First OpenSolaris user group meeting

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Laszlo User Group meeting

Laszlo User Group meeting 07/19/2004 09:28 AM

OK - so unless it's not already obvious - the future has MUCH to do with reich media interfaces - those 'webapp'-like entities that exist in a webpage, but act like a "normal" app.

I'm in love with a company called Laszlo Systems - and they've got abunch of new stuff coming down the pipe.....

So my friend Andrew Woolridge wants everyone to know - there's a Laszlo User Group meeting coming up......

Here's Andrew's pitch......

Next User Group Meeting: Tuesday July 27, 2004

At: Laszlo San Francisco Office
Time: 6:30 pizza; 7-9 pm meeting

A group of Laszlo enthusiasts have organized the Laszlo User Group. Meetings occur monthly at the Laszlo Systems offices in San Francisco, CA. Free pizza is often served. Members typically discuss and demo their latest projects. They also hear updates from as well as discuss issues directly with the Laszlo engineering team.

Directions.....

There may be something very significant demoed this week....

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I'll be there = :-)

Oracle user group meeting due in Florida

Oracle user group meeting due in Florida 09/10/2004 05:28 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 10 2004 10:15AM GMT

FCP, DVD Studio Pro topics of user group
meeting

FCP, DVD Studio Pro topics of user group
meeting 11/10/2003 11:27 PM
The New Jersey Final Cut Pro Users Group and the New Jersey Filmmakers will host a special joint meeting on Dec. 10 to discuss production and distribution trends for independent filmmakers. The event will start at 7 p.m. at William Patterson University in New Jersey.

East to speak at LIMac user group
meeting

East to speak at LIMac user group
meeting 04/20/2004 06:19 PM
Daniel East, founder and president of The Mid-Atlantic Apple/Macintosh User Groups Team (MaMUGs), will be a guest speaker at the Friday, May 14 meeting of The Long Island Macintosh Users Group (LIMac)...

MUG News: iPod Garage User Group meeting
today

MUG News: iPod Garage User Group meeting
today 06/21/2004 04:11 AM
The iPod Garage User Group will hold its monthly online meeting today, complete with free copies of the book "How to do everything with your iPod and iPod mini," and special guest Audio-Outfitters, suppliers of a variety of iPod peripherals...

September iPod Garage User Group meeting
was an enjoyable success

September iPod Garage User Group meeting
was an enjoyable success 09/22/2004 02:25 AM
The iPod Garage User Group held its sixth monthly online meeting on Monday, September 20th, and an enjoyable time was had by all in attendance. To learn more about the group or to become a member, visit http://www.iPodUserGroup.com . [PRWEB Sep 22, 2004]

New England Area SMS User Group SPECIAL
MEETING With Microsoft Program Manager

New England Area SMS User Group SPECIAL
MEETING With Microsoft Program Manager 04/12/2004 02:16 PM

User-Lab's John Knight to guest speak at
WMita DDA meeting

User-Lab's John Knight to guest speak at
WMita DDA meeting 06/29/2004 02:10 AM
John Knight, Usability Engineer at User-Lab http://www.user-lab.com is to guest speak at West Midlands IT Association (WMita) http://www.wmita.co.uk/ DDA meeting focusing upon the issues of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). [PRWEB Jun 29, 2004]

Federal XML Work Group May 18 Meeting
Minutes

Federal XML Work Group May 18 Meeting
Minutes 06/13/2004 07:30 AM
Federal XML Work Group May 18 Meeting Minutes
http://technoflak.blogspot.com/2004/05/xml-work-group-may-1 8-meeting.html

Alice Marshall reports on the XML Work Group, May 18 meeting with her minutes.

Ping ID to host first users group
meeting

Ping ID to host first users group
meeting 04/19/2005 09:56 AM
Next month, in conjunction with Digital ID World in San Francisco, Ping Identity will hold its first (I believe) PingFederate Users Group meeting. The meeting is free to all members of the users group. Membership of the users group is free to everyone who uses the PingFederate server. The PingFederate server is free to download from Ping Identity. See a pattern here?

W3C Hosts Technical Plenary and
All-Group Meeting

W3C Hosts Technical Plenary and
All-Group Meeting 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
3 March 2003: W3C holds its third annual Technical Plenary and All Working Group Meeting from 3-7 March in Cambridge, MA, USA. 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Mid-week, many of the more than 400 participants attend the all day public plenary, by far the largest group in the event's history. If your organization would like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page. (News archive)

Anti-Phishing Working Group Meeting

Anti-Phishing Working Group Meeting 04/09/2004 05:30 PM

I was out all day yesterday to attend the Anti-Phishing Working Group meeting at Wells Fargo World HQ in San Francisco.  About one hundred people from wide assortment of backgrounds were there, some from law enforcement agencies like the Secret Service and FBI, lawyers, prosecutors, financial services, e-tailers, solutions vendors, and security experts.  APWG did an impressive job of pulling them altogether to focus on the phishing epidemic which continues to grow.

