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Google, Social Networking Sites (Facebook, Myspace, etc), and Your Information
With Google’s recent announcement that they’ll now be adding real time information to web searches via Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking sites, I figured I would put together a...
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Photos from our Vacation to Captiva
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View ArticleAnother year and another server move for Moongrabber
Some of you may remember my post awhile back about moving to a new web hosting provider, Liquid Web (http://www.moongrabber.com/site-news/moongrabber-re-design-and-a-server-move). At this point I’ve...
View ArticleHubspot’s The Science of Email Marketing
Followed a very interesting webinar yesterday from Hubspot about the science of email marketing, where they used hard data (over 9.5 billion emails from Mailchimp), focus groups and surveys to identify...
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Google Maps Quest – 8-bit Mapping Goodness
And I was worried there wouldn’t be any good April Fools pranks this year. Google has gone back in time with Google Maps 8-bit for NES. Head on over to the Google Maps site and try it yourself (or you...
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It’s Official – Google Launches New Webspam Update “Penguin”
Rumors have been flying after Google’s Matt Cutts announced an upcoming search algorithm change targeting webspam, and today we have a name to go with it; Penguin. Like it’s friendly cousin Panda, we...
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Cutting the Mustard – A Look into the BBC’s Latest Responsive Layout Redesign
More and more companies seem to be re-designing their websites with a responsive layout that adapts to the size of the device/browser being used, and the BBC News site has joined them. But the BBC News...
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BBC Mistakes Halo Logo for UN Security Council
Hilarious. It seems the BBC mistakenly used the United Nations Space Command Logo from the Halo video game to represent the United Nations Security Council (which actually doesn’t have its own logo)....
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If you use any of these sites I highly recommend changing your password(s)
If you use last.fm, eHarmony or LinkedIn I highly recommend changing your passwords and preferably using a different password for these sites and others. For those of you not aware, there have been an...
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Designing Plain Text Email
Plain text emails can look good too! Recently I’ve been spending quite a bit of time designing and building HTML email templates, but the plain text version of the email always seems to be an...
View ArticleWordPress Beta Testing
Testing the new WordPress version 3.6 beta and new WordPress Theme Twenty Thirteen. Please feel free to contact me (jon@moongrabber.com) if you run into any problems, or you have any other feedback...
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Google has decided to close down the Google Affiliate Network!!! - http://googleaffiliatenetwork-blog.blogspot.com/2013/04/an-update-on-google-affiliate-network.html
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Worldwide Internet Usage mapped using a Botnet
Not entirely accurate, but very cool research paper and visualizations showing global internet usage as seen by a botnet. Worldwide Internet Usage mapped using a Botnet
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Using Artificial Intelligence to clean up radar images
forecast.io has an interesting blog post about their Dark Sky forecasting system and the process they use to remove noise (such as ground clutter) from radar images. Here’s an image showing the system...
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Google Maps Quest – 8-bit Mapping Goodness
And I was worried there wouldn’t be any good April Fools pranks this year. Google has gone back in time with Google Maps 8-bit for NES. Head on over to the Google Maps site and try it yourself (or you...
View ArticleTarget data breach could put millions of customer credit cards at risk
The Minneapolis Star Tribune posted an article today that Target Corp. has suffered a security breach that could put millions of customer credit cards at risk. A spokeswoman from American Express has...
View ArticleSnapchat hack exposes names and phone numbers of over 4 million users
On Tuesday anonymous hackers used a known security flaw in the Snapchat photo messaging app to access data on 4.6 million users, including names and phone numbers. The hackers then posted a copy of the...
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10 Shocking Stats About Display Ads
http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/horrifying-display-advertising-stats About 50% of clicks on mobile ads are accidental. Hubspot recently collected a bunch of stats about display ads from different...
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