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Just so you know, you can use octopuses, octopi or even octopodes, the latter of which is rather awesome.
But seriously, do you have any idea what these creatures are capable of? I've been doing some octopus research recently and have been somewhat flabbergasted by these amazing animals. Why have I been doing octopus research, you ask? Why do I do anything? Because I either find it funny, it angers me or it fascinates me. Deal with it.
Anyhoo, there are several things I found out about octopuses that are intriguing as hell, and I also have a pretty cool story and a video to pass on as well. The video is at the bottom, and you simply must watch it. Your mind will be blown.
Let's get to it. I'll start with the story we ran across during my crack staff's extensive research. Read on:
There are also documented cases of octopuses unscrewing lids of baby-proof bottles, squeezing through tiny holes and entering houses to steal food, and stacking shells to form fortresses in the ocean. Jeepers creepers, man.
Here are some other cool facts:
- Octopuses don't have 8-legs. They have 4-pairs of arms. Somehow that sounds way more scary.
- Octopuses can walk across land. Again, j-u-s-t a tad horrifying.
- Octopuses use tools and weapons. There have been cases of octopuses beating a diver over the head with a conch shell. Sweet Mother of God.
- Octopuses have unique, distinct personalities, just like people. Well, most people.
- Octopuses have three hearts. Two pump blood through each of the two gills, while the third pumps blood through the body.
- When discovered, an octopus will release a cloud of black ink to obscure its attacker's view, giving it time to swim away. The ink even contains a substance that dulls a predator's sense of smell, making the fleeing octopus harder to track. Diabolical.
- Fast swimmers, they can jet forward by expelling water through their mantles. And their soft bodies, with no internal or external skeleton, can squeeze into impossibly small cracks and crevices where predators can't follow. Sneaky and slimy, dangerous combination. Trust me, I used to have a superintendent back in the 00's that fit that description perfectly.
- Octopuses have beaklike jaws that can deliver a nasty bite, and
venomous saliva, used mainly for subduing prey. Sorta looks like a parrot's beak. Hey, there's one right there >>>>>>.
- If all else fails, an octopus can lose an arm to escape a predator's grasp and re-grow it later with no permanent damage. The arms can even react after they've been completely severed. In one experiment, severed arms jerked away in pain when researchers pinched them.W-h-u-u-u-u-t?
- Octopuses arms have a mind of their own. Two-thirds of an octopus' neurons reside in its arms, not its head. As a result, the arms can problem solve how to open a shellfish while their owners are busy doing something else, like checking out a cave for more edible goodies or planning to overthrow the world.
And finally and most remarkably . . .
- Octopuses are capable of changing their body shape and color to mimic other animals and other ocean life. Check it:
Good God almighty, that was impressive. I agree with the dude in the video. Chameleons got nuthin' on the octopodes.
So there's your nature Lesson 'o' the Day, kids. I hope you learned something, I know I did. But after reading this, I have a ominous feeling that somewhere, out in the ocean, there's an island where octopuses are fine-tuning their walking abilities. And then someday in the future, Hawaii or Bermuda or some other small isolated island will be attacked by marauding, spear-wielding and poison ink squirting octopuses. An Octopi Army if you will. And this future conflict will be called by CNN the Revenge of the Calamari or something along those lines.
Prepare yourselves, people. Prepare yourselves.
But damn. Octopuses, man.

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I have discovered the reason that there is a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. It is because HR managers there are actively discriminating against women and minorities.
Michelle Maisto over at eWeek explains it all in a piece titled, Tech's Problem Is Bias, Not Qualified Candidates: Report.
Specifically she cites a study from the EEOC which says the following:
Stereotyping and bias, often implicit and unconscious, have led to underutilization of the available workforce. The study concluded: "Stereotyping and bias, often implicit and unconscious, have led to underutilization of the available workforce. The result is an overwhelming dominance of white men and scant participation of African Americans and other racial minorities. …. It has been shown, for example, that men are twice as likely as women to be hired for a job in mathematics when the only difference between candidates is gender.
This is fantastic news actually. We know now that the HR departments – who typically are deeply embedded in the hiring process in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are racist and sexist. Moreover, we know that discrimination based on sex, race, address, sexual orientation, etc. is illegal. We also know the problem is widespread which means there is an abundance of amazingly qualified talented minorities out there who just aren't being hired.
Since any companies hiring these amazingly talented people would be at a competitive advantage, there must also be collusion between firms to ensure thy are kept from the workforce.
The court case against these sexist Silicon Valley HR departments is building.
We need to know more about them. Who are these secretive, evil people hiring white men at the expense of white and minority women? The US Department of Labor says 76% of them are women.
Huh? What do these women have against other white and minority women? Is there a directive keeping them from hiring the most qualified candidate?
Apparently there is because the government has told us so. After all, who could argue with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission? It's not like the title of their commission tells us their findings before they even report on anything. It's not like they lose their need to exist if they don't find racism, right?
Now, since this is illegal activity, what is the next step? Will we be prosecuting companies that don't have enough women – even though women are often driving the hiring?
Is Silicon Valley being set up to be a pawn in the 2016 presidential debate – so we can tell people who don't have a job that it's the fault of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook?
After all, if there is illegal activity and the government has shown it to be true then there needs to be consequences, right? If we don't see any real action taken then we can just chalk this up to the Obama administration doing what it does best – dividing the country based on race, sex, income, etc.
I realize this may offend some of you but hear me out… If they bring charges, I am wrong. If they don't, I am right.
President Obama has said with tremendous confidence that racism lives in our DNA. To me this is a fascinating genetic algorithm as it causes African Americans and Latinos to be hired in smaller numbers but Indians and Chinese to be hired far more often at higher salaries. But if the skin color of Indians and African Americans is virtually identical, we obviously can't be racist against skin color. It has to be country of birth driving our decisions.
So, in our DNA is a database – passed on from parent to child, filled with countries we do and don't like. Once we ask a person where they are from, we are then able to discriminate against them accordingly.
Interestingly, our DNA dates back to at least six-million years while many modern countries are only hundreds of years old. So this database has to somehow update itself as new countries are settled, named and renamed after wars etc.
