This little snippet will dump for you a formatted reference of your globals plus your PHP environment. Really useful especially if you have geolocation variables and other junk getting added to your PHP globals by web server modules.
Category Archives: Internet
How to Avoid Getting Screwed by Internet Marketing Douchebags
Practical checklist to spotting internet scammers trying to fleece internet marketers. The only thing you need is a bit of an ability to read your own emotions and this handy list. Don’t surf without it! You know you are about to get scammed when: You feel you’re going to lose out if you don’t do…
Woopra Does Jaw-Dropping Site Analytics
Woopra is an Analytics tool I picked up after peeking under the hood while doing some competitive research. It really kicks Google where the sun don’t shine in many areas. The amount of stats is impressive, the way its presented looks almost like one of those Wired magazine InfoPorn infographics – Heck, you can even…
This is How Your Mother Bought an Acai Rebill
Talk about fucked up. I’ve seen this pretty much all over the place – reputable news outlets carrying the shadiest of ads. Some of these advertisers clearly have the dough to grease the wheels — if you go try to advertise this crap with these same ad networks, you’ll get declined. I tried. Fuckers. Then…
You’re About to Get Screwed, and You Know It
In one sentence for my ADD friends: We are increasingly playing in someone else sandbox, and the limits are starting to show and suck. FaceBook Largest site on the web. In the future, forget about having a blog outside FB – who will bother reading it when they’re too busy reading the ones already inside…
Learn Internet Marketing
Last week I joined the Super Affiliate Twins’ Internet University. I have to say I’m impressed. Very positively impressed. Ryan and crew are all over the forums giving good solid advice and literally shepherding folks along. When they say that they teach all this about internet marketing, they aren’t joking – All the modules are…
Five Hosting Tips for Newish Affiliates
Tip 1 – Get Dedicated Servers or a Virtual Private servers. I just spent the last two days migrating and consolidating hosting accounts. Total waste of time, but had to be done. Be smart, not like me. Tip 2 – Use the Domain Registrar’s DNS service, not your server’s. The main reason is because if…
5 Steps to Cover Your Legal Ass
Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. Do not use any of the information on my site for anything other than wasting time. A note on playing nice The goal of this post is to protect you from the casual “oops” of business – NOT to arm yourself for battle. Oops happen. Keep an open line of…
Social Media Marketing Map
A useful Social Media map, courtesy of of CMO.com (CMO = “Chief Marketing Officer”). If you’re interested in getting traffic to your site, you go down the “Traffic to your site” column, find the green boxes, read the text in the box and look at the row you’re on to see what site its referring…
Jellyvision Turns Your Visitor’s Brain to Jelly
Don’t believe me… Take a look at Jellyvision’s un-believable samples. They make even the most boring stuff funny and entertaining. This is the complete opposite of the “no-control” video Mike mentioned last week. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing greater use of those very soon.
Are Non-techie Newbies Doomed?
I can’t for the life of me imagine a complete newbie with little technical background trying to make money online… Not like this, at least. Seriously… What Shoe is trying to do with the Shoemoney System is laudable – Creating an approachable course. Now come on… How could a complete non-techie do this stuff? I…
Googlehack Tracking202
If I had an exploitable flaw in Tracking202, like an SQL injection bug, and was a real prick looking for easy targets, I might run the following query on Google: allinurl:”tracking202/redirect” That happily returns a couple hundred thousand results… All Tracking 202 servers. Its always a good idea to secure your shit… A robots.txt won’t…
Internet Marketing Gold Rush Mentality
Brilliant article from Ian Lurie on the Internet Marketing Gold Rush – via Ran Aroussi’s mailing list. Some questions for self-reflection: If you are selling something to people interested in making money online, who are you aligned with? Al or Seth? If you are interested in internet marketing, who are you talking to? Al or…
Weekly Kick in the Balls
I love Jonathan Volk’s weekly interviews – They’re literally a weekly kick in the balls for me. They’re a not-so-gentle reminder that somewhere out there there’s a dope doing what I want to be doing – and I’m not. Its also a great source of blogs. Finch’s blog is actually really good. I’m starting to…
Good Hard Drives
I’ve found a nice little company that puts together consumer and pro-sumer external storage devices – hard drives. They are Cavalry storage an their stuff can be bought on Amazon, buy.com and other places. Check out dealnews.com for good deals on their stuff too. Why are they good? Warranty. It’s not the story you want…
Apple Gives Legal Enema to Leaked iPhone Blogger
Smooth move, everyone, smooth move: Blogger Raided Now you know, dude… Next time, you get a Halloween voice changer, head to a payphone (if you can find one) and hit up some Chinese ripoff manufacturers – or HTC. Or better yet – play nice and call Apple… Whatever happened to “Finders Keepers”?
