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The Wall Street Journal had an enlightening article a couple days ago about “The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets”.  Enlightening indeed.  And after reading this interesting piece (with a few more to come out in this series) the “lightbulb” lit up…  How many Affiliate Programs are planting beacons, etc. for the specific purpose of [...]

Ever have one of “those” days?  A lot of people (Including the New York Times Co. CEO, Diane Sawyer of ABC News, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) are waking up to discover that their iPad data was compromised.
Yup, a Gawker Article this morning is reporting that AT&T [...]

UPDATE – MacWorld is reporting that Google has fixed their error.  The examples I tried today are indeed invalid now.  Pretty fast action on Googles part.  And as much as I like Google it befuddles me as to how this type of error could have gone unnoticed.
http://www.macworld.com/article/143383/2009/10/googlevoice.html?lsrc=rss_main#via-feedly
I saw a disturbing twitter from @graywolf this morning.  [...]

Affiliates Beware…  If your using a Thawte “Web of Trust” email certificate November 16th is the last day.  Thawte is discontinuing their “Web of Trust”. But that’s not all.
Loads of Java applications use the Thawte Web of Trust.  Which I would imagine (and have only found two examples, but hey, Google it yourself) could include [...]

In my normal weekend I don’t blog…  I research for the blog.  Which generally consists of reading 50-60 newspaper indexes, a fair amount of Google News, and visiting a big list of research sites.  This week it was the news that got my attention.  So much so I’m blogging on a Sunday morning.
The Government is [...]

If your processing your sales on PayPal and using that same account for personal matters, your next statement may be a shocker.
Personal accounts are now charged a 2.9% fee + 30 cents to receive payments for “Goods” or “Services”, something that was free. And there wasn’t a stand alone announcement of this change either.
But it [...]

“There’s a sucker born every minute” PT Barnum……
A press release has been circulating about a SEO company offering free basic eval and optimization for a single keyword. It all sounds like an altruistic way to develop relationships with potential customers, etc. They even have a fairly cool domain name (www.mastergoogle.com)..
I would have tried this out [...]

I found this first on Slashdot.. Then looking into my own Amazon AWS tracks I was even in this AWS discussion a couple days ago wondering the same thing.
The short of it is that if your running Amazon AWS with a shopping cart.. You’d better not be storing customer credit card data on it.
Jason [...]