Archive for May, 2011

31 May

Social Media Fallacy: No One Really Keeping Up With 150 Plus Friends, evidence suggests

Social Media

While all the social media experts are chanting “engage, engage, engage” with more and more friends, social scientist anthropologist types, like Robin Dunbar (study circa 1992) might say: that’s fine, as long as the magic number (150) isn’t exceeded. Why? Because the neo-cortex apparently limits humans to being able to keep up with only as [...]

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30 May

Hack Protection Tips For WordPress Beginners

Ecommerce

First, to the hackers who love to read articles on how to thwart hacker attacks and then subsequently teach everyone the lesson that ANYTHING can be hacked: We aren’t challenging anyone to break WordPress. Just as there are tips on protecting your email or social media accounts, there are also certain practices which should be [...]

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26 May

Yahoo! Store Platform, a Safe Choice for Ecommerce Merchants?

Ecommerce

Internet security is on everyone’s minds these days. Nearly all entities (personal, business, NGO, and government) are affected when the criminal element penetrates system security. Some, like the Government of China, have gone to great lengths to freeze out any questionable, unapproved, or malicious content. Of course the reaction to such radical online fortification has [...]

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25 May

The Successful 100 Mile Social Media Path

Social Media

When the AP released the Youtube, Obama’s Limo Gets Stuck, the world got a shocking glimpse at how one of the globe’s most heavily protected and invested-in men became helplessly pinned over a menacing concrete angle, barely larger than a speed bump. The allusion here is to those companies who have poured 10-20-30-maybe 60 thousand [...]

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24 May

How Using 3rd Party Social Tools May Burst Hard Earned Melons

Social Media

Yahoo! News reported last week that “Fields of Watermelon Burst in China Farm Fiasco” , but they didn’t just explode as a result of some naturally occurring phenomenon…they were being souped up with growth accelerator injections. Imagine anyone trying to take short cuts in the business world, huh?! This is a good reminder to social [...]

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