Archive of posts written in November, 2008

We’ve been hacked… now we’re more secure.

Monday, November 24th, 2008 by Clay

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note left by hackersThis is a scrambled (family friendly) version of what appeared on the front page of the Browse results section of Buy It Like You Mean It yesterday. The hacker responsible only changed one company’s description: alerting us to a security hole without causing real damage.

The problem is now fixed. We treat our website’s security seriously. (more…)

1,000 bilumi changes logged!

Monday, November 24th, 2008 by Clay

Lucy Exclamation

Lucy Mendel has committed the landmark 1,000th change to Buy It Like You Mean It’s repository of open source technology! Click the sound file to hear her speech on the subject (gotcha, Lucy.) (more…)

AccountAbility web mashup

Saturday, November 8th, 2008 by Lucy

Socially responsible bank statementCheck out the new demo we built for AccountAbility, a project led by Nate Greenslit at the MIT Media Lab. AccountAbility aims to put socially responsible information on online bank statements.
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