This PCWorld article seems so right!
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Aug 12
Unpredictable consequences
May 20
I’ve just read on this ZDnet article. The jist of the whole thing is that you can now simply create a Facebook account with your GMail account. Then, you can just login to your GMail account, then go to Facebook, and you’ll find yourself logged in. Seem like a pretty neat idea…or not.
Firstly, if you’ll just jog your memory not too far back, you’ll remember a number of phishing attacks that Facebook came under. A large number of login IDs and passwords were stolen as well. So that got me thinking, if I login with my GMail account and password, and if that got stolen, that would probably lead to a lot more trouble.
By the way, the entire concept is called OpenID, which lets you login to multiple web services with just one set of credentials. The login and password can be of one of the many OpenID providers, like Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, PayPal et al. It’s pretty useful, but then, even if the security of even one of the websites accepting OpenID accounts is compromised, it could, lead to trouble with your entire online life.
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Dec 8
The title is quite misleading. I haven’t yet seen the movie, and most certainly am no qualified to write a review. Or I could just plagiarise Ankur’s movie review. Actually, is turns out this is my 300th post, disregarding Karthick’s occasional ones.
Psst…the last paragraph was 42 words long…nobody really cares though…
Hmmph…muffled giggles…
Aug 21
Hey…try this out. It’s an old joke, but fun. Go to Google, and type in “french military victories”. Click on the first result, and follow the links, and read through the entire thing. It’s funny.
I recently read an article on ZDNet. It was about a deal that Yahoo! and Google were about to finalise. Read it here. I’m telling you, it’s a pretty long read, might get boring…
Anyway, let me first spout about the deal. Well, it’s not like Yahoo! going to be completely bought out, just some help with the ads and all. I think this is a good thing. Yahoo! and Google have been at each other’s necks for too long now. It’s childish. To compete with someone like Microsoft, you need much more cooperation and the willingness to work together to achieve a common goal, even thought it might be for different personal reasons.
The thing is, I’m not really too interested in the nitty-gritty details of the deal. But there’s one deal which caused me to think:
Google and Yahoo will make their instant messaging services interoperable.
You see, this makes me think, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo are already interoperable. If GTalk and Yahoo became foster brothers, then would GTalk and Live Messenger become interoperable? I’m confused.
But, this is a good thing. Especially for a performance freak like me. You see…the fact remains that…GTalk is a very light-weight browser. And if I can get all my contacts in one IM application, it would be great. I mean, we do have Pidgin and Trillian, but they’re still heavier than GTalk. Plus, GTalk supports AIM! Later…..
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