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Twitter Phish

Posted on 12.07.2010 by joy

Well, I guess when you have enough Twitter followers, you start seeing the phishing scams.
It looks pretty close – design wise – to an official Twitter email. However, the thing was a) sent to an address that isn’t used for Twitter and b) sent from a hotmail address, which means these guys were just [...] Continue reading →

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End of an Era: Yahoo is killing MyBlogLog

Posted on 23.12.2009 by joy

Way back in late 2006, when the social Web was just starting and Twitter was but a mere messaging Web site, along MyBlogLog, which gave us the concept of a social Web profile and creating a community around your Web site.
The idea was a good one, and oh so exploitable by some unseemly social [...] Continue reading →

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Google Android User Agent

Posted on 22.12.2009 by joy

Looks like someone with an Android handset visited cleverhack earlier today… Notice that Google has a special version of the search engine interface for Android (hint: click on the referrer). This seems to be the latest build of Android at 2.0.1, had no idea Google was using the AppleWebKit framework though. The screen size is [...] Continue reading →

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Hey, thanks for the identity theft, Verizon Wireless

Posted on 22.09.2009 by joy

So, today, I get this email from Verizon Wireless about their privacy policies for their wireless customers. At first I thought the email was spam because I haven not been a Verizon Wireless customer for OVER 2 years.
I imagine my shock when I see my old Vermont cell phone number on the email. A phone [...] Continue reading →

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Cuil referrer info (just because you like it)

Posted on 29.07.2008 by joy

Because of the hoopla around cuil today, I thought I’d take a peek at this newest search engine’s referrers.
Cuil crawler info. I know I’ve been seeing this bot for the past year or so. Cuil’s crawler is apparently called twiceler (is that a pun?) and the user agent string uses cuill.com which 302 [...] Continue reading →

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Rogue SEO spells out oh so not awesome

Posted on 07.07.2008 by joy

So earlier today I was doing some catching up on Google Alerts for some domains that I manage.
And I kept on finding pages that look like the one below – same formatting, even.

When I first noticed these pages the middle of last week, I took them for a stupidly overzealous SEO who was [...] Continue reading →

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Don’t like Shyftr? Block the IP.

Posted on 13.04.2008 by joy

This past weekend there’s been a conversation about Shyftr a new RSS service that allows people to read and comment on full text stories on the Shyftr site, rather making the reader click through to the originating blog to comment. The thought is that folks who care about pageviews for advertising will lose out [...] Continue reading →

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Some real people feedback about bookmarklets…

Posted on 21.01.2008 by joy

On the MSNBC developer blog, the question was posed How do you share?. Not in the grade school way, but in the newfangled Web 2.0 way.
Overall, the comments from MSNBC readers were pretty… negative. Aside from the “I’ll just paste the link I want to share in an email” or the “I’ll just add [...] Continue reading →

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