Howard Dean?s Internet Technology
Dean?s Website: www.deanforamerica.com
Convio Provided Fundraising Technology
Convio?s Website: www.convio.com
Constituent Relation Management (CRM)
Newsletters, Polling, Interaction
Raised $3.6M in first 90 days ($25M to date)
Over 410,000 online supporters and 1,600 ?Dean Team? leaders
110,768 contributions from 84,713 supporters ($61.14 average)
Plans to raise $200M
$100 from 2 million contributors
Will forego Federal matching dollars
A real grassroots effort using credit card technology
Unofficial Peer-to-peer
Others Take Note
Non-profits (MADD, ASPCA)
Politicians both in US and Abroad
Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Helmut Kohl
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Grows Up
Napster Pioneered file sharing
Kazaa picked up the mantle
RIAA Began Suing Customers (wrong solution)
12 year old ($2,000 paid by single mom)
15 year old in Seattle, WA
Mary Dickenson downloaded 1,100 songs (sharing left on)
Asked to pay $3,500 or go to court ($825,000 liability)
50 others have settled
200 others have been sued
Steven Jobs Solved the puzzle with iTunes
99 cents per song from iTunes Music store
One million songs purchased in first three days
Named Invention of Year by Time Magazine
Songs must be played on iTunes or iPod
iTunes supports both Mac?s and PC?s
Restrictions
Unlimited number of iPods
Up to three PC?s or Mac?s
Price still too high (prices should drift to less than 50 cents)
Swarming ? Latest Peer-to-Peer Activity
Blogging ?- Peer-to-peer idea sharing
Friendster ? Peer-to-peer networking
Website: www.friendster.com
Just secured $13M in VC
Online community that connects people through networks
Can only talk to your friends and their friends and their friends
Challenge is to grow your own network
Largest network is 525,000 people
Large networks are even for sale on eBay
Coolest Guy Association ($12.04)
Hipster, Musicians ($4.00)
Text Messaging ? Peer-to-peer phone communication
Uses SMS Protocol
Short Message Service
Up to 160 characters
Very popular in Europe and US with teenagers
Cheap way to communicate
Three ways to send message
Use email client
Use messaging gateway
Use cell phone
Microsoft Rigs MSN Search
Check out key words ? ?linux windows?
Google hits = 10 M
MSN hits = 16
That?s no way to build credibility
Google has refused to sell out to MS (hooray)
Electronic Voting Machine Report Card
Diebold Scandal
Johns Hopkins Security Institute analyzed code
Found to be susceptible to smart card hacking
Used by MD for all voting precincts
Suing to stop all Internet discussion
Internal Memos Posted on Net (chroot.net/s/lists )
Fairfax County, Virginia
Several voting machines malfunctioned
Some votes may have been lost
Boone County, Indiana vote count errors
Voting machines registered 144,000 votes from 5,352 ballots
Only 19,000 registered voters in town
Software glitch was fixed during the day
MicroVote Machines
Other developments
Operation Cyber Sweep
Investigation started on October 1st
Uncovered 125,000 victims with losses topping $100 million
Seventy indictments have led to arrest or conviction of 125
Stolen credit card numbers, software piracy, sale of stolen goods
Fake requests for information (phishing)
Fishing for information with fake requests
Email requests or fake website forms
Website for Info: www.antiphishing.org
Identity Theft
27 million cases in last five years
Loss of $5 billion to individuals
Loss of $48 billion to financial institutions and businesses
9.9 million cases in last year alone
Data gathered by dumpster diving, phishing, purse snatching
FTC Identity Theft Website: www.consumer.gov/idtheft/
FTC Identity Theft Phone Number: 1-877-IDTHEFT
Wordspy for Newly Coined Words
Butt Call — An unintended phone call placed by sitting on one’s cell phone.
Flash mob — A large group of people who gather in a usually predetermined location, perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse
Google — To search for information on the Web, particularly by using the Google search engine
War Driving — A computer cracking technique that involves driving through a neighborhood with a wireless-enabled notebook computer and wireless access points.
Phishing.– Creating a replica of an existing Web page to fool a user into submitting personal, financial, or password data. ?adj.
Himbo — A man who is good-looking, but unintelligent or superficial.
Brain on a stick — An intelligent person who lacks emotion or social skills
Brain Fart — Quick-and-dirty creative output
Novell Buys Suse Linux
Good for Novell and for Linux
Linux is getting broad based support from IBM
If only SCO would drop their attack on IBM
Bill Gates would love to kill the open source movement
Wireless Alphabet Soup
802.11 Standards (a, b, and g)
Components
Wireless network card
Access Point/Firewall
Security
Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP)
Mac Address Filtering
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