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How would you react if your account was hacked? Form a plan now so if something does happen you know what and how to shut down and how to get the correct information out ASAP. While usually correcting wrong information in a prior tweet rather than deleting it is standard practice, the AP was correct [...]
The more is known about starting, updating, marketing, and customizing a web site, the more confidence and control the site owner has and the more likely the site will be successful. Of course, it is impossible to know or be skilled in everything. And a person has to start somewhere. It may be sufficient to [...]
Add Slate to the list of news organizations with a sudden interest in getting online readers to contribute some cash rather than leaving the whole thing to advertisers. The online magazine has been conducting a survey to gauge support for a subscription-based premium membership program. Membership would include such perks as ‘access to Slate personalities’… [...]
The federal government wants to create super WiFi networks across the nation, so powerful and broad in reach that consumers could use them to make calls or surf the Internet without paying a cellphone bill every month. The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission has rattled the $178 billion wireless industry, which has launched a [...]
The phenomenon of ‘social engineering’ is behind the vast majority of successful hacking. This isn’t the high tech wizardry of Hollywood but is a good, old-fashioned confidence trick. It’s been updated for the modern age, and although modern terms such as ‘phishing’ and ‘smishing’ are used to describe the specific tricks used, they all rely [...]
[A]s storm surges from Hurricane Sandy inundated lower Manhattan, Datagram, a New York-based media ISP, watched as its basement full of severs took on over five feet of water, causing major outages for prominent online publishers like Gawker Media, BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post… [B]oth Gawker and BuzzFeed found a more than adequate emergency workaround [...]
With one song, 34-year-old Park Jae-sang — better known as PSY — is set to become a millionaire from YouTube ads and iTunes downloads, underlining a shift in how money is being made in the music business… From just those sources, PSY and his camp will rake in at least $8.1 million this year… But [...]
Plagiarism is a problem of epidemic proportions on the internet. It has been much too easy for someone to copy a webpage’s online content and then spread it around like it’s their own. Google is getting better at detecting who the original authors of newly created content are. However, there is a chance that thieves [...]
My new Thumbpreneur blog not for you? Perfectly understandable. It’s obviously not for everyone. But it will have some posts that, as a Wordpreneur reader, you may find useful. Such as… Finally, a Free Blog Hosting Service for Professional Blogging? A few more such links to potentially Wordpreneur-useful Thumbpreneur posts forthcoming today or tomorrow.
