Cody Taylor

It has been four months since Microsoft took the official wraps off its cloud-computing initiative. Yet still relatively little still is known about the Azure platform and plans.The part of Azure which intrigued me the most was the cloud operating system, code-named “Red Dog,” that is at its heart.

A Trojan horse lurking on servers belonging to Auctiva, a Web site offering eBay auction tools, infected people’s PCs last…

#7 – Jason Kilar — In 2007, Jason Kilarwon the job of creating an online TV outlet for a Fox-NBC partnership. It seemed an impossible task, given the anemic ­results for all previous online-TV ­efforts. Kilar is proving that professional content paid for by advertising has a place on the Web. The networks owe him a pile of gratitude, if not money.

Multiplying traffic and CPMs, 24/7 Wall Street came up with a list of the twenty-five most valuable blogs. This year, 24/7 pegged Gawker Media to the top, figuring Nick Denton’s collection of sites are worth 0 million at an 8x operating income valuation.

The key here was the phrasing of the question: “How many hours do you REALLY work each day?” More than 27,000 Slashdot readers responded and an astounding 40% copped to really working four or fewer. Then everyone argued about the definition of work.

Type design goes unappreciated by most, but for designers, being all all-star in type design is a bit like being a big-wave surfer or a base jumper: It commands respect from your in-the-know peers, because the discipline is insanely difficult.

wild_quinine writes “The UK government stated in 2006 that they wished to see 100% of UK consumer broadband ISPs’ connections covered by blocking, which includes images of child abuse. 95% of ISPs have complied, but children’s charities are calling for firmer action by the government as the last 5% cite costs and concerns over the effectiveness of the system. According to Home Office Minister Alan Campbell, ‘The government is currently looking at ways to progress the final 5%.’ With a lack of transparency in the IWF list, firm government involvement, and blocking that only ‘includes’ (but may not be limited to) images of child abuse, it looks like the writing is on the wall for unfiltered, uncensored Internet connections in the UK.”

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Glyn Moody writes “So the European Commission is going to require Microsoft to offer competitors’ browsers with Windows. ‘…Microsoft will be obliged to design Windows in a way that allows users “to choose which competing web browser(s) instead of, or in addition to, Internet Explorer they want to install and which one they want to have as default…” [Microsoft] now has until mid-March to respond to the Commission, and might also ask for a hearing. Brussels will not adopt a final decision until it has received Microsoft’s official reply.’ But having the option to install Firefox, say, is useless unless people know what it is. The implication is that we need some kind of campaign to ensure that people understand the choices they will have. How can open source best exploit this latest EU decision?”

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