Privacy & Messaging
Has privacy actually changed? Or has the change been in our management of information, how we access it and what we do with it? From consumer privacy, to employee privacy, we explore privacy in messaging today.
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Features
Identifying the Genuine Expert: The Three Stages of Exertise Surfacing
How reliable is a collaboration system that allows individuals to declare expertise for themselves? Find out, as Michael Sampson reviews different stages for identifying expertise.
To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt?: That No Longer Should The Question Be
It is for more than compliance reasons that organizations are adopting encryption.
Social Networking, Blogging, and Web Threats
Web communications offer numerous benefits for businesses, but it can also pose risks such as malware, compliance violations and data leakage.
What Every Marketer Should Know About Transactional Email
With open rates for transactional emails among the highest, marketers may be missing a golden opportunity to increase revenue and extend customer contact.
On Message with Ben Gross
Link roundup for new OpenID uses and problems
August 26, 2008
ongoing - OpenID at Work: Tim Bray writes about Sun’s recently announced internal OpenID service. Sun is now offering an OpenID provider, but only for Sun employees. This means that third parties could theoretically allow people from Sun to log in via their OpenID relying party service and know that the individuals were in fact [...]
Link roundup for 8/23/08
August 23, 2008
A Guide to CSS Support in Email: Campaign Monitor put out a revision to its excellent guide to using CSS in email. They tested their finding on 22 webmail and desktop email clients for a comprehensive overview that they summarized nicely for quick reference. Tuning and Feeding: My best practices for getting the most out of [...]
Link roundup for 8/20/08
August 20, 2008
The 3 Loops of Designing for Audience: Gregor Hochmuth has a nice write up on the loops of audience interaction for engaging your audience in modern social web services. He uses specific examples with the Twitter messaging service, but his guidelines would apply to many services. His loops are: 1) Users building a model of [...]
iPhone SSH clients reviewed: iSSH, pTerm, and TouchTerm
August 18, 2008
SSH is the de facto way to establish a secure connection with a command line interface. It is an essential too for people who regularly manage Unix servers, networking gear, and a variety of other devices. There are now three SSH clients that will work on any iPhone or iPod Touch with access to the iPhone [...]
Link roundup for 8/11/08
August 11, 2008
Nerdy nerds only: Version 1.0 of Chandler officially released: James Fallows of the Atlantic writes about the public release of Chandler. The Chandler Project is the long running open-source personal information management and messaging project from the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF). The project was routinely criticized as a boondoggle, but may have begun to [...]
Link roundup for the DNS flaw
August 9, 2008
DoxPara Research: Is the personal blog of Dan Kaminsky, the researcher who discovered the DNS flaw. His posts are a good source of information for following the effects of the flaw, additional vulnerabilities, and current mitigation strategies. Kaminsky Details DNS Flaw at Black Hat Talk: Brian Krebs summarizes Dan Kaminsky’s long awaited Black Hat talk describing [...]
Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) Aug 21 - 22
August 8, 2008
The Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2008) is less than two weeks away. The conference includes presentations and papers from both academic and industrial researchers. CEAD is one of the only events focused on messaging research. The conference has been uniformly high quality in previous years and all papers from previous events are [...]
Link roundup 8/5/08
August 5, 2008
Bookmarks Are Dead. Long Live Bookmarks: Jeremy Wagstaff writes about the current state of bookmarks and bookmark synchronization tools in his Loose Wire blog. He discusses the latest release of the Delicious service, PersonalBrain, and what these might mean when combined with new services such as Twitter. iPhone Calendar Syncing: Daring Fireball’s John Gruber writes describes [...]
Link roundup for 7/31/08
July 31, 2008
Purging Public E-Mails: When to Say No: ABC News discusses a number of the recent cases where government officials ordered the deletion of official emails and their backups. The article also describes the great inconsistencies between various states and agencies in archiving and retention policies. Xobni Can Make Good Old Email Even More Useful: In his [...]