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Recently, Anonymous the online activist group had attacked many countries’ government sites because of the censorship move against the internet. United States, Turkish, and Malaysia had been targeted around these days.

The reasons released by Anonymous on Pastebin said why they want to attack Malaysian’s site is because Malaysia Government had blocked some popular file sharing or pirate downloading website which infringed copyrighted law. Around 41 Malaysian Government site had been attacked. It raised a big security concerns to Malaysian Government site.

Is it blocking copyrighted site is a good way? By right, we should respect copyright. But, still few of people love to use pirate software or watch pirate movie because it is cheaper. Government should educate people to respect copyright but not blocking the site, BUT, it is hard to debate actually.

I know the motive of Anonymous is to help protecting basic human rights. There is good and bad of this attack. Hard to debate. But through this attack we can know how secure the website, how many loopholes found in the website, and we are going to enhance or fix it.

Apple had delivered iCloud recently, that served free online space for music, movie storage targeted on Apple devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch). It helped synchronization of music files seamlessly without user knowing what really happened in the background.

But today, Apple had sued by iCloud Communications for Trademark Infringement. According to its website, it is a pioneer of telecommunications industry since 1982. Read more…

Avaya created online immersive virtual collaboration, users may text chat or voice chat by controlling their avatar talk with each other. The future enterprise can hold formal meeting just in virtual world, like what second life had achieved.

This is historic day where Ipv4 addresses had occupied completely, and this is the time we should use Ipv6, a new Internet protocol address, to manage new addresses. However, this is not the end of Ipv4, where we are not stopping for using it, but now, the organization are readily to take conversion from Ipv4 to Ipv6.

Refer: http://www.icann.org for more information.

Recently, millennium bug happened again in the beginning of year 2011. The iPhone Alarm Clock reported bug that non-recurring alarms would not work until 3 January. At the same time, Hotmail reported unfortunately some of the users lost their emails and contacts list. These are the bugs that are easy to discover and should made lots of disruption to users.

I would like to plan the next development path for Imgshow Platform.

I would like to make more easier for normal user to use it. That is the tight integration of Imgshow Platform with the popular CMS system, forum, such as Discuz!, WordPress, and even Windows Live Writer Imgshow Plugin.

Currently, for normal user need to use Imgshow Platform service, it needs cumber Imgshow Query, such as q:name=youtube,k=waka waka, but somehow they are not expert user and will not always understand how to use it. Therefore, next plan is to develop more specific service to be delivered to them. You may wonder what I am saying.

Let me explain more. For example, in Discuz!, in the posting editor, the user is able to select Imgshow Service (like Youtube Button, Gmap Button), and then provide user friendly parameter and click embed. It is easy to do. But technically challenging is that the webmaster is able to retrieve the latest Imgshow Service anytime and upgraded to support latest Imgshow service without any burden. And at local, it should have a cache file in order to cache the current retrieve Imgshow service list, for not always call Imgshow Platform that costs performance problem. Additionally, the architecture of the system should be able to support open integration, not only for Discuz!, but for other CMS system or desktop client system. There is a lot of research to be carried out, both technically and user feasibility study.

Updated:

20101228 – Imgshow Platform Discuz! Integration with forum editor had created, but for DIY block part still in research and planning.