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Privacy Group Sues FTC to Stop New Google Privacy Policy
Feb 8th
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is suing the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in the hopes of stopping the new Google privacy policy, which is set to become effective March 1. The complaint was filed today in federal district court.
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Handyman Service in Fort Worth Hires Local SEO Group to Aid More Texas Customers – PR.com (press release)
Feb 2nd
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Handyman Service in Fort Worth Hires Local SEO Group to Aid More Texas Customers
PR.com (press release) Richland Hills, TX, February 02, 2012 –(PR.com)– Andy OnCall, a comprehensive home remodeling and handyman service in Fort Worth, Texas, is pleased to announce its new SEO marketing campaign developed by Prospect Genius, an Internet advertising firm. |
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SEO Executive – UK – Gaming Intelligence Group (registration)
Jan 26th
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Gaming Intelligence Group (registration) This is a new position and an excellent opportunity for a SEO expert to grow a business and also develop skills in other digital areas such as PPC and SEM. If you have a minimum of 1 year's iGaming SEO experience then our client would like to meet you. Market Target, San Diego's #1 SEO Agency Announces San Diego SEO Training Classes |
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Embed Real-Time Group Chat With Sazneo
Jan 24th
British software vendor Sazneo has launched a version of their chat software that you can now embed in any Web service or application. We last wrote about Sazneo about a year ago. “Sazneo Embed is ideal for companies that love the idea but are reluctant to introduce a new application onto busy desktops that already have email, instant messaging or social media tools.” said Brett Davis, CEO. “Many of our clients have already started putting Sazneo into their internal applications and a number of SaaS businesses are now embedding it into their own products to offer a group messaging capability to their clients.”
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The chat window looks like this and there are simple instructions on their support site here that tell you how to embed it using iFrames and their API. The service supports multiple channels and is similar to numerous other group chat clients such as Skype or IRC.
Sazneo has changed their pricing: there is a 10-user version available for $5 per user per month, and larger teams will pay $8 per user per month. You can evaluate the service for 30 days for free for either plan.
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New Open Group Cloud Standard Introduces “XaaS” – Something as a Service
Jan 19th
As prominent as cloud computing has already become in today’s enterprises, it’s amazing to realize that the world’s reference standards are only now catching up with the concept. On Tuesday, the consortium of industry stakeholders known as The Open Group updated its reference standards for Service-Oriented Architecture. You remember SOA, don’t you?
Well, if you’ve been following along with the SOA story, you know that cloud computing platforms have catapulted the service concept onto a huge and growing platform. Now, the consortium – led by software giants IBM, Oracle, and SAP, along with HP, and business consultancy CapGemini – has produced a formal interpretation of the role services play in the cloud, by offering a new term for the concept. Say it with me (if you can): XaaS.
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If a component delivers a service over a network using a service-oriented infrastructure, the Open Group now explains, in whatever form that takes, the concept will be referred to as XaaS. Literally, the X stands for… anything.
“This is the essence of cloud computing,” reads the Open Group’s new Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI) framework. “It refers to an increasing number of services that are delivered over a network. Anything as a service requires an understanding of the service objectives and the accounting of service use and quality. The objectives, use, and quality can be determined from the underlying reference model for SOI: Broad network access (cloud) + resource pooling (cloud) + business-driven infrastructure on-demand (SOI) + service-orientation (SOI) = XaaS.”
SOCCI is a necessary adaptation to the OG’s existing SOI concept, mainly because certain aspects of cloud services had become incongruous with the formal framework for SOI even up until last week. The expectation for SOI was built around software contained within the fixed space of server hardware (note: no virtualization) in an enterprise data center, or perhaps (begrudgingly) through cohosting services. Resources were provisioned directly and manually by administrators, and financing was often expected to be handled as capital expenditures.
The new SOCCI framework embraces the modern understanding of cloud services as spelled out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. There are three principal divisions – SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS – and usually anything else that vendors may attach to an “-aaS” is arbitrary and often self-serving. Open Group leaves the door open for something else to fit there later, but makes clear that these three pillars are the only ones that need to hold up the cloud for now.
Previously, the SOI framework helped organizations to understand how to design, using architecture, the hardware foundations for their services. With cloud computing, much of that architectural process is rendered moot. You provision the basic characteristics of the virtual systems you need to deliver services. And if they don’t work well or properly, you change those characteristics. SOCCI has adopted this concept now, and is advancing it up until the time it needs to be completely redefined all over again.
Quoting from the newly revised framework:
Cloud computing puts new demands on the IT infrastructure and management thereof. It requires an abstract approach to the operational environment. A cloud computing provider cannot any longer tailor its environment for each subscriber. It means that instead of a physical device, cloud computing offers an abstraction of a server, file system, storage, network, database, etc. Moreover, increasing providers’ profitability and maximizing the utilization of resources requires multi-tenancy, dynamic allocation of resources, and metering with charge-back.
