Could be another red herring, like the iPhone scare that was disproved a while back, or could be something far more Microsoftian… Only time will tell…

Lies, Lies and Adobe Spies

The first clue something is fishy is that I don’t use a 192.168.xxx.xxx numbering scheme in my network. Secondly, if you look at the address Little Snitch is displaying, the last “numbers” of the IP address (2O7) look funny. Also, IP address don’t end in any .com/net/org suffix.Turns out that 192.168.112.2O7.net is owned by Omniture, a huge behavioral analytics firm. Hmmmmmm, anybody curious why Adobe is doing this? Anybody care to sniff packets? I sense an invasion of privacy here!

I enjoy Fake Steve. It’s the kind of humor none of my friends understand, yet often has me in stitches. Yet Roughly Drafter (linked below), offers a very different take on the methods and possible motives of Fake Steve, and the man behind him, Forbes’ Daniel Lyons.

Daniel Lyons Cries Wolf: The Real Bill Gates Behind the Fake Steve Jobs — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

When the New York Times fingered Lyon as the writer of FSJ, it was revealed that his wit wasn’t exactly splashed around equally. “Mr. Lyons clearly used the Fake Steve persona to further some of his own interests and positions,” the Times noted. “For example, articles in other business publications and their journalists were a frequent target of criticism from Fake Steve, while Forbes got off comparatively easy.” The subjects Lyons cast the most derision upon are targets of Bill Gates: Linux, Google, Apple, and particularly the personality of Steve Jobs. That’s no coincidence.

Profoundly terrifying in the potential scope of its abuses. Amazon should not have the ability to rip or swap out pages prior to sending me a book and Rogers should not have the same ability to change or in any way modify web pages prior to serving them.

Canadian ISP tests injecting content into web pages

The ability to modify Internet content at the network level could potentially be abused by ISPs to insert additional advertising into web pages or perform selective, automated censorship. Although no mainstream ISP in North America engages in such practices, proponents of network neutrality have discovered that Rogers—a Canadian cable Internet provider—is trialing similar technology to inject notices to subscribers in regular web content, leading some to fear that more abusive content manipulation may occur in the future.

Nice write up. 10-15 years for the spec, even with draft implementations from the major browsers, is a long time, and if previous history repeats itself, could lead to confusion and incompatibility (Mozilla vs. IE box models anyone?). Hopefully the major players will take more care this time.

Still, can’t wait for some of this yummy markup candy…

A List Apart: Articles: A Preview of HTML 5

Work on HTML 5, which commenced in 2004, is currently being carried out in a joint effort between the W3C HTML WG and the WHATWG. Many key players are participating in the W3C effort including representatives from the four major browser vendors: Apple, Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft; and a range of other organisations and individuals with many diverse interests and expertise.Note that the specification is still a work in progress and quite a long way from completion. As such, it is possible that any feature discussed in this article may change in the future. This article is intended to provide a brief introduction to some of the major features as they are in the current draft.

Not just no mention of Safari (technically MobileSafari) which runs beautifully on iPhone and iPod Touch, but on WebKit which is not only behind MobileSafari, but behind Nokia’s browser, and behind the upcoming Google Android browser.Reminds me both how far little old Konquerer has really come, and how far blogging as a source of information still needs to go.

Browser War 2.0 - the race for the mobile web: Firefox vs. Opera vs. Flock | designing the web 2.0

But what if screens get bigger and sharper, like the iPhone? because you’re nearer to the screen, resolution and look-and-feel are almost comparable to a desktop computer. And the next years will surely bring mobile surfing very close to desktop surfing by means of screen-resolution.