Geocities real archives
While having lunch with a couple of Yahoo employees on their awesome Sunnyvale campus the discussion turned to Geocities demise. Earlier in the year myself and TheHodge interviewed Yahoo founder David Filo Founder after they announced the closure of Geocities during that interview David expressed a hope that it would be archived either by Yahoo or a third party when Yahoo closed it down. With the announcement of the final closure I was surprised they never announced this archive. Hours prior to to Geocities closure, Reocities was born a project to archive its content, it got a lot of twitter time including

Merging Blogs oh Joy
These last two days have been fun as I have merged the old Venture Skills blog and timnash.co.uk while I didn't write every post most of them were mine and as part of the split up I took over the blog and all its content. to be fair most was innane blogging babble, the first year the blog had just 2 posts note worth both tutorials on creating a digg like site using Drupal. However there are some posts I am more proud of, the Stumbler Mathematics while overly simplified was a great success and gave people

Password Searching as a service
While eating my dinner and watching the news I was struck by how the recent phishing attack against major email providers was a major news story. I was not struck because I thought it shouldn't be major news far from it. I was struck because the media normally never gets this stuff right!! Last week I released some of the statistics from a project we worked on earlier in the year that revealed 92% of people use the same password for their email as they do for other sites. One of the more interesting stats was actually from the follow up survey where almost a third of

Park Hampers SEO sucks
If your looking for a Hamper click here if your after Park Hampers site click here, this post is not about the actual saving scheme or hampers. Sometimes watching television can be frustrating and I don't mean because of the silliness of CSI awesome computing and forensic capabilities No what I find silly is the way advertisers try to leverage the web. So I w

Please stop using the same passwords!!!
A scary 92% of people use the same password across all websites including their email accounts this is the finding of a short research project we did for a client recently. 92% is a scary statistic here how we got it Over the last 6 months we have been working with two clients to experiment with their security authentication methods our first issue was to see if what the issues was, one of the questions asked was do people use the same passwords across multiple sites. So we set up a very simple test using several websites registration processes, we identified users who's email address were yahoo, gmail, hotmail and a few of the smaller free email providers. Next w