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Flashback Click Fraud Campaign Was a Bust
Posted: May 19th, 2012, 12:58am CEST by Soulskill
Tags: security
zarmanto writes "It seems the Flashback botnet has netted their creators nothing but frustration. Flashback was tagged early on by anti-virus vendors, who promptly sink-holed many of the command & control addresses, and essentially crippled the hacker's ability to control the vast majority of the Flashback botnet... but that's not the best part. The Flashback spawned click fraud campaign resulted in... nada! It seems that their pay-per-click affiliate may be on to their scheme, as they refused to pay out. Score one for the good guys, for once." -
Wozniak's Original System Description of the Apple ][
Posted: May 18th, 2012, 10:52pm CEST by Soulskill
Tags: software
CowboyRobot writes "Opening with the line, 'To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive,' Steve Wozniak gave his system description of the Apple-II in the May, 1977 issue of BYTE. It's instructive to read what was worth bragging about back then (PDF), such as integral graphics: 'A key part of the Apple-II design is an integral video display generator which directly accesses the system's programmable memory. Screen formatting and cursor controls are realized in my design in the form of about 200 bytes of read only memory.' And it shows what the limitations were in those days, 'While writing Apple BASIC, I ran into the problem of manipulating the 16 bit pointer data and its arithmetic in an 8 bit machine. My solution to this problem of handling 16 bit data, notably pointers, with an 8 bit microprocessor was to implement a nonexistent 16 bit processor in software, interpreter fashion.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 18, 2012
Fetched: May 18th, 2012, 10:33pm CEST by Barry Schwartz
Tags: Search Forum Recap
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 18, 2012
Some savvy SEOs noticed a weird hack that lets you see search results in a state of before the Penguin update. It is pretty wild and no idea if it is legit but it is convincing. We thought... - NASDAQ:FB (Facebook) Now On NASDAQ At $38
Facebook is now officially listed on the NASDAQ as FB and the shares are currently set at $38. Reminds me of the day GOOG was on NASDAQ and I did not invest. Google was set at $85 and now it is at $623. Where will Facebook's stock go? Who knows... - GoogleBot Can Execute JavaScript? Really - Yes, Really!
I love it when old news makes it to larger publications as breaking topics that no one covered before. Ars Technica reports GoogleBot can now index and execute JavaScript and more content behind AJAX. This came from a post by the swapped.cc blog... - Guggenheim Museum's Phone Number Wrong On Google
The famous and prestigious Guggenheim Museum in New York City is having problems with Google. Despite several weeks of trying to update their phone number in Google Maps... - Dylan Gets Google 4 Doodle Treasure
Today on Google you will see a special pirate looking logo on most properties. That is because the Doodle 4 Google winner was announced last night and that logo is featured on Google globally... - Robots Invade Google
Louis Gray shared several pictures on his Google+ page of Android robots with also this Predator looking robot in the middle. I am not sure if Google is getting ready for some sort of announcement bu
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Pinterest to get $100m boost from Rakuten, WebmasterWorld
- An Inside Look at Algorithm Changes: Amit Singhal keynote at SMX London, WebmasterWorld
- Doodle Paraguay ind. day, Google Blogoscoped
- Help Google just nerfed us out of the blue, Hacker News
- Maintenance Notification, AdWords Community
- New Tailored Suggestions, And Twitter Supporting Do Not Track, WebmasterWorld
- Omar Khayyam was maybe the original jack of all trades.â¦, Google - Google+
- Yahoo Syndicated Search Partners - How to turn it off?, Microsoft adCenter Help
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 18, 2012
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Facebook IPO: First Trades At $42; Raises Value To $114B
Posted: May 18th, 2012, 5:33pm CEST by Digg
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network that raised $16 billion in its initial public offering, the biggest in Internet history, opened at $42 in their first trades Friday. -
US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Delayed | TorrentFreak
Posted: May 18th, 2012, 5:17pm CEST by Digg
Soon the file-sharing habits of millions of BitTorrent users in the United States will be monitored as part of an agreement between the MPAA, RIAA, and all the major ISPs. Those caught sharing copyright works will receive several warning messages and will be punished if they continue to infringe. However, it now appears that the much-discussed July start date will have to wait until later in the year as the parties involved may fail to meet the provisional deadline. -
7 Free Resources To Learn About Sound Engineering
Posted: May 18th, 2012, 4:44pm CEST by Digg
If you’re a geek who’s also a bit of a musician, you’ve probably occasionally thought about using your own equipment to record and produce CDs. I mean, you’ve got the microphones, a decent computer, a sound editing program like Audacity and various other useful tools. What’s stopping you from making your own demo CD? Well, that could possibly be a good understanding of sound engineering, music recording and music production. Because, deep down you know that without getting these things at least halfway right, your demo CD will sound rotten and no-one will want to have you in their ve
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: May 18, 2012
Fetched: May 18th, 2012, 4:31pm CEST by Barry Schwartz
Tags: Search Buzz Video Round Recap
Some savvy SEOs noticed a weird hack that lets you see search results in a state of before the Penguin update. It is pretty wild and no idea if it is legit but it is convincing. We thought that there were two major search ranking changes in Google but Google told us they were not updates related to Penguin or Panda or anything like it. Google purged many free web directories from their index. Google launched the knowledge graph - it is answers. Google said do not stuff the title attribute with keywords. Google said if it doesn't understand the markup, it will just use the text. Bing may have updated but we are not sure. Google is now doing weekly videos summarizing Google Places/Maps topics. Yahoo lost another CEO, Scott Thomspon and he was replaced after lying on his resume. Facebook is on the NASDAQ today as FB. There is a hilarious Matt Cutts parody video you must watch. It was Mother's Day this past Sunday - happy Mom's Day all you mothers. That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.
