This week’s big Google news – or supposed news – is the launch of Google Base. It’s a hot, fun story on Memeorandum, and it’s getting the usual too much buzz and hype on Blogs.

After a brief appearance on the Internet and enough time offline to spawn several hundred blogposts everywhere, Google has turned on the “Open” sign for base.google.com.

Google is rumoured to be developing a tool so powerful it could dominate the online auction and classified advertising sectors.

After yesterday’s “inadvertent” unveiling of base.google.com, the search engine company provided some more details about what people saw and grabbed as screenshots.

The search engine company confirmed today that screenshots posted of base.google.com were legitimate, but it’s not ready for prime time.

One of the many benefits of object-oriented programming is that it allows for reuse of logic. For example, classes can be created that contain a base level of functionality.

One of your employees has just tried to print something and he/she gets a printer error. The error says, “Out of paper.” Well the employee knows that the printer is not out of paper and it does not have a paper jam. What to do?

Building up email address lists of potential and real customers is important in order to convert traffic into sales. People who are interested in the issue of a website can be informed regularily about special offers and news. A good email address list of buying customers is a good tool for the customer relationship management.

I just stumbled upon PixelPass – a method of adding an income stream to your blog where your readers pay a small monthly fee to subscribe to your content.

Not really, but the satellite imaging service did find something on a US Naval base that could cause some raised eyebrows.

Windows XP update to add support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 opens a new facet to marketing the operating system.

There are quite a few compound words that are sometimes found combined into one word, sometimes separated into multiple words and sometimes connected together with a hyphen. If you are searching for one of these words, is it important which format you use to search?

Napster’s subscriber base grew by 143,000 in the fourth quarter, raising Napster’s subscriber base to a total of over 410,000, including 56,000 university subscribers.

She’s baaaack … It is interesting to witness Martha’s post-prison strategy with the media. She is being selective on how she merchandises her prison stay, but clearly she is merchandising it.

TiVo announced that as of January 31, 2005, its subscription base exceeded 3 million.

During the past week, I’ve had a trickle of comment spam on my blog. Nothing that I’m overly concerned with (not yet, anyway) …

SEO has increasingly concentrated on a single factor in the major search engines’ algorithms-link popularity.

We often think about security measures as ways of protecting resources by preventing access to them. The need for authentication arises because, in the real world, keeping people out of protected areas is only half the battle. Authentication is about letting certain people (or processes) in, while keeping everyone else out. In practice, this usually means some people are going to have to be given secrets (passwords) that will form part of the credentials they need to present in order to gain access to protected resources. But since, as the old saying goes, the best way to keep a secret is not to, the distribution and exchange of access-providing secrets inevitably raises the level of risk to a secure system. A major goal of authentication, from a security point of view, is minimizing that risk – especially when users are being authenticated remotely, over publicly-accessible networks. Authentication is the process of poking minimally risky holes in one’s security.

As with most new versions of web development applications, the code that the application generates and/or recognizes will differ slightly.