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admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:11:41 +0000

Who’s Spying on Whom? A Map of Digital Subterfuge

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:37:10 +0000

High-Tech espionage is a game with no rules. In this secretive world, rival countries and multinational corporations use invasive software, moles, and talented hackers to stab each other in the back. Here’s what we know about who’s attacking whom.

How to Disappear Completely (From the Internet) – Page 2

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:46:00 +0000

Leaving the Web behind might just be the key to your privacy—and sanity.

The Data That Won’t Die

It’s easy to tell when your data has been removed from public display; if you can’t find it anymore, then it’s effectively gone. Finding out whether or not a company is still holding your data privately—or selling it to third parties—may be impossible. “There’s no way to verify that your information has been deleted,” Jeschke says, nor is there an overarching law or regulation governing data retention. Some data simply can’t be reclaimed; you relinquished control the moment you hit Submit, after you clicked past that 50-page license agreement. This is a valuable lesson, and while it might not help you seize full control of your online identity, it’s instructive. When you sign up with a service, make sure you trust its parent company and understand what data you’re giving up. To sign up with Google or Facebook is to sell yourself in a literal way; as an astute (and anonymous) poster on the news site MetaFilter wrote, “if you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”

A WEB APP TO END ALL WEB APPS

Signing up for social media sites is, by design, almost entirely frictionless. Three or four clicks will get you in the door, but finding your way out takes significantly more time and effort. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (tagline: Meet Your Real Neighbors Again) is a one-shot tool for deleting your profiles from some of the largest social sites on the Web, including Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, and Facebook. The tool was released last year by the New Media Lab in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and still lives up to its name—with one exception. Facebook has taken action to disable the site’s “suicide” script, and even sent the creators a stern cease-and-desist letter, demanding that Facebook be exempted from its deletion tools. Among the concerns included in Facebook’s legal letter? “[T]he protection of users’ privacy.”

CHOOSING AN ONLINE PRIVACY TOOL

Private Browsing This feature is included in most new Internet browsers and goes by a few different titles: Private mode, Incognito mode, and InPrivate. All these names are a bit of an overreach: This mode prevents Web browsers only from collecting history and cookies. It keeps other users of your computer from seeing what you’ve been doing (buying gifts being the most palatable example); it won’t shield your IP address or existing cookies from external sites. Virtual Private networks Paid virtual private network (VPN) services route your Internet traffic through an intermediary, masking your computer’s address from the sites you visit. Sites will, however, still be able to deposit tracking cookies on your computer, and your browser will still be prone to exploits and viruses. VPNs reroute all Internet traffic on your computer, not just from Web browsers, which makes them popular with file sharers. Reputable services include WiTopia and Blacklogic. CoCoon (getCoCoon.Com) This service is a plug-in for the free Firefox browser that combines the advantages of private browsing and a VPN with extra security features. Traffic is routed through remote servers and made anonymous, and all incoming files—downloads or websites—are scanned for viruses and malware. Other features include throwaway email addresses for spam prevention, and full portability, so you can access your Cocoon account from other computers.

How to Disappear Completely (From the Internet)

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:43:12 +0000

Leaving the Web behind might just be the key to your privacy—and sanity.

If you’ve ever used the Internet, you have an online identity. Maybe it’s slight: a Hotmail account here, a comment on a news story there. Or maybe you’ve been more prolific, leaving a trail of usernames, accounts, messages, and profiles across the digital landscape. In any case, an active internet user owes it to himself to do a bit of self-Googling. What you’ll find will be both enlightening and humbling—even worrying.

Unease about your online identity shouldn’t be limited to how much information is publicly available. Online advertising is the engine that drives the Internet’s largest sites, including Google and Facebook, and it depends on your personal—and allegedly private—data for fuel. “The government, companies, and marketers all want us to share as much information as possible because that’s what’s good for them,” says Rebecca Jeschke of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “and it’s time to think of what’s good for us.” While most Internet users seem fine with privacy tradeoffs, the lack of control will lead some to consider the nuclear option: total Internet evacuation. But taking yourself offline isn’t as simple as logging out—it requires a little bit of work. Here’s how.

