FTC Guidelines – One More Day

by Steve Warriner on November 29th, 2009

3347059715_08e1bf17ebThe new FTC regulations which affect online marketing take effect on December 1st. What does it mean for you?

 

Are URL Shorteners Safer Now?

by Steve Warriner on November 16th, 2009

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There is a new coalition forming to help prevent short urls from becoming defunct if the short url company goes out of business. Good news if you are not using a shortener on your own domain.

The Sidewiki Fury – 4 Things You Can Do

by Steve Warriner on October 5th, 2009

Whether or not you are concerned about how the new Sidewiki tool from Google can affect your site, the storm that has ensued will affect all websites regardless of the outcome. Here are 4 anti-sidewiki tools to come out of Round 1.

Just What Kind of Neighborhood is This?

by Steve Warriner on September 11th, 2009

People may not be able to view your website, possibly a large number of people, because of other sites that use the same IP (Internet Protocol) number. Learn more about IP blocking and blacklisting, and what you can do about it.

It’s Here! Well, here anyways.

by Steve Warriner on August 21st, 2009

Okay, I do get excited. But all that stuff in my last post is down the dumper as I just found a url shortener plugin for wordpress from Blurbia: http://jedsweb.net/j/e that makes the process of creating short url’s quicker, and still get the branding effect.
I can set it to allow anyone to use, which could [...]

Making [a little bit of] Sense out of Twitter

by Steve Warriner on August 20th, 2009

Being very new to the Twitter scene, I wonder just how many “Tweeters” get the sense of being sucked into the Twitterdom whirlwind. I am probably close to being obsessive-compulsive when it comes to details, but Twitter is at light-speed and my time restrictions and mental processing capabilities conjure up visions of my presence on [...]