A weekend of malware

24.10.2010/12.44

I’m prepared to eat humble pie if one of our sites is actually distributing malware (naturally without any knowledge or action on our part). According to Google, Autocade is doing just that, as of the 23rd: Of the 3 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 3 page(s) resulted in […]

Deciphering geo-targeting on OpenX; and why Mediaplex is a cheeky sod

21.07.2010/12.34

Between a few of us here and my friend Pete in the UK, we’ve spent nearly two weeks trying to get OpenX to work. We’re ﬁnally getting ad-serving technology put in in-house, after years of relying on the US ad networks we primarily work with. It’s also walking the talk: since I have advocated that […]

My strange Google Dashboard entries

19.07.2010/13.28

Google Dashboard continues to show some strange entries, months after I cancelled all my blogs and Adsense accounts, and severed my ties with many other Google products. I’d advise others to take a look at theirs and make sure they aren’t on services that they never signed up for. This went well beyond Google […]

An unplanned post about Google (Friend Connect this time)

03.03.2010/22.48

The disappearance of my Google Friend Connect gadget from the right-hand column was not part of my plans to de-Google my life: after all, it took me a while to amass the followers there (I think I had a mere 18, but some of them were friends). From my Google Dashboard, I noticed there […]

Back on Firefox 3·0: I have had enough of the daily crashes

28.02.2010/11.56

As of today, I am back with the reliable Firefox 3·0 on my desktop machine as well. Firefox 3.5 would generally crash daily, though I remember there was once a three-day period in January when it did not crash at all. (There were other days when it would crash two or three times, just to […]

A belated thank-you to independent software creators

18.02.2010/08.41

When I had to reinstall everything late last year, I didn’t thank the software developers for making it easy for me to get a new ID. I got personal replies from the programmers behind Barcode Maker 3 and SayNow, and found it relatively easy to sort out registration for FontLab and Gammadyne Mailer. The rest […]

Google might have signed you up to stuff you never asked for

13.02.2010/12.15

I was getting annoyed at Google for the services it counts as part of my ‘products’, but that was minor compared with what Harriet Jacobs has gone through with Google’s new Buzz service—which appeared to have put her personal safety in jeopardy (hat tip to Simon Green). From what I can tell, Buzz shares, by […]

When Facebook robs you of having a proﬁle pic

29.01.2010/21.51

I will have more from my Swedish and French tour soon, but I will say that I had a marvellous time in Malmö and Lund on my ﬁrst day in Sweden (especially getting a feel for Lund’s environmental programmes), Kristianstad and Hassleholm on my second, and on my return to Stockholm. A big-up to Stefan […]