So if I understand the way this works, if you are racist against Crimeans but not Russians, when Russia annexed Crimea, your racism ceased.
After further reflection it seems only a brain twisted enough to bring us common core could make so many incorrect statements about reality.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said we are a nation of cowards and need to have a conversation about race, just before our African American president appointed another African American, Loretta Lynch to take over this extremely prestigious position. If we do have this talk, can we please start with the country-based DNA racism algorithm outlined above?
Let's get to the real problem, shall we?
When a country spends more on education than all others and their students rank 22 and their scores on math continue to drop, tech companies are not to blame. Could any fault lie with the Department of Education? Teachers unions? Our president? No, that doesn't make sense – it must be the fault of the companies creating the jobs. They're the evil ones as Bernie Sanders has advised us.
This my friends is called deflection – it is used to blame others for problems you, yourself are part of.
It is how community organizers and politicians manipulate – divide then conquer us as they enrich themselves.
Would I like to see more minorities at the tech companies we cover? Of course! But blaming companies looking to hire the best and brightest isn't the way to get there. The US education system is in shambles. A simple example is New York City, one of the richest areas in the country with some of the highest taxes. The high school dropout rate is 22% and of the remaining 78% graduating, 80% are illiterate! Assuming the dropouts are illiterate as well, the total people leaving high school illiterate is 84%. By the way 71% of the students in NYC are hispanic and black showing us how our schools are truly failing minorities.
Does the Obama administration really advocate adding a slew of illiterate people to the payrolls of Cisco, Slack and HP? Apparently. We really should call this the common core administration.
The Democrats have become synonymous with teachers unions and the Department of Education. They also represent most every inner-city and have for decades. In fact, if you look at the poorest cities in the nation they have been in the hands of this party for as many as 100 years! If they are to be elected in 2016, they have to keep pushing the narrative that the problems they are responsible for are really the fault of someone else. Expect the summer of deflection to continue - coupled of course with proclamations that anyone running against the Democratic party is racist and sexist.]]>
To learn more about Stitch Labs, I conducted an API of the Week interview with Brandon Levey, CEO of the company which is being done in conjunction with the All About The API conference to be held this July in Las Vegas. We hope to see you there.
What APIs do you have available?
The Stitch Labs API is currently the only API we have available. We've been using our API internally and building out features to address our customers' wants and needs. As we gathered feedback from our customers we've been making additions so that we had a fully functional solution upon launch this past week.
What are the benefits/ solutions they help provide?
The Stitch Labs API enables midmarket retailers to quickly innovate and streamline their operational infrastructure. In today's dynamic eCommerce environment full of competition and rising consumer expectations, this technical flexibility is critical for retailers to be successful. Consumers are placing a demand on retailers to sell their products wherever they wish to shop, creating a complex multichannel sales environment for midmarket retailers. Stitch's API benefits these businesses by enabling them to sell across multiple platforms with a complete and accurate view of all inventory that is updated in real-time. On the back-end, it streamlines inventory management and logistics operations, and on the front-end, it reduces stock-outs, fulfillment issues and customer complaints.
What new business opportunities do they potentially open up for your partners?
As retailers scale, their need for custom solutions will become increasingly important. By being a part of Stitch's ecosystem, partners will have an opportunity to further their exposure to retailers looking for unique solutions. This cuts down the time for retailers in search of those solutions and gives our partners an opportunity to show the value of their products.
Why should developers/ decision makers choose to be part of your ecosystem?
One in five retailers use more than ten applications to run their business, which can be difficult and require significant resources to manage. The Stitch API easily integrates these applications in one easy-to-use platform so retailers can focus on front-end operations. It links all their sales channels, accounting software and third-party logistics (3PL) providers to the heart of omnichannel commerce -- the inventory.
What are some of the cooler solutions that have been developed using your APIs?
One of the most innovative solutions that the Stitch API has been used for is the complex customer loyalty program developed by our customer Chubbies. Chubbies uses the API to connect customer order history, rewards program information and 3PL details to implement a customer loyalty program that delivers a thank you gift with each purchase a customer makes. Chubbies' loyalty program has contributed to a 98 percent customer satisfaction rating, and helped them grow repeat revenue by 70%.
How do you market your API's?
The Stitch API is included in Stitch Labs' Enterprise and Enterprise Plus packages. For customers who do not have a developer on staff but still want a customized solution, Stitch has partnered with a select group of developer partners to help customers with their more complex workflows.
Who is the "customer" for your API's?
The customer for our API is midmarket retailers who need a customized solution to integrate their back-end operations. A typical customer uses multiple applications and works with third-party providers to manage their inventory across multiple sales channels.
Come see the world of APIs at All About The API. The event will feature a variety of intensive hack-a-thons, in-depth company-focused workshops helping attendees understand the value propositions from key vendors, powerful keynotes, daily and nightly networking opportunities plus an exhibit hall full of companies demonstrating the latest innovations in today's market place. Every business has to pay attention to the new opportunities they are presenting or potentially be displaced. We hope to see you July 18-21 2016 in Las Vegas!]]>
Newlan's python script starts to run when a meeting begins and his computer's microphone listens in the background. It uses an open source speech recognition program to recognize phrases based on the silences between people's sentences. Then it uses IBM Watson's speech-to-text service to transcribe what's said.
Whenever his name is mentioned, the program sends him a 30 second transcript of what was said before his name was mentioned (and a little after).
Newlan's script then waits 15 seconds and plays a pre-recorded audio file of him saying, "Sorry, I didn't realize my microphone was on mute."
"That should give me sufficient time to catch up with the context of the meeting and give my input," he said.Savvy developers want to use Watson and integrate it with new age APIs that let you tap into text messaging, enterprise collaboration or whatever. When building a house or an application, you need a range of tools from new and more established companies.
They own the market. Google has a monopoly in search. Anyone who buys ads from the company or competes with them knows this. Heck, anyone who searches, knows it. It's the reason I wrote seven years ago that Eric Schmidt is cozying up to Obama – to prevent them from getting sued and broken up.
They earned it. Having said that, the company was built on innovation and for the most part, they built the monopoly and competed against a crowded field of Lycos, Alta Vista, Yahoo and others to get to where they are.
