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WordPress.com Goes Down, Takes Millions of Blogs With It [UPDATED] | Mashable

WordPress Gives Us The VIP Treatment, Goes Down On Us Again | TechCrunch

As you’ve noticed, we’ve brought the vast majority of blogs back, including yours. We’re currently working on bringing back the rest (including GigaOM), we have to verify their options data first, then the home page, then stats. However if you’re back already like TC is everything should work as normal.

The cause of the outage was a very unfortunate code change that overwrote some key options in the options table for a number of blogs.

Mike and team at TC: you guys have jinxed us, but we still love you. These past two rapid-fire incidents have been cringe-worthy and painful, and I’m sorry they both happened shortly after your switch to VIP.

Errant Code Change Crashes 10 Million Blogs | Data Center Knowledge

The blog hosting service WordPress.com suffered a major outage last night, affecting as many as 10.2 million hosted blogs, including high-profile news sites like TechCrunch and GigaOm. “The cause of the outage was a very unfortunate code change that overwrote some key options in the options table for a number of blogs,” WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg reported in the comments on TechCrunch. Most sites appear to have been offline for about an hour, but it was about six hours before the WordPress.com team posted that operations were “back to full speed.”

マルウェア Stuxnet を仕掛けたのは誰か？

［Stuxnet’s target?］

Who’s Behind Stuxnet? The Americans? The Israelis? | Security Watch

All this and more makes you have certain amount of admiration for Stuxnet’s authors. They’re very good at their work and brought their A game to this one. This is why German security firm Langner calls it the “hack of the century” (see that link for more on the PLC attack). Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky says “I’d call it groundbreaking.”

Finally, it was also noticed by many that Stuxnet has an unusual geographical distribution:

Windowsのショートカット脆弱性を悪用する「Stuxnet」を各社が警告 | INTERNET Watch

後追いの日本企業は新製品を出すのも半周遅れ

［New Products］

yuta 氏のコメント［サムスン製タブレットはここまで出来る・・・］ | maclalala2

>ところでサムスンがここまで出来るのに、なぜ日本製は出ないのか？

想像ですが、特許、コンプライアンスの問題があるからでしょう。タッチインターフェイスの特許はアップルをはじめ米国のベンチャー企業などが幅広く押さえているため、日本企業はこれら膨大な特許の権利判断、つまり自社製品が特許に抵触しないか時間をかけて調査し、それから製品開発に着手するという手順となり時間がかかります。一方韓国、中国勢はまず製品を開発販売し、特許訴訟などが起これば、裁判も辞さずという考えです。当然samsungなどは自社で対抗できる特許を豊富に持っているはずですので、クロスライセンスなどの交渉カードが十分揃っています。

東芝のタブレットの販売国がまずは欧州、中東、アフリカで、日本は未定とか。

http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1009/03/news029.html

日本企業は新しい市場を開拓することも出来ず、後追いで製品を出すのも半周遅れという感じですね。

今回の尖閣諸島問題にしても全く戦略がない日本と同じく、日本企業もアジア勢の攻勢に押されて白旗を揚げるのでしょうか。世界では主張をしない者はないに等しいのです。日本企業の存在感は急速に薄れつつあります。

ここアメリカでは薄型テレビと言えばsamsungが圧倒的なブランドになっています。自動車も韓国の現代が急速にシェアを拡大しつつあります。

日本企業は小さな失敗を恐れて勝負を避けているように映るのです。Appleのように長期の戦略にたって企業の価値を高める努力をして来たのでしょうか。

まだまだ日本製品＝高品質のブランド力は生きています。5年先は分かりませんが。今のうちに何とかしなければ取り返しがつかなくなります。頑張れ日本企業！

モスバーグおじさんのパリのアメリカ人

An American in Paris Says Au Revoir to His Laptop | AllThingsD

〈これって格好の iPad コマーシャル・・・〉

Earlier this month, my wife and I took a 10-day working vacation to Paris, and for the first time in many years, I decided to go away for a week or more without a laptop. Instead, I resolved to rely on only an Apple iPad tablet, my smartphone and a small digital camera.

Overall, my attempt to substitute a tablet for a laptop was a big success, and I’d do it again for a short trip or working vacation. As tablets get better, this will only become easier. For instance, Microsoft is working on a touch-based tablet version of Windows that could make the slates even better laptop replacements.

