by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
I can remember the delicious feeling of being completely free of adult supervision on rare afternoons when I was an adolescent. My friend David and I would sit by a cedar tree in a cemetery on sunny Sundays and smoke cigars. I date myself. Obviously it was a long-off...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Roll up, roll up for lots of freebies. That’s what the creators of the following sites are hoping you’ll do, anyway.Com-prizes(dot)com seems to host numerous offers and deals which do their best to get the attention of Twitter / Myspace users.For example,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I gave a talk at IRISSCON 2010 about how naughty internet people can do horrible things to your brand, and some of the stranger ways things can go spectacularly wrong for your company. A big “well done” to the organisers – I heard nothing...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
A blog piece in which we discuss one Web site selling subscriptions to information about non-existent security products and a number of others that use the names of legitimate AV products as lures of which the gentle reader might beware.There have probably been as...
by Alex Eckelberry | Nov 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
Did they get the idea for that graphic from the GFI blog?We’re wondering if the actors behind this one got the idea for the graphic on their email from the title of our November blog piece “In America the streets are lined with gold”We blogged about green card lottery...