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The Shine is off Social Networking

The Shine is off Social Networking

Say it ain’t so, Joe! Over the past few weeks, it’s begun to look like Social Networking, the current darling of the conference and consultant set, might have jumped the shark.  I personally would peg the exact point where it went careening off track as the day that Waste Management (the guys that probably run your local honey truck) opened their own social networking site. But it goes far beyond that.  Earlier this week Om Malik wrote a very interesting…

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Techcrunch Says WordPress a Massive Security Risk

Techcrunch Says WordPress a Massive Security Risk

(The link to the article is lower in this post, to ensure the proper text appears in the Techcrunch trackback…) Techcrunch yesterday featured an article by Nik Cubrilovic with the salacious title “WordPress Security Issues Lead To Mass Hacking. Is Your Blog Next?”  – from that article: Due to its popularity as a blogging platform, WordPress has become a prime target for hackers looking to take over blogs for search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites they control, traffic-redirection and other…

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