Hypocrisy? Consider, both Staples and Office Depot are getting creamed on a daily basis because Amazon is taking share and driving profits out of their businesses. The DoJ just blocked their merger due to antitrust concerns. What? Google isn't a monopoly but 2 office retailers who sell the same stuff as Target, Wal-Mart, FedEx stores, UPS stores, and thousands of dollar stores are? What is surprising is the progressive presidents are typically the ones suing companies over antitrust yet Obama who is about as progressive as they come, doesn't seem to have any interest in Google.
Nothing to see here. Fast-forward, to today and finally, the EU is suing Google and the FTC is looking into suing them (again). In reality, no one expects the company that visits the White House more often than any other to be split up while Obama is in office. Get this, Google has visited Obama at least 128 times! Defense contractors in the top 50 in total, visited the White House only 89 times in the same period!
Some surmise the launch of Alphabet was done to allow the company to have a smooth transition when they are eventually forced to split up.
Alex, I'll take "What is lobbying?" for $6.3 billion. By the way, can you guess which office supply company probably didn't visit the White House enough over the last few years??
They should thank me for writing this. But Google actually has a defense against the antitrust charge – at least if Apple continues down its current path, it really could hurt the search leader.
Here is how.
Mobile is eating the world. Search is moving to mobile and Google doesn't monetize smaller devices as well as the desktop due to screen size and other issues. As this transition happens, whoever owns the maps app has a tremendous advantage. Google has its own Maps and Waze apps while Apple has a single maps app which has improved greatly over the years. Isn't it interesting that there were no antitrust issues when Waze was purchased?
Apple to the Google rescue. Motek Moyen at Seeking Alpha points out Apple is hiring 4,000 people to improve Apple Maps. He argues that Tim Cook doesn't want people using Google Maps – I'd go further, saying Cook prefers people not use Google anything.
This is where the Google strategy comes in. The company seems to delight in giving away the technology others make money from.
Just a few examples. Microsoft makes most of its profits from Office so naturally Google started to give competing apps away for free. Apple became one of the most profitable companies in the world by designing a touch-based OS interface for mobile so of course Google gave away Android for free. In fact, if you want to get funded, investors ask, how will you compete with Google when they come into your space and likely give it away for free?
How it could work. Apple could do the same thing… Give away advertising for free but this could result in a situation where there would just be too many companies vying for attention on a screen. Instead, they could use the Google auction model but just not take in any profit from the endeavor – perhaps just a few percent to cover overhead. Alternatively they could rotate through all the advertisers - assuming there are enough eyeballs to see them all.
If this is successful, they could roll out their ad network to publishers and have a revenue split like Google does today but give even a higher percentage of the profits to the publisher.
Immediately, Google real-estate for ad placements could drop off.
What threat? Eric Schmidt has already argued that Siri could pose a competitive threat to the company's search business… This is why Google has also entered the chatbot space. Then again, Siri hasn't hurt Google's pocketbook since 2011 when the comments were made. In that time, Hundreds of millions of devices have been sold with Siri embedded.
The enemy of my enemy... If Apple plays its cards right, it could get the advertising community to come on board with it and at least give Cupertino a shot at damaging Google where all of its revenue is made.
I believe most of this strategy is already being implemented by Apple – they have already tried and failed to take on Google with their initial foray into advertising but perhaps they need to learn from Google again and try the auction model.
Apple has the best customers. The ad world is crying out for alternatives and Apple is in a good position to provide them. Also, customers with the most money use iPhones, making these people a very lucrative target.
Worry less about ride sharing and more about search share. Motek says Apple should work with someone like DuckDuckGo. In 2014 I suggested Apple buy them so I am on-board with these thoughts. If you combine Siri and search and the best mapping solution, you become a formidable force.
Make search competition great again. This may be the only strategy which can damage the Google advertising monopoly- moreover, it could be the best defense for dealing with the President Trump DoJ which is looking more likely by the day.]]>
The company had also sent me this email and it is so powerful, it literally took my breath away. We decided to launch a show called All About the API because we believe the opportunity in this space is huge but then I read this and realized just the telecom API market alone is gargantuan! (The violent clip below may not be safe for work. View till the end to see why its here.)
Here is that letter:
In 2006, there were only 380 public APIs; today that number has grown to over 1,000.
With the number of public APIs having nearly doubled in the past 18 months, enterprises and developers are rapidly beginning to incorporate APIs in their business strategy in order to improve customer experience, add functionality to existing products and services, and increase profits.
The telecom industry is a huge contributor in this API revolution – according to Market Research Engine, the global telecom API market will grow at a CAGR of 24% and is expected to reach $325 Billion by 2022.
It's no secret that innovation with telecom has been stifled due to the walls that have been built around telephony resources. Now, APIs are being used to expose a range of telecom resources, such as call control, location, messaging, provisioning and subscriber information to developers.
This level of accessibility, and speed of integration, makes it easier for developers to add calling and messaging capabilities to their apps, and transform the user experience. What used to take months to code can now be developed almost instantaneously with APIs, enabling developers to quickly complete product integrations.
Companies like Uber, Rover.com and AirBnB, are taking advantage of telecom APIs to add calling and messaging functionality directly to their apps, making the customer experience more seamless than ever. Even Cisco has gotten into the API game through their acquisition of Tropo. By adding Tropo to its portfolio, it is now adopting an API first mentality, and working to create APIs that developers will love. easier for developers to add calling and messaging capabilities to their apps, and transform the user experience. What used to take months to code can now be developed almost instantaneously with APIs, enabling developers to quickly complete product integrations.
I'd like to connect you with Dan Nordale, CMO of Flowroute, to discuss how the API economy is opening doors for
developers to create new services and businesses using telecom, and how APIs are ultimately helping to democratize telecom, and fuel innovation.
I had just conducted an email with Sean Hsieh (pictured) the Founder and Chief Product Officer of the company and this email served as a perfect introduction to the market opportunity. The following interview will show you how Flowroute can help you benefit from all the growth and excitement for years to come.
Come see Sean at All About the API this July in Las Vegas. We hope to see you all there. The excitement is building!!
Describe your organization
Flowroute provides carrier communication services enabling developers to integrate calling and messaging capabilities into their digital offerings or applications.
