This must be one of the coolest tables I’ve ever seen. Amazingly simple and yet beautiful. When will this be available at IKEA…?

SWFObject is an easy-to-use and standards-friendly method to embed Flash content, which utilizes one small JavaScript file. I’ve previously mentioned SWFObject in one of my posts last year.

The latest release is now featured on Google code, and from my initial testing it appears to be flawless.

Plaxo recently announced (14th May) they’ve signed an agreement to be acquired by Comcast. At the moment they are not releasing financial details of the transaction. The acquisition is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the near future.

Plaxo will remain an independent operation in Silicon Valley, reporting into Comcast Interactive Media, which is a division of Comcast that develops and operates Internet businesses focused on entertainment, information and communication. All the 50 employees will continue to innovate on and grow both the networked address book service and the next-generation social network, Pulse.

More information is found in the press release.

It’s not easy to keep track of all the things you should do, when you’re supposed to do it, and where. Now a new Internet service is there to help you! Set up an account with rememberthemilk.com (RTM) and explore/enjoy the benefits:

• Manage tasks quickly and easily - an intuitive interface makes managing tasks fun
• Get reminded, anywhere - receive reminders via email, SMS and instant messenger
• Organise the way you want to - create as many lists or tags as you need
• Locate your tasks - use the map to see where your tasks are located in the real world
• Work together to get things done - share, send and publish tasks and lists with your contacts or the world
• Add tasks wherever you are - adding tasks is as simple as firing off an email (even from your phone)

And it doesn’t stop there. Visit rememberthemilk.com to learn more, I sure believe this will become my second most useful/used Internet tool after twitter.

Update: just installed twhirl, which is a very nice twitter desktop client running on Adobe AIR. Not the main point really but with that on the desktop you can easily add tasks to RTM as shown here. I guess that when I get used to all this life is going to get easier (not really, but I may forget less than before…).

Finjan recently reported (MPOM report) on a Crimeserver hosting 1.4G of unprotected stolen data, including passwords, medical data, emails etc. A few days ago they found yet another.

To demonstrate how easy it is to access the data and how vulnerable the data are once stored on an unprotected Crimeserver, the following examples should raise some eyebrows.

As Finjan disclosed in their Q3/2006 Trend report, malicious code is hosted on caching servers of leading Search Engine Providers. This time they reported in their recent MPOM that stolen end-user data is also stored on these caching servers. Yes, your passwords, Social Security numbers, Online banking information… no data is safe, as the image below illustrates.

So if you are looking for some stolen login credentials… Google it!

Finjan claims they share their experience and findings to increase public awareness of  the growing cybercrime problem.

Finally, please don’t blame Google - they just indexed the unprotected Log files found on the Crimeserver as they do with any other public file their crawlers find on the Web.  Scary isn’t it?