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26 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Some impressive stats from Microsoft From the page: "Microsoft.com Powered by Hyper-V One of our more challenging systems from a server subsystem utilization perspective is microsoft.com [microsoft.com] . The site handles 15,000 requests per second, 1.2 billion page views per month, and 280M worldwide unique users per month as well as supporting ~5000 content contributors from within the company. This site has close to 300GB of content consisting of some seven million individual files on each server. Due to this scale and the variety of applications hosted, the site heavily exercises all of the major subsystems - memory, CPU, network, and file ... Click here to read the entire blog post
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This post is from from my other blog here A story of a couple who's son, now 20 months old, has what's called, Leukodystrophy, but instead of complaining about it , Matt (the father) is going to get his hands dirty by entering an ironman in Switzerland on July 13th, to raise money for The Myelin Project and European Leukodystrophy Association.
26 Jun This post is from from my other blog here From the page: "Holy optimization Batman! Are search geeks no longer relevant in the world of SEO? Nothing of the sort my caped companion in ranking. Search geeks are still highly relevant and likely will be as long as search engines exist. You might even say without them all your optimization efforts could fail entirely."
26 Jun This post is from from my other blog here From the page: "Legal broadband subscription services that permit file sharing may appear on the market by the year's end, according to music industry sources - after government intervention brought both music suppliers and ISPs to the table."
25 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Matt is going to be swimming 3.8 km, 180km cycling and a 42.2 km run to raise money for charity. Son Joseph suffers from a condition known as Leukodystrophy
23 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Optin Accelerator is a massive security risk for your customers - rather than fix the security problems, the new version just adds fluff without addressing core issues. Anyone can make a mistake, release a product without considering all the possible ramifications, but to release Opt-in Accelerator again without major changes is irresponsible. The Irresponsible Viral Tell-A-Friend TrioSo far there have been 3 such scripts I have written about, and there is a 4th "coming soon"
22 Jun This post is from from my other blog here New WordPress plugin for caching using memcached - it is not as fast as wp-Super-Cache but does perform better on sites with frequently updated pages. Used on WP.com so I assume it is WPMU compatible too
21 Jun
21 Jun This post is from from my other blog here
The idea of specific insurance policies for bloggers, as a form of liability insurance to cover defamation cases has been around for some time. It seems even Jason Calacanis at one time was thinking of entering the market
Domain Name: BLOGGINGINSURANCE.COM
Registrar: AOL, LLC
Whois Server: whois.registrar.aol.com
Referral URL: http://www.registrar.aol.com
Name Server: NS1.WEBLOGSINC.COM
Name Server: NS3.WEBLOGSINC.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: ...
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19 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Sorry Duncan, probably the most inaccurate article you have ever written
19 Jun This post is from from my other blog here From the page:- "They need to control and manipulate the information to the public for their own special interests. That is how Mass Media has always worked through history. Garbage in Garbage out! Mass Media feeds sensationalism and at times reports some Half Backed Truth calling it news!"
17 Jun This post is from from my other blog here
It is a significant step, though not as many seem to think unusual. Afterall, Google started as a search engine, then monetized search, and finally introduced their own publisher program Adsense. Lots of discussion related to the often reappearing Microsoft Yahoo deal mention that display advertising is highly lucrative, and Technorati are in a prime position to serve advertising to a very specific demographic of publishers - bloggers. Technorati know exacty what bloggers are talking about on a day to day basis, so in aggregate they can offer publishers targeted ...
17 Jun This post is from from my other blog here WordPress.com has added XML sitemaps so I thought I would take a glance at their implementation. My immediate though was to take a look at Lorelle's sitemap.xml
That seems like a good way to tell the spiders to index your site less often than they currently do. With Lorelle you would certainly want spiders checking the home page hourly as she is sometimes the source of breaking news. Then I looked at the sitemap with a little more detail, and in particular the entry for her most recent post, the Cyclical Nature of Blog Stats ...
17 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Here is a little olive branch for the guys at ePerks, an unbiased resource that could be used to present 2 sides of the current Vlad vs ePerks legal kerfuffle. I am not going to portray Mahalo as some kind of "sacred ground", and I have been a little negative about Mahalo in the past, but it does offer ePerks the opportunity to submit links, hopefully not from anonymous sources, of people happy with their service. Mahalo I am sure will validate links, and if they seem to be from an anonymous shill blog on WordPress.com, my hope is that they will ...
16 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Michael Arrington in his boycott of Associated Press seemed to suggest that paid content is a dying business model. I must admit I am not a huge fan of linking to articles from Associated Press, simply because it is extremely difficult to determine the original source when these stories "go over the wire". A great example of the reasons why is when I reported about the appropriated story last year from the Museum of Hoaxes - that was Agence France-Presse to blame, a different organization. Readers might also remember my run-in with The Guardian where I was a major source for an article, ...
