Monthly Archives: June 2009

On The So-Called “Gold Rush” For Facebook Vanity URLs

According to Bloomberg, about 3 million vanity URLs have been snagged over the weekend:
Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking site, said more than 3 million members registered user names by yesterday morning after it offered people the chance to claim a personalized Web address.
Facebook began accepting registrations at midnight New York time on June 13 [...]

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How Many Geeks Are Even Trying Bing?

I think one of the great advantages that Google has isn’t just the strength of its search technology, or the bottom-line deliciousness of adwords / adsense.  Its really the thought leadership of what “Search” — and even, probably “The Internet” — means to so many ordinary people.
So much so, (and moreso than say, “Internet Explorer” [...]

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Security Updates-a-Plenty

So … DJI is back.  Sort of.
After browsing teh interwebs about securing Wordpress installations I found a good tutorial over here:
http://www.guvnr.com/web/blogging/10-tips-to-make-wordpress-hack-proof/
I would encourage everyone to have a look.  Beyond the usual “install the latest version” and “use stronger passwords” , there’s some other great hints, like changing the default “admin” user’s name to something else; [...]

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How These Six Words Could Energize Friendfeed on the Mainstream Media

Well, who knows if it really would — but I think one of the biggest inflections in Twitter’s popularity over the past 6-12 months has been the mainstream media’s push, and obvious love affair with socia media.  Of course, CNN is one of the biggest culprits / lovers so far, with almost every one of [...]

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Hacked Again.

So, I was jazzed to write something new yesterday — the topic of which, I can’t even recall now — when I realize that the blog had been hacked again.  Yes, I am guilty of not upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress (was running 2.5), and probably a host of other security laziness.  Anywhoo, [...]

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Twitter Changing The Way We Live? What Do Your Kids Think About That?

I get Twitter.  I like Twitter (although I don’t really use Twitter all that much).  And there’s no denying how its been taken up by the mainstream media now.  And the techno-sphere loves to talk about Twitter almost as much as … well, I’m not sure.  A quick survey of Techmeme shows that there are [...]

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