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Search Topics of Discussion:
- Hit By Penguin? Google Query Hack To Confirm?
- Google Update Brewing? What Is Going On?
- Google Penguin 1.1 Update Underway? Google Says No.
- Free Directory Sites Dropping Out Of Google?
- Google Knowledge Graph: Google Labels Me An SEO Expert
- Google's Algorithms Find Stuffed Title Attributes As Sneaky
- Google Uses Text Of Code It Doesn't Understand
- Bing Search Update? Crawl Changes?
- Vanessa From Google Places Offers Weekly Video Recaps
- Yahoo Loses Another CEO: This Is Beyond Ridiculous
- NASDAQ:FB (Facebook) Now On NASDAQ At $38
- Video Parody: Google's Cutts On Ranking #1
- Happy Mother's Day From The Search Industry
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NASDAQ:FB (Facebook) Now On NASDAQ At $38
Fetched: May 18th, 2012, 4:31pm CEST by Barry Schwartz
Tags: Search Engine Industry News
Facebook is now officially listed on the NASDAQ as FB and the shares are currently set at $38.
Reminds me of the day GOOG was on NASDAQ and I did not invest. Google was set at $85 and now it is at $623. Where will Facebook's stock go? Who knows.
Are you buying? Did you get into the IPO? Are you going to buy when trading on FB begins at 11am EDT?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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GoogleBot Can Execute JavaScript? Really - Yes, Really!
Fetched: May 18th, 2012, 4:31pm CEST by Barry Schwartz
Tags: Google Search Engine Optimization
I love it when old news makes it to larger publications as breaking topics that no one covered before.
Ars Technica reports GoogleBot can now index and execute JavaScript and more content behind AJAX. This came from a post by the swapped.cc blog.
Google's Matt Cutts commented on this at a Hacker News thread saying "Google continues to work on better/smarter ways to crawl websites, including getting better at executing JavaScript to discover content."
Thing is, Google has been doing this for a while. Back in 2009 GoogleBot was executing JavaScript and in November 2011 Google began doing so with AJAX. Matt Cutts had the same comment then as well.
It is important for webmasters and SEOs to know that Google wants to go deeper into content and if you are hiding things within JavaScript or AJAX, don't expect Google to not find it.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and Hacker News.
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Guggenheim Museum's Phone Number Wrong On Google
Fetched: May 18th, 2012, 4:31pm CEST by Barry Schwartz
Tags: Google maps
The famous and prestigious Guggenheim Museum in New York City is having problems with Google. Despite several weeks of trying to update their phone number in Google Maps, the phone number listed is still incorrect.
The number Google should list is either the one given to them by the owner verified listing or the one listed on their contact us page?
The Guggenheim posted a complaint about this over two weeks ago in the Google Places Help forum and a Google representative named Vanessa did respond a couple times but the issue is still there.
The Guggenheim is frustrated saying:
As you can see, it's already been several months since our original request was submitted, far beyond the 4-6 period you specify. Multiple tickets were submitted to Google Places and auto-response e-mails were received indicating that action would be taken soon, however our listing has remained incorrect. We would really appreciate your help to expedite our request if at all possible.
Forum discussion at Google Places Help.