wired-top-stories
The Obama administration for the first time is weighing in on a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit and is supporting hefty awards of as much as $150,000 per purloined music track. (Read More)
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Web Strategy Workshop
One of the first things to look at when looking at your web analytics are bounce rates. Bounce rates tell you how many people landed on your website and left without looking at any other of your site’s pages.Here Avinash Kaushik talks about Bounce Rate, saying “If you could only choose one metric to look at, Bou (Read More)
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louisgray.com
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)On StayNAlive, I recently wrote about how I was able to change my Twitter username from "JesseStay" to just "Jesse", by a new rule, announced recently by Twitter, allowing anyone to obtain the usernames of people who had not updated their account in a long time, and did not (Read More)
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: "The process was so easy that I was able to obtain my first name. Mona Nokamura, who also writes on LouisGray.com, was also able to obtain her first name instead of "@monaaa", and users everywhere were finally able to get the names they have been trying to obtain since they joined Twitter.
Evidently, Twitter's systems must have been overwhelmed with requests, as they appear to be putting the kibosh on the average Joe getting the username they want."
ReadWriteWeb
When you want to know about a domain name, you jump to whois to get all of the information on the person who registered it. But when you want to know more about the person who just started following you on Twitter or FriendFeed, it hasn't been that easy - even though we've tried to provide you with tools to do it. Now, a ne (Read More)
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Often, the Twitter elite as judged by this method are keen self-promoters or "social media strategists", a new breed of self-appointed experts ready to advise others on how best to win friends and influence people.The chatter they take part in is insular and repetitive. Often it seems like an endless cycle of sharing links (Read More)
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Basically, officials are admitting that they're only going to use it in cases where either they can't find something else on someone, or they just want to pile on. It's not a law for any good reason... it's giving prosecutors an extra tool to take someone down. (Read More)
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Guy Kawasaki isn’t just the author of Reality Check, his latest nifty book about kicking your competition’s butt. He’s a tinkerer and entrepreneur. I’ve been in love with his Alltop since it first came out ( I first talked about Alltop here). As time goes on, I think of more ways to use the service. Tonight, for instance, (Read More)
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And one of the biggest spit in our faces is the calling on abuse of technical resources. What of a company that oversells it’s resources like doubling prims on OS sims and then complain of overuse because of their own decisions, penalizing the whole community of people that uses those sims correctly? How is it the resident’ (Read More)
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Where to start? About a year ago Linden Labs started selling ‘openspaces’, which are also known as ‘void sims / voids’ or ‘baby sims’. As 4 voids are hosted on 1 server, you get less prims, less script/computing capacity and a cheaper price . (Read More)
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