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Yahoo Launches Panama Ad System - 6 February 2007
In an effort to catch up to Google in the search engine ad market Yahoo overhauled its ad system. Does the new system named Panama get the job done We take a look at reviewers opinions and form ...more info>>> |
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A sneak look into the future of search - 5 February 2007
The companies that AlwaysOn picked for its "CEO Showcase" session in search, a rapid-fire series of elevator pitches, were Collarity, Eurekster, Mercora, Nexidia, and ZoomInfo (links to past SEW cover...more info>>> |
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Is Digg THE Model For Social Bookmarking? - 4 February 2007
Social bookmarking sites use tagging and pinging. Digg is a bookmarking cum blog cum technology news site. Why bother reviewing it Because this site is an excellent model of user generated content a...more info>>> |
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Vista can go tell itself to get deleted...literally! - 3 February 2007
Microsoft says that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files.Link to full articleCourtesy of bbc.co.uk...more info>>> |
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Man-in-the-middle Attacks - 17 January 2007
RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC) discovered an internet forum populated by fraudsters that is offering a set of tools to create a man-in-the-middle scheme, according to a company news release.
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Pay for Flaw - 16 January 2007
VeriSign's iDefense Labs has placed an $8,000 bounty on remote code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7.
The Reston, Va., security intelligence outfit threw out the monetary re...more info>>> |
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SEO for Video Files - 15 January 2007
According to a survey of 2,600 adults conducted by Burst Media in November, three out of every four men on the Internet watch video content -- as do more than half of the women online. Almost half of ...more info>>> |
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Progressive Disclosure - Pandora`s Box Approach - 14 January 2007
Although the article applies mainly to system/website developers, it can actually be applied to the way you give out information on your website - keep the key, fundamental information on the home pag...more info>>> |
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UK Government Placing Importance on Accessibility - 13 January 2007
Hundreds of government websites are to be shut down "to make access to information easier" for people.
Of 951 sites, only 26 will definitely stay, 551 will definitely close and hundreds more are ex...more info>>> |
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Trusting Websites Needs The Human Touch - 12 January 2007
'Both Digg and Google (and the search engines before it) started out in what I'd call "trusted mode," where you are optimistic that a community (people submitting; a collection of pages) can be truste...more info>>> |
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Are SE Marketing Companies Worth The Cost? - 11 January 2007
Is it really that hard to decipher a search engine's algorithm? Yes. In fact, it's damned hard. But truth be told, it's a moot point because that's not really what an SEO agency should be trying to ac...more info>>> |
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Instant Messaging Threats on the Increase - 10 January 2007
More than 400 attacks on instant messenger (IM) platforms were spotted last year, an increase of 15 percent from the year before, according to researchers at Akonix.
The total, which marked an annu...more info>>> |
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Usability and Online Car Buying - 9 January 2007
This article from David Strom will eventually appear in the New York Times, but you can read it on his site first. What's interesting about it is that he looks at the changing relations between online...more info>>> |
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QuickTime Issues Still Plague Websites - 8 January 2007
Similar to the issue that allowed the MySpace worm to parade through the popular social networking site, another flaw in Apple's QuickTime can be exploited.Windows and Mac users are vulnerable to a p...more info>>> |
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Criminals increasingly turn to zombie PCs - 7 January 2007
Microsoft fears the rise of the botnet. Zombie computers are now the major threat facing today's security industry said a senior Microsoft security official. The rise of the zombie PC (also known as b...more info>>> |
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Spam surge drives net crime spree - 6 January 2007
The tussle between computer security companies trying to protect your PC and the bad guys that try to compromise it is often characterised as an arms race.
Sometimes the security companies have the...more info>>> |
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Google Creating Web Pages For Google Advertisers - 5 January 2007
Most AdWords ads point to a web site, which leaves many small local businesses out in the cold. If you're spending all your time (and most of your money) trying to keep your restaurant or hardware sto...more info>>> |
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Contextual Search Ads: Boon or Bust? - 4 January 2007
Scared of contextual search advertising? Not sure how to explain a lower click through rate to your boss? Never fear: A panel of experts offered insights on this close cousin of sponsored search listi...more info>>> |
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User-centred Design - 3 January 2007
'Focus less on user-centred, and more on design,' said Donna Maurer, in combative mood, as she addressed the OzCHI 2006 conference in Sydney last month. 'There is no correlation between having a UCD t...more info>>> |
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Image Captions for Blind People - 2 January 2007
The Washington Post has a nice story called "Image Labeling for Blind Helps Machines 'Think'" about an instance of the new field of computer science called human computation, where the computer poses ...more info>>> |
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Optimizing Images for Search Engines - 1 January 2007
One of the more potentially advantageous yet wholly underused areas for optimization is in image search engines. Yet while site owners and merchants are more often seeing their images show up in the r...more info>>> |
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Bots and Bugs Cause Headaches for 2006 - 31 December 2006
Online fraudsters, big-time spammers and computer intruders had little problem finding security holes to exploit in 2006.
Whether the openings came from user ignorance or poor judgment, a softwar...more info>>> |
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New Year`s Day Email Worm Alert - 31 December 2006
Not so happy a new year. Users could get a nasty shock when opening new year messages, Verisign is warning of a new worm arriving in inboxes with the subject "Happy New Year!"
Link to full article: ht...more info>>> |
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Blogging to Look Good for Google - 30 December 2006
The Washington Post published an article in mid-November about Ted Leonsis. That?s not unusual, given his status as a wealthy businessman and perhaps something of a celebrity. What was unusual was tha...more info>>> |
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Is PHP safer than ASP scripting? - 29 December 2006
PHP is arguably more secure than other scripting languages such as ASP, yet it is PHP scripts that are (according to this article) causing the most security issues for web applications.
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Websites face four-second cut-off - 27 November 2006
Shoppers are likely to abandon a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load, a survey suggests.
The research by Akamai revealed users' dwindling patience with websites that take time to s...more info>>> |
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BBC - Designing a more accessible web - 5 November 2006
Accessibility is making news in the mainstream media now, and the latest news outlet to report on this is the BBC:-
People who find it difficult to use a computer keyboard and mouse, can turn to ot...more info>>> |
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Search Engine Friendly URLs - 14 October 2006
Most websites in 2006 are 'dynamic' - their content is stored in a database, and updated in a 'backoffice' by the website owner, not the website developer. This is a sensible solution as it is the we...more info>>> |
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