Archive for the ‘culture’ Category

Gmail Security Flaw May Cause You To Lose Your Domains

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Brandon at GeeksCondition.com has made an important discovery about a flaw in Gmail that can cause you to lose your domains at GoDaddy.com. A must read to learn how to protect yourself and your online identity. Is it possible for someone to create a malicious filter without having access to your Gmail username and password? No, [...]

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Google Search Wiki - Interesting, but really lacking purpose

Friday, November 21st, 2008
Google has released onto the Googling public a new form of search. Something that could be revolutionary… or not. Google has started its Search Wiki that allows users who are logged into their Google accounts to customize their search. This enables users to take notes on sites that show up and remove bad sites and [...]

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Fortune 500 start to see the value in blogging — Start a blog grow business

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Business-to-business B2B blogging is be a great way to forge relationships, talk with customers and prospects, demonstrate thought leadership, and dramatically increase visibility in natural search results for targeted search terms. Done right, it ultimately drives substantial traffic when others in the media and blogosphere link to compelling or noteworthy content. Yet the Fortune 500, [...]

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10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7 | Technosailor.com

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Aaron Brazell, from Technosailor.com has written yet another amazing post. This time he write about what Wordpress users can come to expect from the 2.7 upgrade to Wordpress. This is very exciting for those of us who love and use Wordpress on a daily basis. From what Aaron writes this update will be a MAJOR [...]

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I’m addicted to RSS — Finally — Thanks FeedMyInbox!

Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Okay I’ll admit it, it’s been an uphill battle trying to figure out a good way to keep up on the blogs that I like to read on a daily basis. I tried feed readers and they didn’t work. I never checked them and they just filled up. I tried Google Reader and that was [...]

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Google’s Ad Biz Finally Cracks | Epicenter from Wired.com

Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Google says it has only benefited from the economic downturn. Bargain-hunting Americans are using the search engine to scout out deals, according to chief economist Hal Varian. “One thing that we think at Google is that when there is a recessionary environment, people are counting their pennies, are going to be researching their purchases, looking for [...]

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Kevin Rose on Surviving the Downturn: Be Cheap | Email is Dead. Twitter is the Wave of the Future

Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Digg founder Kevin Rose says this is the best time to launch a company, even if the economy is going to hell, venture capital for web startups is drying up, and consumer spending has stalled. “I believe it’s going to be a great time to start something new,” said Rose, while speaking at the Web 2.0 [...]

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Another Election Result: Twitter Comes Through - As well as other social media sites

Thursday, November 6th, 2008
As Barack Obama made history, Twitter sustained record-breaking activity on its microblogging service as voters across the globe tweeted their election night reactions. “We’ve yet to do a full analysis for election day, but last night we saw messages per second peak at about 2-3 times what they did during the first presidential debate — which [...]

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Viacom Gets Nailed in 3Q; American Youth Doesn’t Want Its MTV | Epicenter from Wired.com

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Viacom faces a number of challenges, chief among them is the fact that its cash cow networks, MTV, VH1 and BET, are having ratings problems. The company claims that ratings have gone soft because teens and 20-somethings are are tired of repeat programming. The solution, according to chief executive Philippe Dauman, is to “increase the amount [...]

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Google Using OCR To Index Scanned Documents

Friday, October 31st, 2008
It used to be that, if you hoped Google would index a PDF file, you had to create a PDF that was text-based, not image-based; Googlebot couldn’t recognize the content of scanned or image-based documents. According to an announcement today, that’s no longer the case. Google says it’s now using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to [...]

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