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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Nice Homepage Twitter, But What Now?
After reading both WebProNews and TechCrunch on their articles about the new Twitter homepage, I am still left with questions. Jeremy Muncy does a great job breaking down the new Twitter homepage in his article Breaking Down Twitter’s New Homepage for those needing a little more explanation. I could care less that the front page
[Continue Reading...]10 Sites to Quench Your ‘Cute’ Design Craving
Sometimes I come upon sites that I just squeal because they are so cute. I know others do too, and sometimes even guys might take note and say ‘hey that site is cute’, even if it is not exactly their type of site they would choose to go to. The list below are sites that
[Continue Reading...]Thank You Twitter For Cleaning House, But…
Occasionally I have to give kudos and this one was about time. I have no issues about how many followers I have. When I hit 9000 the other day I was shocked. I am still humbled that anyone would want to occasionally drop on in to see my tweets. However, I do enjoy connecting, which
[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
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