Comments for Yet Another (ex-)VC Blog

Comment on SEO tips from a guy who doesn’t know SEO by graham

graham — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:04:17 +0000

great article mate. but quality links are also needed. seo powersuite is great for link building if you ever want a software to recommend

Comment on What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Bansi Mehta

Bansi Mehta — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:54:38 +0000

This is good stuff. I completely agree. Though some of these tacts might work in the beginning but in long-term they miserably fail. Thanks for sharing.

P.S. I was just looking around your blog, got the link in the email you sent to Ilya and bumped into this. :)

Comment on IDEs belong in the cloud by John Gannon

John Gannon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:14:03 +0000

Glad to hear I’m not the only one struggling out there! :) I decided I am going to go the Python route. Hoping some of my old perl chops come in handy!

Comment on IDEs belong in the cloud by John Gannon

John Gannon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:43:33 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion!

Comment on Why cloud-based load testing is a killer app by Martin Buhr

Martin Buhr — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:54:51 +0000

Getting started in Load Testing in the cloud has quite high barriers to entry and can carry an extreme upside risk in costs in terms of having out-of control load farms running. At http://loadzen.com we built the infrastructure to share as much resource as possible to minimise the risk of having runaway load generators.

However, in the end for consumers having a simple, quick and easy way to generate moderate to high load on their servers provides an excellent way to ensure that your site will withstand traffic when that one piece of content goes viral.

Comment on IDEs belong in the cloud by @SRoyster

@SRoyster — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:34:04 +0000

Thanks for the IDE recommendations. Had a similar experience 2 days ago after picking up my ROR Tutorial 3 and setting aside an hour to “get started” — what a pain in the a@@, and I’m still not ready. Going to pick an IDE & give it a go.

Comment on IDEs belong in the cloud by Lewis Levin

Lewis Levin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:41:22 +0000

Try Python and web2py You can be up and running in minutes on its builtin web server It provides a very complete IDE in your browser

Comment on Username/password is dead – Mobile is the new identity by John Gannon

John Gannon — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:48:29 +0000

Ross, thanks for sharing. I’m finding there are a variety of solutions to address this problem. I’m curious what you think of the UX implications of a 2FA solution. It seems so simple yet there are few sites that actually implement it. When will we hit the inflection point when users will demand 2FA from the key websites with which they interact?

Comment on Username/password is dead – Mobile is the new identity by Ross Macdonald (@rossmac2310)

Ross Macdonald (@rossmac2310) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:40:04 +0000

hi John
yes – i agree with Scott that the mobile (smartphone) will become THE device for 2FA in the future. Why? Because you don’t go anywhere without it and because it is easy to use. Also passwords are now redundant – they are hard to remember and they are easy to hack.

Our take on the application of the security is a variation on the theme proposed by Scott. The process of authentication using Live Ensure happens as follows:

The user logs onto the site or app using an SSO/OpenID or user name ( note we don’t require the user to enter a password ). This initiates the delivery of a QR code to the users browser.
The user then opens the app on his device – then merely points their device ( iOS/Android/Windows) at the screen to which we have delivered a QR code and he scans the code. This communicates back to the site that the user is legit and they are authenticated. The session can proceed securely.

From the users perspective they don’t have to do anything more than they did before apart from open the app on their phone and scan the code. It is simple and strong. The key difference with Scotts solution is that we don’t use the SMS channel ( for a variety of reasons). If you are interested to find out more why not go to the site and try the demo. (http://www.liveensure.com)

Thank you
Ross Macdonald CEO Live Ensure

Comment on Username/password is dead – Mobile is the new identity by John Gannon

John Gannon — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:07:08 +0000

Scott, thanks for reading and commenting. I was not aware that SMS 2FA was being done in the way you describe.