Yes, it does already have a name and we’re already wondering how best to avoid it. Meta-tags have been rendered untrustworthy because of dishonest manipulation (honest manipulation is ok), especially the keywords tag which is pretty much useless now. Search engines depend on a wide variety of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
December 19th, 2008 - 8:05 pm § in Uncategorized
"A few Chirps about twitter"
“A few Chirps about twitter” gives valuable insight into how we use the application and why we use it. It is a paper written by Balachander krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs), Phillipa Gill (Uni Calgary) and Martin Arlitt (HP Labs – Uni Calgary) “Our goal is to characterize a no[...]
December 3rd, 2008 - 8:32 pm § in Uncategorized
Making Twitter bots
As some companies have figured out, there is a lot of information to be gleaned from Twitter that can benefit their business. They can manage reputation and customer service for example. There are however other reasons to collect information which do not involve marketing motivations but for exa[...]
August 7th, 2008 - 11:09 pm § in Uncategorized
Google gadgets hacked
A quick post on those cool little gadgets for iGoogle. 2 security consultant from SecTheory demonstrated such an attack at the Black Hat hackers conference in Las Vegas. They broke into a web browser and read all the personal searches in real time. Gadgets that store personal info are the most at ri[...]
