We’ve been promoting events, news and opinions in Cyprus since OnThisIsland.com first went live on the 5th of April 2005. We, like many other Cyprus-based businesses, had very different plans for what we wanted to be doing in April of 2013, ours even included an 8th-birthday celebration for that little corner of the web. But, alas, the […]
In a move set to upset many social platform developers, like us, Facebook has changed the rules. You may now, officially, run competitions ON Facebook, without the need for any externally hosted applications. But this is why you probably don’t want to: 1) Time is valuable Using Likes as votes and entries will take time […]
We’re proud to have built a quick platform for the Desk&Co launch in Cyprus. The competition platform will award one local entrepreneur a ticket to the HackCyprus Insights conference at Hilton Park in Nicosia on Sunday the 8th of September. With 13 world class startup and technology guests and speakers and 4 hands-on workshops with industry experts, it […]
The time has come for us to close up shop (and wipe the databases) at our Copy-and-Paste Meme App. It’s been a lot of fun, and we saw 10’s of thousands of chatters use the app during its time online, but with the official sticker store being as beautiful as it is and our shift […]
We’ve seen so many reactions from people watching Game of Thrones, and even more posts from people being upset about all the posts about it. The same happens for many sport events, other series and any major activities like eurovision. Introducing Silencer A chrome extension, that lets you filter out spoilers, boring people you can’t […]
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 […]
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‘ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]