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Why Some Trending Topics like #McChicken Remind Us that Nothing Is Sacred

By Nile Flores 1 Comment

Sometimes things on social media make us laugh, or cry, or get angry, or in the case of the #McChicken video, appalled. #McChicken was about a video of a man having sex with a McDonalds McChicken sandwiche. This incident starting trending on Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter on August 29, 2016. Just a note, this post

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: #mcchicken video, bizarre, fail, social media, social media fail

Watch Out For Site Speed With Those Video Ads!

By Nile Flores 13 Comments

I’m not gonna lie, video ads can be cool, but lately, they are a peeve of mine because people are abusing them. I’m not certain if the people are desperate to make money online, they don’t understand what it does to their website, or if they are aware of what it does to their visitors?

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Filed Under: Web Design Tagged With: fail, user experience, video, video ads

Social Media Etiquette: Don’t Be A Social Sharing Jerk

By Nile Flores 38 Comments

I posted on Facebook about noticing bloggers social sharing to secondary accounts that weren’t necessarily fake, but had no followers and no intention to build that handle. Most of this behavior has been occurring on Twitter and done by bloggers who are a part of comment and social syndication tribes. This behavior is wrong and

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Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: etiquette, fail, social media fail, social media tips

Why I Left HostGator

By Nile Flores 39 Comments

So I left HostGator. I bet anyone reading this might wonder why would someone who have been with them for more than half a decade just leave? I’ve been with HostGator since 2008 as a dedicated server hosting client. It wasn’t until January 2013 year that I had so much trouble on this server. Prior

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: fail, HostGator, hosting fail, web hos

#Fail – HostGator Needs To Wake Up!

By Nile Flores 13 Comments

HostGator reported on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, at 11:00 AM CST USA, that their Provo datacenter had a network outage. The outage turned into a solid downtime of 13 to 15 hours for some hostees, including myself. In fact, my dedicated server is still having hiccups – short downtime spells. This is what I had

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: fail, HostGator

Hosting #Fail – HostGator, BlueHost…

By Nile Flores 32 Comments

Around morning time on August 2, 2013 and sites across the world hosted on HostGator and BlueHost were down. In fact, some sites were having issues since August 1, 2013 as per HostGator’s forum update. This was a network wide downtime. A lot of the people affected were from HostGator and BlueHost. This is because

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: BlueHost, fail, HostGator, hosting fail, web hosting

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