⇒ fallout from Gmail hacking

Gmail was hacked by someones in China this week. Shit hit the fan, yo:

ie exploit used

micro$h!t issues warning

servers behind attack id'd

political aftermath

germans told to avoid IE

great firewall of china

google switches security to https

in the end Google responded to attacks by uncensoring it's Chinese results, which has long term ramifications for any other business dealing with China. Depending how Google comes away from this, it will set precedent for others. It's like a cyber cold war.

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⇒ constructive web catchup

a list apart:

elevate web design at the university level
brighter horizons for web education
return of the mobile style sheet
semantics in html 5
return of the mobile style sheet

campaign monitor blog:

nested tables in HTML email: how much is too much?
Q&A newsletter
Improved authentication and Yahoo! integration
Voices newsletter
Giving back gets going
Export and share campaign reports
Nyman ink newsletter
Dialogue from Dialect
Should your plain text be exactly the same as your HTML?

Google analytics blog:

mastering-motion-charts-trend-analysis
9-steps-to-becoming-analytics-emperor
new-video-see-what-people-are-searching
tracking-google-sites-with-analytics
join-discussion-with-comments
short-answer-is-you-dont-have-to-change
announcing-winners-of-website-workout
eyes-on-prize-with-custom-reports
gaac-attack-year-end-fun-for-google-analysts

MacOSX hints:

Enable mounting of remote CD/DVDs on any Mac
use VLC to watch incomplete movies
Set preview frame during QuickTime movie export
Customize those boring blue folders using Preview

Matt Cutts:

four things you need to know about Knol
detecting googlebombs
Talking to a Wiimote in Ubuntu 8.10
“Preventing Virtual Blight” talk

javascript image galleries:

lightbox
Imago
Hoverbox (modified)
Spry
FrogJS
slideViewer 1.1
lightbox 2

Vitamin feed:

tips for freelancers starting your own business
how to: RSS-Enabled, Micro-Blog with Twitter

other:

why text is king
premium business cards
Officeworks business cards
UK webhosting
Set up new virtual hosts by creating new folders
Google zeitgeist 2008

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⇒ campaign monitor

google zeitgeist
Campaign Monitor forums as a place to find work
Campaign Monitor forums as a place to find work
Getting through the Postini filter
Emails and web applications
the pearls: So some quick tips on application driven emails:

• Make the email as useful as possible: Can you get enough into the email so that reading it is enough, and no click is needed?


• Make your links as specific as possible: If you do need a link, make sure that the one click gets your reader right to where they need to be.


• Simplify as much as possible: Pull out unnecessary elements from your email. That may mean less design elements, shorter sentences or less copy.

Campaign monitor gallery
Australian research shows email still dominates
Quick tip: Know your anti-spam laws
Smarter newsletters with targeted content
Jakob Nielsen: “Email is a user interface”
API

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⇒ HTML eMAIL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML
http://mailformat.dan.info/body/html.html
http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/mhtml.html

uses MIME-type encoding. Basically one big security breach waiting to happen. Particulars of MIME HTML here:
http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/RFC-MHTMLTEST.txt
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2387.txt
ftp://ftp.dsv.su.se/users/jpalme/draft-ietf-mhtml-info.txt
http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/mhtml-info.html

as of right now, i can't find a decent tutorial or editor for MIME HTML. Do I just drag and drop in MS Entourage/Mac Mail?

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