WideBlog

Due to the recommendations to update to Rails 1.2.4 I’ve just upgraded both WideWord and WideBlog given them a tiny bit of tlc.

WideWord is my free encrypted document writing web app which doesn’t require any kind of registration. Rather it uses fairly advanced crypto and capability based security.

WideBlog uses similar technology only for “secret blogs”. Imagine you need to create a project blog for a cross company project? This is what it has been mostly used for.

The main “feature” I’ve added to WideWord is removing the ability to create public documents. If you already have a public document it will still work, however you won’t be able to create new ones. I have also gotten rid of the list of public documents. While it wasn’t extreme most of the documents in the last year were spam and without offering any user registration or censorship the best (and quickest) solution was to just disable the functionality.

There are plenty of other services where you can create public documents so I don’t think this is going to be a problem, write me though if you disagree.

Most users use it for the privacy and security features anyway and would probably not want anything public anyway.

Anyway there are currently more than 5000 secret documents and 200 secret blogs. Which I’m pretty happy about. They were part of a secret strategy to take over the world, that I have since dropped. Right now they are simply being maintained.

If anyone wants to give me a serious non insulting offer and you are willing to keep maintaining the service, I am willing to sell WideWord, WideBlog and a range of related domain names. Email me at pelle@stakeventures.com.

I have now successfully moved both the WideWord and WideBlog service to another server. Again apologies for any inconveniences.

Please let me know if you experience any problems.

I will be moving WideWord and WideBlog to another server and will need to a maximum of 4 hours tomorrow Thursday, Feb. 15th between 9am and 1pm Central European Time.

I’m sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.

You too should also make sure that your rails apps are updated to Rails 1.1.6 due to the recently announced security hole.

Thanks to the Rails team for handling this quickly.

Just to let you know that at 2pm New York time I will be shutting down WideWord, WideBlog and Talk.org.

It should only be down a few minutes. But you have been warned.