ジョークだよ

Eric Schmidt – The Colbert Report – 9/21/10 | Comedy Central

〈なんだか・・・気味がワルい・・・〉

Transcript: Stephen Colbert Interviews Google’s Eric Schmidt On The Colbert Report | searchengineland.com

Colbert: Now you famously said, and I completely support this, the idea that some day, young people instead of having privacy, for the things that they put up on Facebook, being able to expunge that, since once it’s up there, it exists forever, that one day they’ll just erase their histories and change their names, and they’ll be scot free.

Schmidt: It was a joke.

Colbert: Stares in silence.

Schmidt: And it just wasn’t very good.

Colbert: I guess that’s too hip for the room.

Schmidt: It just wasn’t a very good joke.

アップル成功の秘密はジョブズがノーを 1000 回でもいえること

［Steve jobs ］

Apple’s Jobs: 1,000 No’s on Way to Triumph | TheStreet

What is the top innovation secret of Steve Jobs?

Gallo: Steve jobs once said the secret to innovation is saying no to one thousand things, which means he focuses just on those products that mean something to his customers and to his clients. That also means eliminating the clutter. That’s why iPods, iPhones and iPads are so easy to use. Because instead of adding more features, which is what the vast majority of companies are doing, they actually eliminate features to make it easier to use.

コンセプトデザイン Seabird

Concept Series: Seabird – A Community-driven Mobile Phone Concept | Mozilla Labs

〈オープンウェブのコンセプトフォン〉

The Seabird, then, introduces a few possibilities into how user interaction might evolve with the advancing motion capture and projector driven innovation in the market. First out, the Seabird imagines how a multiple use dongle might augment the crowded gestural interface with greater precision and direct manipulation of content in 3D space.

ビデオはこちら：

Mozilla Seabird 2D | YouTube

Facebook Phoneよりこれ。Mozilla SeabirdはOpen Webのコンセプト電話機 | TechCrunch Japan

アンドロイドはどこまでモバイルマーケットを獲得できるか

Can Android change the distribution of profit among phone vendors? | asymco

Some assume that the future belongs to the Koreans but we see that the relatively small amount of profit that Samsung has (less than RIM actually) has not changed much. HTC is also shown to be a steady performer but not having displaced much from competitors.

Will Android change this picture? As I’ve argued before, Android is most attractive to the unprofitable and the strategically constrained. Can having undifferentiated new products change this? As Nokia is unlikely to license Android, and RIM seems very unlikely and Apple is out of the picture, the only possible contenders are Samsung, LG, HTC, Motorola and Sony Ericsson.

アップル成功の陰に死屍累々

［Microsoft Windows］

Apple’s destructive power | MarketWatch

Apple Inc. is a Death Star. It pulls in most of what comes into its orbit and either overtakes or assimilates it.

The success of the company is particularly spectacular because it is largely a four-product enterprise, consisting of the iPad, iPod, Mac, and iPhone. It also produces a suite of supporting software that includes its OSX, the Safari browser, iTunes, and the App Store. These non-hardware products knit together the “iProduct” universe.

もうアップルは iPod にある程度見切りをつけつつあるのかなぁ

iPod nanoがやってきたなの←（文法間違い） | 若旦那の独り言wp

ま、モノとしての完成度、満足度は高いと思うけど、音楽プレイヤーとしての完成度は前世代の方が上だろう。これは前世代のnanoがAmazonであまり値崩れしていないことを見ても分かる。もししっかりした音楽プレイヤーが欲しいなら、今のうちに在庫を買っとくか、アップルで整備済み調整品を買う方が幸せになれるかもしれない。

思うのはもうアップルはiPod製品にある程度見切りを着けつつあるのかなぁということ。決して手を抜いているというわけではないが、単純なプレイヤーはこれくらいでいいや、というムードがあるというか。実際、nanoは機能的な面から言えば「退化」してるわけで、それ以上の機能を求める人はtouchを買ってねといいたいのだと思う。iAdとかiTunes Storeとかアップル的には単体で収益を上げられる仕掛けができるしね。ユーザーも値段的に大きく変わらないのにできることは数十倍ならふつーはtouchを買いますわな。ｗ