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14 Aug, 2008

Facebook has new clothes

Posted by: Alex In: Internet si Tehnologie| Web

Facebook is testing a new layout with a number of random users. Here are some screenshots:

The most notable change is the right column, obviously a better choice when dealing ads(clicks happen more frequently on the right side, because of the scrollbar and all). Also, the 3 column layout that we get to see on the [...]

10 Aug, 2008

Phishing Church of the Day

Posted by: Alex In: links

Se da un mail de phishing:

… se da linkul la care duce (atentie, evident e un fals, nu va bagati nici o data personala acolo):
phishing site
…ne uitam curiosi la situl parinte al acestui minunat phishing. Carevasazica o biserica. Hmm… asa da fel de a primi donatii – daca nu ni le dati voi, vi le [...]

29 May, 2008

Suing people for calling him a Spammer

Posted by: Alex In: Uncategorized

This guy has been threatening with a lawsuit about every Romanian blogger who dared tell people that Urban and Associates have been fined for spam by ANRCTI, the Romanian authority in the field of Communications and Information Technology. To show he means business he’s currently pursuing suit against www.legi-internet.ro (Internet Laws) asking for the site [...]

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To my shame as a rubyist, it was only a couple of hours ago that I found out, while reading Ruby Inside about mod_rails and the wonders it does for the Rails community.

09 Mar, 2008

Don’t use G-Archiver – it’s spyware

Posted by: Alex In: Uncategorized

For those few of you who aren’t subscribed to Coding Horror blog, here’s a creepy piece of news:
a reader of the aforementioned blog discovered that the shareware program G-Archiver which claims to be a “Gmail backup solution” is actually a trojan spyware which actually sends back to its creator an email with the Gmail login [...]

If, like me, you had been using Ultimate Warrior Tags (UTW) to assign Technorati-compatible tags to your article, then you must have been as annoyed as I was when upgrading to Wordpress 2.3.2 or Wordpress 2.3.3. All of the sudden, Wordpress acquired tagging capabilities but disabled UTW along the way.
Don’t get me wrong, I love [...]

24 Jan, 2008

Digg changes voting… again

Posted by: Alex In: Web

According to Techcrunch, Digg’s founder just announced new changes to the rating algorithm – namely, it becomes very difficult to promote a story to the homepage with the help of your friends: a diverse, unique group of diggers is needed for this.
So… this means the end of the “Digg circles”(where u ask your friends for [...]

23 Oct, 2007

Italy prohibits Internet free speech

Posted by: Alex In: Politice

Again, an article in English, because I want this to be read by non-Romanians as well. I just heard an unbelievable and frightening piece of news, on the blog of an italian Flash coder, Emanuelle Feronato, who says it’s the end of Internet in Italy:
Ricardo Franco Levi, Prodi’s right hand man,…undersecretary to the President of [...]

17 Oct, 2007

One man’s fight kneeling Amazon down

Posted by: Alex In: Politice| Web| links

Who said one man can’t change the world?

Today is a great day for everyone with an interest in free speech, free software, software, freedom and.. well.. for everyone:
The infamous one-click patent owned by Amazon has finally been proven invalid. This was one of the most controversial patents in the history of internet and, as Paul [...]

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28 Oct, 2006

geo.yahoo.com and del.icio.us?

Posted by: alexbrie In: Just blogging

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26 Aug, 2006

The 100 million dollars giveaway

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