Web Business by Ken Burbary

As an online network grows, it eventually attracts enough eyeballs to warrant the attention and efforts of spammers and scammers. Twitter has both. Over the last several days,  Twitter has been hit hard by a Phishing scam. The only surprise is that it took this long to occur.
The Wikipedia definition for phishing is:
“the criminally fraudulent [...]

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Google has transformed our lives with its uncanny ability to answer the question, “What is X?”.   Enter any term and Google will tell you what it is and/or how it works. If Google’s spiders can find a web page, you can find the content within it using Google Search.
Enter Social Media.
The proliferation of [...]

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As 2008 draws to a close, I took some time to reflect and analyze how I tweet, what I tweet about and who I tweet with. I used a neat little tool called Wordle to create a visual topic cloud.

This topic cloud, which can also be made with Tweetcloud, makes it pretty clear that I [...]

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If you’re regularly active on Twitter for any length of time, you can quickly outgrow the standard way of using the service. By standard, I’m referring to the fact that Twitter provides a straightforward and easy to use web interface to update your status and send/receive direct messages. This method of using Twitter works but [...]

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Lately, more and more people I know on Twitter are discussing the idea that it seems to have crossed, or is approaching, a threshold and has gone mainstream. What signs point to that? Celebrities, politicians and other well known non-marketing/PR types are joining in greater numbers.
For starters, a Twitter user doesn’t get any bigger than [...]

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