16 Jun This post is from from my other blog here I tend to leave newbie internet marketing tutorials to experts, but often I say that a little tongue in cheek - the people writing the newbie tutorials are often writing them because they couldn't do advanced stuff. (the "Advanced Whitehat SEO Debate?" ) In the case of Minisite Secrets Exposed, Michael Rasmussen does a great job of covering all the basics, and there are some quite advanced tip in there as well. This is a great alternative for bloggers who are struggling making any real money online. Michael is an expert - I can't remember the last time someone managed to shoehorn ...
16 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Fake Steve Jobs is an internet phenomenen and now we have fake Jerry Yang which I am sure will be a huge success, and add valuable perspective to the internet tech news scene. John Cow was a revelation, a wonderful parody of the (in)famous John Chow, and the legend continues with new owners of the parody site maybe providing better quality content than the original, and in a heated competition with Garry Conn. I have known who the new "John Cow" is almost from the start, it was fairly easy for someone on a fair number of email lists to work out, ...
15 Jun This post is from from my other blog here That title might have inspired thoughs of Jedi Knights, those with ADD might have instantly warped their thought trains to Pink Floyd and "The Dark Side of The Moon". Both might be correct in their connections. Just like you couldn't see the dark side of the force, and you can't see the dark side of the moon, you can't actually see all of your traffic that originates from search on the internet. This is something that Tim O'Reily seems to be forgetting.
Search is only one way to find things. It's the most easily monetizable, so it gets the lion's share of the attention. ...
15 Jun This post is from from my other blog here A brilliant piece of writing based upon Bartleby the Scrivener "A soul whom prosperity harmed, Old Behrouzi avoided remembering the existence of actual customers unless compelled to do so."
14 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Alex stresses how important it is to take action, either for or against Vlad or ePerks, after you have made your own evaluation of the information presented. I assure you I spent a lot of time in prior research before deciding to take action in support of Vlad The collective voice of the Blogosphere is only powerful if people use their ability to speak freely and voice their opinions. At the same time, by not speaking, you may lose the ability to speak freely, as in the US results of cases have an effect on future cases.
14 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Useful presentation on business blogging focusing on real estate
14 Jun This post is from from my other blog here An impartial article on the plight of blogger Volodymyr "Vlad" Zablotskyy currently being sued by eperks for defamation The claims made by ePerks seem to be totally without merit, but Vlad sure has a lot of evidence that suggest someone should be sued for defamation of his character.
14 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Strange how this site appeared when stumbling ePerks tag but didn't have a review
14 Jun This post is from from my other blog here In what seems to be an impartial report on the ePerks vs Vlad lawsuit, Mr Ron Cook, the lawyer representing Brabus Ventures, owners of ePerks, made the following highly controversial statements. Clearly, his minions out there are rallying behind him [...] They are trying to live off the company and raise their blog ranking. It's really disgusting. Mr Cook, what is really disgusting is that a failed startup, ePerks, is now trying to somehow recover some or all of their initial investment by taking an innocent blogger to court. The article also elaborates not only on the legal threat to Vlad, but also ...
13 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Amazing how word spreads in the blogosphere. ePerks totally ripped apart by Mary who questions whether the ePerks health plan covers the meds that someone at ePerks might need to take to cover their multiple personality disorder. (all the shill comments they seem to be making in various forums, blogs etc) If you are a blogger, help defend your blogging rights by stumbling this and other stories about ePerks. This is a topic that concerns all bloggers and you should make your audience aware of the terrible lengths some companies can go to to silence honest bloggers.
13 Jun
13 Jun This post is from from my other blog here ePerks should never enrage English gentlemen otherwise they will likely use some form of invective such as "jolly bad sort" and call their shill sites a "pile of poo"
11 Jun This post is from from my other blog here You know, for everything that has been said bad about Ripoff Report by the SEO community, I think ePerks totally deserve to be outranked by this page. ePerks & iHype - Legal Kneejerk - Sues Blogger This is of course just me making everyone aware that there have been complaints about ePerks written on Ripoff report - I would never dream of encouraging anyone to write anything that wasn't true.
11 Jun This post is from from my other blog here For a number of months every time I log into Facebook (or at least it seemed that way) Facebook would add a call for help with translation into my news feed. I think most of my readers are aware that I live in Poland, though those details are not directly available to Facebook, unless they look at my phone number. Thus they are most likely targeting me with the message using some kind of IP delivery - looking at which country or region my IP address originates in, and as I use a Polish ISP, they sometimes give me information in ...
