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| Web Designing trends 19th October 2007 |
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Tactics Can Disrupt Internet Underground, Undermine Cybercriminals
Creative Web Solutions suggest several methods that can be
used to attack the "reputation systems" used by hackers to
conduct business.
To reduce cybercrime, the government may want to consider
the tactics employed by the music industry against copyright
scofflaws.
The researchers saw more than 87,000 credit card numbers traded
during this time; they estimate that the total wealth generated
from credit card fraud over IRC exceeded $37 million.
Citing the ineffectiveness of traditional law enforcement
approaches -- locating and disabling hosting infrastructure,
which can easily be replaced, and identifying and arresting
market participants, who are often outside the law's reach
in foreign countries -- the paper contemplates low-cost ways
to undermine the black market that are not unlike the steps
taken by the music industry to poison peer-to-peer file trading
networks with fake files.
Ironically, the buyers and sellers of stolen personal information
deal depend on trust, just like legitimate merchants. As the
paper explains, "The participants of the market operate in
an environment of dishonesty and mutual distrust. Buyers and
sellers must protect themselves from dishonest participants
( a.k.a., 'rippers') who purposely fail to uphold their end
of a transaction. Such ripping behavior is common in other
online markets and has led to the establishment of reputation
systems such as those found on eBay or Amazon Marketplace."
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Dot-Com Shakeout Hits 200 Alta Vista Workers
Web portal AltaVista announced Thursday that it is laying
off 200 employees, or 25 percent of its workforce. The company
said that the layoffs would primarily affect employees at
the company's Palo Alto, California headquarters.
AltaVista said that its European offices would only be "minimally
affected by the change." The layoffs leave the company, which
is backed by CMGI, with 600 employees. "AltaVista has not
been immune to the softness in advertising," said Peter Mills,
executive adviser to AltaVista and managing partner of CMGI
@Ventures.
Miller added: "These are challenging times for most Internet
and technology companies but we are confident in the steps
we are taking to remain strong." The move comes a week after
AltaVista scrapped plans for a US$160.5 million initial public
offering (IPO), citing poor market conditions.
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Linux: Supporting Older GCC Releases
"A recent bug report led to a discussion about potentially
dropping support for pre-4.0 versions of GCC. Adrian Bunk
noted, "currently we support 6 different stable gcc release
series, and it might be the right time to consider dropping
support for the older ones. Are there any architectures still
requiring a gcc < 4.0 ?" Russell King noted that on some architectures
GCC 3.x is still preferable to the newer 4.x branch, "I want
to keep support for gcc 3.4.3 for ARM for the foreseeable
future. From my point of view, gcc 4 compilers have been something
of a development thing as far as the ARM architecture goes.
Also, gcc 3.4.3 is faster and significantly less noisy than
gcc 4."
"When it was asked how many kernel developers use older version
of GCC, Linus Torvalds explained that it really doesn't matter,
'it's NOT about 'kernel developers'. It's about random people
testing kernels. If we make it harder for people to test kernels,
we're going to lose. So no, I vote for *not* cutting off old
gcc versions unless it's absolutely fatal...'" |
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PHP 4 End of Life Announcement
"The PHP development team has announced that support for PHP
4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31
there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. Critical security
fixes will be made available on a case-by-case basis until
2008-08-08. For documentation on migration for PHP 4 to PHP
5, there is a migration guide. There is additional information
available in the PHP 5.0 to PHP 5.1 and PHP 5.1 to PHP 5.2
migration guides as well." |
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Social Networking's explosive
growth to level out in 5 years time
London -- Virtual communities and online
social networking sites are providing a new, powerful and
extremely popular medium for human connection. In a new report
independent market analyst Datamonitor expects global active
memberships in social networking sites to reach 230 million
at the end of 2007. Notwithstanding the fact that many users
have multiple memberships, this represents an extraordinary
cultural trend.
The report, " The Future of Social Networking: understandingmarket
strategic and technological developments ", says infrastructure
providers, social network providers and wireless players stand
to profit largely in the near term. "For social networking
services, barriers to entry are virtually non-existent, and
both competition and innovation are ferocious," says Ri Pierce-Grove
Technology Analyst at Datamonitor and author of this report.
"Users have a vast array of options, from Titanic generalists
like MySpace and Facebook to tiny individual networks on DIY
platforms like Ning. This year revenues from social networking
services should reach USD$965 million growing to USD$2.4 billion
by 2012." |
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Explosive
growth in social networking will plateau by 2012; earlier
for the United States
Social networking is growing around the world, everywhere
people have Internet connections. Most large social networking
services, especially those which allow the distribution of
content like video, have a very long tail of geographic distribution.
According to Datamonitor, by year end 2007 Asia Pacific will
account for 35% of the world's social networking memberships.
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will hold 28%, North
America 25% whilst the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA)
will account for 12%. Adoption curves vary dramatically by
region, but Datamonitor expects membership growth in all regions
to have peaked by 2009 and to have leveled out by 2012.
Currently, there are two strains of thought about this market,
both strongly influenced by memories of the e-commerce boom
at the beginning of the century. At the moment, prevailing
sentiment is excitement combined with anxiety. Players fear
missing the next Google, the next Yahoo. But mixed with this
exuberance is a thread of cynicism. Investors remember how
few Internet startups survived the market downturn, and are
repelled by what they see as overconfidence. The bulk of social
networking sites are wise to postpone any consideration of
an IPO.
"A sane approach to this market requires balancing the two
perspectives," says Ms. Pierce-Grove. "The extraordinary proliferation
of online social networks is fueled by real innovation and
is substantially changing the way we communicate. However,
the hothouse atmosphere of easy capital, media attention,
and user curiosity which stimulates creativity will not be
sustained indefinitely. All players therefore must develop
a two-pronged strategy in order to survive the extremes of
heat and eventual chill which this market will undergo."
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