Archive for March, 2010
Olivia Munn Covers Complex’s April/May 2010 Issue!
March 24th, 2010 | 
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Complex’s April/May 2010 Issue Officially Hits Stands On April 6.
Two years ago, we introduced the world to our secret crush Olivia Munn by putting the G4 hostess on our February/March 2008 cover. Since then, she’s become everyone’s favorite funny chick, looking sexy on a slew of other magazine covers, popping up on TV shows and getting cast in a couple of upcoming blockbusters like Date Night and Ironman 2. To celebrate her newfound success, and our 8th Anniversary, we had to get down with our longtime home girl for her second Complex cover. For her sexy spread in the April/May 2010 Issue, we brought in Marvel Comics illustrators Mike Choi and Sonia Oback to help bring the environment to life with some curious woodland creatures. Hit the links for more and check back tomorrow to see our second cover…
• CLICK HERE TO READ OLIVIA’S FULL COVER STORY
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http://www.complex.com/blogs/2010/03/22/olivia-munn-covers-complexs-aprilmay-2010-issue/
http://www.oliviamunn.com/april-2010-complex-cover/
Google Skipfish scans Web apps for security
Google has released an open-source Web security scanner called Skipfish that is designed to allow people to scan Web applications for security holes.
The tool scans a Web application for flaws including “tricky scenarios” such as blind SQL or XML injection, Google developer Michal Zalewski said in the Skipfish wiki.
Skipfish prepares a site map annotated with interactive crawl results, highlighting flaws, after a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probing of the target site. The tool can also generate a final report that can be used as a basis for a security assessment.
Read more of “Google releases Skipfish Web-security scanner” at ZDNet UK.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20000884-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
@anywhere
When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn’t require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more. You could follow any account and be followed by any account. As a result, companies started interacting with customers, celebrities connected with fans, governments became more transparent, and people started discovering and sharing information in a new, participatory manner.
We’ve developed a new set of frameworks for adding this Twitter experience anywhere on the web. Soon, sites many of us visit every day will be able to recreate these open, engaging interactions providing a new layer of value for visitors without sending them to Twitter.com. Our open technology platform is well known and Twitter APIs are already widely implemented but this is a different approach because we’ve created something incredibly simple. Rather than implementing APIs, site owners need only drop in a few lines of javascript. This new set of frameworks is called @anywhere.
Twitter will be part of our favorite sites!When we’re ready to launch, initial participating sites will include Amazon, AdAge, Bing, Citysearch, Digg, eBay, The Huffington Post, Meebo, MSNBC.com, The New York Times, Salesforce.com, Yahoo!, and YouTube. Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page—and that’s just the beginning. Twitter has proven to be compelling in a variety of ways. With @anywhere, web site owners and operators will be able to offer visitors more value with less heavy lifting.
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http://blog.twitter.com/2010/03/anywhere.html
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Tags: @Anywhere, social networking, Twitter | 
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Twitter CEO unveils ‘@Anywhere’ platform
AUSTIN, Texas–Twitter CEO Evan Williams took no time in getting to the juicy part of his keynote address at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival on Monday afternoon. He announced the “@Anywhere” platform, a way to pull Twitter links and data onto partner sites and media outlets.
A brief demo of @Anywhere showed off “hovercards” that bring up Twitter information with a mouse-over, let readers or users connect with their Twitter accounts much like Facebook Connect, or explore more specific possibilities, like instantly following a newspaper columnist’s Twitter account by clicking on his or her byline.
“Discovery is one of the hardest challenges,” Williams said. “It’s putting these in context where you’re already aware of them…Twitter is a very easy way to keep in touch.” The company has 13 launch partners, including Digg, The New York Times, MSNBC.com, eBay, Amazon, and Bing. As Williams describes it, “it’s not an ad platform, it’s an ‘@’ platform,” referring to the syntax of using the ‘@’ symbol to denote communication between individual Twitter users.
Williams was interviewed onstage by Umair Haque, director of the Havas Media Lab in what was arguably the most highly anticipated event of the SXSWi lineup. A massive event hall at the Austin Convention Center was filled to capacity, with a line snaking through the hallways half an hour before the talk was scheduled to begin.
The Twitter CEO was sketchier about the details of how @Anywhere will make money, though there are some guesses that big partners will have to pay up for access to the “firehose,” much like its search deals with Twitter and Bing that were announced late last year.
“Inevitably, it’s going to take experimentation,” Williams said. “Google started out thinking that they were going to sell search services.”
A report circulated last month that Twitter was gearing up to launch an ad platform in conjunction with SXSWi, stemming from comments that the company’s head of product management made in a conference panel. Company executives had heretofore been ambivalent as to whether they would start rolling out ads any time soon–or ever.
SXSWi is more or less Twitter’s birthplace: the company made its debut there in 2007, and became an instant sensation with the early-adopter geek crowd. It took about two more years before it could be deemed a legitimate, mainstream sensation, but SXSWi is its home turf.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20000474-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The Internet Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The Internet is in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has confirmed. Championed by Wired magazine in Italy, the nomination has been backed by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte.
Italian Wired suggests that the Internet should receive the highly regarded prize for helping to advance “dialogue, debate and consensus.”
The nomination from Wired has been dismissed by some as a publicity stunt — and the support of long-time Wired columnist and investor Nicholas Negroponte is hardly surprising. Although currently seeing some success with the One Laptop Per Child program, Negroponte’s past projects have included such dubious endeavors as as Swatch Internet Time.
The award is to be given to the person (or organization) who has “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” The creators of the World Wide Web — Tim Berners-Lee, Larry Roberts and Vint Cerf — have been nominated, too.
The final nominations will be now be considered by the Committee with the winner due to be announced on October 8, while the awards ceremony will take place in December.
Do you think the Internet should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? Or should it go to a person or organization? Is Wired’s campaign just a PR stunt? Have your say in the comments below.
http://mashable.com/2010/03/10/internet-nobel-peace-prize/
