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Friday, June 19th, 2009
TinyURL.com, bit.ly and the new su.pr from Stumbleupon are all tools you can use for shortening URL's, especially useful for Twitter and other micro blogging sites due to their limitation on each message.However, I had never thought of the possible implications of shortened URL's, primarily the ability to hide any ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
I cam across WP Greet Box, looking for some kind of Twitter integration (of which it isn't really)Anyway, looked like a great way to interact with visitors and from a social point of view a great way to encourage others to network via RSS, Twitter, Facebook etc.By default the following ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Video is getting more and more prevalent on the web, Youtube is the largest video platform and amazingly provides the second most searches of all search engines, behind Google.This is a great opportunity to base marketing and SEO for your site / products / servicesHere is a great video with ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
With April 1 hard coded into the Conficker virus, expect some headaches shortly. We will either hear the gnashing of teeth and wails of "Not Me!" or a whimper as the virus is reactivated.Here in NZ, there were some high profile casualties, Ministry of Health, Polytechnics, Newspapers sitesWhether lessons have ...
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Owen Thor Walker, a 19 year old, who was wanted by the FBI for his part in leading the group the A-Team has been employed by Telstraclear for nearly a year to provide information for seminars.Telstraclear made an interesting comment when they said:He said it was not the equivalent of ...
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