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From the monthly archives:
I just added the snap.com plug-in to mostlygeek.com. It took like 5 minutes to sign up and add the code to the site. It is extremely cool and it doesn’t appear to slow down the speed of MostlyGeek. I like the site to load as fast as possible.
It probably won’t work if you’re reading this [...]
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Rob Chipman posted a controversial article, How Do you Get Good Real Estate Information on his blog yesterday. Since then there has been a torrent of comments that quickly turned into bitching about how the MLS is a monopolistic, walled garden tool used by real estate agents to keep them on the gravy train.
I’ve posted [...]
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I have a friend, a real estate agent. My friend spent a ton of money on a website and hasn’t seen any return on investment. Sound familiar? Well, let me give you some advice my friend. Last week I said there are three fundamental things to make your site useful. They are, identity, listings and [...]
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This comment on my Getting a Lot of Spam? post led me to dig deeper into port 587, the SMTP Submission port.
Port 587 is for users to send out emails on. Port 25 is for servers to relay messages to one another. That way ISPs can block outgoing SMTP on their networks but still allow [...]
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The NYTimes published a good article on the rise in image based spam. Here’s the meat of the article:
Spam has evolved to include images (captchas) to elude message fingerprint filtering
No more HTML links. Spammers using “pump and dump”. They pump up a penny stock and then dump it when enough suckers have bought into it.
Spammers [...]
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