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Jul
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Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Jul. 3rd, 2009. 0 comments — voice your opinion.
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Excerpt: Authorize.NET dropped the ball again on July 3, 2009. Authorize.NET was down from approximately 03:15 EST, and they're still not 100% up @ 15:51 EST. That's pretty much 12 hours. 12 hours of downtime when you're dealing with money is really awful, and I won't even go into the details re: that. Here's the thing. Regardless of your eCommerce package, in the case that Authorize.NET returns no pulse, you can at least retrofit your web application — and send yourself an email with customer information. You can also store the credit card information encrypted (carefully) elsewhere. Granted,…
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Jun
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Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Jun. 17th, 2009. 4 comments — voice your opinion.
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Excerpt: You've done it. I've done it. We've all done it. PPC can be hazardous if it's not carefully watched. Sure, you can hire a PPC management firm and dispense the buck and responsibility to a third party. But that doesn't actually dispense with any of the liability … No. That's just an illusion. You can fire the firm, but Google won't give you your money back. They might like your money so much that they send you some Google swag — but that's about all you can expect to numb the pain. Wow,…
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May
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Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on May. 13th, 2009. 2 comments — voice your opinion.
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Excerpt: While the USA is plenty stupid and litigious sometimes, the EU has recently come up with one of the most destructive ideas ever: In short, they're saying "Let's explicitly legislate that software developers are liable for security lapses." Yes, possibly even for FOSS (open source software). Now this might sound like a really good idea to a non-programmer — but it's just not. And for further entertainment, let's say they do exempt FOSS. That would only stifle non-opensource developers and put them at a ridiculous disadvantage. I think the dual model performs well collectively — both FOSS, and…
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Apr
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Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Apr. 13th, 2009. 2 comments — voice your opinion.
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Excerpt: A bit off-topic, but useful nonetheless. One day cable went down. Optimum online is usually great — but they totally dropped the ball that day. We wanted to use our Novatel Ovation U720 cellular modem to power our network as a backup. Lots of credit goes to Dragon, and this wiki. Here's how we did it: Grab the modules we need; throw on JFFS You need usbserial.o and option.o. You can get these here and here. Note: The ones at http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=43358 did not work for me. I got mine courtesy of Oleg's Asus wl500gP Linux…
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Feb
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Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Feb. 16th, 2009. 17 comments — voice your opinion.
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Excerpt: Joost de Valk wrote a great WordPress plugin that I'm about to install. From Joost de Valk: http://yoast.com/twitter-analytics/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter has a bunch of tracking parameters on it, and therefore is duplicate … so we may cite a canonical URL in <head> to fix this — <link rel="canonical" href="http://yoast.com/twitter/analytics/"/> In this case it is the only option to do so because Google Analytics requires the page be sent, so it is not an option to simply 301 to the canonical URL afterwards. Originally I had said it was; thanks to mark @ useyourweb for pointing this embarrassing lapse in reason to me. However, with…
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Feb
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Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Feb. 9th, 2009. 2 comments — voice your opinion.
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Excerpt: Your friendly Captain-obvious-inspired search marketer might argue you shouldn't have done so when you depended on your organic rankings so much — but they're almost certainly vulnerable too. Let's face it. It's just plain difficult to get natural referral traffic when you're ultimately just another guy selling commodities. OK, so don't be just another guy selli … nevermind. They're hypocrites. So what can you do? 1. Move Goods On eBay With Help Of Automation eBay, except for some upfront infrastructure costs and smaller up-front listing costs, is pay-per-conversion. That should make you salivate. Unfortunately, it's…
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Feb
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Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Feb. 5th, 2009. 1 comments — voice your opinion.
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Excerpt: We're currently looking for 1-2 great clients within the following realms — Custom Application Development — 1. Custom eCommerce Web Site Development 2. Custom Content Management System Development 3. Intranet Development SEO Retrofitting or Application Enhancement — 4. Modification of PHP and ASP.NET web applications to retrofit for architectural issues and increase search engine visibility. Few firms will take on this challenge as they do not have the resources and knowledge to get the job done. We do. Services include: Fixing duplicate content problems, implementing sIFR or image replacement, providing more control over titles, meta-information, and content, as well as URL modification including rewrites. The SEO…
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