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Archive for October, 2008
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Traffic to retail sites down
Is your traffic down on last year even though your search engine rankings are still solid? While it may not put bucks in the bank; if yours is a retailer site, you can rest assured you’re not alone.
Blogging Platforms Targeted with Denial of Service Attacks
WordPress has been targeted by hackers in Denial of service attacks. LiveJournal too has been experienced some downtime over the past couple of days as a result of network attacks. The blogging platforms appear to be getting hit hard.
Free site search
Web sites are like rabbits in the sense that pages tend to grow in numbers very quickly. For example, this site was originally just a few pages with links to resources for my clients, but over the years it’s grown to over 1300 on the main site.
Alphabet of Search Engine Optimization
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The Fear of Losing: Using Competitive Instincts as an Advantage
The Winner’s Curse is a term used to describe auctions whereby the winner will overpay because he/she overestimates the item’s actual market value. This tendency to overbid is due to factors like incomplete information or other market participants. Recent research show that people also overbid because of the fear of losing in a social competition.
A team of NYU neuroscientists and economists conducted [...]
Twitter for Terrorists
A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-changing software as potential terrorist tools.
The report by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion, posted on the website of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), examines a number of mobile and web technologies and their potential uses by militants.
Strange Things Happen in Cyber Space
A woman has been arrested in Japan after she allegedly killed her virtual husband in a popular video game.
The 43-year-old was reportedly furious at finding herself suddenly divorced in the online game Maplestory.
Police say she illegally accessed log-in details of the man playing her husband, and killed off his character.
The woman, a piano teacher, is in jail in Sapporo waiting to learn if she faces charges of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating data.
The death of blogging?
A writer for Wired recently offered some interesting advice about blogging. “Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.”