This week I’m taking a break from blogging while I work on new features for the Iswapyou selling and trading platform and a new reliable open proxy solution to be officially announced later. I’ll be back next week with with more technical tips and tricks! If you have any suggestions for things you’d like to see on iswapyou blog or would just like to drop me a line, i’d appreciate it if you would leave a comment to this post, or send me an email to justin[at]iswapyou.com. Thanks for staying tuned!
Archive for June, 2007
On hiatus this week…
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Integrating phpBB in to a community site – part 2
Saturday, June 16th, 2007Whenever i create a website, i like to try my best to create a consistent look and feel for the entire site as much as possible. If you change UI elements such as navigation links when you go to an installed web application on your site you WILL confuse your users.
That said, it isn’t always practical to shoehorn your entire main site design in to an application without downgrading that applications functionality. With phpBB for example, if I wanted to use the Iswapyou main site design I would need to have two navigation bars (the main site nav and phpBB’s nav) on every phpBB page. This would take up too much space on the page and introduce more clutter than i wanted to, so I instead put my iswapyou main sites navigation links into phpBB’s navigation bar.
Googlejacking, two years later
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007I submitted a story to 2600 magazine in the summer of 2005 about a shady technique for getting pageviews called “Googlejacking”. The story was accepted, and I received a few issues of the mag, a shirt, and a bit of internet fame in the coming months.
For those of you who don’t have an IV needle in to the internet like I do, googlejacking is a technique using either a HTML 302 redirect or a META REFRESH to redirect from one page to another. When you performed the redirect from your site to a target site, YOUR REDIRECT LINK (for example, “http://www.iswapyou.com/redirect.php?www.cnn.com”) would be published by google, msn live search, Ask Jeeve’s, or any other search engines spiders instead of the destination link. If you find out that this is happening you can then steal all of the search engine traffic from your redirections destination (!), as described in the article.
Cracking YouTube, part 3
Monday, June 11th, 2007Response to my previous two posts about Cracking YouTube has been amazing . Thanks to everyone in the community for the amazingly intelligent discussion that this has spawned, and for all of the high quality responses/comments to the original posts! Keep it up guys, it helps me tremendously and allows me to write more interesting articles like this.
No one has contacted me yet indicating that the technique in part 2 should NOT work by pointing out a hole in the logic. This makes sense, because…