Popular Sites

When a website is new, the last thing its creators are thinking about is how to help users leave. Thankfully, many of the Internet’s largest identity properties—Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft—are fairly mature and have evolved enough to offer well-defined, if well-hidden, escape plans. If you’ve ever used Gmail, Google Docs, Google+, or Picasa, to name a few, then you have a Google account. Google accounts can contain an astounding amount of personal data—check google.com/dashboard to see exactly how much—but removing it is a straightforward process. Before you hit the switch, be sure to back up any information you want to keep—a Google account can be recovered for only a few months after its deletion. Google doesn’t have a software tool for exporting data from its services, but most services have their own, typically found under the settings menu on the upper-right-hand side of the screen. As with other webmail services, the easiest way to back up your Live or Hotmail messages is to add your account to a mail app such as Outlook or Apple’s Mail before deletion—this will have the added benefit of backing up your contacts. Once you’ve copied your important data offline, navigate to your Google account dashboard (google.com/accounts). Next go to My Products, and click Edit. Then select Close Account and Delete All Services and Info Associated With It. You’ll be presented with a list of Google services that you’ve used in the past. (In my case, this included three that I didn’t remember signing up for.) Check the box next to each, along with the two are-you-really-sure boxes at the bottom, and select Delete Google Account. The account will be instantly wiped from the public Internet, but the company warns on its website that “residual . . . accounts may take up to 60 days to be deleted from our active servers and may remain in our backup systems,” but not be accessible in any way, “for an additional period of time.” Until 2008, there was no obvious way to permanently delete your information from Facebook. Instead, there was a Deactivate option only, which removed your profile from public view but left it on Facebook’s servers indefinitely. Thousands complained, so Facebook built a tool for permanently and instantly deleting user data—then promptly hid it away in the site’s Help section. To access it, log in to Facebook, navigate to facebook.com/help, and type “delete my account” in the search box. The top result will link you to the deletion page. Click Submit and confirm your choice, and you’re done. While Facebook doesn’t offer much help for backing up your data—a particular concern if you use Facebook to hold your photo collection—there are a number of free Facebook apps designed to archive your albums, such as Facebook Exporter for iPhoto and FBPhotoExport. To pull yourself free from Microsoft’s services, go to account.live.com and scroll to the bottom of the page. Under the Other Options header, click Close Account. On the following page, reenter your account password and press Yes. Unfortunately, there is no account-wide export option. Closing an Amazon account is a more roundabout process. Click Help in the upper-right-hand corner of any page on amazon.com and search “closing your account.” On the resulting page, pick Contact Us, then click on Something Else. Below that, select Account Settings from the menu, then Close My Account. At the bottom of the page, click Send Us an Email, fill out the form, and send.

Smaller Sites

Most reputable websites will offer some sort of account deletion option. Smaller sites that have posted (or more likely, reposted) your data without your permission can prove more difficult; after all, the owners never had your permission to republish your blog posts, photos, or videos in the first place. Finding this type of information—or derogatory and misrepresentative comments about you—is no more difficult than doing a search on Google or Bing. (Be sure to place quotation marks around your name.) Searching for yourself isn’t about narcissism; it’s not unusual for job recruiters, current employers, or even potential dates to vet new acquaintances on search engines. A misleading search result or libelous information could cause serious distress and do damage to your reputation. On a smaller site, sending a direct request to a webmaster to pull infringing or upsetting material is your best course of action. if there is no prominently listed con- tact information for the site’s operator, or if you aren’t able to get a response from the listed address or phone number, you can find direct contact information for the site’s administrator by conducting a search on whois.net. Domain owners are required by the internet Corporation for assigned names and numbers to supply contact information for Whois searches, including a phone number. This may at least get you on the phone with someone or give you a working email address. Whether that will be of any help is a different story. If a site refuses to take down content that belongs to you, you can try sending a takedown notice. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright act (DMCA), you are entitled to have infringing content—images, text, or video that you own, specifically taken down. There are a number of forms available online for submitting DMCA notices to internet hosting companies; there are even forms for asking Google, Yahoo, and Bing to remove content from their search results. While these forms don’t guarantee cooperation, the mere threat of legal action will at least be enough to get a site owner’s attention. if your DMCA notice doesn’t get a response, it might be time to talk to a lawyer.

