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Heartbleed bug was consequence of “trivial error” The Heartbleed bug, a flaw discovered on encryption software used on about two-thirds of all websites, was created unintentionally, the programmer responsible has said. Robin Seggelmann, a German programmer, described the flaw as the consequence of a “trivial” error in an update to OpenSSL, the software widely used to enable secure connections, writes Jeevan Vasagar. Read more Google Glass goes on general sale, sort of It is nearly two years since Google took the wraps of Glass, its ambitious smart glasses project, and said it was aiming to put them on sale by the end of 2013. Dropbox CEO gets ready for IPO Dropbox chief Drew Houston is preparing for life as a public company executive. In an interview with the FT after Wednesday’s launch of Carousel, a new photo-sharing app, and a suite of other new products, Mr Houston didn’t even wait for the inevitable question about an initial public offering to address the topic. by Barney Jopson

The living map of the web? When you click on the mini-pearl, pearls just pop up from everywhere. They are the most connected pearls to the pearltree you selected. But, you might have also noticed that they gather as clouds. Actually, it means that they are also closed to one another. For instance, if you select a “music” pearltree, you will see an indie rock cloud. That means indie rock fans have many crossings in their “indie rock” pearltrees. Once you have found a beautiful pearltree you can also enrich it by adding other users’ pearltrees. Filed under: Help by Frocaboy on February 16th, 2009

footnoted.com - Michelle Leder's guide to what's hiding in SEC filings TechCrunch Le Nouvel Obs Best 25 Financial Blogs -- Printout - Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009 By Douglas A. McIntyre and Ashley C. Allen It has been over a year since we published our feature "The 25 Best Financial Blogs." This is a list of independent blogs. Financial information on blog sites is not readily available. Financial blogs end up being either labors of love or ways to promote small money management or paid newsletter businesses. For constant business updates, go to 247wallst.com. See the best social networking applications. Over the last month 24/7 Wall St. has looked at more than 100 financial blog websites. After we narrowed the number of financial blogs down to about 50, we tracked posts for several weeks before picking the final twenty-five. Original content was our most important measurement: specifically, content that was well-written, well-researched and crisp. Blogs that used profanity were also excluded from the list. Anonymous blogs also did not make the cut. The final major metric was frequency of posting. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10.

DigitalMedia » VentureBeat مدونة أبو سفيان Deal Journal Dish Network Corp.’s surprise $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. may leave the No. 4 carrier T-Mobile with a tougher hand to play in a consolidating wireless market. Associated Press Sprint’s deal with satellite-TV provider Dish would likely include Sprint’s planned acquisition of Clearwire Corp., bringing together a massive amount of spectrum under a company with a large pile of debt. That combination of debt and spectrum could make it more difficult, and less necessary, for Sprint or Dish to pursue T-Mobile down the road. As a result, the deal announced Monday could remove two companies long rumored to be potential acquirers of T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG. “The prospect of a deal with Dish has been diminished by today’s news,” said New Street analyst Jonathan Chaplin. T-Mobile has been bleeding customers for years and is attempting to strengthen its position through acquiring, and merging into, MetroPCS Communications Inc.