What APIs do you have available?
Flowroute provides a single API that enables developers to programmatically control the the provisioning and operations of their communication services. Additionally, Flowroute provides SDKs in common programming languages: NodeJS, Python, PHP, and Ruby on Rails with additional language support coming soon.
What are the benefits/ solutions they help provide?
The Flowroute API allows SaaS-based companies to incorporate communication capabilities into their user experience simply, and at scale, by removing the need to manually intervene when onboarding new customers or provisioning additional capabilities for existing customers.
What new business opportunities do they potentially open up for your partners?
Partners can use the Flowroute API to offer turnkey services for SaaS-based or enterprise companies who are looking to rapidly get to market with an improved user experience. This can be accomplished by utilizing a single API to provision phone numbers, enable calling and messaging capabilities through one provider - giving partners access to a broader range of communication services to drive incremental revenue through new and existing customers.
Why should developers/ decision makers choose to be part of your ecosystem?
Flowroute gives companies the ability to deliver innovative applications through powerful integrations to carrier networks. Since Flowroute is a certificated carrier, it provides direct access to telephony resources to give developers unparalleled quality, control & transparency over their communication services.
What are some of the cooler solutions that have been developed using your APIs?
How do you market your API's?
Flowroute sponsors a number of hackathon's, developer-specific events, creates developer content and use cases, and evangelizes its capabilities through developer user forums.
Who is the "customer" for your API's?
SaaS-based and enterprise developers looking for a simple, yet powerful way to incorporate human interaction through calling and messaging into their applications and services.]]>
In other words, once iPhones got in the hands of millions of people, the apps added value to the platform and by default, Apple, who is on the inside. Google Maps on the other hand has provided a wonderful API which allows companies to display their location on an interactive map with ease and elegance. That's outside-in.
The reason this latter approach is so powerful is it allows any company to add so much value to their applications that the growth of the API almost becomes contagious. How many websites for example don't have Google Maps showing up on their "Contact Us" page?
In the video space, Vidyo is becoming that value-added company making APIs which improve products in virtually any and every market you can think of. They are a great example of how any company can turn their core competency into a value-added service through the implementation of intelligent API calls.
To learn more, I interviewed Nic Reid, Senior Vice President of Product Management, a passionate product evangelist. This post is being done in in conjunction with the All About The API conference to be held this July in Las Vegas where Nik will be on hand to discuss how intelligently adding video to your application or service can boost the value of whatever products and services you offer.
What APIs are you making available?
We are launching a new simple set of APIs which allow application developers to do the following things:
How do they benefit others?
High quality video collaboration is extremely difficult to do well, particularly on battery and CPU-constrained mobile devices. Because video pushes the capabilities of devices and networks, there are a myriad of firmware, USB peripheral, network resilience tuning, firewall traversal insights which we've built into our core technology to make the experience great.
Over the last ten years Vidyo has worked hard to make our solution fit well in everything from 4K room systems through mobiles and modest laptop machines to embedded systems like ATMs and electronic hospital ICU platforms.
With our new APIs, we are making it possible for any developer (not just video experts) to be able to add the highest quality video collaboration functionality to their application or workflow, without having to worry about any of the details of how it's done under the covers.
What new business opportunities will there be for other companies?
We are excited to see what high-value services global companies will be able to build on top of our video collaboration capabilities. We are certain there are great use cases in healthcare, financial services, defense, resources, emergency services, insurance and even transportation sectors which can be massively streamlined by the addition of high quality video collaboration. There are endless possibilities when access and consumption of our APIs is simplified through the PaaS offering. By removing friction we're accelerating ways to go to market and use Vidyo.
Why should other organizations become part of your corporate ecosystem?
Being part of the Vidyo ecosystem is all about getting access to Vidyo sales resources and to other ecosystem partners. The ecosystem brings like-minded partners together to foster synergies and create value.
Also as part of the community, ecosystem partners have marketing opportunities on the Solutions Marketplace. The Marketplace helps partners drive awareness of their solutions and generate leads.
What feedback have you had on your APIs so far?
We look forward to customer feedback as the PaaS offering is launched.
How do you market your API's?
Who is the "customer" for API's?
Any developer who wants to add video collaboration to their application or workflow - whether they are starting from scratch, or have an existing application. Developers working in organizations the size of startups to the largest enterprises can benefit from our platform.]]>
Yesterday, we held the world's first Dark Web conference called Inside Dark Web – with partners Bob Miko and Alan Meckler. When we first decided to launch the event we discussed the business opportunities the dark web presents. After the event, there are a few observations I've made that I think are worth sharing.
First off – even though there are some who think there should be no dark web, there are many solid reasons why it is necessary:
1) Man-in-the middle attacks allow hackers or nation-states to access all traffic flowing between parties on a web session. The dark web/browsing with Tor prevents this from happening.
2) Workers quite often are targets – perhaps most often when they leave their home country. For example, Pentagon workers are advised to not wear any identifying clothing because a malicious person may follow and harm them. Yet, when this user checks into their hotel room and starts browsing, they go to sites associated with their company or government agency which identifies where they work. In other words, malicious people can find out a person works for the CIA, Navy intelligence, Apple, Facebook or wherever. The ISP providing internet service can't be trusted with your security. Most of the time, hotel users don't even know who the provider is.
3) Political dissidents – users in countries where the web is blocked, censored, etc.
In terms of opportunity, there are medical companies which are deploying dark web sites to minimize the ability for hackers to steal medical information – an area of cyber-theft which is growing rapidly. There is also the opportunity to mine the dark web for stolen data – there were numerous companies at the show discussing how they do this as well as at least one which is able to track bitcoin transactions.
This last area shouldn't be underestimated in its importance or market size if you consider how much money is being made organizing the lit web's information.
The amount of press coverage has been encouraging as well. So far, the stories we've seen are as follows (special shout out to Jeremy Seth Davis):
Some of the biggest names in news were at the show – we hope they have more coverage in the following days.
There will be more events so stay tuned and watch our website for updates. We really hope this space continues to grow and the positive stories about the dark or deep web continue to proliferate. We'd also like to hear your feedback. I live blogged part of the event as well if you want to check out some more details.]]>
"China wants to move up the value chain in manufacturing and they cant do this unless they protect it." That's the good thing. The idea here is China will need to worry about cyber-theft as well.
