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Social networking site angers users…

It seems like Twitter and the blogosphere is full of complaints about new social networking site Quechup. Just look at a quick Google search. Lots of sites now offer to search your online and offline...

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Even the industries you think get Web 2.0 can miss…

When you imagine the markets which should be embracing the internet, communities, and engagement, you’d imagine marketing, PR, and media would be all clamouring to be at the forefront of the list. So...

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The inverse proportionality of Facebook applications to friendship…

As with any social network a pattern has emerged for me on Facebook. The people closest to me, send the least application requests – and when they do, they’re pretty relevant and either useful or...

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2 great productive solutions – Other Inbox and Remember the Milk for Gmail

I’ve been spending a lot of time hypothesizing about various things, so I’ll redress the balance with two practical tools I’m using which have really helped me recently. Signing up for so many services...

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How NOT to do social media – The Motorola Mishap

Found on CrunchGear, and originally on Boing Boing Gadgets is a great example of one or more people spamming the comments of everywhere they can find to promote a new phone by Motorola. One comment on...

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Twitter phishing attack – the implications

Twitter has been hit by the first major effort to ‘phish‘ account details and spam users with links to a fake login page by Direct Messages from comprimised accounts. The Twitter team has responded...

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Why we fall for ‘Don’t Click This’

A recent spam attack on Twitter was entirely based around spreading a link with the words ‘Don’t click this’ – which of course, plenty of people did. It led quite a lot of people to ask why anyone...

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Twitter starts filtering links to malware

As more and more people use Twitter, so the number of spam/porn messages has increased – partly due to users succumbing to the numbers game and blindly following and re-tweeting anything they see. So...

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New Twitter spam attack

Just picked up on a warning via Mashable that 1000s of Twitter profiles appear to have been compromised in the latest attack of spam messages on the microblogging platform. The attacks seem to be...

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The difference between SEO and Spam…

There’s occasionally some confusion and complaints about SEO as being the cause of spam on the internet with irrelevant content being returned in search results because of unethical techniques. The...

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