Google Confirm – DoubleClick caused Denial Of Service by Richard
Over the last couple of weeks, some users of DoubleClick may noticed server outages and massive spikes in server connections. The connections were apparently referrals from DoubleClick banner adds, but coming in such massive waves that they caused the target servers to overload and stop serving pages. The flood of connections peaked between 6000 and [...]
New Google Analytics Reporting Features! by Norton Legg
As no doubt many of you are aware, there have been some big changes in Google Analytics lately, especially with the ways you can track how people interact with your site as well as the way you can structure your goal sets without having to create ridiculous numbers of profiles for you to track your [...]
Web Browser Statistics by Richard
The latest browser stats from W3Counter make for interesting reading…
Follow the Money …or engage Warp-drive?! by Brian Wadsworth
Being a ’silver surfer’, Chairman, CEO, NED, etc., gives me a privileged position of ‘outside-in’ insight into this industry which is still highly embryonic and quite naive in some ways; occasionally exhibiting the inconsistency of an early stage teenager! I am also ‘contemporary’ (some might say contentious) in my views on business management. I firmly believe that business sustainability [...]
Digital Britain? by Brian Wadsworth
About 9 or so years ago I attended a conference in the USA where BT ‘proudly and confidently’ announced from the platform that they were not going to invest in installing another single km of fibre optic cable into the ground because ADSL (copper) technology was the way forward. This was followed immediately by both France Telecom and [...]
How to preload FLV video in flash with actionscript 2.0 by Dominic Kelly
Since the introduction of Flash video (flv) in 2002, Flash Player has become the most widely installed Internet video client, running on over 96% of all Internet-connected PCs. The ubiquity of Flash Player ensures that most visitors can view Flash video without downloading additional plug-ins, so you can reach more people with lower development, testing, [...]
Does spam CAPTCHA your attention? by Richard
We all hate spam. It’s a daily frustration for most of us and poses an even bigger problem for businesses with an online presence who can be both the victim and an unknowing accomplice to the spammers.
E-mail harvesting and website hacks are the main ways for spammers to get to you. For [...]
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