Articles from August 2009

A million giraffes demonstrate the power of social marketing

Chandesh Parekh
by Chandesh Parekh
in Social Media Marketing
August 25, 2009

A web designer betting his friend that he could use social networking to make a ‘million of anything’ led to the creation of the website www.OneMillionGiraffes.com, which called for users to send the creator one million giraffes that they’ve made, either as models or drawings.
Although he didn’t really think he’d get much of a response, [...]

Use hooks to customize your WordPress site

Chandesh Parekh
by Chandesh Parekh
in PHP, Web Development and Programming
August 21, 2009

WordPress is a powerful publishing platform (this site uses it) and it seems to be going from strength to strength. This is partly due to the fact that WordPress is easy to hack i.e. it’s easy to re-write code to make the platform do what you want it to.
Hacking core files, however, is problematic as [...]

Facebook apps stealing data and spamming

Chandesh Parekh
by Chandesh Parekh
in Internet Survival Tips, Online Security
August 21, 2009

ZDnet.com reports on some Facebook apps that steal login details and spam victims’ friends lists. Some of the Facebook apps mentioned in the report are:

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As always, when using social networking sites watch out what apps you use and ask yourself if you absolutely have to use every app that comes your way!
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