Twitter compromised by a French hacker

twitter compromised Twitter is compromised for the second time in this year by a French Hacker under the handle Hacker Croll gaining administrative access to the Twitter’s employee account. He posted 13 screenshots of Twitter’s administrative console at a French online discussion forum. Twitter has officially confirmed the breach and it has been discovered that 10 individual accounts were viewed during this unauthorized access.

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May 4th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Yahoo decides to shutdown GeoCities

Yahoo is closing down its geocities services GeoCities was found way back in 1994 has completed its 15 years run and it about to get retired soon. Yahoo bought GeoCities for more than $2.9bn in 1999 when GeoCities had more than 1.1 million users. Yahoo has disabled the new user signup with GeoCities and existing users has to find an alternative soon.

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April 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Control name search with Google Profiles

google profiles Search Engine giant Google has now started rolling out the integration of Google Profiles into the search results and is giving the users the ability and flexibility to tailor what shows up when their name is searched for. Google has already rolled out the profile search results in U.S. at the bottom of name-query search pages. Google is now in the process of rolling out for other countries and Google Profile results have already started popping up in few countries including Germany.

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April 23rd, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Track your package status from Facebook or Twitter

trackthis Waiting for a package to be delivered and want to know the status of the package as an Instant update without pages getting refreshed ? TrackThis will help you to track your packages through Email, Text message, Facebook or Twitter with great ease thirteen different carriers supporting popular carriers including  UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, TNT etc.

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April 22nd, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Its high time to know about Post slugs

post slug Search Engine Optimization is very important for every blogger to rank better in Google Search Results and professional bloggers handle them nicely. There are few aspects or options of SEO which are either not talked about much or novice bloggers are not aware of. One such thing I can immediately think of is post slugs in wordpress for optimized post URLs and titles. I had a discussion about this with few bloggers but most of them are not aware of this topic and  so I have decided to write down few things to share the knowledge. The word Post Slug (aka permalink or post URL) is most common in wordpress blogging which is nothing but the URL friendly version of the post title generated by Wordpress.

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April 21st, 2009 | Leave a Comment