While everyone wanted to pool resources to combat phishing, I sensed a common desire to protect details about ongoing APWG activities from the public for various reasons.  Since I am not sure what APWG's policy is about blogging, I will limit this post to my thoughts and observations.

Toolbars

Warm receptions received by Account Guard feature of eBay Toolbar and Dan Boneh's SpoofGuard means more toolbars in the near future.  I predict we'll see about ten security-related toolbars released before this year is over.  Since highly integrated client-side software like browser toolbars are one of my specialties, all this is good news for me but I couldn't help worrying about the oncoming glut of toolbars, sidebars, and deskbars causing confusion among users.

Microsoft

Microsoft needs to do more to combat phishing.  Actually, they need to do 'less' by disabling or limiting use of hyperlinks and javascript in Outlook and Hotmail.  Since phishing is causing real financial damages to companies and individuals, Microsoft created an arguably very large liability exposure by introducing DHTML e-mail in Outlook.

My opinion is that hyperlinks in e-mail contents should require the user to approve each navigation after viewing a dialog that clearly indicate the link destination.  This constraint can be eased depending on the age of the hyperlinks because destination phishing websites are more likely to be takendown or abandoned over time.  I also think javascript should be disabled completely in e-mail contents to protect against new breed of javascript obfuscated webpages.

Hunters vs. Butchers

Law enforcement agencies are IMHO still in the hunter mode, meaning hackers they find and prosecute are more or less trophies for assuring the public.  Seen as services, they are open to denial of service attacks by organized hackers arming script-kiddies to overload or slowdown cybercops.  They need to think about ways to shift-gear from hunter to butchers mode now, if not just against phishers, then for homeland security.

Takedown.com

Most difficult part of fighting against phishing is taking down phishing websites.  Differences and confusino in law and legal jurisdictions, cross-language communication issues, availability, authority verification problems, and other issues make taking down a fraud site a skill or an art of social networking, ingenuity, and patience which most companies do not have.

Solutions suggested so far like contacts and standards are useless IMHO.  A more effective solution is to encourage entrepreneurs to startup federated or franchised businesses to offer takedown services around globe and around the clock with the local touch.  Having middlemen like them solves most of the issues mentioned above.

Spoofback

Considering the difficulty with takedown, another options is to 'spoof back' by posting phony information to the phishing websites in order to spoil the goods by diluting it with bad info.  Instead of receiving 3,000 good responses, phishers will receive 300,000 responses most of which will be bad.  Another variation is to post user info leading to honeypots in order to phish the phishers.  I am not sure about the legal issues, but hackback risk is no worse than the takedown IMHO.

APWG Future Threat Models SIG

I have volunteered to participate in the Future Threat Models SIG at APWG because I am both highly creative and insanely paranoid which means I can see blindspots where none exists.  :-)  I probably won't be posting about the activities there but I will post my thoughts and publicize imminent threats like the XSS Network threat I posted about before.

SCL London Group Meeting & AGM:
'Contract law - Developments relevant to
technology contracts that cannot be i

SCL London Group Meeting & AGM:
'Contract law - Developments relevant to
technology contracts that cannot be i 07/22/2004 06:13 PM
SCL.org Jul 22 2004 9:40PM GMT

User Group happenings

User Group happenings 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
User Groups devoted to the Mac in general, as well as specific software, are usually busy year-round, putting out schedules packed with events. The Boston Final Cut Pro User Group (BOSFCPUG) is one such group, and the Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center serves as an umbrella organization for a wide variety of MUGs, disseminating information far and wide.

User group round-up

User group round-up 02/10/2004 02:47 PM
Macintosh User Groups (MUGs) meet year-round to trade tips and tricks, socialize, and listen to guest speakers. The MUG Center acts as a clearinghouse for information important to MUGs across the country, and they put out a weekly newsletter that highlights the latest news on their site.

How to Start a User Group

How to Start a User Group 09/04/2004 11:51 AM

Mac user group roundup

Mac user group roundup 04/13/2004 07:17 AM
The Mac User Group (MUG) Center leads off this week's round of user group news with editor Chuck Joiner's latest User Group Report. Available as a downloadable MP3 file or in streaming QuickTime, this week's edition features interviews with South Florida Final Cut Pro Users Group member Orlando Luna, who talks about the In House Film Festival and other things DV-related; journalist and user group advocate Dennis Sellers, who discusses his new Web site, Macsimum Perspective; CodeTek Studios employee Bill Goldstein, who tells Joiner about his company's support of user groups and an upcoming rebate program; David Roemer of Ideas United, which is sponsoring iMovieFests and other Mac-related events at colleges and universities in Georgia; and O'Reilly's Marsee Henon, who offers a glimpse into the publisher's upcoming Mac User Group Day on April 24.

