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The Worst Malware Ever (and What It Teaches Us About Malware of the Future)

The Realtime Report

In 1999, Melissa pretended to be a Word file containing passwords to — ahem — adult websites, but when opened, the file sent the virus to the first 50 people in the user’s email address book. In 2003, experts estimated that the worm caused between $950 and $1.2 billion in damages. billion in damage, globally. Operation Aurora.

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The Worst Malware Ever (and What It Teaches Us About Malware of the Future)

The Realtime Report

In 1999, Melissa pretended to be a Word file containing passwords to — ahem — adult websites, but when opened, the file sent the virus to the first 50 people in the user’s email address book. In 2003, experts estimated that the worm caused between $950 and $1.2 billion in damages. billion in damage, globally. Operation Aurora.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The launch of Geocities by Yahoo marked for some the beginning of a new revolution in the online media called social networking. Launched in 2003, MySpace concentrated on the music niche. This is a guest post by Babu M. The Case Study of a Full Life Cycle. I think most of us agree that MySpace is dead. Like this post?

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

The two companies were created six months apart; Myspace was founded in August 2003 and by July 2005 was bought by News Corp for 580 million dollars. Don’t send emails to everyone in your address book, rather, choose your recipients carefully. million dollars from Accel Partners in May 2005. Don’t spray and pray.

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What is Work Literacy?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

2003. (35). Enter your email: Tags.NET. (24). Agile Development. (10). argumentation. (1). Australia. (16). beautiful. (2). bureaucracy. (1). Christian. (4). Christmas. (1). climate change. (7). community. (5). conspiracy theory. (3). craftsmanship. (9). economics. (10). education. (3). SQL Server. (3). technology. (3). terrorism. (3).

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With 4 Days Before Blogger Social, I Bring You the 4×4 Meme

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Prior to Austin (where I had to go outside the city in order to get Kosher food for SXSW), the last time I ate Indian food was in 2003. Publishing a book (or at least an e-book, we’ll see) Four Music Artists I’m Listening To Now 1. Answers Yahoo! The birth of my daughter (May 6th due date) 2. John Prine 2.

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Diva Marketing Talks Online Publications With Deanna Sutton, Angela Benton & Heidi Richards Mooney

Diva Marketing Blog

Follow Angela @abenton Facebook Heidi Richards Mooney is a serial entrepreneur, author of several books and student of social media. Heidi participates in more than a dozen social networking sites including MySpace, FaceBook, Linkedin, RYZE, eCademy, Xing, Yahoo Groups to name a few.

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