10 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Vlad is being sued by ePerks - the evidence is completely without merit, and seems to be an attempt by ePerks either to quell negative press about their service using the threat of legal intervention, or as a way of exacting revenge. I have also written 2 articles on this topic ePerks Sues Vlad - Kneejerk Reaction
09 Jun This post is from from my other blog here From the page: "OPT OUT WIDGETS: This means that if you want to take these widgets off of your site you MUST call them and ask them to take them off of your site. This is the FIRST time (that I am aware of) of having a website provider slap THOUSANDS of widget links to another competing site for the same LOCAL terms and MAKE YOU CALL TO GET IT REMOVED."
09 Jun This post is from from my other blog here From the page: "You see him over there? Just sold his company for 5 million, but I heard that he's a tight bastard that wouldn't pee on you if you were on fire, and he's supposed to be lousy in bed."
09 Jun This post is from from my other blog here I had intended to do a followup this week with more scathing evidence of ePerks shilling all over the blogosphere, but ePerks have pre-empted that by taking some rather unusual and desperate action... Remember I am not a lawyer, and this is a stong opinion piece. I am trying extremely hard to create an assertion of fact dressed up as an opinion ePerks Are Suing VladI found out on Saturday from Vlad that he is being sued by ePerks. For those new to this devastating attack on blogging free speech, I recommend my previous post on ePerks and iHype which was just the tip ...Click here to read the entire blog post
09 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Vlad is being sued for defending his family name at a time when he was applying for adoption.
09 Jun This post is from from my other blog here After my last post regarding Wide Circles I exchanged emails with one of their support representatives, with their message being... We definitely do not tolerate any kind of SPAM at all Unfortunately the evidence available to me at the time not just on my own blog but elsewhere, was in stark contrast. Washington Post Spammed - great way to encourage press coverageAny legitimate service, if they wanted to get press coverage from an international news publication, might issue a press release, and contact a newspaper through legitimate channels directly, or maybe through their public relations company. Wide Circles seem to have a different approach ...
05 Jun This post is from from my other blog here I know the new additions to Gmail are just tweaks, and mainly created in Google "20% time" but these little problems cause me no end of frustration. Gmail Spam False PositivesI have to read my spam folder daily, because it gets sometimes 200 spam email messages, and within that may be as many as 5% false positives. These are emails I want to receive, which I have signed up to receive, I have confirmed a subscription with a full "double opt-in" process, and are from senders I previously had no problems receiving email from. Some examples are occasional emails from list owners with ...
05 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Jeff over at Coding Horror has just been taking a small pop at Yelp for requiring email account access to find friends Email is the de-facto master password for a huge swath of your online identity. Tread carefully: * As a software developer, you should never ask a user for their email credentials. It's unethical. It's irresponsible. It is wrong. If someone is asking you to code this, why? For what purpose?
* As a user, you should never provide your email credentials to anyone except your email service. Sites that ask you for this information are to be regarded with ...
05 Jun This post is from from my other blog here On my last post regarding the new Consumer Protection laws that came into force 26th May, I had to preface the post that I am not a lawyer, and effectively just speculate on how they might affect online marketing. Fortunately Susan Singleton, one of the UK's leading experts on online marketing law, dropped by and left a comment...
I have been doing quite a bit of work on these regulations including putting on a conference with the UK Government representative who has been drafting and advising them - we are running it again on 11th June (www.singlelaw.com)….pause there and laugh because on ...
05 Jun This post is from from my other blog here I think almost everyone knows this saying Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. How many people have old fishing rods in their shed or loft? I bet they even know how to use them, but for some reason a takeaway Chinese, microwave dinner, or eating out is a much more convenient way to eat. Sure, catching fish is satisfying, relaxing and fresh fish on a charcoal grill is extremely appetising. Then of course there is the fun of playing with fishing line... Internet Marketing Similarities
02 Jun This post is from from my other blog here Alex takes a look at what it takes to quickly build a $5000 website
02 Jun This post is from from my other blog here isimone is pioneering the idea of creating "pillar content" on a stumbleupon page, by creating a list of prominent SEO and Marketing stumblers (the legit ones). Smart idea.
02 Jun This post is from from my other blog here iHype.com was due to launch today and it is my strong personal opinion that they will head straight to the Techcrunch deadpool, and if they get a mention on Techcrunch, it will purely be for the satisfaction of sending them there. I am trying to be a responsible blogger. Over the last few days I have actually spent a considerable amount of time trying to avoid writing this post.
Most of my reviews are generally positive - if a company approaches me for a review and I feel that I have major concerns regarding their service, most often that will be expressed ...
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