Infosec and Corporate Blogging

Larry Page, Google Look Into AI

Larry Page spoke before the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference on Friday, and he made some fairly standard remarks about working harder to solve humanity’s problems. One mildly interesting thing popped up, though: Page mentioned that Google is developing artificial intelligence.

What to Do When Your .com is Taken

Recently I setup a survey at SurveyMonkey trying to gauge people's feelings and impressions on the top-level domains such as .com, .net., .biz and so on. I purposefully left off .gov and .edu top-level domains because you're not supposed to be able to get them as a small business. I thought I'd share this completely unscientific survey with you: Question 1: Imagine you visit a…

Bud.tv King Of Controversy

Earlier this year I wrote an article about Anheuser-Busch launching their online entertainment network called Bud.tv. In the article I mentioned that the company was concerned with installing an effective age verification system.

Alexa’s New Features

Most people know by now that Alexa is far from perfect, but it's one of the only and best traffic ranking and monitoring tools available. On Friday they announced some new features: * Geographic user report - See what percentage of users for a site comes from each country. * Traffic rank by country - This one is interesting to actually see your site's ranking…

MyBlogLog – A Honey pot for Spammers

There seem to be mixed feelings about MyBlogLog, the social networking service that Yahoo bought in January, and the one whose widget you can see in my sidebar, as well as the sidebars on lots of other blogs (it's the one with a row of pictures of different readers who have visited my blog recently).