, it is easy in an office to forget about proper communications channels because you can bypass them and tap somebody on the … Continue reading On working remotely

Google+ – yet another social network

The rumors of a new social network from Google were confirmed yesterday with the announcement of Google+.  There are quite a few interesting ideas there. Firstly, I’d been waiting for a proper social network from Google for ages.  Google Wave was more of a collaboration tool, which failed.  Google Buzz, even though useful, is not … Continue reading Google+ – yet another social network