Also, since the Chinese economy is in distress, they are less likely to be a good global citizen.
China's distress is good for the US - because they need access to the American market.
From there he went on to discuss the North Korea hacking of Sony Pictures because of the movie The Interview.
The hackers though were using Chinese IP addresses (Unit 121). He said this shows the Chinese government was complicit in this attack. Especially since all the data from Sony had to pass through the Great Chinese Firewall.
We know in 2012 North Korea and Iran signed an agreement to cooperate in cyberspace.
"Washington can not let others - especially Russia, North Korea, China and Iran decide what we read and have access to." referring to the plot to stop us from seeing the movie. From there we went on to say this will continue until Washington stops if from happening.
Paul Syverson, the creator of Tor takes the stage.
He thinks the Dark Web will be a common way we access the internet for security reasons. He gave an example of his experience in the Navy - where they routinely tell people not to walk around with identifying clothing that connects you with the Pentagon, etc.
In other words, conceal your identity for safety reasons.
He then explained how a person in the hotel room - connecting to their home websites can be identified as working for the Navy, Apple, etc.
This is even worse from a security standpoint as they know where the person is sleeping.
He said a VPN would also be an issue - it is trackable as well. He said this is why the architecture is the way it is - using crypto and a circuit through the network allowing data to be passed between the server and user.
He said users and law enforcement benefit from Tor but criminals can still operate without Tor - they have many other tools.
He says the current web isn't secure - routes can be hijacked allowing others to see where traffic is coming from and going to. DNSSEC protects only .15% of .com sites. Routes can be observed by BGP hijack and observation. TLS certificates are also subject to hijack and man in the middle attacks.
"The ordinary web is dark"
.onion addresses are self-authenticating so there is no chance for man in the middle attacks via certificates.
There is music and literary works as well as IM clients than live only as .Onion sites or Dark Web.
People can use .Onion sites to administer systems behind a firewall.
Ahmia is the search engine for the Dark Web - onion sites comprise about 5% of total Tor traffic.
He referred to Facebook having over a million Dark Web users.
He refereed once again to the .Onion way of accessing websites as being secure - as opposed to traditional web surfing.
Medical identity theft is a growing problem - medical sites are launching .Onion sites to prevent this. Likewise for government sites.
Onion sites are for stronger authentication - not just location hiding.
Brian Kontos of Securonix launches "Inside the Insider" presentation - he gave an elongated version of this presentation at the Pentagon last week.
There are numerous insider threat types. Yonggang Min at Dupont was able to steal 22,000 document from the company to share with a competitor. The breach cost the company $400 million!
He gave the example of American Superconductor - where China was able to get access to their source code thanks to a worker who shared secrets in China. The Chinese company then started to export products to the US. Check out the Great Brain Robbery for more (subscription required).
Millennials are hacking for ideological reasons - as opposed to money which was the traditional driver.
Jonathan Levin of Chainalysis takes the stage to discuss the Golden Strings of the Dark Web.
"The Dark Web is an economy like no other"
"Bitcoin is censorship-resistant and no one shuts it down."
Discussion of ransomware (see related stories about Congress getting hit and the FBI warning).
He sees ransomware as the first thing being priced in bitcoin - not US dollars converted to bitcoins. This is the emergence of the bitcoin economy. There are call centers that let you negotiate and instruct you how to get bitcoin.
Ransomware hackers are now launching affiliate programs - allowing others to "resell" or "reinfect" computers to share in the profits.
A CNN Money reporter who wrote a book on Bitcoin asked if he could use his bitcoin tracking tool to track someone like Dread Pirate Roberts the founder of Silk Road. The answer was yes.
Alex Urbelis from Blackstone Law Group and an Information Security company Black Chambers started off discussing the debate between Apple and law enforcement - specifically, if the government can force manufacturers to defeat the security of their own devices.
There are state bills that say by 2017 companies can be fined $2,500 per device they cannot decrypt "without the necessity of obtaining the user passcode." Examples were produced from Louisiana, New York and California.
The federal government is supporting this reach into devices and software as can be seen above.
Similar rules are being proposed in the UK.
Tech companies have complained saying this harms companies designing or developing products in the US and furthermore that these backdoors will b discovered.
Cloud data would also be affected by government regulations - especially if data is cached or stored locally on devices in particular states.
There is no obligation by cloud vendors to tell customers that they have given data to the government.
In other words, your privacy rights are given up when they are stored in the cloud.
The was a question about the Rule 41 change that lets government get access to equipment that they might not otherwise have access to. He says it is good that senators are pushing back on this issue.
Lance James Chief Scientist at Flashpoint - former head of cyber intelligence at Deloitte & Touche takes the stage.
His company does research in the dark web space and has information to share.
Tor is growing when it comes to onion sites.There has been 24% growth in onions between 2014-2015.
Running your own hidden request directory gives you a good understanding of the dark web. They classify sites - he gave examples of different types of sites - age of site - newer ones with lots of traffic are suspicious.
One way of differentiating sites is to determine if it is a static page - if it is and gets a lot of traffic and has words like decrypt and files on it, it is likely ransomware.
Basically, his company is working on a solution to classify dark web sites into ransomware, commerce, etc.
Cybercriminals work in a chain of command structure like a company or the military. hackers share information and quite often hackers for hire will not go after targets in their own countries but instead go after targets beyond their borders so as not to raise scrutiny in their home areas. Forums allow criminals to share information and add on to services from one another.
China is two years behind Russia in cybercrime but they are using the techniques which have been successful in Russia and they are catching up. To get around censors, they use terms on forums which refer to hacking but are disguised as words which ore in the common language.
Hopefully that gives you a great taste of this unique educational experience. There was a great deal of amazing content above and beyond what has been shared here. To find out the event's future dates, register and sponsor - please check out the website or reach out!
Muscial.ly recently got a massive funding round of $100 million– its s service which allows you to make and stream music videos, staring yourself and friends.
Streamago is one of the newer companies on the scene – it's growing amazingly fast and isn't necessarily a new concept – but its executed very well.
