Spam vs Email ratio still getting worse

November 28, 2006

A new report has some disappointing results for us: “E-mail systems are overloaded or melting down trying to keep up with all the spam,” said Dan Druker, a vice president at Postini. His company has detected 7 billion spam e-mails worldwide in November compared to 2.5 billion in June. Spam in Britain has risen by [...]

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Ashes (Cricket) Great Opportunity for Website Visitors

November 24, 2006

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that office workers are turning to the web to find out the cricket scores. SMH says Akamai (an internet content delivery firm) indicates that Australian news sites are receiving more than 126,000 visitors per minute – thats 70% increase. This reminds me of the recent Melbourne Cup – I was [...]

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Acceptable Site-Loading Times

November 9, 2006

Site loading time is a hot issue among web developers. Most traditionalists hold with 10 seconds before visitors start dropping off at a rapid rate. With the exploding growth of broadband users, load-time is often discounted now. “Oh, who cares if our homepage is 600kb – our visitors have faster connections nowadays!”. Well sure folks, [...]

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Heads up – Australia about to lose Google?

November 9, 2006

Well this is cheery news. Apparently there’s a bid to change Australian copyright law. The government has introduced legislation aimed to modernize copyright laws, because they’re apparently a bit out of date. News.com.au says: At present, Australian citizens technically break the law whenever they record their favourite television program or copy or download music for [...]

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Writing Great headlines For The Web

November 8, 2006

Interspire is a software company who I bought some software from a while back for a client. They send me periodic email, most of which gets deleted. Their latest newsletter I liked, thanks to one article titled “The 12 Most Popular Headlines Of All Time”. They give examples like “They laughed when I sat down [...]

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Protect your Online Identity

November 8, 2006

A couple of weeks ago, Brendon wrote a post on “Why You Need To Keep Your (Online) Nose Clean“. Short answer: because anybody can look you up, and once you write about that drunken party on your blog, its pretty much there forever. Deleting the page doesn’t mean its gone from the internet. According to [...]

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The Internet is Really Really Big – November 2006 Statistics

November 7, 2006

The Netcraft November 2006 Web Survey shows some interesting results. Apparently, there are now over 100.1 million web sites on the internet. Thats up from 97.9 million last month. So apparently the we’ve had over 2.5 million sites pop-up in only one month. This leads me to wonder how many of these are contributing members [...]

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Queensland Draught Almost Over!

November 2, 2006

Wait for it… today, the Queensland Premier, Mr Peter Beattie, is praying for rain. And I’m not just saying that – this seems to be his strategy in combating the drought.

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CAN-SPAM Act is a Miserable Failure

November 2, 2006

Spam levels are still growing and striving for new heights. More than 3 out of 4 emails intercepted during September by one company was classed as spam. (77%) From the article: MX Logic also noted that the percentage of September’s junk mail that complied with the federal anti-spam CAN-SPAM Act hit an all-time low of [...]

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Ugg Boots getting Great Results

November 1, 2006

One of the sites owned by my employer (Tailored Consulting) is called Brand Boots.com. Today, Brendon tells me that BrandBoots is ranked #5 in Yahoo for the phrase “ugg boots” – and thats great news. BrandBoots was a venture by Brendon and Mel to sell Ugg Boots (Ugh boots, Ugg boots, Ug Boots – however [...]

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