With the Denial-of-Service Attack (DOS) on Twitter in early August 2009, it has some users wondering what it is and how to prevent it. According to Wikipedia, a denial-of-service attack is: A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users.
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Social Networking and Game Applications: Ridiculously Expensive?
Game applications have been quite popular the past few years on various social networks like MySpace and Facebook. In fact, one of the most popular out there is Mafia Wars. There have been others that have surfaced and users flock to try them out. I have even joined a few. However, I am finding something
[Continue Reading...]Yahoo!, I mean Yahell – The Juggling Act Continues
After Yahoo! posted on their corporate blog their acquisition of Xoopit, I am still reeling about them closing GeoCities. This is insane! Not only that, but they failed to even mention ANYWHERE in their corporation blog about the closing. Literally millions used Yahoo! GeoCities free hosting. October 26, 2009 is the official closing day and
[Continue Reading...]Social Media: A Case Study on FanHistory.com
In late May 2009, I applied to become a social media intern for FanHistory.com (the company is FanHistory LLC.) Fanhistory as I mentioned in another blog is a wiki site for fans. Already this site had over 750,000 articles in a variety of fandoms when I took the position. When I first joined, the site
[Continue Reading...]TechCrunch vs. Twitter: Boycott TechCrunch? Why?
Since the recent article TechCrunch published, Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”, it has gotten a lot of attention. Both from its own readers, the web community and Twitter too. TechCrunch had published confidential information about Twitter. However Evan Williams of Twitter had said otherwise that TechCrunch did not
[Continue Reading...]bbPress 1.0: Lean and Secure
Yes, it is old news, but it is great news that bbPress 1.0 is released. Another project from the creators of WordPress, bbPress is a forum script. It even allows you to integrate the forum smoothly with your website because the php call functions are quite similar. bbPress boast to be lean code-wise, secure, and
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