Adding a User to a Group

Adding a User to a Group 07/26/2004 07:26 AM

Narrow User Group

Narrow User Group 01/16/2003 11:19 PM
Got this in my email today from a mailing list, so many others did too. Hi all, There is a new mailing list for Christian

Act! Consultant Will Hold Next Meeting
Of The Act! Users Group Of South Florida
On October 5, 2004

Act! Consultant Will Hold Next Meeting
Of The Act! Users Group Of South Florida
On October 5, 2004 09/21/2004 02:49 AM
Local ACT! Consultant Will Demonstrate New ACT! Version 2005! [PRWEB Sep 21, 2004]

iPod User Group launched

iPod User Group launched 04/19/2004 03:17 PM
The iPodlounge has announced the launch of an online iPod User Group...

User group defines security needs

User group defines security needs 04/29/2004 09:48 PM

Prince2 User Group Launched

Prince2 User Group Launched 02/01/2005 10:06 PM
A vendor-independent, internet-based user group has been launched to support Prince2, the project management methodology. [PRWEB Jan 27, 2005]

China Java User Group

China Java User Group 09/09/2004 05:23 AM
CNJUG releases wdm1.0.

Milwaukee Linux User Group

Milwaukee Linux User Group 01/28/2004 05:38 PM
MLUG Considers Charter

UK Sun users aim to kickstart user group

UK Sun users aim to kickstart user group 03/23/2005 03:22 PM
TechWorld Mar 23 2005 6:16PM GMT

This week's user group news

This week's user group news 03/22/2005 05:04 PM
Chuck Joiner has posted his latest User Group Report to the Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center Web site. In this update, he interviews BeLight Software's Irina Nazarova, who talks about her company's involvement with MUGs; Design Tools Monthly's Jay Nelson, who covers the Quark vs. InDesign debate as well as his publication's user group offer; and Tropical Software's James Lee, who recaps his recent presentations to MUGs about the company's TopXNotes software and mentions which ones he's visiting next.

.Mac guide for user group leaders
available

.Mac guide for user group leaders
available 04/23/2004 10:51 AM
Rick Curran, Apple Ambassador and Webmaster for The Coastal Mac User Group has created a Keynote file of the .Mac presentation he created for his group, and is sharing it with other user group leaders, to make sharing information on .Mac easier, according to a report at The MUG Center...

Macintosh User group round-up

Macintosh User group round-up 05/03/2004 03:08 PM
With Macworld Conference & Expo Boston just two months away, Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center editor Chuck Joiner wants to remind all user group members that they have until Friday, May 7 to take advantage of free Exhibit Hall passes for the show, in addition to 15 percent off all conference packages. You can find more information on the MUG Center Web site.

Group Policies for the User
Configuration

Group Policies for the User
Configuration 05/22/2004 08:16 AM

Upcoming MUG presentations, other user
group news

Upcoming MUG presentations, other user
group news 04/27/2004 07:28 AM
Macintosh User Group (MUG) Center editor Chuck Joiner leads off this week's MUG news round-up with his latest User Group Report. Guest David Lloyd, who founded the "All Things iPod" Web site iPodLounge, chats about his new iPodLounge user group. In addition, Joiner covers the latest user group deals from participating companies.

MUG news abounds in new User Group
Report

MUG news abounds in new User Group
Report 05/10/2004 10:18 AM
A celebrity user group supporter, upcoming user group events and news, and some of the resources the MUG Center (an online resource for Mac User Groups) offers to make your user group better are included in this week's edition of the User Group Report, the Internet radio show hosted by Chuck Joiner, editor of the MUG Center...

PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards user group at
odds

PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards user group at
odds 01/08/2004 07:07 PM
The company and the J.D. Edwards user group Quest split on differences over who would run the event, which begins in Chicago next week.

Wired on the Beijing Macintosh User
Group

Wired on the Beijing Macintosh User
Group 09/10/2004 07:22 AM
In an article published today on Wired, Hector Mackenzie talks to Yan Feng, president of the Beijing Macintosh User Group, the biggest MUG in China...

MW Boston user group speakers named

MW Boston user group speakers named 07/06/2004 12:10 PM
The schedule for the User Group Lounge at next week's Macworld Conference & Expo in Boston has been announced...

MUG chat discusses user group 'youth'

MUG chat discusses user group 'youth' 08/19/2004 12:27 PM
World Without Borders is hosting the monthly MUG (Macintosh User Group) Center Chat tonight at 10 p.m.ET...

New User Group Report, more MUG news
offered

New User Group Report, more MUG news
offered 11/03/2003 01:23 PM
Sarah Friedlander, the newest member of the Apple Campus Group Advisory Board will give her first interview in this week's User Group Report, which will also offer reports on Mac User Groups from a Unix perspective, the first Platinum sponsors for User Group University, and why this UGU will be even better for vendors and attendees alike.

Group for User Interface Research -
DENIM

Group for User Interface Research -
DENIM 01/06/2004 02:40 PM
Denim is a really interesting-looking early prototyping tool for web sites. You need to watch the video to really understand it. Unfortunately (but smartly) it really is designed for tablet input, which I don't have, so it's kinda hard to try out.

Take Control User Group Discount
(09-Feb-2004; 0.9K)

Take Control User Group Discount
(09-Feb-2004; 0.9K) 02/10/2004 02:43 AM

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