People sign in to the service after downloading the app and start streaming and interacting with others. Daniele Calabrese, CEO of the company told me the service just reached 1.1 million registered users. That's in three months mind you. 800,000 users are active monthly and 200,000 are active daily. As I checked the app myself this morning, indeed, over a hundred new streams appeared instantly (see the second pic below the article to see for yourself).
He thinks of the service as Skype and Google Hangouts on steroids – some people go live, some want to communicate with others- it's becoming a new way to communicate.
Other interesting facts – the demographic is very young, 90% between 19 and 24. Over 20% of users go live daily, 50% go live more than five times per day and 4% go live more than 15 times per day.
I asked about monetization and he told me they are focusing on growing the user base and community for now. They are however looking at adding product placements, brand placements in the live video as well as selling data. What sort of data you ask? Good question… They are applying machine learning and AI to see what is being discusses in videos – based on networks, etc. Based on this data, they are building trend models which can be useful to marketers for example.
In terms of user growth, they add just under 500,000 users per month. Daniele thinks they can perhaps triple that if they were to be featured in app stores. He's looking to grow the company to 5 million and then 10 million users. More good news, the company has seen insane growth but 90% of users are in just eight countries including the US. In other words, lots of room to get into new countries. He pointed out that research says that by 2019, a billion people or so are expected to be live-streaming – based on that number, the potential for growth seems near-limitless.
Hat tip to me… I do get predictions wrong – but in 2009, I predicted video streaming was the future of communications… If only I had created an app.
Some recent pics from the Streamago app
In an in-person interview, IDT/Net2Phone President Jonah Fink told me he thinks his company will keep people up at night. For example, IDT has had decades to build out its international infrastructure which includes POPs and nodes in five cities in Brazil as well as London, Hong Kong, Chile and Peru. They offer unlimited calling to Mexico and Canada as well as a core hosted PBX/SIP trunking plan which consists of South America, Western Europe and Central America.
Not all companies have the need to call internationally so they have another incentive up their sleeve as well. They provide free Polycom phones which become the property of the customer at the end of the contract term. "All of this for $19.99 – a fully loaded service which has features which compare to the $45/month service of some of the newer competitors in the space," said Jonah.
Some of these features include a calling queue, call reporting, CDRs custom welcome greetings, call transfer and failover.
In addition to a great value for customers, agents and channel partners get a shot to win incentive prizes like $5,000 drawings.
An interesting area of differentiation for the company is they are in it for the long haul – heck, if the last twenty years hasn't proven that, what will? Jonah said they don't have an exit plan – contrasting the company from so many players in a market with frequent M&A. In addition, they have 600 people on the phones who can help customers program IVR, auto attendants and help with other issues customers might have.
More differentiation comes in the investment Jonah says they make in their "human beings." He explained others are spending exclusively on their portals while IDT also invests in its people. He said emphatically, "Others want a sexy portal, we want a sexy customer service experience, "he continued, "That's our strategy"
If you've ever flown on an airplane in the last 15 years, you have likely seen ads for IDT calling cards and Jonah wants you to rest assured the company has come a long way from calling cards and cyber-cafes. In fact, he said he took the best of these experiences – connecting calls in war zones in Africa and brought them to the US. He went on to say, "We know about CODECs."
The bottom line is we have a huge race for customers coming in the future and companies like RingCentral, 8x8 and Vonage will be gunning for IDT and vice-versa. IDT is a no small company at almost $350 million in market cap meaning the fight for marketshare in the hosted UC space will have a lot of muscle behind it.
What I've been seeing in the market is an increased demand or cloud-based telecom services meaning the market is growing nicely and there is likely room for all the major cloud vendors to keep growing for a long while.]]>
According to Alec Muffet of Facebook:
This is why in the last two years we built the Facebook onion site and onion-mobile site, helped standardise the ".onion" domain name, and implemented Tor connectivity for our Android mobile app by enabling connections through Orbot.
He continued:
Over this period the number of people who access Facebook over Tor has increased. In June 2015, over a typical 30 day period, about 525,000 people would access Facebook over Tor e.g.: by using Tor Browser to access www.facebook.com or the Facebook Onion site, or by using Orbot on Android. This number has grown – roughly linearly – and this month, for the first time, we saw this "30 day" figure exceed 1 million people.
The company seems committed to helping other companies learn to use the dark web in a similar manner. In a separate post Alec says:
Over time we hope to share some of the lessons that we have learned - and will learn - about scaling and deploying services via the Facebook onion address; we have many ideas and are looking forward to improving this service. A medium-term goal will be to support Facebook's mobile-friendly website via an onion address, although in the meantime we expect the service to be of an evolutionary and slightly flaky nature.
This news could be very big for the dark web and could cause other companies to explore launching sites there as well. After all, in a world where privacy, security and safety are more important than ever, the dark web provides an abundance of opportunities for companies looking to move and build new businesses in this exciting new space.
To learn more about the exciting opportunities, check out this exciting audio podcast (starts after 4:45) with Bloomberg hosts and Alan Meckler (founder of the Internet World brand and Mecklermedia) and be sure to come to Inside Dark Web the one-day conference in NYC which will answer all your pressing questions about Dark web opportunities. The event takes place May 12th, 2016 and your last chance to save ends this Friday, April 29th.]]>
On April 20th, 2016, the senior secured lender purportedly exercised voting rights in the Allied Fiber LLC subsidiary companies (AF Southeast LLC, AF Florida LLC and AF Georgia LLC) and allegedly replaced the members of the subsidiaries, appointed a chief restructuring officer, and then caused the subsidiaries – not including Allied Fiber LLC – to file for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding in Delaware.
Apparently there will now be a court-supervised sale of the subsidiaries to the highest bidder which may include a marketing period that may be approximately 90-days. Any interested bidders may want to contact the court for further information and should not rely upon anything in this post.
Apparently the next hearing in the case is scheduled for May 13th. If you are interested in bidding in the future, you may want to attend that hearing either in person or by phone in the event that the sale process is discussed, as I understand there are several parties who have expressed an interest in bidding.]]>
By now, anyone who follows tech news even casually knows a massive 12,000 workforce reduction is taking place at Intel because people use their smartphones more than ever and can extend the life of their other devices as a result. Even if you have the money to upgrade all of your devices each year, it is a monumental pain in the rear. This means in order to get people to upgrade more quickly, a few things would have to happen.
