The Conflict of Interest Game

The Future of Web Services Security:

Sun Microsystems' Eve Maler, chair of the Security Work Plan Working Group of WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization), is a leading mover and shaker in the world of Web services security. She co-founded, formerly chaired, and is currently coordinating editor of the SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) committee, which brought together divergent XML-based security efforts in an effort to develop a common standard.

No Cost Traffic–The Inside Scoop on Start Page Rotators

Everyone wants website traffic. Traffic is the key to getting sales and profits. So, with the regularity of "Old Faithful," new ideas on getting traffic for little or no money sprout up every few months. A couple years ago someone came up with the idea of "Start Page Rotators."

Emotional Intelligence: The Shot Felt ‘Round the World?

I just hung up the phone with Li-Yan, who wants me to come to Malaysia and present a workshop with her on emotional intelligence for businesses. She quit her corporate job there, because she found the work environment stifling, unethical and demoralizing. Now she wants to help businesses in Malaysia change to a more emotionally intelligent culture.

3.2v4.2 System Recovery

Disclaimer I was called in recently to help with the recovery of an old SCO 3.2v4.2 system that had crashed. The crash had initially been caused by a power supply failure, but after replacing that hardware, the machine would not boot - it just hung after the kernel i/o buffers message. As a common cause for that is simply a missing or damaged inittab, I…

Getting Back To Search Engine Optimization Basics

When starting any SEO campaign it is tempting to leap straight in and start tweaking meta tags and changing text. However, like any successful marketing strategy, it is vital to ensure that you know whom your audience is and how to reach them. In the same way traditional advertising agencies survey their demographic audience, search engine marketers must ensure that their SEO campaign targets the…