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#Facebook CEO Addresses Stock, Mobile, and Search
Sep 12th
Yesterday afternoon Mark Zuckerberg made his first public appearance since the IPO this spring. He sat down with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington at the Disrupt Conference in San Francisco to discuss his vision for Facebook’s future. Arrignton wasted no time getting to the burning questions of how Zuckerberg felt about the loss of value in the [...]
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A Pink’s Jung Eun Ji Addresses Dating Rumors With ‘Reply 1997′ Seo In Guk on … – Yahoo! Philippines News
Sep 7th
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Omni-Channel Marketing: The Power of Social Media, Influence & Email Addresses
Aug 23rd
Got full contact? Companies spend a lot of money acquiring customers and building databases. Matching an email address with identifiable intent via social media becomes even more valuable when you can attach a name, email, and mailing address.
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Use This App to Create Anonymous, Disposable Email Addresses
Aug 14th
Email addresses are the keys to the kingdom of all our personal data. It’s too bad we had to relearn this lesson last week when Wired’s Mat Honan had the crap hacked out of him. A foolproof way to limit your exposure to such attacks is to sign up to different services using as many different un-guessable email addresses as possible. On Tuesday, an app I’ve been using called Gliph made that really easy to do. Here’s how to set it up.
What Is Gliph?
Gliph is like a Guy Fawkes mask for your online identity. It’s a free app for iPhone, Android and the mobile Web. You can use it to send encrypted text messages to other Gliph users with as much or as little personal information exposed as you want. And starting today, you can also use it to send and receive email to anyone through your regular email client without ever exposing your identity or information.
Not only can you use Gliph email to sign up for other services without exposing yourself to a hacking, you can use it for Craigslist transactions or any other kind of temporary encounter where you want to exchange contact info.
You could accomplish a similar thing by setting up a bunch of new email addresses on free Web-based email services. But with Gliph, email addresses are easy to create and delete, your emails sent via your addresses all come to one location, and you don’t have to log into multiple services to access different email accounts.
Step 1: Claim A Gliph
Instead of picking a user name when you sign up for Gliph, you get to create a string of three to five icons that represents you. Have fun with it!
Step 2: Create A Cloak
You get one free randomly generated email address when you sign up for Gliph. The addresses don’t have anything to do with your Gliph name; they’re something like watermelon29@cloak.gli.ph. In Gliph, you can add a note, like “signup for Dumb.ly app,” so you can remember what that email is used for.
Step 3: Email To Your Heart’s Content
You can now send cloaked email to any address. None of your information is exposed to the recipient, not even your Gliph symbols. They only see the randomly generated Gliph email address.
When the recipient replies to that address, Gliph forwards the message to the email address you used to sign up for Gliph. So if you gave Gliph a Gmail address, that’s where you’ll get the responses. If you reply from there, the message will be routed through Gliph, so it will appear to come from your cloaked address.
Make sure people on both sides check their spam filters if messages don’t appear. In our tests, Gmail allowed the messages through, but Outlook.com mail filtered them out.
Remember: Unlike Gliph-to-Gliph messages, which are encrypted and remain inside the service, the content of these emails is not secure. Not only is it exposed to the recipient, the replies are sent directly to the email address you provided to Gliph, which may not be secure, either.
Your email address, and thus your identity, will never be exposed when using cloaked email from Gliph. But you can’t assume that the words in the message will be kept private, too.
How To Get More Cloaks And Enable Attachments
Your cloaked email address will stick around, but if you want another one, all you have to do is successfully invite someone to join Gliph. That’s not just a gimmick; it’s great to have trusted friends and contacts on Gliph because that lets you communicate with them using the totally secure, encrypted messaging it offers. It’s also great for journalists and sources to protect anonymity, for example.
Once you’ve gotten five people to sign up for Gliph through your invitations, your account gains the ability to add attachments to cloaked emails sent from Gliph, even for cloaks you already had.
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Non-Existent Crisis Averted: FBI Now Has Until July to Clean DNS Addresses
Mar 7th
A rumor repeated enough times on the Web is too often given the same status as truth. Then, by the time the rumor is discredited, the story is old and dead anyway, and the next rumor has taken hold. Take the case of the DNSchanger Trojan. Last November, as RWW’s David Strom first reported, the FBI indicted seven men suspected of involvement with an Estonian malware distribution firm. That malware, which plagues U.S. Government systems to this day, simply changed PCs’ DNS server settings to point to those operated by the firm. And that firm directed unsuspecting users to sites containing ads that the firm hosted, and allegedly profited from.
