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
13MayHow to remove MyBizCard and stop annoying your LinkedIn contacts
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
11MayNew Anorexia Made her a Freak Facebook Scam Tricks Hundreds
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
13AprBreaking Promotion Guidelines? “Your Page has been unpublished and it cannot be published again.”
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
13AprHackers directing an international 100,000-bot attack on WordPress sites
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
14MarFirst Impressions of the New Facebook Timeline layout
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
21FebEvent Organisers: Now you have cover photos on Facebook
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
14FebHow to make any site Harlem Shake! Thanks to @moovwebdev
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
30JanFacebook now suggests other Pages, when you Like a Page
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
26Jan5 Reasons Why we can’t wait for Ubuntu for Android
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
