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If my colleagues didn’t support a sense of whimsy and my sense of humor (?), I never would have been able to post this faux press release just before Thanksgiving. For the record, I’m usually a no cranberries man, but on turkey sandwiches after the big day, the canned sauce is much more spreadable. This [...]

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In the past, I’d be paying more attention to the Web 2.0 conference this week in San Francisco, November 7-9. Instead, I’ll be in Santa Clara for the same three days for ISPCON, the semi-annual conference for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the companies which work with them. We’ll be announcing a new service for [...]

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As noted on the OpenDNS corporate blog, David Pogue learned about OpenDNS, gave it a try, and loved it, according to what he wrote on his NYTimes.com blog today: My wife and I are totally loving the new speed. Don’t tell Open DNS [sic], but we even would have paid for it. Back in the [...]

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At work, I need to pick the right forum software to run on OpenDNS.com. We’ve discussed the possibilities informally a few times, but the burst of activity — and resulting customer support — triggered by two print articles made this project more important. I’m going to share my research and the final decision in a [...]

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On Monday, OpenDNS launched PhishTank, a community anti-phishing site with a free, open API for getting the data everywhere it might help. The response was gratifying. Skim the 51 mentions (and counting) so far. Thanks to the still-impressive distribution of the Associated Press, a single article made it to many, many more outlets than I [...]

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David posts the details on the OpenDNS blog, and I want to call attention to the opportunity. We’re looking to pay someone to work quickly to create a Thunderbird extension using the REST API for the anti-phishing website launching shortly. If you’re interested, or know folks who might be, please hurry… need testable code by [...]

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At work we spent a lot of time today providing OpenDNS users with a way to avoid the wildcarding of the .cm TLD (CNET News.com article). You can read all about the choices available at “Cameroon takes the ‘o’ out of .com.” The most interesting part to me? There are fewer than 200 valid domains [...]

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I’d read The New Yorker article on Wikipedia (thanks, Laura), and last night I read The Atlantic article on same. Looking at my cluttered home inbox, I found my wikipedia contrail, a meme I’m a few weeks late on. I typed “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/” into my browser and looked to see what came up as autocomplete options–this [...]

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I left CNET Networks on May 10th, about nine weeks ago. I’ve hinted at my departure a few times here, but I haven’t said much. When I noted the launch of OpenDNS, it reminded me of my silence on the topic of CNET. I am proud of my five and a half years at CNET. [...]

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It’s been a long day, so I’ll simply relish that OpenDNS is now live to the world. More to do, but at least some sleep is in order. Wired covered the release with “Site-Lookup Service Foils Fraud,” and there were more than 1500 diggs today. If you want to learn more, visit the website.

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