A major security vulnerability in TCP stacks is uncovered recently which can knock any website off line with very little effort or bandwidth. Steve Gibson on Security Now Episode 164 recently discussed this vulnerability referred to as “sockstress”. It’s absolutely scary given the fact that unlike tradition Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDOS) this flaw [...]

‘Spark’ the Election and get your digital lawn sign for your Facebook, Twitter, Personal Home Page, Blog, and More. Hey everyone – this is just a heads up that we’ve unofficially launched our Digital Lawn Sign campaign in an effort to get more Canadians out to the polls on October 14th. You can get them [...]

I’m going to take a step away from our usual PPC, SEO fodder and share with you, gentle reader, something that is close to my heart. A few years ago I was given the opportunity to visit Northern Uganda, a part of the world I had never given a second thought to. I [...]

Today marked the Canadian debut of the National Do Not Call List.  If your like me… your not a fan of getting a phone call while your busy watching a good move/t.v. show or eating dinner.  Well… it took a while but the Federal Government finally released a service to register your phone number on [...]

Looks like Google is on a roll these days!  Most recently, it started with Google Chrome, then the first cell phone to include Google’s open source Android cell phone o.s. was released… and finally - Google Moderator. What is Google Moderator? A free service that will help track discussion topics within circles or companies.  Say for [...]

I logged into one of my clients accounts today with the purpose of generating conversion code for a thank you page.  Much to my suprise, I noticed a third option under the “Customized Tracking Indicator” Before, it was mandatory to insert a rather ugly “Google Site Stats - send feedback” logo on your thank you page.  [...]

Google recently updated it’s webmaster guidelines to suggest that webmasters  no longer re write their dynamic URLs to appear static. This is a significant shift in SEO strategies going forward as compared to the past. The key question on every ones mind at this time is what about all my old URLs that I’ve re [...]

Sari over at U2R1 recently wrote an interesting piece about the struggle between clients and designers over creative control. I agree with what she had to say and felt I should share it with you too. Not only does it apply to designers but any expert you hire! The heart of the issue is that [...]

If your in the PPC game, you know the limitations that a 25 character headline and 35 character description lines can present.  Fortunately, there are a number of short forms that can be used and get your message across.  Not only that, but often these short forms can separate your ad from the competition and [...]

This past week Yahoo! has launched some interesting enhanced music features using technology from Rhapsody. I found this to be quite interesting and a real leg up over Google search. When you search for a popular artist like Madonna Yahoo! will present a music results listing using data from Rhapsody. Right from the Search Engine [...]