Naturally, you’d want to shut that down. The problem last November was, doing this would disrupt Internet service to users worldwide, including government systems believed to have been targeted. So the FBI sought and received a court’s permission to have a well-respected non-profit group run legitimate DNS servers at the same addresses, up until the addresses changed by the Trojan could be replaced. That lease was set to expire tomorrow, and as it turned out, it wasn’t enough time. Sensationalist news sources just love a countdown – if it’s ticking, it must be a time bomb.
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“FBI might shutdown the Internet on March 8,” read RT.com, the Russian news service which also carried President-Elect Vladimir Putin’s comments that political protestors are only there to get beaten up by police and get caught on camera. London’s Daily Mail carried essentially the same headline, though added the obligatory question mark. Local U.S. television news followed suit, though by answering the question mark with essentially, “Of course not! What, you think the government’s that stupid?”
On Monday, a federal judge in New York granted the FBI’s request to extend Internet Systems Consortium’s lease of the temporary servers for another 120 days, until July 9. As I told NTN24′s Monica Fonseca on today’s C.S.T. program in Colombia, This will give the government and other folks that much more time to change their DNS server settings to those that did not belong to the suspect firm’s group of rogue sites.
According to the FBI’s indictment, here is the complete list of ranges of DNS addresses that pointed to the suspect firm’s rogue servers:
85.255.112.0 through 85.255.127.255
67.210.0.0 through 67.210.15.255
93.188.160.0 through 93.188.167.255
77.67.83.0 through 77.67.83.255
213.109.64.0 through 213.107.79.255
64.28.176.0 through 64.28.191.255
69.197.132.58
72.233.76.82
174.123.205.190
174.133.7.122
184.82.214.2
216.127.191.66
64.20.51.2
65.60.9.234 through 65.60.9.238
66.152.177.58
72.18.192.58 through 72.18.192.61
72.233.76.66 through 72.233.76.70
65.254.36.122
65.254.50.10
72.9.232.202
75.127.76.194
207.210.119.170
216.180.243.10
64.111.197.186
66.230.167.218
69.93.95.234
The FBI published a brochure (PDF available here) explaining in general terms how users’ systems were affected, and what steps they can take to remedy the problem and return their Internet access to normal. These directions apply to Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X users. The brochure explains how the rogue servers were able to masquerade as DHCP servers as well, instructing victims’ PCs in how to change their DNS server addresses without having to hack into them to do so.
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Slingshot SEO Addresses Top CMOs at Marketing 360 West Exchange – PR Web (press release)
Mar 5th
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Slingshot SEO Addresses Top CMOs at Marketing 360 West Exchange
PR Web (press release) Slingshot SEO addressed the country's top chief marketing officers yesterday at the Marketing 360 West Exchange conference in San Francisco. Slingshot SEO, the innovative firm delivering digital relevance for deserving brands, addressed the country's … |
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Slingshot SEO Addresses Top CMOs at Marketing 360 West Exchange – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Mar 5th
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Slingshot SEO Addresses Top CMOs at Marketing 360 West Exchange
DigitalJournal.com (press release) Slingshot SEO, the innovative firm delivering digital relevance for deserving brands, addressed the country's top chief marketing officers yesterday at the Marketing 360 West Exchange conference in San Francisco. Slingshot SEO addressed the gathering … |
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How IT Addresses the Growing Cost of Poorly Planned Changes
Feb 1st
“I like to describe the roots of all evil being unplanned, or poorly planned, changes,” states Jimmy Augustine of HP Software. “Somewhere between 70% and 80% of all service disruptions are caused by faulty changes. Somebody goes in and makes a security change to a network device, and brings down the service. Downtime equates to costs and, in some cases, lost revenue.”
You would think Step #1, or something close to Step #1, for any kind of asset migration or disaster recovery plan would be to know what it is you have that you may want to recover when a disaster happens. There’s an art to this, it turns out, and it’s called dependency mapping. Last December, a VMware engineer we talked to listed it as #2 among his ten tips for disaster recovery planning, just after running a business impact analysis.
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Dependency mapping is a complete inventory of the software that runs your business, and the components and resources upon which they rely. What dependency mapping software tools do is quite complex, especially now that more critical business assets reside in public and hybrid clouds. Many enterprises invest in dependency mapping without even knowing what it is or why it’s there. As a result, an HP software engineer tells RWW, they’re racking up enormous, unnecessary costs, especially as they transition from a traditional data center to a cloud-based environment.
