A catalog of this year's risks #2010

Risk is something which can be difficult to evaluate for the average person, there is a lot of work which goes in to learning not to do the two things that people usually do when they are confronted with risk:

1. Ignore
2. Overreact

Facebook is the new Portal for Insurers and Banks #social #finance

It looks like every man and his dog needs to have a Facebook page, even banks...

@Google and @FaceBook battle over the back of @FriendFeed? #social #feedburner

It has been almost 1.5 weeks since Google’s FeedBurner removed the Frie...

Prosper allows loans to fund Kiva projects #microfinance

Some days ago I tweeted to Prosper, a personal loan marketplace, whether they...

Social Revolution – Do You Get It?

I don’t really think most people get “it” when it comes to ...

Secret Google campaign against Hyves? #social #networking

Just noticed that Google Translate translates the name of the Dutch social ne...

Company Policy or People #hr

I find a 400 plus page manual of office policies and job descriptions for eac...

Social Media Syndication – Feedback Loop

In the last two days I’ve not been posting so much, and focussing on up...

Google Scribe – Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits #google

I started playing with Google Scribe and wanted to see if patterns emerged so...

@Google, please stop with the language! #google

I have my Google account set up with English as the preferred language, my br...

Did The LinkedIn Certificate Expire Again? #linkedin

For the last 2 years LinkedIn has been running a bad poor IT management depar...

Advert: Reserve your Agile/SCRUM Pack #scrum #agile

When I just started I too had trouble with getting all the items I required t...

GMail Quota and Statistics (follow-up) #google #gmail #dashboard

On August 11th 2007 I exceeded my GMail quota, I blogged about it here. At th...

More SMS banking by M&T #sms #bank #risk

Brian Szymanski send a reply to me concerning another bank implementing SMS b...

Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet

I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is...

Is RevTrax violating FaceBook privacy policy? #facebook @RevTrax #privacy

I just read an article Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell in the ...

China acquires more than China… #hacks

This morning/night China’s networks were sending rerouting messages to ...

Implementation of Security #risk

The lack of trained and experienced computer security people working in small...

ING reveals names using account numbers #bank #risk

Last week I saw an episode of a popular Dutch Ombudsman program Kassa, they r...

Musing: Why can I fly solo?

After seeing a program about a lifecoach trying to find the time to get his p...

Image source Radio Nederland Wereldomroep

Special Brands articles about "Programming" #2010

In 2010 I was less focussed on programming articles on the blog than previous years, still I have managed to create some interesting articles with code in 2010. This is an overview of the activity:

Sync Web with Phone #html #javascript #scratchpad

Having some fun today with QR codes, JavaScript and the Google Analytics URL ...

The Structure of a Daily Scrum #agile #scrum

The only questions that are asked in the Daily Scrum, aka Stand-Up, are: What...

Features I Still Miss in Mail #mail #email

UPDATE: GMail has introduced my number 3. YEAH! (Gmail introduces Priority In...

YouTube Channel Unsubscribe #bookmarklet

I like YouTube, and often subscribe to new channels and unsubscribe after a w...

PCI is nice (or what I do) #pcidss

Since I started working for my company I’ve been exposed to PCI DSS (Pa...

Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet

I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is...

VeriSign PIP Browser Certificate workaround (PIN Request) #identity #openid

VeriSign – Personal Identity Portal is a OpenID provider with multiple ...

Image source D'Arcy Norman