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Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You
I’d be wishing everyone a happier New Year if it were easier to mail out greeting cards to friends on Facebook and colleagues on LinkedIn. I’d like to use knx.to, our free, real-time social address book, but their ‘privacy’ policies prevent us from downloading contact information, even for my own friends.
Last two weeks for HostingCon 2010 Super Early Bird savings
Haven’t registered for HostingCon 2010 in Austin, Texas yet? Time is running out for massive savings!...
Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal
Jeremy Stoppleman, the CEO of Yelp, has walked away from an all-but-signed deal to be acquired by Google for more than half a billion dollars....
Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army”
We’ve received multiple tips right around 10 pm that Twitter was hacked and defaced with the message below. The site was offline for a while. ...
Craigslist Unclogs Yahoo Pipes
Two weeks ago we wrote about the story of developer Romy Maxwell, who had built a Craigslist mashup using Yahoo Pipes.......
Get Push Notifications When Your Site Goes Down
When Apple introduced push notifications to the iPhone this summer, we immediately thought of what a great match it would be for our monitoring service. After all, the main point of the Pingdom uptime monitoring service is getting alerts when your website or server goes down....
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds’ Bed To Tweet During Sex.
When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend’s wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding though, that’s another story....
The decade's 30 biggest tech flops
Here we are just days away from closing out the first decade of the 21st century, which means a lot of publications are in look-back mode, taking stock of all the good--and bad--things that happened over the last 10 years. ...
The Facebook Privacy Fiasco Begins
Today Facebook finally started to roll out a new set of privacy controls. These tools, many months in the making, are designed to help simplify the site’s notoriously confusing privacy options. ...On the HostingCon 2009 show floor with The Aldridge Company
Bryan Gregory of The Aldridge Company explains why exhibiting at HostingCon is not only valuable for meeting clients, but also for discussing and establishing partnership opportunities with other companies....Author info
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