Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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You might have saw a post I made earlier today when I noticed that Google was broken and every single site on the internet was showing up as containing malware. It was rather weird too because I had just read the email they sent me about making sure to check your site for malicious content. (You can read that warning here)
Well as it turns out and this is no joke, it was all caused by a single character /. I mean literally this “/” took out the entire Internet basically for anyone who was using Google. It didn’t actually take down the sites but it was still bad enough. For most people it lasted about 45 minutes and if you were still sleeping then you probably never noticed. What is strange is a single character could do that but that’s just how computers work. Thank god it wasn’t code for nuclear reactors or something like that…
You can read the story here that goes into more detail.
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Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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Twitter Tools: Presenting Flittr
If you are on Twitter but find it hard to navigate then you might find Flittr useful. It’s a really cool way to basically sort it all out and filter (Ahh now Flittr makes more sense instead of just being a cute name!) out some of the non sense. There is a lot more to it than just my explanation and as to how it would or could work for you… well that’s up to you! I just present you with the information or at least try to propagate it more. I hope you find that useful. Anyways, I try not to report on every single Twitter thing that comes out because there are about 20 each day and most seem functional but lacking on the practical side. Either way make sure you check it out.
You can find out more here.
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Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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Internet,
technology If you are familiar with SEO then you know it’s all about the links and what better way to get lots and lots of links than going viral? At its heart that’s what it’s all about but no one ever seems to be able to achieve it once let alone twice. So for the average person they are still working on it for the first time but what about those who are going for number 2? Check out this article where the simple question is, can you repeat your success? Well apparently it has and its working great but I think what the article is missing out on is why. But the why is as simple as basic marketing. If you got something going good for you then you need to expand on this and the quicker you can, the more effective it can be. Never forget that simple lesson.
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Tags: Youtube
Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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A new company has a new way to sync your phones up with Gmail, Contacts and Calendars and it’s called NuevaSync of course. You can find out more about the service here. I thought it was pretty nice actually. I only wish it offered an offline option so that you can use USB or Bluetooth in the office or at home. But if you have the web on your phone I don’t see any easier way of doing this. Oh, did I mention it’s free?
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Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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If you use Gmail and probably a lot of you do, you might not have noticed that they rolled out a pretty cool new feature that gives offline access to Gmail. It works by basically retaining a snippet but it’s pretty useful as far as I am concerned. I switched as soon as they activated it on my account. If you are interested in doing this you have to manually set the feature. Just go to settings and then see the new offline tab. Just click it and then you have to install Google “Gears” which is another new thing that basically adds offline functionality to Gmail and a few other things.
For more info check out this story here.
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Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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If you pay for internet access and you probably do if you are reading this then what you might not know is that for years different ISPS (Internet Service Providers) have been silently deploying kill switches and throttling methods to actually cut certain users from the internet. They are also trying to force certain websites such as Google to cough up extra money simply for existing. There is much more to it than this, including privacy concerns where it has been revealed lately that your ISP might have sold off your personal information to different companies. Google is guilty as well as far as privacy concerns go. Regardless this is one fight that you need to know about because it’s your rights that are being taken away and you might not even know it. Not to mention that it’s your money going down the toilet paying for a connection that might not be “unlimited” like it was marketed to you!
Help us win the fight and join the EFF today. http://www.eff.org/
Read this article to find out if your ISP is messing with your connection.
PS… Thanks Google…now can I have my personal information back?
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Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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I just read an interesting article about the growth of Google and guess what? It’s growing! DUH! Well what is particularly interesting is that they are eating up 90% of the growth of searches too which means out of the new people using the internet to search for stuff, Google is taking a huge chunk of the potential market share. But guess what? So is my site!
Check out my Eau Claire Real Estate website at Your Chippewa Valley Home.
I have enjoyed a 250% increase in traffic this month alone! Every day I have checked and my rankings are going up and up. Thanks to all the people visiting my site and as always let me know if you think we need to change anything. I designed the site for you, so if you don’t like it just let me know! You can contact me anytime using the comments and suggestions section of Your Chippewa Valley Home.
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Tags: websites
Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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Google released a warning this morning about websites that are being abused. I don’t think this was necessarily related to the other fiasco this morning where every site was tagged as malicious. But it does seem like a strange coincidence to me. Regardless everyone knows that the internet isn’t necessarily the safest place and the more you put yourself out there, the more you open yourself up for attack. Anyone who owns a website or blog is definitely a prime target. If you think you are safe because you are a small site, think again! The smaller the better because it’s more likely that someone who runs a small site might not even know that an attack is being triggered from their site. There are a variety of ways that they implement these attacks and you should be aware of the potential danger, especially for the safety of your visitors. If this morning’s upset was any indication of the potential damage that can result from your site being labeled as malicious, can you really afford to take any chances? Trust me they are not coming back to your site if they think it’s dangerous.
I highly suggest you read this article by Google on what you can do to protect you and your site.
If you think this can’t happen to your site I know of one agent who is in my city whose site at this very moment is infected with several viruses and for obvious reasons I am not going to link to it. But this is a very real thing and I can’t imagine the impact it would have on your visitors if they thought they could no longer trust your site!
*note* my site is safe and I have extra security in place to ensure that safety.
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Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2009 in
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I just got an alert from Google Webmaster Tools this morning and so far I can’t tell if its related to this or not. But apparently it’s all over Twitter as well. Do a search on Google. ANY SEARCH! You will quickly see what I mean. Every single site that I can tell has been flagged by Google as being MALWARE! This is not a joke. I hope everyone is smart enough to realize that this is not true but if it’s affecting your traffic to your site you might want to send out an email to everyone you know.
This is not a joke and very serious.
There is more information here but no one really knows what it is.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/31/google-flags-whole-internet-as-malware/
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