• Articles and Books

    Facebook Pages

    Better late than never. Facebook pages for some of my books: Using Mac OS X Lion Server: https://www.facebook.com/osxserver Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator’s Guide: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Enterprise-iPhone-and-ipad-Administrators-Guide/282217275233852 Enterprise Mac Administrator’s Guide: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Enterprise-Mac-Administrators-Guide/190363331102720 Time Machine in Mac OS X Lion: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Time-Machine-In-Mac-OS-X-Lion/448356355230805 Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Beginning-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-Server/371061802989330 Enterprise Mac OS X Snow Leopard Security: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Enterprise-Mac-Security-Mac-OS-X-Snow-Leopard/221774031291627 Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Foundations-of-Mac-OS-X-Leopard-Security/550986454931475 Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book: https://www.facebook.com/TigerServerLittleBlackBook Will post a few more things soon. Thanks!

  • sites,  Social Networking

    10 Worst MySpace Apps

    One of the contributors to the success that Facebook has had in the social networking world is the ability for savvy developers to build applications. MySpace has been picking up scraps from the Facebook strategy for some time and has followed suit with the ability to integrate custom applications. Now that MySpace has more than 50 pages of applications, I wanted to do a 10 best MySpace applications post. But beyond the RSS feeder I mentioned earlier and a couple of interesting apps that were also on Facebook (and were better in the Facebook iteration) I just couldn’t do it. Therefore, let’s take a look at some of the high…

  • WordPress

    Integrating WordPress Comments with Facebook

    In a constant search for achieving comment nirvana for the sites I manage, I was recently looking into integrating WordPress (and a couple of other CMS engines) with Facebook. The sites are setup to only allow authenticated users to comment and it just seemed like with all of the single-sign on technology out there that it just didn’t have to be so annoying. After installing the OpenID integration it seemed like there still had to be a better way to allow even more people to authentication. How about Facebook? Facebook has done a lot of work on making their API one of the best in the social networking world. The…

  • Social Networking

    Social Networking

    This is as much for me to have a one-stop shop to find this information as it is for my readers, but some social networks I can be found on: Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/krypted LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesedge Twitter: http://twitter.com/cedge318 Ecademy: http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=167991 There are more and so I’ll update the list as I can think of them.

  • sites

    No More Facebook Friends For You!

    I got a message telling me that I have reached the maximum number of Facebook friends allowed. Apparently one is not allowed to have more than 5,000 friends. Go figure. Therefore, over the course of the next few weeks I’ll be trying to whittle that list down. If I inadvertently remove anyone then feel free to readd me, but if we haven’t actually met in person, please try and indicate why you’re adding me so I know it isn’t spam.

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    Weird Facebook Spam

    I once denied someone’s request to add me as a friend on Facebook and got an earful about how they bought one of my books and couldn’t believe I would be so rude, etc. Since then I’ve been an open networker on most of the social networks. It’s kinda’ weird sometimes to listen to people talk about how they keep track of their friends through feeds when I have too many to keep track of, but the tools continue to become more sophisticated and I’m getting closer to be able to do so. Having said that, there is a new thing I’ve been noticing recently. Someone adds you as a…

  • Business

    Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

    Let’s over-simplify this: Twitter is a very popular site.  FriendFeed is kinda’ similar.  Facebook is a very popular social network site that happens to have the features of FriendFeed built in.  Now Facebook owns FriendFeed.  Some acquisitions are about technology, some about user base/customers and others about the talent that a company has.  I would assume that almost every person with an account on FriendFeed already had an account on Facebook.  Facebook can easily integrate the same technology that is present in FriendFeed (and already has for the most part).  So I’m gonna’ go out on a limb and say this one likely had more to do with the talent (mostly…

  • personal

    Facebook and Privacy

    A friend sent me an article the other day about Facebook, where the author had an almost chilling reception to Facebook’s privacy policy/terms of use.  In fact, last week alone I got at minimum three such emails asking what “a security guy” thought and since the new privacy policy was put into place I’ve gotten no less than 30 or 40 requests/invitations to join various groups that seem to have serious issues with this policy (btw – not all “security guys” wear tin foil hats). Someone once told me not to put anything in writing (or on film) that I didn’t want my grandmother to see.  The obvious extension of…