About Security There are rarely talks about security breaches and problems that did or could result from those breaches in the public. The reason for that are simple, it is often embarrassing for the owner of the compromised account to admit the breach and for the solution provider to get possible flaws exposed that could …
Google’s acquisition of the one character g.cn domain for China, reminded me of the old question about one and also two character domain names in the gTLD (generic top level domain) space like .com, .net and .org. Who has domains that are only one or two characters long and how did they get them and …
This is the second part of my series about bugs and usability issues with various Google services. My previous post was about Google Picasa and Google Checkout and also included some general comments to Google Storage, which is a paid service provided by Google to increase the amount of data you can have in your …
It’s the end of the year and I have a little gift for Google for the year 2008. It’s a summary of issues and bugs I found in the various Google services, free and paid ones as well. Some are fresh and triggered this post and some others are older where I already send a …
Flickr has tapped Picnik’s online photo editing application to let Flickr users edit, well their Flickr photos right into the Flickr accounts. This is a great feature that is long time coming for Flickr. And it was a wise decision to just let in a party developer into the Flickr interface to introduce the online …
The subject is getting old, but I believe that the complaining about the dominance of Wikipedia articles in the Google search results will continue until something happens that will make most people happy. Here are two posts related to this subject from this month where I actually left long comments already, before I decided to …
There is tons of useful information available on the internet about how to do this or that to promote your business, products or services on-line. Most of that information tell or suggest to you what you should do. This is helpful information and very valuable, but sometimes is the information what you should not do …
The Podcasting & New Media Expo and SMX Social Media just past and the next conference for bloggers and podcasters is just on the horizon, the BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, NV. Podcasting – once reserved for technical types or those with the financial backing to hire a podcasting specialist – has …
The equally titled panel discussion at Search Engine Strategies San Jose in August moderated by Jeffrey K. Rohrs, with Shari Thurow, Kristopher Jones, Kathleen Fealy, Jennifer Laycock and Jonathan Hochman as speakers, was very emotional. I would say that it was even more filled with emotions than the “hot” panel discussion “Are Paid Links Evil?” …
The buzz about BlogRush has rushed into the blogging world. Some bloggers joined the craze, immediately signed up and installed the Blogrush widget into their respective blogs. While some just ignored the rush and proceed with their blogging chores. For those who are not in the know, BlogRush is a new content syndication network that …
