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IP / Brand Protection
ThePirateBay.org hacked… Isn’t it Ironic?
2578 days
According to CNET, popular “filesharing” website The Pirate Bay has been taken down after falling to an SQL injection attack that leaked the username, password, e-mail address, and IP addresses of 4 million of their registered users. The site went down today for about 2 hours, I assume to attempt to fix the vulnerability.
While this list of “the internet’s most wanted” would probably sell for several million dollars, a few sources (1, 2, 3) are claiming that the attack was meant to educate, and they have no intent to sell the information they gathered.
Leaving aside my opinions on file sharing and looking only at the legal ramifications of downloading copy written software, photos, and videos, you’d think that users would want to cover their tracks a little bit. While I don’t expect everyone on the internet to understand how to set up a proxy server, or more importantly, how to build a proxy server… but you’d think they’d be smart enough NOT to create an account containing personal information on a site that aids their illegal activity. ThePirateBay is fully functional without creating an account, so somebody please tell me what benefits you get for giving away your information! Even if there is a good reason, why wouldn’t you just use someone else’s password?
Sleep Deprived
0656 days
So Ben came over so we could record the commentary on that wrestling show, and we were up until 3:00 in the morning talking about business, marketing, branding, and how the web interacts with it all. I love a long, discussion between two minds whether or not they agree on all fronts. While we didn’t see eye to eye on every topic, that was the joy of the conversation, leading us both to learn a lot of new information in a short amount of time.
After I wrap up the video production, it will go up somewhere on YouTube as a series of “ACW Internet Quickies”. Just don’t hold me to too high of standards… I was working with full-auto cameras, a camera operator that has never even HELD a camera before, no sound equipment, and a whopping $0 budget. As I make more videos, I am getting more and more comfortable working with editing software, so hopefully I’ll get to do another shoot sometime soon and I can keep these videos coming.
Nielson Ratings for Blogs?
0674 days
So apparently, I’ve been getting a little traffic from BlogPulse, so I decided to look into who they are. Nielson Media Research, the company most commonly known for surveying households and publishing TV Ratings, purchased BlogPulse as a way to keep up with a constantly changing world of media. They publish blog profiles and track topics, similar to the Twitter Trending Topics system, but across all blogs on the net. I’m not sure how Nielson discovers the plethora of new content, but from my experiences (and those of others) there are some reliability issues with their system.
Check out the live pulse viewer, which displays a graph of the top 5 topics in the blogosphere at that moment. Oddly enough, the most consistent #1 topic is diary entries… Aren’t all blogs a form of diary?
Kmart Coupon Fail
0680 days
Via The Consumerist, Kmart apparently has posted an online coupon (listed as being honored at all stores) that is only valid at select locations, causing an uproar in the blogosphere… Add them to the list of corporate social media fails!
Protect Your Copyright
0684 days
Here’s a nice, short article from my good friend Monty about securing the content of your webpages. If anyone blindly copies and pastes your content, this is a bullet-proof way of catching them. This method will not help, however; if they dig into the code or only use excerpts of your content (and depending on their excerpts, they may be protected under fair-use policies).