Customize WordPress login logo without a plugin

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:56:37 +0000

WordPress login logo looks nice, but sometimes you may want to change it, for example when building a site for a client. In that case, you can use a plugin, or simply take advantage of this cool hack.

Nothing hard with this recipe. The only thing you have to do is to copy the following piece of code, and paste it on your functions.php file: in the root of your theme of wordpress

function my_custom_login_logo() {
    echo '';
}

add_action('login_head', 'my_custom_login_logo');

function my_custom_login_url() {
  return site_url();
}
add_filter( 'login_headerurl', 'my_custom_login_url', 10, 4 );

function login_header_title()
{
    return get_bloginfo('name');
}


add_filter("login_headertitle","login_header_title");

It’s Back! Get 50% Marketplace Credit Back on All PhotoDune Purchases in January

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:44:53 +0000

PhotoDune Credit Promo JanuaryIt’s back! It’s a brand new year, and to kick it off we’re going to repeat one of our best promotions of last year! Buy photos on PhotoDune in the month of January (From January 1st to 31st, 2012 AEDT inclusive) and at the end of the month we’ll credit you back 50% of the total purchase price into your account! Choose from over 665,000 fantastic quality photos from some of the best microstock photographers in the world. Our prices are already extremely affordable, but now you’ll get half your spend back as credits, so you can buy even more! And best of all, authors will still earn their regular commissions. Even though we’re announcing this promotion a few days into the new year, we are including all purchases made from 12:01am on January 1st – so don’t fret if you’ve bought in the past day or two. If you purchased on PhotoDune in January you will still be eligible for the 50% credit at the end of the promotion. All you need to do is head over to PhotoDune any time in January and buy photos! It’s that easy! For every dollar you spend on PhotoDune during the month of January, we’ll credit you fifty cents back the following month to spend on anything you like, including our other Envato Marketplaces. Terms & Conditions This offer only applies to purchases made on PhotoDune between 12:01am January 1st, 2012 and 11:59pm January 31st, 2012 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time). All credits will be made to your spending/deposits account on the Envato Marketplaces. Credits are not redeemable or refundable for cash. Credits may be used on any Envato Marketplace, including back on PhotoDune to buy more photos. Your account will be credited by February 9th, 2012 (AEDT) with 50% of the total purchase price of all PhotoDune photos you purchased during the promotion period. For example if three $5 photos were purchased during the period for a total of $15, then $7.50 of marketplace credit would be added to your account. The usual Envato Marketplace terms & conditions of usage apply, including credit expiry one year after deposit or crediting. If any price change is made to a photo after a particular purchase is made, the original price at the time of purchase will be used when calculating the credit to be given for that transaction. Authors may not purchase their own files or attempt to unfairly use the promotion in any other way, whether through their normal account, or secondary accounts, and either directly or by someone else on their behalf. This includes dummy accounts, and author pairs or author rings purchasing each others’ files. Strict consequences will apply at our discretion for violation of this term, including credits not being deposited or immediate disabling or termination of author accounts without further access to the account balance. Happy new year everyone! Enjoy shopping on PhotoDune!

The top 20 best niches for making money via Adsense sites

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:19:19 +0000

The good folks over at Wordstream have come up with a nice list of Top 20 most expensive keyword categories in Google Adwords. Now, since a significant portion of Adwords ads are displayed in the search network, it is logical to assume that the same keyword categories (aka niches) would be good for Adsense sites as well.

