22May

We’ve all heard or seen horror stories about peoples (and even companies) accounts being stolen or hacked on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and everywhere else. What you probably haven’t heard is that most services (even Twitter from today) have a system called Two Factor Authentification. What is it anyways? As LifeHacker puts it, Two Factor Authentification Continue Reading

13May

We’ve seen many many many, well too damn many, messages and complaints about the way MyBizCard.co spams people’s contacts on LinkedIn. Whilst I haven’t used the service, and cannot vouch for it’s usefulness, I can provide the information you may need to get rid of it, you know, if you want to: 1) Click ‘Settings‘ Continue Reading

11May

Those sneaky little scammers are at it again, with hundreds of young ladies falling for the trick. They first bait them in with a shared comment along the lines of: Once clicked you are met with what appears to be a faded out ‘Youtube’ Page. In order to continue you must ‘prove you are a Continue Reading

13Apr

We’ve been long time advocates of abiding to Facebook’s guidelines for promotion through their platform, and you can ask many of our clients, friends, partners and team just how much. Many wondered why we were worrying about such things, “afterall everyone else is doing it”. It appears that once again Facebook has begun purging the Continue Reading

13Apr

According to TechCrunch, sources at both HostGator and CloudFlare have been seeing a spike in bot attempts to bruteforce the login details for administrator accounts on WordPress sites across their networks. Although they’ve advised admins to use long-difficult passwords and various preventative plugins, the number of bots at this groups disposal is thought to be Continue Reading

14Mar

Having a look at the new Facebook Timeline layout, it’s growing on me, and this is why. 1) Separation between Information and Interactions  Finally, it’s easy to see the difference between Information (the things one does, likes, watches, goes, listens to, pins, follows and acts on) and their Interactions (status updates, wall posts, shared links, Continue Reading

21Feb

One of the many changes Facebook has made to their events system (they are also about to begin linking directly to ticket purchasing systems) is finally updating the aesthetics of each event. Event promoters can now upload a cover photo, allowing them to showcase more of the event and give a taste of the atmosphere Continue Reading

14Feb

We love the bookmarklet released by Moovweb that lets you make ANY site on ze internet do the Harlem Shake! (See their blog post about this awesome valentines day present to us all) 1) Drag this link to your bookmarks bar -> Make It Shake! (Or Click it for a quick demo) 2) Click it, watch Continue Reading

30Jan

Now if that isn’t cheek-in-mouth we don’t know what is… Companies, our clients included, are paying for campaigns that bring their customers and followers to their fan pages. But once they click the all-important “Like” button, they are now greeted with other suggestions of pages they could Like too. Although, it’s pretty and slick, it’s Continue Reading

26Jan

We’ve been continuously refreshing Ubuntu’s website hoping for a glimpse of when we’ll be able to get our hands on their Android offering. And this is why… They’re basically stating the obvious. We continuously find ourselves working via our phones. Duplicating apps, settings, files and shifting conversations across our devices as we move around. Now Continue Reading