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What Is OAuth and How Can it Make the Internet Safer?

by Keaton Taylor March 24, 2011

Over the last few months I’ve been working on discovering the functionality of the OAuth standard. OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically a username and password. So [...]

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Facebook Launches Mobile Interface for Baseline Phones

by Mike Mansell January 20, 2011

It seems as if every time we as consumers turn around, manufactures are releasing new and improved smartphones; more feature-rich and power-packed than the ones they released only a matter of days before. However, with the constant innovations that the smartphone industry is making it is sometimes easy to forget about the non-smart phones that are still sold day-in [...]

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3 Companies That Can Afford to Take Gambles in 2011

by Mike Mansell December 27, 2010

As we near the end of 2010, we cannot ignore the fact that businesses of all ventures – even those once seen as invincible – have been struggling to stay alive. As Jeff wrote the other day, companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL desperately need to step up their game in 2011 in order to have [...]

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GlassDoor Names Facebook as the Best Place to Work

by Mike Mansell December 15, 2010

While sometimes replaceable, an enterprise’s workforce is truly its most important asset. Without a strong, motivated, and weathered workforce, a company cannot survive. For this reason, companies large and small often try to make their workplaces enjoyable and comfortable for their employees in hopes that a desirable workplace will lead to higher levels of innovation and [...]

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Facebook Download Feature: Allowing Users to Transfer Networks?

by Mike Mansell October 8, 2010

As you may be aware, Facebook has recently begun the introduction of a feature that will allow users to download an offline copy of their social network profile that they will be able to view and tinker with as they see fit. While this does show Facebook’s sense of privacy in allowing you to see [...]

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Foursquare’s 11 Hour Downtime Is Unacceptable

by Jeff Weisbein October 5, 2010

I’m going to come straight out and say it. Foursquare’s 11-hour downtime fiasco in completely unacceptable. And you know what? It seems Foursquare agrees. According to their blog post which explains the downtime, they state, “All told, we were down for about 11 hours, which is unacceptably long.” Foursquare is currently in a very hot [...]

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Steve Jobs Is Responsible For Facebook’s Downtime

by Jeff Weisbein September 26, 2010

Earlier this week Forbes announced that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has passed Apple CEO Steve Jobs in Forbes’ richest people list. Obviously, this upset Steve very much and apparently he used his epic powers to bring down Facebook on Thursday for several hours. I’ve been told from several sources that the picture below represents how [...]

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