Digital Creative Relies on Understanding Technology This post starts with an answer to a question business people frequently ask me: What exactly is Page Speed? The reason is because Page Speed is a good proxy for site performance, and one that relies 100% on technical optimization. For Creatives and Designers, what follows might be a […]
Genius Hack: Hackers steal casino database by exploiting fish tank’s “smart thermometer” Cyberthieves got into the unnamed casino’s network via the “smart” thermometer monitoring water in the lobby aquarium, located the database and sucked it back over the network and out into the cloud via the thermostat https://mashable.com/2018/04/15/casino-smart-thermometer-hacked/ More work to do on the notoriously insecure […]
7 Long Term Fallouts from Facebook Security Blunders An indicator for a coming bear market is the number of companies using data miners like Cambridge Analytica (or its successor entities like Emerdata), which took $95 BN off Facebook’s market value overnight (with an assist from FB). Savvy investors will find out if a public company […]
Just 5 American companies (“Gafam” — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) have combined annual revenues of $3,000 BN — which is larger than the annual GDP of France ($2,200 BN). Europe is the world’s biggest single market and is a world leader in aerospace, pharma, car production, electronics, engineering. So why can’t Europe compete on […]
Personal Online Reputation Protection for Business People There’s undoubtedly stuff about you online you’d rather people not be able to see. It might be dated, incorrect, negative, embarrassing, personal… whatever the reason, the first step to taking control of your reputation and identity online is to contact us. We’ve years of experience doing this for […]
Internet-wide DDoS attack October 21 2016 Today’s (October 21, 2016) wide spread global DDoS attack was a big event, and a bad one: An attack on the Internet, not just on a website. A DDoS attack is when bad actors flood a server with redundant or duplicate requests to freeze it up and make it […]
Is Marketplace, Facebook’s latest online commerce venture, finally f-commerce? Facebook is making another attempt to get into the online commerce business. On the back of its not-so-successful earlier attempts — online classifieds and stores, Facebook Gifts, Buy buttons in newsfeed ads — and with the jury still out on Facebook Messenger commerce chatbots, it remains […]
The Social Media Treadmill & how to get off it Social media can feel like a treadmill… spending hours in the morning posting, tweeting, blogging, re-blogging, sharing, tagging, friending, following, linking… and then starting the whole process all over again that afternoon. And you’d be right, because the of way social networks function. Say you […]
User-Agent Journey over Your Web Server: A Pinball ride or a directed Path? As this blog has noted many times before, Google is penalizing poor site technology. Make sure you give all user-agents, search bots and browsers, a clear pathway over and across your server. If you send them ricocheting all over the place like […]
The “Next Generation” of Search Web search will inevitably give way to “distributed” search. Instead of typing a query into a browser, you’ll ask a ubiquitous digital assistant (in your phone, watch, car, as well as on your PC). This is already with us. The digital assistant — Google’s Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, Amazon’s […]
