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Submission + - Is Google's Pay-Per-Action Blogger-Unfriendly?

Submitted by Lisa Andrews on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @04:33PM

Lisa Andrews writes: Yesterday, Google announced the launch of their new (beta, of course) Pay-Per-Action advertising model, claiming it would be the new good thing for everybody. However, some arguments have been raised as to whether webmasters gain or lose in this matter, and it seems that this new advertising model may favor advertiser's and Google a lot more than the bloggers, webmasters, and co.

Submission + - Apple - Repair All or Nothing

Submitted by

Alan Hatcher

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @04:26PM

Alan Hatcher writes: "Is the experience detailed by this blogger common with Apple? Do they usually refuse to do partial fixes or is this a problem with an employee at Apple?"

Morality — Biological or Philosophical? 550

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @04:18PM from the monkey-see-monkey-do dept.

loid_void writes to mention The New York Times is reporting that Biologists are making a bid on the subject of morality. "Last year Marc Hauser, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, proposed in his book 'Moral Minds' that the brain has a genetically shaped mechanism for acquiring moral rules, a universal moral grammar similar to the neural machinery for learning language. In another recent book, 'Primates and Philosophers,' the primatologist Frans de Waal defends against philosopher critics his view that the roots of morality can be seen in the social behavior of monkeys and apes."

Submission + - Dungons & Dragons & IT - Why we crave boun

Submitted by

boyko.at.netqos

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @04:14PM

boyko.at.netqos writes: "An editorial in Network Performance Daily tries to take a (1d6) stab at explaining why geeky engineering types are also typically the types that enjoy a rousing game of D&D. "The greatest barrier to creativity is a lack of boundaries. Counter-intuitive — almost zen-like — but we've found it to be true. And this is why people play Dungeons & Dragons (and similar games), and why network engineers often spend time putting out fires when they could be improving the network... Have you ever noticed that, in your job as a network engineer, you spend quite a lot of it putting out fires, as opposed to starting new initiatives? Those network emergencies are obstacles. You have defined parameters and you must overcome the obstacle. Engineers trained to find the best solutions to problems usually feel most in their element when solving a problem!"

Submission + - Hacking Web Applications Over Lunch

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @03:53PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Vuljnerable web applications are a huge problem. A new SANS paper: Web Application Auditing Over Lunch shows some very simple tricks on how to check your web application for common security issues.

After all, many web application didn't take longer then that to write. So why not break them in the same time. The paper is pretty platform neutral. However, I found the mentioned firefox extension "Tamper Data" to be very usefull."

Bookmark Office 2007 Office 2003 (microsoftsale.com)

by JakeBo on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @03:48PM

Submission + - Social Media Networking Meets RSS Content Aggregat

Submitted by

prabhe

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @03:47PM

prabhe writes: "http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/03/20/soci al_media_networking_meets_rss.htm"

Submission + - Mobile extension to Koffeephoto photo sharing

Submitted by

Carl Conrad

on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @03:47PM

Carl Conrad writes: "KoffeeWare unveils a preview version of future KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing. KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing allows KoffeePhoto users to access and share photo albums on their mobile phone. Storage is free and unlimited thanks to KoffeePhoto's unique private distributed storage technology. Photo albums are available anytime anywhere. Pictures can be viewed interactively or using full screen streamed slide-shows. The size of the screen is automatically detected in order to maximize the display and optimize the file download.

"We believe it is now the perfect time for such kind of applications as the combination of 3G/3G+ phones capable of high wireless data throughput and QVGA displays makes running photo sharing applications on mobile phones a reality." explains Carl Conrad, Marketing Manager of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

"In early development stages of KoffeePhoto photo sharing in 2005, a mobile phone based client was already an obvious milestone on our product development roadmap. While the application runs well with a GPRS/EDGE connection, 3G(UMTS)/3G+(HSDPA) or WiFi connection are recommended for an optimal user experience." adds Gilles Pommereuil, CTO of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

The functions currently implemented allow to browse photo albums.

Available as a J2ME application (a small Java mobile application), KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing can be easily installed on a wide variety of mobile phones and converging PDAs. It can be downloaded from: http://koffeephoto.com/mobile. A demo mode is included. More information on http://www.koffeephoto.com/en/index.php/koffeephot o-mobile and http://blog.koffeephoto.com./"

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