The reason is simple. The more the advertisers are paying for the ads, the more money you will make from those ads if they are clicked.

The 20 most expensive keywords categories with the highest search volume (i.e. the most used keywords) and highest costs per click, thereby netting Google the most money, are:

Insurance (example keywords in this category include “buy car insurance online” and “auto insurance price quotes”)
Loans (example keywords include “consolidate graduate student loans” and “cheapest homeowner loans”)
Mortgage (example keywords include “refinanced second mortgages” and “remortgage with bad credit”)
Attorney (example keywords include “personal injury attorney” and “dui defense attorney”)
Credit (example keywords include “home equity line of credit” and “bad credit home buyer”)
Lawyer (“personal injury lawyer,” “criminal defense lawyer)
Donate (“car donation centers,” “donating a used car”)
Degree (“criminal justice degrees online,” “psychology bachelors degree online”)
Hosting (“hosting ms exchange,” “managed web hosting solution”)
Claim (“personal injury claim,” “accident claims no win no fee”)
Conference Call (“best conference call service,” “conference calls toll free”)
Trading (“cheap online trading,” “stock trades online”)
Software (“crm software programs,” “help desk software cheap”)
Recovery (“raid server data recovery,” “hard drive recovery laptop”)
Transfer (“zero apr balance transfer,” “credit card balance transfer zero interest”)
Gas/Electricity (“business electricity price comparison,” “switch gas and electricity suppliers”)
Classes (“criminal justice online classes,” “online classes business administration”)
Rehab (“alcohol rehab centers,” “crack rehab centers”)
Treatment (“mesothelioma treatment options,” “drug treatment centers”)
Cord Blood (“cordblood bank,” “store umbilical cord blood”)

We found that that 97% of Google’s revenue comes from advertising on Google sites. In the last four quarters alone (Q3 2010-Q2 2011), Google brought in $32.2 billion in total advertising revenue.

Google AdWords is a dynamic, auction-based marketplace where advertisers bid on keywords to compete for top ad placement. The minimum bid per keyword is 5 cents, but this research shows that in highly competitive categories, Google can make up to $50 per click. Despite a diversified product portfolio, advertising on Google sites accounts for the vast majority of its billions in annual revenue.

The google adword keyword categories with the highest volumes and costs represent businesses with very high lifetime customer value – in other words, these industries can afford to pay a lot to acquire a new customer. These most expensive keywords comprise businesses such as lawsuits, mortgage applications, and server hosting. Some high-volume keyword categories have lower CPCs because advertisers have slimmer margins to expend on PPC advertising.

The Most Expensive Keywords: Survey Methodology

We compiled data from our own trillion-keyword database and the Google Keyword Tool to determine the top 10,000 most expensive English-language keywords over a 90-day period. This keyword list was then organized into categories by theme, such as “Insurance.” The largest keyword categories were determined by weighting the number of keywords within each category, as well as the estimated monthly search volume and average cost per click for each keyword.

Tips for Bidding in a Super-Competitive, Expensive Google Adword Key word Niche

If you or your client are struggling to compete in a high-volume, high-CPC keyword category such as the most expensive keywords identified in this study, the PPC best practices are the same as always, except of course, the stakes are 1000x higher if you’re paying on average $50 per click vs. $0.05 per click. Here are a few tips to consider:

Be Specific: Target specific, 3-5 word keywords. Use a keyword tool to generate specific keyword ideas, and use keyword match types to ensure you’re only paying for keywords that are very specific to your business.
Use Negative Keywords: Use a negative keyword tool to help figure out what kinds of words you’re likely to be matched against and weed out keywords that aren’t relevant to your business.
Be Relevant: High Quality Scores can help lower your average CPC. Tools like the Keyword Niche Finder and Keyword Grouper to break up larger keyword lists into smaller, more targeted lists which will enable you to write more targeted ad text and landing pages which should help improve relevancy and Quality Score.
Landing Page Optimization: The average conversion rate for just about anything on AdWords is around 2%. But we often see landing pages converting at the 20% or even 30% range. The key to landing page optimization is to keep trying out different types of offers and testing how people respond to them.
Grade Your AdWords Account For Free: Use the AdWords Grader to get a free, instant audit of your AdWords Account to see how your AdWords account stacks up to the competition.

