The FTC is cracking down hard on economic stimulus related scams and about to turn their attention to ad networks associated with sites that run them, along with publishers who advertise such services. (more…)

That is the question.. whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the unsubcribes and ignored communications from outrageous revenue potential claims made… (more…)

MessageLabs recently released their monthly Intelligence report outlining some of the latest email threat trends for February 2009. It certainly seems the spammers aren’t giving up and still have a few tricks up their sleeve. (more…)

Today was the first time I’d seen this, but I’m told it’s been happening for a while. If you don’t specify custom error pages for your site and an IE user has the most recent Google toolbar installed, then Google shows that user a custom error page… theirs. (more…)

If you’ve ever been attacked by a rabid customer through a posting or other public announcement, or had a potentially nasty glitch exposed in a public forum, no doubt your fingers have been itching to type a savage return fire. Most of us take a deep breath before proceeding, others don’t hold back and speak/type whatever is on their mind. (more…)

It seems there’s been another major security breach in the US banking/card processing system that has exposed the details of many cardholders. That’s bad news for the cardholders – and likely for ecommerce enabled merchants too. (more…)

Do you use the urgent flag on email liberally? You may find it counterproductive. (more…)

Content is king and while original content is the way to go, some site owners choose to take a risky shortcut with PLR (Private Label Rights) article packs. (more…)

It’s amazing how many small business sites still have “under construction” pages. (more…)

A milestone was quietly passed in December 2008 – over one billion Internet users served during that month. (more…)