One of the fastest growing Facebook Pages over the past couple weeks was a page developed by KZ Entertainment to entice users to fan the page in order to get the admin to name his son “Batman”. It’s not a completely original tactic as it has been used with varying degrees of success in the past, especially within Facebook groups. The real question though is whether or not this individual should be able to create a Facebook Page which is aimed at promoting a media company rather than accomplishing a legitimate goal.

Currently, Facebook arbitrarily disables publishing features of generic…

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A new report published yesterday suggests that Tuesday and Wednesday are the best days to post status updates on Facebook. The reason is that click through rates are dramatically higher on those two days. It’s not surprising considering that this is a trend found around the web in traditional publishing channels. If you do a press release, the best days have traditionally been Monday through Wednesday as those are the days that most people read the news.

What was somewhat surprising was the substantial drop off in click through starting on Thursday. Content published on Thursday receives half the clicks…

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For the past couple weeks we’ve been doing a recap of Facebook’s weekly news stories and have been receiving great feedback. As such, it’s now going to be a regular part of this blog. This past week was another big week for Facebook with the announcement of new privacy policies that will have a significant impact on platform applications. There were a number of other big announcements this week, all of which are included in our weekly roundup!

Facebook Announces New Privacy Policies
On Thursday morning, Facebook announced that they would be rolling out new privacy improvements in response to…

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Publishers Must Change the Way Authors Get Paid | Publishing Perspectives
An interesting read from my Perspective. You may not find this one very interesting unless you plan on writing something.
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Cisco IOS hints and tricks: Disable flapping BGP neighbors
There are also some links at the bottom of this article that are related to other aspects of BGP. If you are one of my BGP students you should find them useful.
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Researchers are sounding the alarm for a serious administrator password-reset vulnerability affecting the latest version of WordPress, the popular open-source blog publishing platform. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to compromise the admin account of any wordpress/wordpress-mu 2.8.3 and older.
The flaw, which can be exploited via the browser, gives an attacker a trivial way to compromise the admin account of any WordPress of WordPress MU (multiple user) installation.
The attack uses an ability of PHP to not only set values on variables, but also make them arrays. Basically a GET request can add data like: http://www.example.com?data
PHP takes…

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Yes you read that right.D9 hosting gives you the opportunity of hosting unlimited domains on one account at the cost of one. From the start D9 hosting wanted to offer a twist to the hosting industry.
 
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D9 hosting aims at making it dead simple to progress between their…

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