When the CIO or the VP of Operations discovers these costs, there typically follows a lot of cleanup having to do with fans and something hitting them. Why didn’t we see this coming, they ask?
Augustine is HP’s group manager of product marketing for configuration management systems (leaving just enough room on the business card for a phone number). He talked with RWW about yesterday’s release of HP’s latest update, called Content Pack 10, for its Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) tool. The new update addresses the ability to map assets deployed to Amazon’s primary public cloud services: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS) and volumes and snapshots stored with Elastic Block Store (EBS).
“There’s a mentality that, when you go through a service provider, you’re going to want to have this visibility, whether it’s a public cloud or an outsourcing agreement or what have you. In most cases, the trust level is implicit,” explains Augustine. By that, he means the reliability level that many enterprises expect when they trust their assets to the Amazon cloud. They often assume the reliability question is out of their hands. And that’s actually not the case.
“So having this appropriate level of visibility allows IT managers and CIOs to make sure that service providers are doing what they spelled out in the service-level agreements, and it allows them to have peace of mind,” Augustine explains. It also enables a business to respond to performance issues that do crop up by adding capacity or compute power from within their own data centers.
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“The dynamic nature of a cloud environment, whether it’s a private or public cloud, lends itself to the thinking of what we had over the last 10 or 15 years with automated discovery. You still need visibility to get to performance availability, and probably more so with the dynamic environment.”
HP’s management tool for configuration is called Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB). The dependency mapping tool discovers software components that are stored here. The visual form of UCMDB’s contents is what Augustine calls a topology – like a network configuration map, only with software. Some 18 months ago, he tells us, HP started implementing a dynamic service model for UCMDB, the upshot of which was that the management tool could see whenever a new virtual machine was spun, or a new application provisioned. Since HP’s monitors are already in place on customers’ systems anyway, he said, it only made sense to officially begin implementing them for measuring dynamic performance and reliability issues associated with virtualization and cloud deployments.
In an HP/TechValidate survey of 13 of HP’s existing UCMDB customers, 8 of those customers reported that DDMA with UCMDB reduced their time spent in the auditing process by as much as 30%.
Revealing the kind of engineering knowledge that makes him a perfect fit for HP, Augustine divides the use cases for UCMDB into the “change” group and the “steady state” group. For the latter, the transition to virtualization and/or cloud has already taken place.
“Let’s say the router goes down, or we have a problem with an application. The UCMDB, by virtue of automated discovery, will allow me to understand how important that application or router is, in terms of the service it delivers to the business,” he explains. “So it matters to me if I’m facilitating an e-commerce service or a back office service – the way that I respond to that performance or event is going to be different for those two examples.” In other words, it’s easier for you to craft separate strategies for responding to “negative impact” events – responding in different ways depending on how your customers will be affected by your response – when you have greater, more granular, visibility into what’s going on.
Whereas in the case of the “change” group, Augustine repeats his warning about the root cause of all evil, which, contrary to Internet rumors, is neither money nor patents. “We’ve helped companies avoid disruptions altogether because they now have the visibility to understand how things relate to each other, so they’re not making this change at certain points in time during the day. They’re also able to respond to central issues much faster because they understand the context of mundane things like routers. When teams don’t have the underlying technology or foundation that we provide, they spend a lot of time trying to understand, ‘Okay, who owns that router? And how important is it?’”
He says the service maps that DDMA provides chart, from a high-level perspective of the business service, the underlying application, database, servers, storage elements, and network elements.
“IT is not getting more simple; it’s getting more complex,” HP’s Jimmy Augustine remarks. “You add virtualization, private cloud, public cloud, mobile applications. What this is doing is increasing the layers of complexity. We have some clients with hundreds of thousands of configuration items in their UCMDB, we have some clients with millions. You have to keep everything up to date; it doesn’t automatically happen. Having the discipline to go out and discover these items, either on a daily or weekly basis – an up-to-date view of how these things relate to each other – is fundamental. It’s a prerequisite to managing IT as a business.”
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Headline – SEO – A Work Of Art Addresses Deceptive Practices and False … – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Jan 25th
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DigitalJournal.com (press release) It is not unusual for top marketing firms to get shocking feedback from their prospective clients in regards to SEO after discussing what their previous marketing firms have claimed to do. He has revealed rampant deception in this industry that needs … |
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Google Expands Test Of AdWords That Collect Email Addresses
Jan 5th
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen significantly more people reporting they’ve seen AdWords that allow advertisers to collect email addresses directly in the ad unit. Now Google has confirmed it has expanded the trial of the lead generation format to additional advertisers….
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