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Privacy The Sky Is Falling

Facebook’s new TOS: We have rights to everything posted here, forever. Sorry!

Well, as I’ve said in the past, you can’t expect to use free services and have any semblance of privacy. Facebook updated their Terms of Service (TOS) yesterday and slipped in a little “extra” clause which

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Analytics Business Marketing Privacy Technical

Analysis of Google outbound link tracking

I noticed in the past two or so months, after Google upgraded their SERPs to enable users to rearrange and delete results (see thumbnail to right) that the outbound links Google was posting on SERPs were redirects through the google.com site (meaning, they were tracking clicks on outbound links.) Since I often search for something […]

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Analytics Business Marketing Technical

Uh-oh. AJAX-powered search kills keywords in referrers

Well, according to Clicky, Smackdown and a discussion forum on Webmaster World, many webmasters are fearful of AJAX-only search from Google. As I wrote in a recent article on Helium (a low-traffic one, at that), Google is a near-monopoly, and user Shaddows here points out that opting out of Google’s index (say, in protest) is […]

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Business

In-kind donations and tax deductions

Last year, I did some work for a local 501.3c organization who I believed was doing some great things here in Media, PA. It was for the First Fair Trade Town in the USA, and it was for their web site development. I had done a lot of work on the first version of the […]

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HTML Technical The Sky Is Falling

Disappearing content in MSIE7 using AJAX

I write web applications for a living. I enjoy it immensely. Webkit-based browsers (FireFox, Mozilla, Chrome, and Safari) are a pleasure to work with – they render closely to what you design with stylesheets, their JavaScript engines perform quickly and what you’d expect, and the final rendering of sites is generally pleasing. Internet Explorer 6 […]