The following is a list of the most clicked-on links that I shared on Twitter during the week ending June 20. You can receive Weekly Almighty Links as an email or add it you can add it to your RSS reader or custom home page. How we got 2.2 million Internet links … temporarily! The Cligs URL-shortening [...]
In light of last week’s hack that redirected over 2 million shortened URLs to an unsuspecting blog post, this is a good time to look at how to find how to unmask a shortened web address before clicking on it. After all, malicious web sites could be lurking behind those tiny URLs … or worse. Let’s start [...]
Over two million links suddenly pointed to my sOCial Sunday post on Jon Lansner’s blog yesterday morning when someone exploited a security hole in the free Cligs URL-shortening system. So what’s the problem? For starters, Google could misinterpret this as a spam attack and penalize the blog. Since the post was on Lansner’s blog, I [...]
I heard back from a few people last week who showed a little bit of interest in my weekly roundup of popular links I shared on Twitter. You can also receive the Weekly Almighty Links as a weekly email or add it to your RSS reader or custom home page. Here are the five most [...]
