Once upon a time, the so-called Nigerian letters were adopted to online versions by devious spammers. They were basically email versions of advance fee frauds and I suppose that a few people fell for these traditional scams delivered by snail mail.
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This is the night when the iPhone is released in America. People are lined up outside the Apple stores, doing live coverage through blogs and podcasts.
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There are tons of communities available and all aspire to be the global center of networking. Without a large user base, there cannot be a community.
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Today it was announced that the next version of well-known blog authoring tool Movable Type will be available as open source.
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Twitter has come a long way since its first incarnations in Jack Dorsey’s notebook. Even though it may be ignored by the most, it is still extremely popular with over 11 000 requests per second. As anyone with technical sense would guess, this leads to massive scaling issues.
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Paul Graham recently published an article entitled Microsoft is dead. He claims that Microsoft is no longer a threat to other companies and mentions four things that supposedly killed the company: Google, Ajax, Apple and broadband.
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Connection07 was held at Stadsmuseet, one of the very few web conferences held in Gothenburg. Compared to the large global conferences such as MIX and @media, this is of course a lot smaller.
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In the wake of SXSW 2007, there has been complaints in the blogosphere raising the question whether computer conferences have played out their role.
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What is it that make someone famous in the computer world? I don’t refer to the level of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs here, but rather normal people who for one reason or another gets recognition for their work.
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As mentioned in my report from Microsoft Live 2007, Microsoft will be releasing full versions of WPF and WPF/E during the year. But don’t think that the competition is sleeping.
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