Visit the “Where’s Google Making Its Money?” infographic for the full list of the top 20 most expensive keyword categories and to embed the graphic on your own site.

Update (July 22, 2011): Check out the follow-up article to this study: Where’s Mesothelioma, What Is Cord Blood & Other FAQs About Our Most Expensive Keywords Study.

Update (July 27, 2011): Click here to download a PDF version of this infographic.

What is FFmpeg Hosting

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:41:50 +0000

FFmpeg Hosting or ffmpeg webhosting is special hosting for online video sharing web sites. FFmpeg converts video to .flv format or any other video format. With FFmpeg web hosting you can create powerful online video sharing web sites just like YouTube. Scripts which require FFmpeg:

x10media
Clipshare
Attachmax
Rayzz
AlstraSoft VideoShare
VidiScript from SocialMedia
PHPMotion
Vshare
OsTube
Dolphin 6
Handshakes

More social networking scripts here. BELOW you’ll find the list of web hosting providers which offer ffmpeg support on shared plans and/or dedicated servers. There’s a review for each of them – hosting plans, diskspace, bandwidth, payment, even demo clips. Please share with us your experience if you are/were their client. Thank you!

FFmpeg Hosting

Red5Host
Imageleet
CirtexHosting
AptHost
Site5
DreamHost
Crayon Host
Micfo web hosting
HostForWeb
Infrenion Networks
GlowHost Web Hosting
FLV Hosting
DowntownHost
Bounceweb
HostMDS
AMH Network
HostUpon
HostV

Video YouTube clone web site hosting

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:26:56 +0000

Now you can have your Video YouTube clone web site hosted while offering ffmpeg hosting services to others, all with one reseller account.

Whether you’re looking for a reseller solution or just have a few domains you wish to host, a FFmpeg Hosting Reseller unlimited domain reseller account is a great way to get the maximum in flexibility and reliability out of your video hosting experience. Our reseller accounts are hosted on only the highest quality optimized servers with fully redundant connections and SCSI hard drives. Our servers support PHPmotion, Clipshare, Ostube, Dolphin, SocialEngine, Alstrasoft VideoShare, Attachmax, PhpFox, Rayzz, MediaMax and any kind of Video or Community Script similar to YouTube or Myspace.

What Is Search Engine Optimization

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:17:59 +0000

Search Engine Optimization is a process of choosing the most appropriate targeted keyword phrases related to your site and ensuring that this ranks your site highly in search engines so that when someone searches for specific phrases it returns your site on tops. It basically involves fine tuning the content of your site along with the HTML and Meta tags and also involves appropriate link building process. The most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL and Ask Jeeves. Search engines keep their methods and ranking algorithms secret, to get credit for finding the most valuable search-results and to deter spam pages from clogging those results. A search engine may use hundreds of factors while ranking the listings where the factors themselves and the weight each carries may change continually. Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks #1 in a particular search engine could rank #200 in another search engine. New sites need not be "submitted" to search engines to be listed. A simple link from a well established site will get the search engines to visit the new site and begin to spider its contents. It can take a few days to even weeks from the referring of a link from such an established site for all the main search engine spiders to commence visiting and indexing the new site.

If you are unable to research and choose keywords and work on your own search engine ranking, you may want to hire someone to work with you on these issues.

Search engine marketing and promotion companies, will look at the plan for your site and make recommendations to increase your search engine ranking and website traffic. If you wish, they will also provide ongoing consultation and reporting to monitor your website and make recommendations for editing and improvements to keep your site traffic flow and your search engine ranking high. Normally your search engine optimization experts work with your web designer to build an integrated plan right away so that all aspects of design are considered at the same time.