http://blog.a2b.cc Sam Critchley - A2B and much more Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:19:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to a great article by Amsterdam-based correspondent Niclas Mika, A2B has made the front page of reuters.com (click on the "Phones that find you" link on the right hand side). You can view the whole article here: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-04-07T181554Z_01_N07376126_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLUMN-PLUGGEDIN.xml&src=cms There are some great quotes in there about how the future looks as mobile ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=132 We are now blocking any ping from URLs which resolve to one of 442 web servers. That's a total of 73,592 splog URLs in all. Check out the latest list. In my opinion, this means that splogs are big business and the spammers are making a lot of money out of ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=130 Since we introduced our splog blocklist and Spam Huntress posted about it, both i) the amount of traffic we waste and ii) the number of pings we are receiving have dropped. At the moment we're not quite sure why the second one has happened, but we think that either one ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=129 Spam Huntress Ann Elisabeth has given our splog blocklist a mention on her blog. Thanks Ann Elisabeth! I left a comment explaining how we put the list together. Ann Elisabeth also pointed out that we'd forgotten to put "nofollow" tags on the links to the splog URLs. We've now fixed it. ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=128 As regular users of A2B (and readers of this blog) will know, we run an XML-RPC "ping" interface for bloggers. The idea is that bloggers post an entry to their blog and their blog software or service automatically notifies us of the update in the background. In our case, we ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=127 I've been using Opera as my main browser for about 3 or four years now - in fact I've got it running on my Nokia 6600 phone as well as my Windows PC. I really like it as a browser - independent, lots of features, great forums where people actually ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=126 I've been using a PHP script I wrote to monitor whether some of our servers are alive or dead using ping, and send an alarm email if there is no response from the server for a certain period of time. It wasn't working properly, and today I finally fixed ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=94 Thanks to an A2B Forum posting, I noticed that A. Sergio Cardoso had written a review of A2B and Navio on his blog, jeepx: GPS discoveries. Great stuff! Well, it's up to you to read the posting and draw your own conclusions, but we will be adding the ability to post ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=93 I read about how Vodafone Germany is blocking VoIP traffic on a thread at Volker Weber's VOWE blog, having got there from Eurotelcoblog. One or two people asked for some hints on how to set up SSH tunneling for TCP traffic. It's quite easy, here's how to do it for ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=86 Yesterday, Google officially released its Google Maps API - the details of how to put Google maps on a website using Javascript. This is quite an amazing development. No geocoding or routing, but I'm sure that's due to licensing with Navteq and TeleAtlas. Having signed up and received my key, I ... http://blog.a2b.cc/?p=84