October 2009
3 posts
FeedMe Data on People's Sharing Habits!
Michael and I have a blog post Over on the Haystack Blog describing some work we’ve been doing in studying how people share news and blog posts with each other through e-mail and other social networking tools.
So far, we’re posting findings from surveys, but soon we’ll give you a double-whammy: we plan on announcing what we found through a user study of a tool called FeedMe...
Startup Bootcamp at MIT
I spent the day at startup bootcamp, which was an excellent opportunity to hear from startup founders and VCs about startups. As someone without a lot of experience in this field, it was wonderful to hear a bunch of different (at times conflicting) viewpoints on the startup world. I took notes on all but two of the talks, and put them here to read if you are interested.
Adam Smith: Xobni
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Avoid Subversion-Maintained Website Vulnerability
(Note: This vulnerability also exists for cvs and git-based repositories. Change these instructions appropriately.)
The news of this vulnerability came out a while back, but I spent the afternoon securing a few scarily exploitable sites, so I figured I’d reiterate.
If you store your website in subversion, you leave behind an “.svn” directory in each directory in version...