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EBay Lets Britney’s Hair Down
The phrase "only in America" has never been more apropos. And the phrase "Britney shaved" has never had such an ironic connotation.…
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Alexa’s New Features
Most people know by now that Alexa is far from perfect, but it's one of the only and best traffic ranking and monitoring tools available. On Friday they announced some new features: * Geographic user report - See what percentage of users for a site comes from each country. * Traffic rank by country - This one is interesting to actually see your site's ranking…
MyBlogLog – A Honey pot for Spammers
There seem to be mixed feelings about MyBlogLog, the social networking service that Yahoo bought in January, and the one whose widget you can see in my sidebar, as well as the sidebars on lots of other blogs (it's the one with a row of pictures of different readers who have visited my blog recently).
Text Size and Visit Length
I would not consider myself a "blind man" or a senior who needs the text size to be set at 24 points. Yet, I see that website owners forget that it's a pain in the a** to read web copy especially if it's in small text size.
Microsoft Applies For Anti-Phishing Patent
In a recent bevy of application disclosures, it was discovered that in September of last year, Microsoft applied for a patent regarding methodology for notifying Internet users whether or not a particular URL is associated with a list of known phishing sites. We’ve all gotten the e-mails before. In what appears to be correspondence from a legitimate company, a letter comes across our respective e-mail…
Mobile Company Offers Free Internet Calls
Challenger mobile, a global telecom service, has unveiled a feature that will speed the process of registering with the company. When customers complete their one-page online registration and activate their account they will receive all the settings they need to start using the service via text message.
