Archive for December, 2009
Will MyBlogLog Survive Yahoo!’s Management Review?
In recent weeks there’s been talk on the blogsphere, especially from a recent ReadWriteWeb post, about the imminent closure of the popular MyBlogLog blogging widget/social network. With the charge being led by bloggers irate that their beloved…
What will 2010 Bring for Print Publishers?
In October I wrote a post about the fact that the majority of newspaper and magazine publishers were entertaining the idea of charging for online content. The biggest problem for all publishers of online content is finding a…
Boom in URL Shorteners Equals Boom in Malware and Spyware
In theory, URL shorteners make perfect sense in the world of the 140 character status update popularized by Twitter and used heavily by other social networks. It is commonly accepted that shorter headlines and copy tend to have greater pull…
Smart Thinking About Social Media
If you’re wondering where social media is leading online marketers in 2010, a just-released report provides some insight.
eMarketer cites data from the “2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report” published on December 11 by MarketingSherpa, a research…
Inside Kapersky Lab’s Threat Predictions for 2010
According to the researchers at Kapersky Lab, the scope of threats computer users will face in the new year seem to be shifting from web applications to file sharing and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Of course, some of the…
10 Places to Diversify Your Online Ad Budget in 2010
As the New Year approaches, you might be reflecting on how you spent your marketing budget in 2009, and what you might change in 2010. Chances are you’ve spent some of it with Google Adwords, and maybe even Yahoo! Search…
Website Exploit + SEO = Payday
Back in October of 2008, We Watch Your Website’s security blog reported that malicious hackers were actually using successful SEO campaigns to spread a huge money making bit of malware to unsuspecting victims. The attack was maniacally…
Twitter for Business Services
Twitter, long the poster child for hype-heavy, profit-low Web 2.0 sites, may finally be seeing where the money is.
This week, Twitter started to roll out a business-friendly feature which may portend a direction of more corporate focused applications. With…
Joe Handicaps the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards
Just for fun I thought I would handicap the finalist and give you some odds on who should win. I will be breaking down the competition, letting you know what I know about the different contenders and I will also give you my picks and let you know who I think should take the awards
Good Security: An SEO Strategy
I have been working in, and writing about, web site security for some time now and I never really made the connection between good security and search engine optimizations until just recently. On accident, I had left the term “Security”…
