Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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Protecting Your Online Privacy: How to Keep Your Online Activity Private from Pirates, Hackers and Marketers

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The recent proliferation of social media networks has increased awareness of online privacy issues. On the surface, some may feel that online privacy is only a concern for those attempting to hide their internet activities. Online privacy is an issue that impacts ALL of us. This could not be further from the truth.

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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Besides major usability issues , duplicate stories submissions , and ads that literally scream at you , Digg has yet another issue to deal with: privacy. Plus, the privacy is only one way (incoming only). I was responding to Kelly who says that the privacy is still one way. Your friends can see them.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These terrifying statistics make me wonder if it’s time to change given that our privacy is starting to diminish. Facebook responded by apologizing and giving its users more privacy controls to manage the concerns of students who thought this approach was too invasive. More than 2,300 people a reported missing each day.

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Attack of the Consumer! The Many Ways Consumers Can Put You Out of Business Online

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It took eight months and hundreds of pages of documentation to get us back on both sites. Google has integrated star ratings from consumer review sites like Epinions or Biz Rate – but only sites with four out of five stars or greater results get an extra line in AdWords with their star ratings. Let’s start with Yelp.

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HOW TO: Guide to Performing Website Audits

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can build all the links you want, but if your website isn’t optimized, Googlebot won’t be able to crawl the site properly. Even having two pages on the same site with duplicate content will get your site penalized. Before getting started, run Xenu Link Sleuth to check for broken links on the site, and fix them.

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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Just because my work includes strong involvement with social media doesn’t mean that I need to let everyone into my personal life… or for that matter… open my privacy so you can see all my posts. I kind of have an “old school&# approach but I also respect my privacy. Great post. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Shelby really liked the TV show Jericho , and at the age of 9, started a site called Jericho4Kids. I was 9 years old when my web site went up, and it was my dream, but a lot of people helped me to make that dream come true, so as kids we might need a little help but we can still go after our dreams.

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