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Slashdotted… by a blogger?
Gone are the days when you got a polite phone call before your company website was to be featured by a major news outlet, giving you a chance to be ready for the crush.
Since the 90s, being slashdotted is now common vernacular among webmasters. Normally seen as a good thing (because of the publicity), it [...]
New Google Maps Mobile Knows Your Location
When I bought my Blackberry 8830, the last thing I bought it for was its on-board GPS. I didn’t even know it had one. Turns out, I wasn’t supposed to know about it since Verizon disables the GPS deep in the kernel of the device. Turns out that even Google was talking about how [...]
How @twitter Changes Work (OR, Can You Handle The Truth?)
@Akula (Brett Nordquist) asked the question last night, “How does your company change if the majority of people use Twitter?” quickly following that up with “Maybe the company doesn’t change. But I think it does.”
I already noted that the evidence of Twitter becoming a mainstream communications tool is abundant, but considering what happens to twitter [...]
Ajaxian Hacked or Link-Farming?
Skimming posts in my feedreader today, I noticed something very unusual. I tagged this post on PopBox, a JavaScript image magnifier as something interesting, but when I kept scrolling I saw spam links to various online prescriptions, etc., etc.
I scrolled back up, and unmarked the post, thinking I had run across a spam site [...]
