Archive for August, 2009


Be excellent to each other

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I am constantly impressed by the amount of creative people doing great things to effect change in whatever way they can. One example that I recently came across is the DoGood Movement. Started by three college students, DoGood is an iPhone app that suggests a different act of goodness for the user each day.

What if 300,000 people did the same random act of kindness in one day? DoGood leverages millions of iPhones/iPods to unite individual acts of kindness into a significant movement. Every day. Across the world. For 365 days.

This is perfect for people like me who are never without their iPhone and might need a little daily reminder to give someone a hug (one of my favorites so far). Download DoGood for free from the iTunes store and be sure to check out what ParkerWhite is doing to help fight hunger in San Diego.

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Other people working on S.D. Food Bank Projects

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Also, check out http://blanketahuman.org/. Their current project is with San Diego Food Bank and their mission is to provide 30,000 meals to the underprivileged.

A lot of good things are in the works to feed the foodless.

What programs and causes have caught your eye lately?

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What is DDoS?

If you are a fan of twitter, like we are (@parkerwhite) then you may have noticed that the popular online service was having some major issues this morning.  It was later revealed that this was the result of a DDoS attack.

Oddly enough our web host was also hit by a DDoS atack this morning which was causing some loading issues on our website.  Fortunately this was quickly resolved.  Once it was resolved, I was asked what happened, and when I explained that our server had been hit with a DDoS attack, it was received with blank looks.

A Distribute Denial of Service attack I explained.  Still nothing.  How do I best explain what this is?

Well fortunately I don’t have to; instead I can direct you to the amazing writers at Mashable who have put together a great post explaining what this attack is and how it affected twitter.  You can read more about it here:

http://mashable.com/2009/08/06/twitter-outage/

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