Either operating systems would have to get so much more demanding and desirable that we'd all have to upgrade constantly or consumers would crave newer computers because of the greater performance level.
There was a point in time when Microsoft routinely wrote ever-more-bloated operating system code and forced the world to upgrade hardware every few years. This was back in the day with Microsoft operating systems were really getting better with each iteration. Yes, there was a time we couldn't imagine not having the latest operating system on our desks.
Microsoft no longer has the ability to get customers to desire the latest operating system the way they did pre-Vista which as Donald Trump might say was a "complete disaster." Moreover, Macs, iPads, larger smartphones and Chromebooks are eroding marketshare of PCs so Microsoft can't afford to force any hardware changes on consumers. They no longer have the dominant OS position they once had. It's also worth pointing out that today's desktop OS is quite robust and the improvements are becoming ever-more incremental.
This leaves us with the marketing angle. People buy sports cars because they have better performance than ordinary cars. What gets the consumer to upgrade the car quite often is the marketing of faster 0-60 times, better time around the track, etc. Ditto for electric cars where people look for cars which have greater and greater range. Personally, I'd like one which goes 400 miles per charge.
David Canoy over at CNET explains brilliantly why Intel has done itself no favors with its chip naming conventions. You literally need to be an expert to know which chip does what – is better than which other chip, etc. Their branding strategy is scattered. Moreover, the code names have leaked out… Broadwell, Haswell, etc. Unless I look them up, I can't remember which is better for battery life or for graphics tasks, etc. I am sure other than processor geeks, no one can.
This gets us to the processor designations of Core i3, i5 and i7. The company copied BMW and others with these "names" – the 3 series, 5 series and 7 series to be specific. But where they went off-track (pun intended) was not understanding that a new car looks new and becomes desirable as a result. I have no desire for a new Core i5 if no one markets the benefits to me.
An important note that Intel needs to realize is computers don't have that new processor smell.
About a year ago I ordered a new computer with an SSD because I noticed how much faster my Core i5 Surface Pro 3 was than my Core i7 PC with a regular hard disk. All of a sudden, my emails came in blazingly fast and I was much more productive. I must save 20 minutes a day with this very small change.
Yes, we are moving to a cloud-oriented world but PC speed still matters and upgrading computers leads to enhanced productivity. Moreover, today, more than ever, consumers drive spending in corporate IT. Apple proves this to us repeatedly.
What if Intel actually named the processors in a way that generated replacement desire? Wouldn't they boost demand? Sure they would. This coupled with a smart marketing program is really all they need to do to generate at least a few more percentage points of growth.
This gets us to AMD… Due to a lawsuit from this competitor, Intel was pushed to change the way it named processors 286, 386, 486, etc. to Pentium, etc. There was a time when I knew a computer with a 486 was faster than a 386. Nowadays, there are too many numbers to keep track of. It's confusing. A Core I5 could be faster than an i7 depending on certain factors such as the string of numbers and letters which follow. In response, most consumers just say, its good enough and don't bother getting a new PC.
It's like going to a restaurant and asking for wine and hearing the waiter ask, well would you like the 2011 Bordeaux from France or the 2014 Chardonnay from Napa? Or how about the 25 page wine list? Your response? I don't know? Just give me the house wine.
It's probably a stretch to say AMD mortally wounded Intel but it does show that over the last 25 years, Intel has changed its processor naming strategy as a result of a judge saying you can't trademark numbers. And since that point, many people have lost the ability to quickly know how much faster a new computer would be.
In short, we need a simple reference number like horsepower or torque to judge these devices more efficiently. It may not be perfect. It may not be suitable to all programs but it would certainly be better than what we have now.
If we have to extend this to a few more numbers, that would work as well. To further the car analogy, the skidpad number lets me compare handling, the 0-60 time and 1/4 mile times help be gauge absolute performance and the power/weight ratio helps me determine the theoretically fastest car. OK, throw in top speed for the car nuts.
I hope you enjoyed reading this post and please share it if you have. In the meantime, I'm off to the computer store to buy a new Intel Core i5-4210U-powered computer… Whatever that means.
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@rtehrani @PlayWildTangent @AllAboutTheAPI April 19, 2016
In over 20,000 tweets, nothing seems to have resonated more negatively than my simple tweet about a "Great developer post" from Alex St. John which was based on this article. My weekend was a whirlwind of negative tweets as I waded into an issue I wasn't even aware existed.
For example, I was semi-insulted for being a CEO and agreeing with Alex.
@SeanTheBaptiste @rtehrani @PlayWildTangent @AllAboutTheAPI One CEO applauds another CEO about unfair labor practices, news at 11.— Andrew Dovichi (@ADovichi) April 16, 2016
Before we continue though it's worth pointing out a few things. I started out in a mailroom at age 9, working for my father for 11 hours a day for $17 dollars a day. I worked because I wanted to buy a stereo system and especially wanted a pair of Bose 901 speakers which at the time you could get from Crazy Eddie for $650 dollars. I picked up programming on my own and decided if I computerized my father's company, I could change jobs from manual laborer – putting stamps on envelopes, etc. to a person who sits behind a terminal, writes code and lets the computer deal with the sorting and mailing. In other words, before we computerized, I had to sort 6,000+ subscriber cards by hand monthly in last-name and then zip-code order in order to meet post-office regulations. You might think of bubble sort as just another algorithm but for me it was life-altering code.
So yes, even though I was fortunate enough to work for my father – I did start in the mailroom and eventually got myself to CEO. I imagine this is why the piece from Alex resonated with me. Especially, this part:
I grew up in a log cabin in Alaska with no electricity, plumbing, heating, or cable TV. I grew up largely home-schooled; I never did get that high school diploma. None of those educational shortcomings seems to matter in the high-tech world. Over the years, I've had the privilege of working with a lot of truly amazing and hyperaccomplished people, many with backgrounds just as unorthodox as my own. It was my job at Microsoft and later at WildTangent to develop relationships with every leading game developer on Earth.
