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Facebook Password Reset Confirmation Security Exploit

dschmidt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:04:52 +0000

I just checked my email to find a message from The Facebook Team with the above mentioned title. Here is what it said: Hey dschmidt , Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed. You can find your new password in attached document. Thanks, The Facebook Team After doing some quick research it [...]

Rainy Afternoon Calls For Dog Picture Shoot

dschmidt — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:11:12 +0000

So after a hectic week of interviewing and keeping up the hustle working towards getting a new job I decided today it was imperative to spend some quality time with my dog Cohiba, a pure-bred German Sheppard with a heart of gold (then again, I’m not necessarily impartial). In my boredom, I decided to experiment [...]

Reinventing dustinschmidt.com

dschmidt — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:38:01 +0000

Hey Everyone, I have spent some time thinking about where I want to bring this site and what my mission is. I have decided that 4DM will no longer be in business. Dustinschmidt.com will remain live and will shift to a personal blog where I will share my passions for sailing, creative writing, marketing, technology, and other [...]

Back to School Bailout Deal from 4DM: Tell Your Friends

dschmidt — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:00:33 +0000

I wanted to let our loyal followers know that we are willing to pay you for putting us in touch with anyone you think we can help. Whether it’s web development, SEO, branding, graphic design, social media consultation or any one of our other services we like to help the friends who have our back. I believe [...]

August Gadget of the Month: PS3 Slim

dschmidt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:34:29 +0000

Typically we showcase rare consumer technology products that are off the public radar, but we are going bonkers right now over the special delivery on the way from Sony. The next generation of the Playstation 3 gaming console is this month’s undisputed champion. Sony got on stage at GamesCom a little over a week ago and [...]

Who Is Behind The Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) on Facebook and Twitter?

dschmidt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:23:40 +0000

The hype around the blogosphere today clearly centers around the Distributed Denial of Service attack on social network giants Facebook and Twitter. Friendfeed also suffered outages earlier in the day. With a great degree of uncertainty regarding the enormity of the security breach, there are many question still unanswered.

Five Twitter Tools You Have To Have In Your Social Media Tool Belt

dschmidt — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:03:50 +0000

ComScore data indicates that Twitter attracted 20.1 million unique visitors in June. Conclusion: having a marketing plan for your small business including the surging social network is imperative. Since Twitter has become a social media giant comparable to Facebook, there has certainly been an excess of application development based on the Twitter API. It’s important to decipher [...]

July Gadget of the Month: CellScope

dschmidt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:32:33 +0000

Practical technology that has the possibility of serving a clearly defined purpose for the betterment of society remains taboo in western culture, especially with respect to mobile devices. Although engineers have certainly conceived some big ideas that have had long term positive impacts addressing important social issues, for the most part Americans are keenly fixated [...]

Video Codec Standard Quarrel in HTML 5 May Lead To It’s Demise

dschmidt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:54:55 +0000

So for all of you non-coding techies out there I’m eager to fill you in on the great debate brewing around the campfire of the W3C community. The charter for xhtml 2.0 development will no longer continue at the end of this year and now their are a few snags curtailing the standardization of [...]

Highlights From The 2008 Web 2.0 Expo NY: Tim O’Reilly

dschmidt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:12:08 +0000

I came across this fascinating call to action from founder of O’Reilly Media, Inc Tim O’Reilly during his presentation last year at the Web 2.0 Expo NY. Using pascal’s wager as a paradigm to evaluate our societies future success or failure dealing with global warming and climate change, O’Reilly believes that only through innovation [...]