Today brings yet another story of a “hi profile” hack, this time targetting Ronaldoinho, http://www.ronaldinhogaucho.com/, one of the best soccer players in the world and a man loved and hated by million. No one should be surprised by the lack of security for a celebrity website or that the webmaster managed to “restore” the site [...]
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Search for what is work, and you will see a onebox with a Google Answers icon and the “display” or source URL as wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn. Follow normal search behavior and click the top link or the image in the onebox and you will go to a Google scraper page, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:work instead of going to the Princeton.edu [...]
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The CEO of a startup I helped form recently wrote a bio of me for our website, describing me as an” SEO Guru”. I quickly asked him to change it to “Online Marketing Veteran” because the reputation of our industry has been so besmirched by the get rich quick hucksters who run pyramid schemes and [...]
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Tired of choosing between the lessor of two evils? Here is something Republicans and Democrats can agree on CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart and was originally foisted upon the citizens of the internet by Carnegie Mellon in response to a call by Yahoo to develop a [...]
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While sitting around at Pubcon chewing the fat ( a marvelous Rib Eye) with a couple of very, very smart people who shall remain nameless, the subject of the emerging war between Apple and Google came up. Specifically, we were discussing the one box music search and the notable absense of iTunes from the choices [...]
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