A new search engine has come to our attention this week. Not that there is not enough search engines on the web these days, but this one is a little special.

Hackers are used to crawl the web for potential security leaks, but now it seems that someone think that it should be more common to the public to find the same information.

Starting this week SHODAN make there search engine available to the public, i.e. with a few key strokes and common knowledge about internet security your first hacker attempt could be possible.

Example: To find a Linksys router in Denmark that is configured with default username and password takes less then 1 minute.

What the information is going to be used for we can only imagine, but my best guess is that quite a few people would feel tempted to go "all the way"

Is it so hard to do something positive with such a tool? Why not warn the owners of the web sites about the security risk they have - not only to have there own servers and intranets hacked BUT also the security risk they oppose to the complete internet community by allowing botnets and other evil stuff to work from there sites.

At TechnologyCrawler we will try to take the positive approach!
Do any of our readers have good ideas how to approach the problem ?- please leave a comment

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You can among other things use it as an "add-on" to Google Analytics
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This is a small test of embedding a Wave in a blog, i.e. the readers of Technology Crawler should be able to see realtime editing of the blogpost!!!
There are some minor bugs during the process....but. REMEMBER THIS IS A PREVIEW version of Google Wave, we will get there.
At the moment it seem that it is only possible to see the Wave if you are logged-in with a Wave account, i.e it is not yet public...working on the problem...This is due to the enhancement issue #154...so we have to wait for a solution.

... Until Isue #154 is solved I will temporarily add a desktop recording so that non-Wave members can see what is going on. I have not been so thrilled since I tried the www for the first time...this will be great!!!

Stay tuned :-)

More easily find relevant blogs, reviews and other public content from your social circle. 


Select to participate in the Google Experimental Labs function for Google Social Search

Sign in to Google and do a search. If there's relevant web content written by people in your social circle, it will automatically show up at the bottom of your search results under a section called "Results from people in your social circle."

To see even more social content you can click the "Show options" link at the top of the results page and then click on the "Social" link.

What is your social circle? It's a combination of your Gmail chat buddies, your Gmail contacts friends, family and co-worker groups, and people you're publicly connected to on other social sites (such as Twitter and FriendFeed). Learn more about social search.


As to few people is making use of the possibility to add there profile on Google the experiment will at the moment have limited results...but lets give the guys a chance

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Some techniques never get outdated no matter if you are using Lean/agile methodologies in software R&D environments or use more rigid methodologies in e.g. production environments.

One of these techniques are Peer Review - nothing "new under the sun", but the tool you choose to accommodate a bulletproof peer review can be of high importance to your success - and a fast ROI.

Callis - a Danish start-up, provides a state of the art MS Word plug-in, Callis Reviewer, that will make it work in your company from day 1. Using the latest Web2.0 technologies you get all the support to conduct collaborative peer reviews and benefit from the - always visible - status of a review.

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Your own ISP for sure provide you with the possibility to measure your internet speed, but are they objective, and what good does it make to have a high speed to your ISP if the bandwidth from the ISP to the surrounding world is zero?
From time to time I use Speedtest to get an objective measurement - recommended!

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