Here is the state of spam and phishing released by Symantec.
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May 30, 2010
The State of Spam and Phishing – May 2010
May 29, 2010
Embedding Google Wave into you blog
Google Wave has graduated to Google Apps and for a Google Wave Basher that I have been earlier, I must say I have started using Wave a little more now. Today I was playing a little on How to embed a Google Wave on your blog.
As you see below, I have embedded a public wave which can be edited by anyone.
[gwe wave=”5XdgZ2UtE” width=”640″ height=”500″ header=”1″ toolbar=”1″ footer=”1″]
SO, how do you do it?
- Step 1 – Create a public google wave by adding public@a.gwave.com to the wave and giving them full access.
- Step 2 – Copy the wave URL and create an Embed URL at http://www.google.com/webelements/wave/
- Step 3 – Get the code and paste it in the HTML wherever you want it. To paste in a blog, just use the inline javascript plugin.
And, in these three small steps, you are ready with a small widget which can have videos, images, polls and a lot more embedded into it. Just a peek into the Wave Developer Group and you will realize that Google Wave is actually starting to make some waves as the most complete collaborative environment. Okay, not yet but yes Wave has gotten better. For more customizations just check http://code.google.com/apis/wave/embed/guide.html
May 20, 2010
Barca Barca Barca!
Guess which team is getting stronger for the next season just when you thought they couldn’t be any better? The team widely regarded as the best team in Europe (despite their loss to Inter Milan in the Champions League) have now signed on David Villa for 34.2 million pounds – the 6th most expensive buy ever in Football!
- You will soon see the star striker in Barca colours
Villa will join a host of world class footballers at Barca and the strength of the team can be gauged from the fact that they already have Messi, Ibra, Henry, an in form Pedro and young gun Krkic, who all are great players in their own right. This would also be a blow to Sir Alex who was looking at getting the former Zaragoza and Valencia man to partner Rooney up front and to Chelsea who have been after his signature for a couple of seasons now.
What does this mean for David Villa and Valencia? This means that he will be gunning for silverware next season and be part of a team in which he already shares a good rapport with players like Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol and other Spanish Internationals. So, settling down in the new set up should not be an issue. This was the perfect time for Valencia to sell Villa considering that he is going to be 28 soon and his value would only have come down in the future. The loss of a player widely regarded as the best in his position will hit Valencia hard and how they cope up with it remains to be seen.
What would be interesting to see is what happens at Barca now that Villa has been signed. Henry has already been reduced to a bit-part role because of the great form Pedro is showing and Ibra has been erratic in his first season with the Catalans. Moreover, because Xavi, Iniesta and Villa play together in the national team, they already know what each one is capable of and Barca’s engine room (Iniesta and Xavi) will be happy that Villa will play with them here too. On current form, the strike force for next season looks to be Pedro, Villa and Messi. Ibra’s agent has come out and said that there is no danger to Ibra’s place but that remains to be seen.
Till then, here is another piece of news.
- Fabregas wants to leave Arsenal for Barcelona
Cesc Fabregas has informed Arsene Wenger in a very emotional discussion that he wants to go back to his boyhood club! What remains to be seen is whether Wenger lets him go. If he does, I wonder if Barcelona will ever get beaten next season!
May 3, 2010
R.I.P – Privacy Online
It is so easy to say “My life is an open book” and you know what it actually is and you can’t do a thing about it. If Google started f**king our privacy a couple of years back, Facebook raped it a couple of weeks back (Possibly…)
A week or so back during the F8 developer conference, Facebook came out with its master-plan to rule the Internet. At the name of competing over becoming your online identity, Facebook just ripped apart of little left privacy. Facebook told us all, during the F8 that their “evil” like button could be put up in every website (Including Ours) and these will then help them provide instant personalization of certain websites we use. And believe me 99% of Facebook users wouldn’t care much, they were happy to find their favorite “like” button all around on the internet. Facebook made sure, except of the few developers and tech bloggers who need “masala” to write, the normal Facebook user never got to know that the default setting was set as zero privacy for everyone. What was even more interesting was the fact that these settings where very difficult to find and I found them through One of my favorite analysts’ on the internet, Avinash Kaushik‘s tweet.
I changed my Facebook settings and set it all to private to my friends’. My Facebook status said:
Some Hidden Facebook Privacy Setting Each One of Us Should review http://zqi.me/cBjHhi http://zqi.me/aAMFLXhttp://zqi.me/ag92V9 http://zqi.me/aQzMDl Also, Always log off else your data is still shared to personalize sites, even with all other settings opted out. via Avinash Kaushik. Donot forget to check out all these settings would be my advise to all all of you.
- Facebook Privacy setting
All this happened one week after I told two of my friends’ about Google Web History. For someone, who doesn’t know about Google Web History, it can be quite a shock and believe me I caught both of my friends’ off the hook. For Avinash Kaushik (Evangelist of Google Analytics) to tweet about Facebook settings was a bit like saying “Google is your husband and is entitled to see you naked but not Facebook. He is just a friend.“. I am sure, not many people know about Google Web History too. Do check it guys. Some day some friend of yours like me will show your web history to you may feel quite embarrassed. Now, with Chrome becoming increasingly popular, every key-press on the browser is getting recorded by you personalized advertisement serving secretary in Google. For a funny peek into the future, look at this video.
So, with everyone running after your privacy, what do we do? Actually, we can do absolutely nothing. Google and Facebook are things we can’t live without. Privacy is a thing of the past. Google and Facebook may create multiple settings (and not tell people about them) and tell people that they will turn off tracking you, but Should i believe?
What is the future of online privacy?
I would say – None at all. My brother owns a Nexus One and tells me it it more tightly integrated to Google than he would have ever desired. iPhone’s upcoming versions will have Facebook integration. So, What is next? Are Android and iPhone OS going to hear our calls, do some voice processing and serve us Ads based on what we talk. Is that not a possibility? I wonder…
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