DMFAIL: Direct Private Messages Become Public

As you may know, Twitter has several keyboard shortcuts. For instance, we can send private messages quickly by typing: D user message.

If, by mistake you typed or believed that DM is short for direct message, and wrote "DM user message", your messages were sent to the public stream.

DMFail is a new Twitter service that grabs all those messages and reprints them on its site for everyone to see, which can be quite a horrible experience for the people involved.

Here are more Twitter keyboard shortcuts:

Use the arrow or page up/down keys to navigate in the tweet list. twibble also has some shortcuts for numeric and qwerty keyboards (List describes twibble Version 0.8.6):

[0]: options dialog
[1] or [t]: send a tweet
[2] or [r]: @-reply to selected screen name
[3] or [d]: direct message
[4]: toggle between all tweets and dm/@-Messages
[5]: jump to first tweet
[7]: Mark selected tweet as a favorite
[8] or [h]: Run twibble in the background (Note: twibble may still try to fetch new tweets using your data connection! To shut down twibble always use exit)
[9]: Show log (to see more messages raise the log level in the Options dialog)
[*] or [u]: Fetch new tweets (use this to manually update your tweets. Only new tweets will be fetched and inserted to the current list)
[#]: Reload tweet list (the current tweet list will be cleared and the tweet list from the twitter server will be reloaded)

Also, on Mashable: 230+ Keyboard Shortcuts for Top Web Services.

Lastest News from Netvibes.

I still enjoy my Netvibes pages. So here are the lastest news from the Netvibes team.

1. You can invite your friends to join Netvibes! Click "Contacts" then "Find Friends" to find your friends listed in your email address book, on social networks or even those we think "you may know".

2. You can share your favorite content and widgets with your friends via Netvibes, Facebook, Twitter or email. Whenever you see the yellow arrow, click it to send the item to your friends.

3. You can drag a widget directly from the "Add content" section to your page! It's the easiest and quickest way to add a widget straight to your page.

Coveritlive and Twitter.

It is now possible to integrate up to 12 Twitter feeds into your CoveritLive event. Just type in the Twitter accounts you want to autopublish and every minute, CoveritLive will go get any new Tweets and publish them directly into your Viewer Window with a little 't' logo so your readers know it was a Tweet.

And coming up in early 2009:

- Enhanced Q&A and Panel Discussion: edit your reader comments before you publish, enhancements to collect questions before you go live, better communication between panelists (i.e. get notified if they are typing their answer...like MSN Messenger).

- Expansion of 'unmoderated' Reader Comments: reducing the burden of comment approval if you have readers you can trust.

- The Ticker/Scoreboard Feature: creates a 'stock ticker' that runs inside your Viewer Window with information you create (the score of the game, a link to a live video stream, etc.).

Web Applications Vulnerabilities

A new report by consultancy Corsaire found that, despite a general improvement in security over the past six years, just under 25 per cent of the problems could have a 'critical' or 'high' impact on application security, representing a significant likelihood of data loss or other security breach. The remaining three quarters were split between 'medium' and 'low' impact.

The State of the Web white paper analysed samples of security assessments of applications from leading companies in a number of sectors across the UK, Australia, Europe, the US and Asia.