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Author: Ian Lowell

  • The Pirate Bay Is Back, And An Anonymous Defector Claims Responsibility For The DDoS Attack

    Writers Note: This piece is a followup to one I wrote yesterday but got published today. It presents new information about yesterday’s massive DDoS attack on The Pirate Bay (TPB). If you haven’t read the first article, I recommend you do so before reading this one. The Pirate Bay, one of the internet’s largest torrent…

  • Google Debuts Knowledge Graph, An Associative Search Tool

    Google announced a major change today in the way its flagship search engine finds and delivers information. While traditional search engines have chosen relevant results based on keywords, a new Google search feature will draw on a more robust database, which the company is calling the “Knowledge Graph,” that will display certain facts associated with…

  • WordPress Gets Its Own App Store, Sort Of

    It seems like every company out there is building their very own app store; first Apple, Amazon, then Google, now Facebook… all of tech’s biggest players are getting in on the action. And now WordPress — the ridiculously flexible, free, and open source blogging platform -slash- dynamic content management system that powers, like, most of…

  • Apple Keyboard Shortcuts

    This article is a repost from the Apple Support Site, for easy reference. Summary Learn about common Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. A keyboard shortcut is a way to invoke a function in Mac OS X by pressing a combination of keys on your keyboard. Products Affected Mac OS X 10.0, Mac OS X 10.1,…

  • G+ The Social Network for Robots, Now for Humans Too

    Google has or has had agreements in place to display results from various social networks over the years.  Whether or not due to an agreement or an algorithmic tweak, results from twitter.com, facebook.com, linkedin.com, yelp.com and many others show up on top of Google some days and then disappear the next. There is no question that Google has…

  • Google Apps Troubleshooting Utilities

    Great Tools for troubleshooting Google Apps: Mail, (MX & DNS records), Calendar and general errors or issues that you may encounter with Google Apps services.  The message header analysis tool is excellent for making the server, hops, delays and general email message routing understandable and readable. The MX Tool Box is also a great utility…

  • Automating the Google Apps Services

    Google Apps Automation Scripts can make the Google Apps environment much more productive.  There are many ways to implement automation of the repetitive tasks we all deal with in our professional world. See the Google link above to find scripts, tutorials, news and discussion forums that Google Apps developers are using.  We would love some comments with the…

  • Facebook Advertising Campaigns

    Have you ever considered what impact an ad campaign on facebook could do for you? When it comes to targeting and eye balls facebook is a great place to be. The facebook.com platform offers an incredible amount of tools and applications to collect data, connect, broadcast and engage with its 800 million users. Most of…

  • Checklists to Plan Your Email Campaigns

    To help you get your plan started, here are four simple steps to help you create a plan that will resonate with your email subscriber base: Step 1: Identify Your Readers You need to understand who your readers are and what they are looking for, and make sure that your email is segmented by attributes…

  • Search Engine Marketing – SEM

    We create awareness and acquisition campaigns all over the internet (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Shopping and other sites) for our clients.  Our services provide publisher and site selection, keyword selection and bid management for internet based advertisements.  Most of our campaigns are multichannel, multifaceted  and go beyond the normal text ads, sponsored link placement or…