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Soon it will be time to start over, againYesterday
A picture named monkeyhat.gifHere's how the tech industry cycle goes.

A new generation of young techies comes along, takes a look at the current stack, finds it too daunting (rightly so) and decides to start over from scratch. They find that they can make things happen that the previous generation couldn't cause they were so mired in the complexity of the systems they had built. The new systems become popular with "power users" -- people who yearn to overcome the limits of the previous generation. It's exhilirating!

Some of those power users are venture capitalists, they're hanging around looking for things to invest in, and they pick a few things that look like winners. When I was fresh and dewy, part of the new crop of techies, these people were Mike Markkula who funded Apple, and Ben Rosen who funded Compaq and Lotus. In later generations they were different people, of course.

So the new folks, freshly funded, hire lots of people, young'uns like themselves who are doing it The New Way. They ship some produc





John Carpenter’s They Live to be remadeYesterday

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The remakes are nearly in the 1990’s now: John Carpenter’s 1988 film They Live is to be remade by Universal and Strike Entertainment.

Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce, while Shep Gordon and Carpenter will serve as executive producers.

If you don’t remember the film, it’s memorable for a couple of things: an epic 5 1/2 minute long fight scene, and a line about Bubblegum: “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass … and I’m all out of bubblegum.” The plot is part sci-fi, part satire with the main character discovering aliens living among us.

Here’s a short taste of the original:

My6Sense: Personalized Reading Recommendations That Actually Work (500 Invites)Yesterday

my6sense_logo_dec08.pngPersonalized recommendations have always been one of those technologies that look great on paper, but hardly ever work quite as well as advertised. This week, we got a chance to test my6sense, which takes your feed subscriptions and then recommends interesting posts based on your own reading habits. My6sense's current focus is on providing a good mobile experience, though the company will soon also launch its service on the web as well.

While it did take a bit of training before the application fully recognized our preferences and before it returned really good results, the overall results were very impressive.

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So how does it work? When you first sign up, my6sense can import your RSS feeds (from Google Reader, Netvibes, MyYahoo, or from a standard OPML file). After that, all you have to do is read your feeds through the web app and my6sense will automatically learn from your reading behavior (my6sense calls this "digital intuition"). You can also explicitly give a 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' on any post.


Security in Depth: Local Web PagesYesterday
The foundation of the browser's security model is the same-origin policy, which protects web sites from one another. For example, the same-origin policy stops a news site from reading the contents of your Gmail inbox (even if you open both web sites at the same time). But what if a web page comes from your local file system rather than from the Internet? Consider the following hypothetical attack if your browser did not limit the power of local pages:

  1. You receive an email message from an attacker containing a web page as an attachment, which you download.
  2. You open the now-local web page in your browser.
  3. The local web page creates an <iframe> whose source is https://mail.google.com/mail/.
  4. Because you are logged in to Gmail, the frame loads the messages in your inbox.
  5. The local web page reads the contents of the frame by using JavaScript to access frames[0].document.documentElement.innerHTML. (An Internet web page would not be able to perform this step because it would come from a non-Gmail origin; the same-origin policy would cause the read to fail.)
  6. The local web page places the contents of your inbox into a <textarea> and submits the data via a form POST to the attacker's web server. Now the attacker has your inbox, whi







One Day - today - 50% sale. Times two!Yesterday

Jeff Schoolcraft was kind enough to post this morning at The Business of Software Forum that my publisher Apress is doing today a one day ebook sale on my first book, Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. You can get it here for $10 instead of $20.

Interestingly enough, Jeff using a Twitterbot to track one day ebook sales. Cool! I’m sending Jeff a copy of my brand new ebook, The Twitter Survival Guide, for free to compliment him on his cool use of Twitter, but don’t tell him - I want it to be a surprise!

I think this is a cool idea on Apress’ part, so I’m going to match it. So for the next day or so, you can get my ebook, MicroISV Sites that Sell! for $9.50 instead of $19.00. Just go to the ebook page on 47hats, page down to MicroISV Sites that Sell! section, click Add to Cart, enter the code “onedaysale” and buy it.