Money makes the Web go around
Written on 24 Mar, 2009 at 9:05 in Others | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
There are two phenomena that I find particularly fascinating, namely money (don’t we all), and addictive behaviour (my last book was a biography of a drunk). Imagine my surprise when I recently found these two topic coming seamlessly together on... (Continue reading)
‘Social’ spam
Written on 19 Mar, 2009 at 19:18 in Featured Stories, Social Networks, Spam | viewed times and users have made 1 comment so far
I don’t know about you, but as for me I am totally fed up of receiving emails from anyone and everyone with subject lines like “Where are you now?”, “Invitation to connect”, or “XYZ invites you to join … “.... (Continue reading)
GeoTagging: A new devil on the block
Written on 18 Mar, 2009 at 12:59 in Featured Stories, GeoTagging | viewed times and users have made 1 comment so far
Reaching a destination is easy with a map, that is until you’re rushing, and find yourself without either: (1) A large map with sufficient precision, and (2) The exact location of your required destination. Thanks to a new technique called GeoTagging,... (Continue reading)
Email Best Practice #4
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 15:39 in Email Best Practices, Emails | viewed times and users have made 3 comments so far
To avoid spam, ideally users must drop themselves off the mailing lists of any friend or colleague who indulges in forwarding emails to dozens of people collected together in ‘To’ lists. Every time your address is passed around, it opens... (Continue reading)
Email Best Practice #3
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 12:26 in Email Best Practices, Emails | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
If you are planning to start off your own website and need to list your contact email address on the ‘Contact Us’ page of your site, here’s a simple piece of advice. Ideally you should use techniques listed in Email Best... (Continue reading)
Email Best Practice #2
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 10:59 in Email Best Practices, Emails | viewed times and users have made 2 comments so far
Flag and Reduce Spam Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, and indeed most other email address domains provide a unique facility for tagging the spam emails you receive – by simply selecting the offending spam email, and clicking the Mark as Spam... (Continue reading)
Email Best Practice #1
Written on 16 Mar, 2009 at 9:37 in Email Best Practices, Emails | viewed times and users have made 1 comment so far
WebCoherence has concluded from its experiments that leading Email companies including Gmail (owned by Google), Yahoo Mail (owned by Yahoo) and Hotmail (owned by Microsoft) do NOT gratuitously circulate user email addresses to potential marketeers. It is often the users themselves... (Continue reading)
