FastMail Says It’s Free of NSA Surveillance
FastMail steps up with more explicit statement about its customer privacy: Robert Norris, Fastmail technical lead, said: “Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter, so we cannot be forced to do something without being allowed...
How to Park, List and Sell Your Domains
Here are some of the tools that I use to simplify automation of parking, listing and selling my Internet domain portfolio. You can see the results in action here: http://federal.ninja and domains for sale. 1. Parking Page: Use a parking...
Kick the NSA and Google Out of Your Office with O.N.I.C.S.
The great folks where I cowork, Office Nomads, launched O.N.I.C.S. for intra-office delivery of appreciations, treats, love notes, kindnesses, invitations and other awesome things. That’s what they say – but it’s clearly a cleverly designed countermeasure against NSA & Google...
Amazon’s Civic Apps Contest Disappears
This post was updated at 2 pm PST with Amazon response, cached contest documentation and prize amounts. Amazon has apparently “unlaunched” and postponed its $100,000+ Civic Apps Contest for AWS. Amazon AWS PR spokesperson Kerri Catallozzi wrote, “We accidentally pushed this...
First Indications of Affordable Care Act in Washington Look Awful
I knew that the Affordable Care Act was likely a disaster, essentially handing over billions in annual subsidies to for profit health insurers whose overhead is 18-20% vs. Medicare’s 6%. However, I wanted to give President Obama the benefit of...
Open Source Mailing List Application for Mailgun’s PHP SDK
If you’re a developer looking for a simple streamlined mailing list service – or a super scalable one, check out my tutorial at Mailgun’s blog: Open Source Mailing List Applet Using the Mailgun PHP SDK. This project is also written...