At the same time, subscribers expect to see implementation of a utility model since they want to allocate resources on-demand and pay exactly for their usage while being able to sustain their operations, much like the electric bill. Hence, new infrastructure should be agile and elastic and create an illusion of infinite computing resources available on-demand. While SOI did not offer the whole spectrum of the characteristics desired, it became an enabler for what came to be known as Service-Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure (SOCCI). SOCCI can be defined as service-oriented, utility-based, manageable, scalable on-demand infrastructure that supports essential cloud characteristics, service, and deployment models. In other words, SOCCI describes the essentials for implementing and managing an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment.
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Group Says Twitter Trails Other Social Networks In Fighting Pedophilia
Jan 11th
A watchdog group says Twitter lags behind Facebook, Bebo and other social networks when it comes to protecting children from abuse.
The London-based Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre said it believes some pedophiles still use the site to discuss crimes against children and link to pornographic images, despite efforts by Twitter to act immediately when it receives complaints about such activity.
WIn a statement Del Harvey, Twitter’s Director of Trust and Safety, said “we receive a report and identify it as valid, we take action immediately.”
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“Accounts being reported may be the subject of law enforcement investigations. In those instances, while the profiles are certainly disturbing, removing them immediately can actually harm the cases that law enforcement may be attempting to build,” Harvey said. “Additionally, a user submitting a report may not receive a response if it is a duplicate to one that has already been reported, even if action has been taken.”
CEOP said Facebook and Bebo have both worked with the agency to develop “panic buttons” on their sites which allows users to immediately report concerns with a single mouse click. Twitter, on the other hand, is still a “little bit behind some other sites that have been around a little bit longer,” CEOP Chief Executive Peter Davies said in a statement.
CEOP provided no specific examples of instances where children have been endangered, but the group cited anecdotal evidence from Mark Williams-Thomas, a former detective who now works as a child protection expert. Williams-Thomas said he believes pedophiles are still active on the site and may be using Twitter to contact victims.
Williams-Thomas also told the BBC that privacy protections on Twitter and other social networks may be helping pedophiles hide their crimes. In Twitter, for example, users can keep conversations private from everyone but their followers, which makes them harder to detect and report.
“Clearly you can communicate whatever you want within a protected profile,” Williams-Thomas said.
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Web Wise Media now Offering Video SEO through Dot Com Media Group – PR Urgent (press release)
Jan 10th
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Web Wise Media now Offering Video SEO through Dot Com Media Group
PR Urgent (press release) Los Angeles SEO giant WWM has just taken on a new partner and formed Dot Com Media Group, an entity that already has the rest of the internet marketing world abuzz with expectations. Los Angeles, California – United States – What happens when you … |
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Revised ‘SEO Fitness Book’ Released by JM Internet Group – Best SEO Tips for … – San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Jan 8th
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Revised 'SEO Fitness Book' Released by JM Internet Group – Best SEO Tips for …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) 2012 Edition of SEO Fitness Workbook. Explains search engine optimization for small businesses. Step-by-step SEO tips for websites, blogging, and more. The JM Internet Group (web: jm-seo.org), a leader in providing Search Engine Optimization (SEO), … |
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Trada Secures Additional $9M In Funding From Google Ventures & Foundry Group
Jan 5th
Trada, the crowdsourced PPC marketplace, has secured an additional $9 million in funding from their existing investors, Google Ventures and Foundry Group. This additional seed of Series D financing brings the total money raised for Trada to $17 million. Trada basically lets you offload your PPC…
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Twitter Faces Another Call To Close Terrorist Group Accounts
Jan 2nd
Lawyers say Twitter will likely weather legal challenges from an Israel-based group that tries to combat terrorism through litigation, which is claiming the San Francisco-based company is violating U.S. law by allowing groups like Hezbollah and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab to use its microblogging service.
In a letter sent to Twitter last week, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, threatened legal action and said Twitter and its officers could also face criminal charges if the accounts in question are not taken down.
Matt Graves, a spokesperson for Twitter, declined comment.
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Darshan-Leitner built her argument on Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, a 2010 Supreme Court Case that upheld a provision of the Patriot Act that prohibits material support to groups designated as terrorist outfits by the U.S. State Department.
“Your provision of social media and associated services to Hezbollah and other foreign terrorist organizations would constitute the type of seemingly innocuous material support that would render your company and you personally criminally and civilly liable,” Darshan-Leitner wrote.
The case seems weak at best. The Supreme Court has not directly addressed whether speech supportive of a designated terrorist group is unlawful. But Aden Fine, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, told CNN “the government can’t force private companies to censor lawful speech just because the government doesn’t like the speech or the people making the speech.”
And Joe Sellers, a First Amendment lawyer at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in Washington, told the Washington Post that Twitter can be compared to a newspaper that provides advertising space: the company is, Sellers said, “providing a public forum” that is “content-neutral.”
“I don’t see how Twitter’s provision of a forum would constitute providing aid and support of a terrorist group,” Seller says.
As reported last month, the U.S. government has also put pressure on Twitter to shut down the account used by the Shabab militant group of Somalia. The group has been using its Twitter account to taunt the Kenyan military, which was dispatched to Somalia in October to combat the Shabab.
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