On Potential Privacy Problems With Gmail Buzz Exposing Email Contacts
Before I logged into Google Buzz, I thought, Google cloning Facebook. But I was actually surprised that it was something more useful. And then I ran into this article about the privacy issues and it has me wondering.
Keyword grouping tool for PPC : A free keyphrase grouper by CampaignSniper
I was looking for a desktop keyword grouping tool and was amazed at how hard they were to find. Here is an online one with the source code. I am currently integrating the source into http://www.dir23.com
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Friday Links
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Magento block caching | Inchoo
If you have a Magento site and slow loading configurable products pages, download and use the extension listed here. The same concept of caching applies to any html block in Magento. Setting this up reloads a copy of the block the second time and does not call the database. Blocks can be cached until edited.
This change actually sped up the configurable products page almost 1000%. Our configurable products were based off of over 1000 underlying skus so needless to say, the page loaded slow before this and now loads at a decent speed. But Magento is never really “fast”. It’s just such a change, that comparing it to the one minute load times it was having, it seems fast, below 3 seconds.
But I do plan on going on with it, finding the bottlenecks in the code and applying block caching. The next target is the category products lists. The worst I think is the layered navigation but a default installation of Magento already has caching built in for the layered navigation.
My BookMarks for the Week
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43 ways to use WordPress | JustCoded
I have been messing around with WordPress a lot more lately, building blogs, stores, review sites and feed aggregators. This post gave me even more ideas.
Compare one Google Suggest result to another. Interesting concept.
snippi | MAGENTO CODE SNIPPETS
Magento is hard to work with. This site is very helpful if you ever run into the beast.
How to Create More Content for Your Products
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How do I write about my products? I have built a lot of different sites for a lot of different people and this question always comes up. I’m not quite sure why. Some of these people had had brick and mortar stores for years But somehow when it comes to writing about their products, they draw a blank.
And I can understand that. Most people don’t like to write. And if that’s the issue, I can understand that. But don’t tell me you don’t have anything to say about your product.
How to Win Friends and Influence Tweeps
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One of the reasons I don’t post as often as I used to here is social networks. Another reason is that not writing one day starts a trend. It may take 21 days to build a habit but it only takes a couple to break it. Hey, but Twitter makes up for, in one way. Not really, but I like to tell myself that. I guess if I write 40 tweets a day, that’s the equivalent of one post.
Bugs, Viruses, Backups, and prevedvsem123.cn
Updated: A Note Before You Read On
I don’t know the source of this virus currently. All I know is that everyone I have talked to so far that has this issue has been on a Layered Tech box, either directly, in the case of Woopra or through resellers. I have not found any other information of it effecting other hosting providers yet.
But I am only stating what I know to be true and trying to help people stop it on their own because god knows that these support desks are going to have their hands fulls.
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