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IE, Phishing Filter & You.
You may not have noticed this but in IE 7 & 8, sites load a tad slower. It’s only a second or two but even that gets on my nerves so I went looking for a solution. After a little research I found that having the phishing filter turned on was causing the delay. Basically, [...]
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URL Redirection Services May Be Costing You
I’ve always used URL redirection services like TinyURL to reduce and “hide” affiliate links in emails and for other “one off” purposes. It just seemed quicker than using the one on my server. However, a few weeks ago, I was using the TinyURL redirection service to shrink affiliate URLs in a promo email and had [...]
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FTC Guidelines “FAQ”
Last December when the new FTC guidelines came out about endorsements and testimonials, there was a lot of hysteria and misinformation floating around about what’s what. Well if you have questions you are in luck because the FTC has been answering them and posting them on their site. FTC’s Revised Endorsement Guides: What People are [...]
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ICANN: Kills Your Competition
ICANN who is basically responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses, has a new proposal that can help you kill your competition called Rapid Suspension System. Basically, for a small few, someone can complain, the site will be removed and THEN you get to defend yourself. Yeah, it’s a half-ass backwards [...]
Jun 3rd, 2009 | Filed under InternetTags: ICANN, Rapid Suspension System