The Nashville Business Journal takes a look this week at the growing trend of ROWE policies, highlighting a few local firms that have taken advantage of it, including one firm that should sound familiar (hint: it rhymes with “enter force”). In the past, we have received no shortage of skeptical raised-eyebrows when we explain our…
The 2012 NEXT Awards are presented by the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and the Entrepreneur Center to recognize business growth, job creation and corporate commitment to growing the economy in Middle Tennessee. The most innovative entrepreneurs and business movers in the area will be honored for the results of their revenue and employment growth….
You’ve probably caught wind of it already. A snide remark here, a subtle eye-roll there. What started as vague muttering in the ether of the twitters has grown to a dull roar of complaints: Barcamp Nashville is not legit. Whether or not these complaints represent a growing sentiment or a vocal minority remains to be…
Just a quick update: Last month, I posted about the threat of firesheep, and some countermeasures you can take. There’s a new tool on the block called BlackSheep. It’s pretty clever — it’s a modified version of the firesheep codebase that makes fake HTTP requests of the sort that Firesheep would normally intercept and hijack,…
You may have heard some rumblings about “firesheep”, a new extension for Firefox that is making the rounds, and its implications for web security. In short, it’s a new extension that enables people to snoop on other people’s web sessions — websites like facebook, et al. There seems to be a lot of confusion around…
Backup solutions and disaster recovery are a mainstay of technology, and they have been well-analyzed in the past — typically from an IT angle. But choosing a solid backup for a website is just as important, and it’s an oft-overlooked final step in the successful deployment of any web site or application. Backup technology has…
Google, why hast thou forsaken us? A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, GMail had this great feature that was a defining reason in my switch from my previous mail provider (me). That was that if you ever got a message that had any sort of “event” — various combinations of a date,…
We have a customer of ours who pays us both for e-mail/web hosting as well as our anti-spam/anti-virus relay service, Swirbo. Swirbo is a service that filters mail by having mail for a domain sent to it first, via MX records, and then relayed to its final destination. Recently, this customer began reporting that she…
Recently we had one of our regular (every couple of months) Comcast Nightmares. These happen now and again, and by now our entire company is fairly used to the “Comcast is down — go work from home or a coffee shop” routine. This time, however, I wanted to detail a bit of what we experienced,…
We’d have a recent spat of complaints from our Swirbo customers regarding their inability to receive mail from certain Google apps — i.e. if you invite someone to view a blog, or docs.google.com document. Today I got an example of the actual error they are getting: Technical details of permanent failure: TEMP_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state…
