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Entries by Mitch Joel from 03/2012

Freedom From the Web? There's an App for That!

| Publication 03.06.2012
Suivre: TED 2012, 2012 TED Conference, TED Conference 2012, California TED, TED California, L'actualité

At the TED 2012 conference in Long Beach, California last week the theme of anti-web sentiment was pervasive. It seems like the past two decades have now culminated in what can only be described as a backlash to our connectivity. We even have an app called Freedom to lock us out of the Internet.

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Are Those Robots or People Clicking on Your Site?

| Publication 03.20.2012
Suivre: Cloud Based Security, Website, Incapsula, Mitch Joel, Digital Marketing Agency, Twist Image, Third Party Tracking, Six Pixels of Separation, Media, Zdnet, George Orwell, Malicious Hacking, Tom Foremski, Website Traffic, Search Engine Indexing, Business Book, Online Publisher, Mobile App, New Media, Bandwidth, Marketing, New Media Collective, Online Usage, Technology, Marketing Technology, Ctrl Alt Del, Consumer Protectionism, L'actualité

The use of robots to crawl the Internet to grab as much information for possible in a malicious way is nothing new. The ability for website owners to get smarter and ensure that they are protecting their consumers (from both the robots and third-party deals) is nothing new, either, but the numbers are getting out of control.

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