Backlinks inside PDF PPT etc?
I’m wondering weather backlinks inside PDF or PPT files might be easier to disseminate and how they affect ranking… Hmm… Interesting idea.
Update JAVA or get pwned – Sun Releases Emergency Java Patch
ALL YOUR BROWSERS ARE BELONG TO US Nice one with my morning coffee: Sun Releases Emergency Java Patch A week ago, Oracle claimed the vulnerability that had been discovered in Java was not a big deal at all. Apparently, they’ve changed their minds on that. Yesterday afternoon, Oracle pushed an update to Java that fixes…
How to Find a Good International / Offshore Hosting Company
After much searching I found a good host. I was exploring the maze trying to do a bee-line to the answer (Why do they call it a Bee line when bees do not fly straight at all?). In the end the way I managed to find them was by going into a hosting directory like…
Will Mein Fuehrer Host Mein Blitzkrieg Website?
There you go, that’s the extent of my German. I’ve spent around five solid hours combined searching for good international hosting. Good as in: More than 15GB, more than 10x the bandwidth, a reasonable price tag for an experiment and dealing with a hosting company and not a reseller. Challenge #1) Try typing Hosting anything…
Offshore Hosting – Shore being ‘US’ Shores
Now that was stupid. I spent the past 60 minutes trying to find a good recommendation for international hosting. Panama, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, UK… Nothing was fitting the bill (ie: the bill was huge) Then it hit me like a brick: India. Doh!
New Site: Countdown Initiated
I decided to give that low-hanging-fruit I mentioned a while back a GO. What the heck, lets go for it. Its an SEO job, essentially. If it works out, it will be stellar – if it bombs, I hope it doesn’t splatter. I had four 2Ghz cores crunching the data for the site for about…
Securing Web Browser using Sandboxie and an Unprivileged User
After last week’s fiasco of getting pwned by what looked like an overflow bug exploited in the latest Firefox (3.6.3), it dawned on me today the simplest way to lock this one down – Way simpler than a Virtual Machine and with zero impact on performance – and a mild hit on ease of use… …
The Four Horsemen of Googlelypse
I just saw this on the left side of a search I did on Facebook: Wow… I checked to make sure it wasn’t an app I had installed. It isn’t. I don’t spend that much time on FB but to see that it pulls web search results via Bing instead of Google was a shocker….
BlackHat World – The Dark Side of the Cheese
Sharing a link that I’ve found… “intriguing” in the past. Black Hat World Whenever I go there I always learn something. The audience is really very technical – the “Black Hat” they’re referring to is 99% on the technology side. I’ve yet to see anything on naughty marketing techniques. Today I stopped by Black Hat…
Digital Target Marketing – Do you know them?
I just got some IMs from Digital Target Marketing. They want to talk to me about promoting their products. http://www.digitaltargetmarketing.com/ Is this legit? Sounds strange from the point of view that I’m nobody and suddenly I’m being solicited.
Squeaky Wheel Gets the TLD
Browsing the available TLDs and noticed there’s a .CAT top-level domain extension. … I can imagine “Fat.cat”, “Pole.cat” and a whole other fun uses… Let’s check the requirements: .CAT is a TLD reserved for people promoting the language and the culture of Catalonia (an autonomous community of Spain). No local presence is required for the…
