Well, not quite; I have a few more hours of getting packed and work before I head to the airport, but close enough.  Read More →

Like many people in the security blogger community, Tyler Reguly pays for his blog and other community efforts out of his own pocket.  Read More →

Almost nine years after 9/11, terrorism is a fast-evolving, mostly underestimated worldwide threat, and America may be more vulnerable to attacks today than it was on that sunny September morning. That grim assessment was the consensus of experts who spoke at a recent journalism conference on terror and security issues held, fittingly, in an office tower This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror... 

When the name of the suspected Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad was revealed, one of the first things reporters did to find more information and a picture was go to Facebook. Sure enough, Faisal Shahzad had an account. Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, who is charged with trying to blow up a U.S.-bound flight last This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

Once again, it is time for BaySec in San Francisco!  Read More →

The next time someone tries to “friend” you on Facebook, it may turn out to be an undercover fed looking to examine your private messages and photos, or surveil your friends and family. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained an internal Justice Department document that describes what law enforcement is doing on social networking sites. The 33-page document shows that law enforcement agents from local police…  Read More →

The horror! These guys should never be allowed to show their faces! Teasing aside, Rich, Adrian and Mike do a great job of laying out the three basic themes you should expect to see at RSA this year.  Read More →

Write a one sentence blog post per week.  Read More →

Now, I’m not actually a subscriber to the theory that traditional media is dead to be replaced completely by digital and social media. Newspapers may be drying up while social media is ramping up but things are never as black and white as they may seem they’ll be. But, I ran across this Mad Avenue Blues video on GuruOfNew and thought it worth sharing with you. Enjoy the video.  Read More →

Part 1: One of the reasons I enjoy creating software is that I’m fascinated by researching and understanding users of the technology we create. I sometimes refer to myself as a software anthropologist. That’s part of why I also enjoy user interface design. So, enough about me… lets get on to the topic. Over time, I’ve noticed how the form of communications we use is generational. By that I mean as time marches on, we create... 

Earlier this year, a client I advise about social media and web technology approached me asking for help with a fund raising effort on Twitter. The idea was to raise enough money, $10,000, to set up a young Kenyan boy and his brother with a store they could operate and make a living.  This situation was special because the boy had lost his arms after both his parents died from AIDS. He was so distraught, the village elders were worried he might... 

Michael Arrington at TechCruch (a great site, btw) posted an interview on YouTube that he did with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Yuri Milner of Digital Sky Technologies, the investor who just plunked down a $200m investment in Facebook at a $10B valuation. The interview focuses on the question of why Zuckerberg took the investment, how this investment was a bargain comparted to the Microsoft (and other) investment made at a $15B valuation... 

In a blog post It’s All About The Faces , Brad Feld talked about the impact on his readers after changing from his normal portrait style avatar to a more artistic version. Followers commented how he seem so much less accessible, resulting in Brad changing back to his orginal picture. That blog post immediately reminded me of a somewhat releted experience I had that same day. While creating a new group on Facebook, I ran into some challenges when... 

“Crisis brings opportunity to change.” Keep that quote in mind for a moment as you read this blog post. You can’t watch a cable news channel, particularly CNN, without hearing some reference to Twitter. Facebook has pretty much supplanted myspace as the dominant social networking platform, thanks in large part all of the applications, groups, social causes and the beginnings of businesses using Facebook to reach customers. It’s...