NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours You may be concerned that the NSA is reading your e-mail. Is there really anything you can do about it though? After all, you don’t really want to move off of GMail / Google Apps. And no place you would host is any better. Except, you know, hosting it yourself. Today we kill your excuses. Now fair warning: it took me about two days to figure the stuff out you’re going to see in this blogpost, starting from knowing basically nothing about modern e-mail servers. So bookmark this blog post, block off a Saturday next month, and get it done. Edit Some people are complaining that the NSA is pulling all the e-mail over the wire anyway, so encrypting your own server is stupid. In the next two hours, we’re going to fix this. You’re going to host your own mail.It’s going to be encrypted on the server, locked-on-boot, SSH on reboots to unlockWhile we’re at it, let’s fix some things that annoy me about GMail:Better SPAM detection. I’m going to assume: Hang on just a minute though. Let’s get started!
Practical books for web developers — Artmov The One-Person Product In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies. That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client, David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he’d had for a while. He had already bought the domain: tumblr.com, because it was an easy platform for publishing tumblelogs. David Karp in September 2006, a few months after hiring me to build websites with him for clients. In March 2007, Tumblr exploded after Gina Trapani wrote it up on Lifehacker and her post made it to the Digg front page (the first Digg!). We soon added following and reblogging, which dramatically turned this publishing platform into the social-publishing hybrid that has made it so compelling and unique. That summer, David decided we should stop doing client work, take some funding, and take Tumblr full-time. David’s characteristically spotless desk in December 2007. Growth continued extremely strongly. David and me in February 2008.
Sovereign Peer-to-Peer Robert Scoble - Google+ - Open Garden brings mobile a new kind of network I'm not… +Robert Scoble Unfortunately, you didn't bring up an EXTREMELY important downside of Open Garden. I started using it about a month ago when I was looking for exactly what Mischa was describing, where I was sick of fiddling with paring and settings to tether my Nexus 7 to my Galaxy Nexus. However according to some complaints and responses from Google, the way Open Garden is connecting to other devices (I believe it's done via a VPN) means that a great number of apps think that they don't have a connection when their only connection to the internet is via Open Garden. There have been statements from Google developers that this will be fixed in an upcoming version of Android, but at the moment apps like Pocket, Feedly, the Play Store, and basically anything other than Chrome or Youtube cannot be used. This is a really awesome service that I want to make use of but at the moment it's extremely limited.
Bittorrent in a P2P social network Fred Wilson: Yahoo Will Put Tumblr on Same Level as Facebook, Twitter One of Tumblr's earliest investors, venture capitalist Fred Wilson, says the Yahoo deal will lead to an influx of advertising on the platform and bring it to the level of Facebook and Yahoo in advertisers' minds. "Tumblr has been pushing their native advertising system into the marketplace for the past year," Wilson told interviewer John Battelle Tuesday at the CM Summit in New York. "It's a beautiful system. They say to a marketer, 'Create a Tumblog. Post what you want to the Tumblog and that could be imagery, it could be video it could be GIFs, it could be anything and then we will allow you to promote that throughout the community, much like the way Twitter does.'" Wilson said that marketers haven't been very receptive to the pitch. Wilson, whose firm Union Square Ventures invested $350,000 in Tumblr in 2007, also said that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer realized that the company lacked a social media presence and couldn't create one from scratch. Image via Getty, Mario Tama
Air pollution monitoring stations face closure as government looks to cut costs | Environment Up to 600 stations for monitoring air pollution across England could be shut down under new government plans to save money by cutting regulations. Ministers want to remove obligations on local authorities to assess air quality in their areas, resulting in less monitoring. But environmental campaigners are accusing them of trying to hide one of the country's biggest public health problems. Government advisers have estimated that one type of pollutant – miniscule particles from diesel engines, fossil fuel power stations and other sources – is killing 29,000 people a year in the UK, and costing health services about £16bn. But European air pollution limits meant to protect health are being breached in urban areas across the country, with the highest levels in London. But now Defra has launched a six-week consultation, due to close on 30 August, proposing a radical overhaul of the local air quality management regime that has been in place since 1997.
Why Google Glass Is Creepy Every new technology causes initial public discomfort. It took society a long time to accept cell phones as commonplace. Before that, television. And before that, tractors. So when people scoffed at Google Glass, I rolled my eyes. The biggest concern seems to be distraction. Just what we need, right? Those are misguided concerns. Hilarious parody videos show people undergoing all kinds of injury while peering at the world through a screen cluttered with alerts and ads. Even so, Google Glass might have a tough slog ahead for social acceptance. No, the biggest obstacle is the smugness of people who wear Glass—and the deep discomfort of everyone who doesn't. For a year now Google employees and celebrities have been allowed to wear Glass. There she was, wearing this creepy-looking, faux-futuristic forehead band—with a built-in video camera pointed at my face. This puts Glass wearers in a position of control. Months before Glass's public launch, one Seattle bar has already banned them.