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European Bank (EBRD) ventures into blogging

Danny — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:18:05 +0000

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has launched a blog which is described by the bank’s Communications Director Reijo Kemppinen as an opportunity “to build dialogue, share knowledge and exchange lessons learnt in an informal forum.”

The first article, by Chief economist Erik Berglöf, describes how the global financial crisis [...]

Internet Filtering in the United Arab Emirates- What you see if you hit a forbidden site

Danny — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:00:52 +0000

The full list of prohibited content is here. Removal requests for the UAE firewall can be submitted here.

Technorati Tags: censorship, Internet, Media, uae

What to do if your Hotmail account got hacked – the recent spate of attacks on Hotmail accounts

Danny — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:21:24 +0000

If your friends and contacts have received an email or IM message from your Hotmail account with wording along the lines of “I would like to introduce a good company who trades mainly in electronic products… etc” – it is highly likely that your Hotmail account has been compromised.

IF YOU ARE THE POOR [...]

How Google penalises sites with too many of the same URL – Tested!

Danny — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:00:31 +0000

Last week I got an insight into how Google penalties work if you use a URL too many times in a blog entry.

In my recent article, I covered how scammers target Sedo users.

The article was included in the Google index within the hour, as it usually is for my blog, and for [...]

Domain valuation scam targets Sedo users

Danny — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:44:30 +0000

If you want to skip the background scroll down to my entertaining correspondence with the scammer, as he tries to hook me in.

Sedo is a service that allows owners of domain names to sell them in much the same way that eBay allows you to sell goods, either for a [...]

MFI and Woolworths – websites on the brink

Danny — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:29:51 +0000

On the day after the two emblematic retail groups Woolworths and MFI had gone under in the UK, their websites showed the signs of disaffected (and potentially jobless) web staff – and who can blame them.

At Woolies they couldn’t be asked, so the website simply reported that the site was “undergoing essential maintenance”, which [...]

eBay Libel Threat After Negative Feedback – When Online Libel Gets Personal

Danny — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:55:42 +0000

Chris Read, a 42-year-old from Kent, is facing legal action for libel after leaving negative feedback for an item he bought on auction site eBay. On October 3, Read used the feedback facility on eBay and wrote: “Item was scratched, chipped and not the model advertised on Mr Jones’s eBay account.” Mr Read subsequently [...]

Understanding Website Statistics – Five Pitfalls to Avoid

Danny — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:55:32 +0000

Website statistics: what’s wrong with the following statements?

1. My website gets 20,000 hits a month!

2. My website gets three million unique visitors a year!

3. Our statistics show that users spend an average of 30 minutes per visit to our website!

When you boast to your friends that your blog gets 10,000 hits, [...]