Another damn scam – almost blind sided.

I recieved in the post this morning a letter in respect of a patent application that was recently published on WIPO.

It requested £1386.00 to be payable as a filing fee within fourteen days. I assumed I had missed something, and got out the cheque book – but did read the rest of the letter, . . . → Read More: Another damn scam – almost blind sided.

The fun of Softaculous

Joe is having so much dang fun with Softaculous, which is basically a one stop shop for open source software, with the caveat that it cannot really call istelf a shop, as the software it provides is free.

If you are in the process of choosing a hosting provider: if they provide Softaculous, look at . . . → Read More: The fun of Softaculous

Adding Plugins to WordPress

 

Installing plugins to WordPress and activating them is easier than for Joomla or Drupal. I have just spent about half an hour installing the three plugins below:

To get going, I simply selected the Plugins option, from within WordPress admin, and then started browsing the link to popular plugins.

W3 Total cache is . . . → Read More: Adding Plugins to WordPress

Cue Western music: the White Hats gallop in to save Facebook

 

Facebook have adopted the approach of turning Black Hats into White Hats. Many people are aware that trying to find weaknesses in website code is an entertaining game for talented programmers. Once they find it, they want to have some fun and do something with it – but the websites concerned are not so . . . → Read More: Cue Western music: the White Hats gallop in to save Facebook

Facebook – will the cool kids do a runner?

Facebook is reputedly worth 30bn. It is a phenomenon, and does generate advertising revenue, but is it worth that much?

For something that did not exist in 2003 – is there a chance that it will cease existing in 2013? Of course not! – is the outraged cry that I hear – it has taken . . . → Read More: Facebook – will the cool kids do a runner?

Search engine indexing is fast

 

Just an hour after submitting an article on domain pricing, it was already showing on the first page of Bing and Google if the article title was entered into the search bar.

 

Considering Justanordinaryjoe is just one of the billion websites being updated at the moment – how can the search . . . → Read More: Search engine indexing is fast

Cracking down on misleading marketing…

On a UK Advertising Standards Authority advertisement the following question is asked: “When will someone crack down on misleading marketing on websites” the answer given is:

“The UK advertising standards authority will start regulating advertising on websites by March the 1st.”

Power to the ASA! However the Ad is still running, and it is now . . . → Read More: Cracking down on misleading marketing…

A pernicious piece of malware

Ever had your wall paper on your desktop replaced with:

WARNING YOU’RE IN DANGER etc.

presented by an awful piece of malware calling itself PC Tool that demands payment to get rid of viruses on your system – but will be doing the opposite, as well as taking a holiday on your credit card?

My . . . → Read More: A pernicious piece of malware

The race is on bit.ly versus su.pr versus goo.gl

This is a post in two parts.

Part one: tweet this post using bit.ly, su.pr, goo.gl.

Part two: update the post a few days after the tweets, to report on which one had the most clicks.

Come back to this page in three or four days time, and you will see which one did best.

. . . → Read More: The race is on bit.ly versus su.pr versus goo.gl

Search Engines and an Uncomfortable Conflict of Interest

Will a company bother to pay for advertisements if it turns up on page one of the search engine anyway. Probably not. Why advertise, when a natural link in a search result is more appealing to the internet user.

If a Search Engine has a client that advertises would they be inclined to ensure that . . . → Read More: Search Engines and an Uncomfortable Conflict of Interest