Normally I am not a grammar nazi or troll, but given GoDaddy’s recent blog post supporting SOPA I felt that a judicious poke at their obvious ignorance was well justified. Check this out!
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Migrating Openfire Instant Messaging Service
Jive Software’s community software organization Ignite Realtime has some great products available. One of the best is the Openfire, a real time collaboration (instant messaging) server: it’s open source, based on the XMPP (Jabber) transport open standard for easy integration with other tools and clients, is actively developed and widely used. For companies needing an [...]
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A quick shout out to Etsy.com and their swift community friendly response to what appears to be an unintentional exposure of user buying patterns linked to real names. Kudos to their team!
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I just discovered via the Consumerist that Etsy.com enacted a really ugly privacy policy some little while ago. Which Etsy claims to have notified people about by email, but I certainly didn’t receive any such thing. And the new, much more exposed default privacy settings are opt-OUT, rather than opt-in. Charming.
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