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[digWin: Latest postings] Spammers Can Get Your Email Address from Google Profiles: digWin: A word of caution for people who have their email accounts on Gmail and are planning to use a vanity URL for their Google Profile Vanity URLs are available across all Google Accounts but you can pick a custom username for your Google Profile (like ) only if your Google Account is not associated with a Gmail address. Gmail users have two choices - they can either continue using the default cryptic

[Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog] Get a Vanity URL for your Google Profile Now: Update: Your old Google Profile URLs will still work as visitors will automatically get redirected to your new vanity URL. However, if you have linked to the old URLs from any of your web pages, make sure you replace those links with the new URLs because Google is currently doing a 302 temporary redirect that passes only human visitors but not any link juice.

[Movie News, Reviews, Bollywood, Tollywood everything all together] Spammers Can Get Your Email Address from Google Profiles | Movie ...: When we supplement your Gmail user name to the Google Profile, we have been in the roundabout way exposing your email residence to spammers. They can simply take the username from any Google Profile, attach @gmail.com as well as they have bullion in their hands since the we genuine Gmail address.

[InformationWeek Digital Life Weblog] Gmail Labs Now Powers Inline Image Insertion - Google Blog ...: Today, Google offers a better tool for those who want to insert an image into the body of the email itself. Google software engineer Kent Tamura reminds us, "Keep in mind that Gmail doesn't show URL-based images in messages by default to protect you from spammers, so if you're sending mail to other Gmail users, they'll still have to click 'Display images below' .

[Xebidy Strategic Design] The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act | Xebidy Strategic Design: I have just been to a small QBN event in which there were four speakers talking about marketing and optimising your business.  It was simultaneously interesting and frustrating as all these sort of events are I guess - there were some snippets of absolutely valuable stuff and then there was some stuff that is just plain wrong (the SEO talk in particular was so 1990s and annoys me that normal business people are investing in this sort of advice and actions).  One of the most interesting talks however was by Catherine McKenzie a lawyer at Michael Parker Law in Queenstown.  Catherine was addressing the really pertinent issue of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act which basically in New Zealand (and there is a similar law in Australia too) lays out how you are allowed to communicate to people via phone, emails, SMS and Instant Messenger.  Most of the stuff we are all pretty much aware of - being that if the person does not explicitly give you permission to be marketed to then it is illegal to send them your message.

[Cake Cheese] Something Terrible and Something Inconvenient « Cake Cheese: This is true for English and simple Chinese [because my Chinese skills are deteriorating, and that may or may not be good]. But some moments, when I’m suddenly aware of all of the work it was supposed to take to become fluent in said language, it makes me just [metaphorically] stare in awe.

[HITESH SAHNI'S LIFELOG] 17 PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR STUPENDOUS BLOG TRAFFIC ~ HITESH SAHNI'S ...: When people subscribe to blogs, they receive the feed for each blog they've subscribed to and can read those feeds in a single location through a feed reader. New posts for each blog a person subscribes to are displayed in the feed reader, so it's quick and easy to find who has posted something new and interesting rather than searching each individual blog to find that new content.

[Bits] Spam Back to 94% of All E-Mail - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com: The key tips to avoid spam that I’ve found useful are 1) using something other than firstname.lastname@ formats for new email addresses and 2) making sure that you don’t use the username on sites like ebay etc - for example if my email is “ebay5″ on eBay, spam robots will send messages to “ebay5″

[socialnetworkingukrainesoftware] FanIQ Spam Technique to Invite New Customers - CA Security Advisor ...: above all After substantive the “Done” button, the buyer is presented with a webpage that looks like it is point-blank another footprint in the registration activity, connected to Google Account services. Every communicate with in the buyer Gmail account, not point-blank “Friends” but EVERYONE (for level-headed, my “All Contacts” angle contains greater than 500 e-mail addresses and all got spammed) leave be sent a FanIQ call to participate in this “quiz” as a .

[Internetnews Blog] Gmail gets a high five - InternetNews:The Blog - David Needle: Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) also gained by being late to the e-mail party, learning from the mistakes by others. Rather than open up the service to all comers, Gmail started in true beta fashion as a test application that only a limited number of people could access.

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