Text-Link-Ads Hacked?

June 3rd, 2008 How MySpace Accounts Get Hacked This video shows how MySpace accounts gets hacked. The modus operandi is simple: 1.

March 10th, 2009 Are you one of those Telegraph subscribers? You must have known by know that the online website of British UK newspaper Telegraph has been hacked. The proofs in Hackersblog confirm that the site has been hacked by Romanian whitehat hacking group.

July 5th, 2007 When I signed up for text-link-ads several months earlier, I meticulously read the terms and conditions. Nowhere was it mentioned that you couldn't use nofollow on your links.

November 25th, 2008 Suppose you want to copy and paste texts from a web page. Though the data can easily be copied (unless that particular website has copy protection) as plain text and pasted to yours, its painful to take all the metadata alongside it.

November 22nd, 2007 Text-Link-Ads upped the ante in their fight against Google (in their effort to help people buy page rank) with the following "tips" for bloggers: Our advertisers don’t like ad blocks that are titled “Sponsored Links” “Advertisements” “TLA” “Text Link Ads” etc. They prefer no heading but if you do use a heading please consider using an image not text and consider using something like “Recommended Sites”.

November 7th, 2005 BoingBoing reported: "Forbes has a free service that lets you send an email to yourself and have it arrive in 1, 3, 5, 10, or 20 years." The site looks like Forbes site because it has same template of text and images as is available in Forbes. However the URL to the site is forbes.codefix.net/capsule/ Can you imagine Forbes actually hosting their pages on the site of codefix.net? It appears to be a small company.

January 30th, 2008 Most link extractors I know, including the function in WordPress to linkify comments, incorrectly assumes that any text containing http:// is a hyperlink including obvious mistakes like the following: I propose a new protocol starting with phttp://... What do you think? phttp is not http protocol and it should never be treated as a link.

July 3rd, 2007 Google and other major search engines (Yahoo, MSN Search etc.) which use back-links for importance calculation of a web page suffers from a fundamental flaw. Back-links can be manipulated and even purchased.

July 6th, 2009 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft Corp.

May 14th, 2009 This is an exclusive stuff for your MySpace or friendster users. Frankly you are there to make friends.

June 3rd, 2008 Alicia Keys MySpace page was hacked by inserting a seemingly innocent link with interesting width and height. Let's review the concept.

January 8th, 2009 Just imagine your yahoo account hacked from under your nose. All your personal mails, confidential files, pictures, membership access, and contacts being accessed by a disguised criminal.

July 13th, 2007 Unicode offers flipped versions of standard English characters. You can use a small javascript based utility to get flipped version of any word or phrase.

November 29th, 2007 I have added a plugin to allow you to subscribe to comments on my blog and track it in real-time with email. Subscribe to blog comments plugin ( link ) allows you to follow the discussion on articles you like without having to check my blog every time.

September 3rd, 2008 I don't get Google AdSense. Last year with great fanfare they announced making the text of the ad non-linkable while keeping the title and URL linkable.