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Lil Wayne Out Of Jail, Blows Tiny African Vuvuzela
By admin | June 14th, 2010 | News, Social Media | No Comments »Recent events at the World Cup tournament have created such a buzz around the web that it seems like every blogger and their cat is offering their opinion on the newly trending noise maker. Even Lil Wayne – who was sentenced to Rikers prison earlier this year – seemingly got in on the action as [...]
Yahoo Publisher Network Closes Down
By admin | March 31st, 2010 | Marketing, News | No Comments »Yahoo, Inc is shutting down the Yahoo Publisher Network on April 30th, 2010. YPN was created and used as an alternative to Google AdSense, but never took off. While YPN did offer some advantages over AdSense, webmasters were reluctant to use the service as many faults rendered it unusable, such as excluding clicks from users [...]
Digg.com Hacked, or Just Serving Exploitive Advertising?
By admin | March 11th, 2010 | News, Social Media | No Comments »Today (March 11, 2010) the popular website Digg.com was flagged by Google’s SafeBrowsing service for hosting malware that can “hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent.” Digg is currently down, and according to Google SafeBrowsing the site is hosting 5 malware scripts, and 3 trojans. The domain in question (feed-mnptr.com) is currently registered [...]
MediaTemple GridServer Service Exploited
By admin | March 11th, 2010 | News | No Comments »Disclosure: We’re currently hosting UnFoc.us on MediaTemple, but will migrate to a new host soon. On March 3, 2010, someone at MediaTemple found that a number of sites on their network were compromised for SEO proposes through a WordPress exploit that may have piggy-backed on some faults within the GridServer infrastructure. A full eight days [...]
Upcoming Feature: Offline and Web Comic Critiques
By admin | January 25th, 2010 | News | No Comments »I’m going to start doing comic reviews. Also, I complain about people stealing my Bill Gates article. Good reading.
An Open Letter To Trey Gates
By admin | January 20th, 2010 | Inspiration, News | 1 Comment »My open letter of webmasterly advice to one of the greatest minds, Bill Gates.
Post Ideas for Unfoc.us
By admin | January 17th, 2010 | Blogging Tips, News | No Comments »Some ideas for upcoming posts on Unfoc.us. Breaking the fourth wall and bringing you along inside behind the scenes!
Unfocus Yourself
By hoodmonkey | January 10th, 2010 | News | No Comments »Every day, a new web tool can pop up with the intention on helping us complete our tasks, but with the thousands of routes we can take, where do we begin? Which tool is best? The first step is to just unfocus on the information overload, and learn how to mentally digest only the data that you need to know.
