MoreDigital: Promoting links to Spammers. I’ve always believed that you shouldn’t link to sites that practice spammy SEO (keyword stuffing, hidden links/text, etc.) or that take part in dubious tactics or have malware issues. But really, how does the common […]
Here comes the greatest internet land-grab in history – Frank Schilling made his fortune in the aftermath of the dot-com bust, buying up thousands of domain names others didn’t want. He kept at it, aggressively building a portfolio of more […]
Demand your data from Google and Facebook. Berners-Lee, the British born MIT professor who invented the web three decades ago, says that while there has been an explosion of public data made available in recent years, individuals have not yet […]
Gowalla shut down just today March 11, 2012. Just three short months after it’s acquisition by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The video above is an example of how the platform works on your phone. If you […]
Blogging or Slogging. “Remember when ‘You’ve got mail!’ used to produce a moment of enthusiasm and not dread?” asks Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Now when it comes to blogs, she says, […]
Traffic Engagement and Conversions is what it is. Back in the day, I would hear my contemporaries going on and on about all of the millions of hits they were getting on their websites. Bragging about their high traffic numbers […]
Management Rules: for those who hate management — On October 3, 2009, I originally posted a piece titled, “And Everybody Had The Next Best Thing”. It basically said this: “Developers aren’t in the least bit motivated. So complacent with their […]
Google Buzz: Egads.. Where’s the Buzz.. er.. Bug Spray? Seems to be quite a bit of buzz going on about Google Buzz these days. By and large, Social Networks are fine. When it comes to Social Networking, we are free […]
Ransomware can hold your PC Hostage — In December, the FBI issued a warning about a broader category of malicious programs called “rogueware.” These programs appear on users’ machines and claim to find viruses, then offer to clean them for […]
Banned from Facebook and other Social Networking Platforms — ” .. I used to watch my grandkids on a daily basis,” says John Tamburello. “And now that they’ve all moved away, it was nice being on Facebook.” But some users, […]
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