GoDaddy has been suffering MAJOR WordPress hacks this week, and some were even today. This is happening on other sites that are running on PHP that aren’t running WordPress too.
Here are some news posts about the hacks:
http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/second-round-of-godaddy-sites-hacked.html
Note all the GoDaddy WordPress hack news here:
http://www.wpsecuritylock.com/
My thoughts after the jump.
We are in the Web 3.0 world now. Realtors are just starting to get it, but most of them don’t get it. Not all of it. Not yet.
It took a while, but Realtors are finally coming around to Web 2.0, Web 3.0, social networking, whatever you want to call it. It is becoming clear to Realtors (finally) that building a website and waiting around for Google to find it simply doesn’t work. This is a good thing! It means that they are waking up to the reality that we are LEAVING THE INFORMATION AGE and that we are ENTERING THE PARTICIPATION AGE. While this is a positive step, and Realtors are using more of these social solutions online, many see them just as a tool for profit instead of a tool for SHARING THEIR KNOWLEDGE and building credibility.
» Read more: Realtors using Blogs, Facebook, and Google for fun and profit
Some ex Google engineers have created a new search engine called CUIL (pronounced “cool”). The domain is www.cuil.com. Their goal – to create a bigger, badder search engine that can rival Google. I tried it out, and I have some thoughts about it. More after the jump.
Companies that offer email hosting service have seen quite a few changes over the years. Compared to years ago, spam is obviously more of a problem for everyone that uses email. To combat spam, we have employed special technologies on our network, and we have also used on-demand filtering services to pre-filter spam email before it comes into our network. Clients LOVE this service, because we are able to stop over 98% of spam before it gets to our customer’s mailboxes. While filtering spam has been has made email much more enjoyable, there are still other threats that can affect email delivery and spam. The biggest problems are mail-forwarding and catch-alls. In this post, I will explain what these are, and why they are so bad for email hosting providers. These two types of email accounts used to be OK to provide, but we have had to completely eliminate email forwarding over the last year. In speaking with other email hosting companies, I have discovered they have all had to make the same change, or are planning to. Find out why after the jump.
“we are able to stop over 98% of spam before it gets to our customer’s mailboxes “
» Read more: Hosting companies must stop forwarding email – or else.
Three years ago, I came up with an idea to get a little more local exposure for us, and to also help out area chambers of commerce. The idea was to have a business-to-business (B2B) trade show, where businesses that sell to other businesses could mix and market. On March 5th, we held our third one. It went great!
Thanks to all of our customers, friends, and partners that attended the Third Annual Delaware Expo Trade Show. The weather was perfect yesterday and we had over 1,000 attendees at the show. The exact number was close to 1,200. Our show is now the largest business-to-business networking event in the state of Delaware, with over 120 exhibitors. We got a lot of positive feedback on the show, and some ideas that we will use to make the 2009 show even better.
Adobe invited me to give and advanced web design presentation live online, and it happened today at noon EST. There were over 1200 attendees. The presentation will be available on-demand on the Adobe web site in about a week. I demonstrated how Delaware.Net is using the latest Adobe Dreamweaver and ColdFusion tools to build Web 2.0 web sites.
» Read more: Gave my second ePresentation on Adobe.com today
Blogs are continuing to explode in popularity. In a recent post, I explained why you need a blog, and how to set one up. If you aren’t familiar with blog software and what it is for, then you should read that post first. I also explained some of the pitfalls and potential misuses of your blog in another post. With this article, I want to give a bigger picture for folks that need a web site quickly, and who are considering blog software to run their ENTIRE web site. There ARE cases where blog software can work as the main web site for a business under rare circumstances, and I will go over this as well.
» Read more: Should you run your entire business web site with blog software?
Adobe invited me to give a 45 minute case study presentation regarding the Wesley College web site design project that we recently completed at Delaware.net.
» Read more: I gave a live presentation on Adobe.com about DreamWeaver CS3 today
We just installed ColdFusion 8 on some new servers that arrived this week.
» Read more: ColdFusion 8.0 Server Arrives – Team-Logic Upgrades
Google just announced that they are going to buy Postini, a spam and virus-filtering company for over $600 million USD.
Delaware.Net uses/offers Postini services as a reseller, and the price is right – $1 per user. Postini catches almost all spam and viruses before they reach your inbox. This saves hosting companies time and money and allows users to gain access to the control panel that is doing the filtering, so that you can see the spam that is sitting in the quarantine on Postini’s servers.
It will be interesting to see if privacy advocates get up in arms about this or not. Postini routes the email of 5,000,000 users.
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