This is amazing stuff. It's the American Dream. I'm proud to live in a country where everyone has an opportunity to do something like this. It's not always the smartest people who make it but the ones – in my experience, who don't give up. Boy did I resonate with this opinion piece and really, he could have said just about anything else afterwards and I would still think it was great.
.@rtehrani @AllAboutTheAPI Maybe check out what most of the industry thinks before doing so... #gamedev #crunch https://t.co/AETzJDA9ko— Sheri Rubin (@SheriRubin) April 17, 2016
Big mistake. Alex even clued me in (see italic text) that I was getting myself in trouble when he wrote the following. I should have read this more carefully. I bolded the areas that are likely most offensive.
I know I'm going to offend a lot of people by saying this, but I do so with the hope that a few will wake up and shake off their mental shackles. I'll grant that it's been 23 years since I used an outhouse or had to hunt for dinner, but I'm still thrilled by the incredibly decadent luxury of porcelain toilets and fast food. I can't begin to imagine how sheltered the lives of modern technology employees must be to think that any amount of hours they spend pushing a mouse around for a paycheck is really demanding strenuous work. I've hired thousands of people over the years and can't help but notice the increasing frequency with which I encounter people with a wage-slave attitude toward making video games.
A wage-slave attitude exhibits itself in several tragic ways. I've known a lot of stupid self-made millionaires — really, hundreds of them — and they're usually young as well. I'm talking about kids who made some of the worst games you can imagine and got rich accidentally, working in their parent's basement in the Florida Everglades. They make their first game, get rich, and they're gone, never having attended a single networking event at the Game Developers Conference, done. Contrast the dozens and dozens of these kids with the many game industry veterans I know that have long storied resumes listing dozens of triple-A console titles they have "labored" on, who decry the long working hours they are expected to invest in the games they are employed to work on. These people are smarter, more experienced, more talented, better trained to produce amazing games and they're still working for paychecks and whining about avoiding long crunch hours to finish big titles or about not being paid fairly by some big employer. Listening to them complain about it, you would they think that they are trapped in some disenfranchised third-world country forced to dig for blood diamonds to feed their families.
This paragraph has special significance as well:
I've never been able to mentally reconcile these conflicting experiences. Any time I hear this stuff, I tell these people; quit, go make great games on your own, pursue your passion, you're better equipped to succeed than any of the dozens and dozens of amateur kids I've seen retire early while you were still "trapped" in a job you hated and trying to rationalize mailing in a 40-hour work week making video games. To my great shock and disappointment, they never respond to this feedback with any sort of enlightenment or gratitude for my generous attempt at setting them free — usually, I just get rage. Being a victim of their employers has somehow managed to become a deeply cherished part of their core identities and any suggestion that they are far better equipped to rekindle their sheer passion for making games, do a Kickstarter startup with their other talented friends and crank out an original hit game, than a bunch of amateur kids working in Flash, is greeted with a lot of anger. They rant about the value of "work-life-balance", how hit games can be delivered on a schedule with "proper management" and how they can't produce their best work when their creative energies are tapped after a long forty-hour work week … sitting … at a desk…. Apparently people can even "burn out" working too hard to make … video games….
The conclusion of the article is likely just as inflammatory:
Don't be in the game industry if you can't love all 80 hours/week of it — you're taking a job from somebody who would really value it.
@ColinCampbellx does an admirable job of putting the pieces together here. He explains, a new initiative from the IGDA which will take aim at crunch and unpaid overtime in 2016. Here are some excerpts:
Izzy Gramp, developer of Intergalactic Space Princess tweeted, "I'm one of those youngsters making games on my own dime. I used to work nights and not go home. It's really unhealthy."
The game industry is notorious for demanding unpaid overtime from workers, most especially when projects near deadline. Notoriously, this so-called "crunch" has been in issue at several leading companies including Electronic Arts, Rockstar and THQ, where workers or their spouses went public with vociferous complaints.
In the past decade, many game companies have sought to reclassify some employee levels as hourly workers eligible for overtime pay, but unpaid long hours are still the norm for developers. Surveys in recent years showed that nearly half of game industry respondents work more than 60 hours per week, and 17 percent work more than 70 hours. Of these, in 2014, 38 percent said their employer did not offer additional compensation for overtime. The same figure held at 37 percent in 2015.
"Poor working conditions are the second-leading factor contributing toward society's negative perception of the game industry," the IGDA said in a statement. "It also remains a major factor why game developers would choose to leave the industry in favor of non-game related technology jobs."
Perhaps the best place I have ever seen for tech culture grievances is the following reddit thread. There are a lot of posts and people are very upset with tech companies – especially game developers. The problem is primarily the long hours followed by discussions on how to solve the problem.
I was blind to these developer complaints – hell, I thought being a developer was the best job you could ever get. In fact, for a number of years, I've been hearing complaints that there aren't enough tech workers to go around. No matter how much the pay. Many companies would often call and tell me all the great things they are doing to differentiate their companies from others – to make them more tech friendly. They wanted to produce the ideal tech culture.
This is why we came up with the Tech Culture Awards which requires applicant companies to submit a comprehensive application form (and processing fee) which outlines how they try to outcompete each other for tech talent.
The submission period for the award is still open and we even did some analysis to see what sorts of benefits companies are offering – based on the applications we've received already. We found flexibility, fitness and fun and being clued in on company strategy are key ways to make tech workers happy.
@rtehrani how can anybody support modern day slavery and abusing the dreams of young, talented artists? #FireAlexStJohn— MM (@M_A_MArt) April 16, 2016
There is a feeling among many programmers that they are slaves. Nothing can be worse for the economy than some of the most talented people in the workplace feeling unappreciated. Consider, just a handful of developers came up with Waze which quickly became worth a billion dollars and is worth more today. Other examples are WhatsApp and Slack. Great ideas which rapidly grew global GDP.
Developers – you are likely the unappreciated rock stars you think you are.
Perhaps, though, all you really need is to find a home where you are more appreciated.
This is why we came up with the Tech Culture Award. Keep an eye out for them. The final deadline is May 27, 2016 – at which point we'll evaluate the applicants very carefully to present you with the companies we think are the best homes for your future careers.
The comments below are open. Do you think this will help the situation? If not, what more can we do to help the community?


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