The moderation challenge facing YouTube
Video Marketing is big business these days as companies try to use the visual media as a way to reach their audiences. Bandwidth gets cheaper and users don’t hesitate to jump from clip to clip. Even nonsense like “Fred goes swimming” is talked about in the playground and my son has tried to create his [...]
World of Warcraft: have you sold your account? Phising Alert
The latest phishing scam I’ve seen is supposedly from Blizzard.com telling me that I need to verify my account at World of Warcraft and that I’m not allowed to sell my accounts. One confused 10 year old boy later and we see that accounts need to be bought and he doesn’t have even have a [...]
What just happened to make everyone tweet at once?
Did someone stuff up at Twitter? or has something huge just happened and there is an unprecedented number of tweets happening?
“Thats so Windows 3.1″, DropBox reveals all!
Back when I started working with computers they were all DOS based so Windows 3.1 was a big step up. It was so very important to save your work frequently and the left handed twitch to Ctrl+S became automatic. Dave Winer made a cryptic post about DropBox the other day so I went to take [...]
Best Web Designers – now, that’s a bold claim!
Best Web Designers is the site run by “thatsfine” from the digitalpoint forums. I always admire people who are ballsy enough to stand up and say “We’re the best”. We Kiwis are more humble and tend to say “We’re proud of our work” without actually challenging others in our field. If you delve under the [...]
Leasing Domains… a lost opportunity
The idea of leasing a domain has never appealed to me but as I was driving back from the beach this morning I had the radio on and there was an ad for the theatre production “Rent” with the domain rentauckland.co.nz. No, not rent but rentauckland! Suddenly I understood how leasing a domain can really [...]
Greasemonkey catches Cookie Stuffers
I use Greasemonkey to help me do a few things on the forums I’m either an admin or a moderator on. Cookie Stuffing, though, is harder to detect and often we find it quite by accident. I like my latest attempt which turns fake images into cookie monsters… check it out
Chasing the Advertising dollar
High traffic sites rely on advertising to pay the expenses such as hosting, staff, content etc. They’re not hobby sites (like this one) but real businesses… and if they’re not they quickly wise up when they discover that shared hosting won’t do and dedicated servers cost a lot. I’ve spent the last few days wrangling [...]
