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How To Find Link Prospects Without Using Google
Feb 21st
I’m obsessed with Google. (I mean, you kind of have to be if you’re in this industry.) But sometimes, you need a break from the hand that feeds. There’s no denying the power of advanced search queries, but you’d be surprised how many other and different prospects you can…
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SOPA Version 2: JotForm Domain Seized Without Due Process
Feb 17th
On Wednesday, the Secret Service seized the JotForm.com domain and left hundreds of thousands of websites with “broken” forms. Although it was the Secret Service that initiated the investigation, it was Go Daddy (JotForm’s domain registrar) that suspended the domain without warning. JotForm, which provides a WYSIWYG web form creator and hosting for the forms, [...]
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[Poll] Developers: Why Did You Upload iOS Contacts Without Consent?
Feb 15th
Whenever user privacy comes into question, the reaction is predictable. The tech media will flare up with outrageous and accusatory headlines, the mainstream media will pick up on it and put a couple talking heads on air to decry the practice and users will start talking in bars about how “company xyz” is spying on them. If we are lucky, the controversy will get tech writers sniping at each other and there will be a Congressional investigation.
The fact that many iOS apps have had unfettered access to upload the contacts in your address book has caused this chain of events to unfold (the tech writers sniping at each other is a new wrinkle). Path, Twitter, Foursquare and many others are in hot water for the practice but the biggest hit it going to be aimed at the platform provider that made all of this possible: Apple. There are many benefits to uploading a users’ address book. But, the presumption of doing it automatically without user consent is what makes people angry. Developers: you have seen this roadmap play out before and knew what would happen if you got caught. So, why did you do it? That is the topic of this week’s ReadWriteMobile poll.
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To be honest, I am not expecting many mobile developers to actually vote in this poll. Those that have not yet been caught are probably quite busy make sure that they no longer upload user contacts without consent and destroy the evidence that they ever did.
But the question remains. Did you think you would not get caught? Did you think the benefits outweighed the innocuous apology you would have to issue eventually? Or maybe you thought that this would be a week-long controversy to be replaced in the news cycle by the next week-long controversy and you can just return to business as usual (you are probably right)?
Or maybe it is the culture. Many times startups think more about the benefits of an action or feature to their data pipelines than the tangible consequences of the real world. It is OK to cop to it. You are trying to create a business and there are lots of reasons you do the things you do. If bending the rules can give you a jumpstart, I do not know many business people in the world that would not readily take that route.
Apple said today that uploading users’ contacts without permission is against the iOS guidelines and that it will require all publishers to make the service opt-in. This is not the first time that Apple has got in hot water about privacy issues. Almost a year ago there was the controversy of Apple and other mobile operating systems tracking user location without their consent. Apple put the kibosh on the practice fairly quickly after that. It behooves Apple to make is iOS developer ecosystem a lucrative place to publish and may have been a little too laissez-faire with its policies in these two instances.
So, developers, why did you do it? We understand that there may be some perfectly good reasons. Take the poll (it is completely anonymous) and let us know in the comments what your thought processes were.
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How to Make PPC Count Without Conversion Tracking
Feb 14th
Imagine for a second a PPC advertiser’s worst nightmare: You log into AdWords and your keywords, ads and campaigns all have zeros in the conversion stat column! Worse yet, it isn’t a performance problem – just a tracking problem. Here’s what to do
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Can’t Search Google Without Cookies? Google Reconfirms They’re Not Required
Feb 13th
We’ve seen some reports of people finding they can’t search on Google unless they accept cookies. However, Google reconfirms that cookies should not be required. A thread at WebmasterWorld has searchers claiming the issue only happens on certain versions of Firefox when cookies are disabled. It…
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How Pinterest Uses Your Content Without Violating Copyright Laws
Feb 1st
Pinterest, the increasingly popular pinboarding social network, is able to present a visually arresting interface in large part by using copyrighted images pinned by users.
“It’s a huge concern for creative bloggers,” said Amy Anderson, who blogs on the arts and crafts site Crafter Minds. “I don’t think Pinterest does anything to help protect copyright besides removing content when people ask.”
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Pinterest is able to avoid violating U.S. copyright laws thanks to a provision in the Internet Service Providers Act, which gives immunity to sites that publish information provided by others, according to Aaron Messing, an associate with OlenderFeldman LLP in New Jersey. As long as Pinterest continues to comply with a provision of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act that requires it to remove content when asked by the copyright owner, users are free to continue pinning any images they find on the Internet.
Pinterest did not respond to a request for comment, but its Web site has instructions for requesting the removal of copyrighted content.
“If they were manually showcasing content and/or putting this content up themselves, they would definitely be in violation and break their protections,” Get.com co-founder Steven Fruchter said in an email. “Since their users are the ones ‘pinning’ content, which is then downloaded and served via Pinterest’s servers, they are considered a user-generated site, which only needs to take down content after they receive a take down notice by the copyright holder.”
Among many Pinterest users, as well as several artists who have had work pinned on the site, a code for giving proper credit is developing. Artist Laura C. George said Pinterest has no way of knowing if links tied to images link back to the original artists’ Web site, but so far Pinterest users have been better about giving credit than Tumblr.
“That being said, it’s still awful that I might discover a new painter on Pinterest and not be able to find them. To not know their name or have their website,” she said. “It’s truly an awful situation…it seems impossible to enforce this type of rule on such a huge site with thousands of members and billions of pins. They would have to check the link to every ‘original’ pin and research to make sure it was the original. That’s insane.”
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Boxee Live TV Adapter – Without DVR Is It Too Little, Too Late? – ReelSEO Online Video News
Jan 25th
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Boxee Live TV Adapter – Without DVR Is It Too Little, Too Late?
ReelSEO Online Video News The following is an index of our more popular video search engine optimization (Video SEO, VSEO,… Many of us here at ReelSEO are still settling back into our routines following the awesome SMX West… Google has been giving users "instant previews" … |
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SOPA Blackout… Without the Consequences – WebProNews
Jan 17th
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SOPA Blackout… Without the Consequences
WebProNews Josh Wolford's comprehensive rundown of the SOPA/PIPA protest blackouts slated for tomorrow mentioned how some site admins do not wish to totally black out their sites, for a variety of valid reasons (the hit to SEO alone can be crippling). … CloudFlare creates easy SEO-friendly way to black out a site, protest SOPA |
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How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO – Search Engine Land
Jan 16th
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How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO
Search Engine Land You may be thinking about joining the website blackout movement, but yikes … what about the SEO implications? How do you take your site offline in protest without messing up your visibility in Google's search results? Well, Google's Pierre Far shared … |
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How To Blackout Your Site (For SOPA/PIPA) Without Hurting SEO
Jan 16th
A number of websites are (or were) planning to “go black” this week while the U.S. Congress discusses issues related to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). The website blackouts are part of a larger social media effort against the bills that our Greg Finn…
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