If you’re on Facebook, you’ve surely seen one or more of your friends with a hacked status. Some spammer gets into their account and all of a sudden they are selling their Kindle so that they can buy a new iPad that they just love or whatever. It’s incredibly obnoxious. Read more…
Finally, some good news. The Rustock botnet was responsible for almost half of the world’s spam emails. So, when it was finally taken out, spam decreased by about 33%, according to a study by Symantec. There was some inactivity by the Rustock botnet at the beginning of the year and Read more…
Usually, when Google tweaks their algorithm, the changes are so subtle that most don’t notice them. But last week, however, Google made its biggest tweaks in quite some time. The changes are expected to affect 12% of their search results. “Our goal is simple: to give users the most relevant Read more…
For most of the holiday season, JC Penney’s website ranked very high for many different products in Google searches. However, they got knocked down a few pegs when Google caught on to what they were doing. Or at the least, what their SEO firm was doing. All long, they wondered Read more…
Remember that neat clip that popped up a couple weeks ago from “The Today Show” in 1994? If not, it’s right here. The video shows Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel openly wondering what the internet is. It’s not embarrassing, it was 1994! Well, apparently the guy at NBC who discovered Read more…
After airlines offered passengers free in-flight Wi-Fi over the holidays, there is another promotion coming down the pike. Specifically, these airlines are going to offer free in-flight Facebook for the month of February. Various airlines are partnering with Gogo Inflight Internet to make Facebook available to their passengers. These airlines Read more…
Thanks to former Philadelphia Eagles tight end Luther Broughton for tipping us off on this one. While the execs at Facebook have certainly been able to monetize the social media giant, this might be the point where people start to get tweaked. Facebook has unveiled a new advertising opportunity for Read more…
At the Inside Social Apps conference, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said that moving forward, mobile will be the company’s “primary focus.” And apparently, it’s not just lip service. Facebook confirmed recently that they purchased the mobile ad firm Rel8tion for its first mobile ad effort. “Mobile is inherently social,” Taylor Read more…
One of the things that most people love about Twitter, is it gives them a chance to actually reach and sort of touch their favorite athletes and celebrities. Without Twitter, we’d never know that Chad Ochocinco thinks he’d love to play for the Patriots (at least not until the next Read more…
We’ve been telling you that this blog isn’t about us, and it’s not. However, when we get quoted in a story of this size, we like to pass it along. It lets everyone know that from time to time, we know what we are doing. I was quoted in this Read more…