Yelp.com does not support

I began using yelp an reviewed several businesses then decided to create a Business Account.

When I did this Yelp deleted my original account and all of my reviews.

Have contacted Yelp for support but have had no response in 2 weeks.

 

Dangers of geotagging

I’ve been investigating the use of Geo-Tagging of websites to improve SEO and wanted to share information from a Wikipedia article that many smartphone users may not be aware of.

Dangers of geotagging
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging

Following a scientific study^[11] and several demonstrative websites,^[12][13] a discussion on the privacy implications of geotagging has raised public attention.^{[14][15][16][17]} In particular, the automatic embedding of geotags in pictures taken with smartphones is often ignored by cell-phone users. As a result, people are often not aware that the photos they publish on the Internet have been geotagged. Many celebrities reportedly gave away their home location without knowing it. According to the study, a significant number of for-sale advertisements on Craigslist, that were otherwise anonymized, contained geotags, thereby revealing the location of high-valued goods—sometimes in combination with clear hints to the absence of the offerer at certain times. Publishing photos and other media tagged with exact geolocation on the Internet allows random people to track an individual's location and correlate it with other information. Therefore, criminals could find out when homes are empty because their inhabitants posted geotagged and timestamped information both about their home address and their vacation residence. These dangers can be avoided by removing geotags with a metadata removal tool for photos before publishing them on the Internet.^[18]

TemplateMonster.com is more trouble than its worth

My recent experience with TemplateMonster.com & TemplateTuning.com has made me bitter and angry. I recommend that anyone concider using them instead try one of the Free template websites, such as www.any-expression.com, www.spyka.net, www.expressionwebtemplates.org, or others.

The TemplateMonster template number: 23321 looked good but was not a search engine friendly design. It was just a series of nested tables.
My experience with template customization with TemplateTuning was terrible, they did not appear to have quality control. Nearly every edit was incorrect or incomplete.

I will never use Template Monster or Template Tuning again and will tell anyone that asks to stay away from your organization.

Dell Hell 2!

Called the customer support number

 

Was on hold for a total of 25 min and they still couldn’t tell me why my computer was being delayed. 

 

Someone with pretty good English answered the phone and put me on hold again when I asked for the reason for the delay, after 12 min he said he had no information but would Rush my order and send it next day delivery when it was ready.

 

My concern is that quality of the system, was the delay due to availability of parts or due to operating system problems.  Time will tell.

 

 

 

 

Dell Hell

I’ve ordered a new Dell computer on Nov 9^th for delivery on Nov 17^th.

The system has been delayed, and delayed, and delayed, and delayed, and delayed

 

And is now scheduled for Dec 18^th

 

Every week I would get a notice the it was going to be delayed, the notices gave no explanation of the delay.   The only customer service I get are reminders that I can cancel my order at any time but I don’t respond to e-mail notifications, the order will be automatically canceled.

 

This is their only response, that they repeat if you ask any questions.

 

We, Dell's Delayed Order Notification Team, are solely responsible for informing our customer(s) about potential delays to the delivery of their order(s). If you would like more specific order information you may contact one of our customer care representatives at 1-800-456-3355 (Small Business) or 1-800-624-9897 (Consumer). You may also check the status of your order at www.dellcustomercare.com.

Thank you,

Dell Inc. Notification Team

 

 

Website interruption

My webhost had a 24hr service interruption on Monday.

 

We were not alone, thousands of servers were down because of this service outage. My Webhost shares a data with many Fortune 500 companies and this data center was just in the newspaper for 100% uptime.

 

We have several sites and servers at this data center and we are very confident with their quality.

 

Here's exactly what happened.

 

It started out with massive thunderstorms and lightning on the East coast which created a problem with the connection from the AT&T backbone to the data center.  All over the East Coast there were power outages.

 

They switched to another backbone connection and then the servers had to be rebooted.

 

Then there was an explosion in the building next door- which didn't affect the data center- but-made it necessary to switch the entire data center to generator power because the firemen turned off all of the electric around the area.

 

After the reboot -(it's been over a year since the server was rebooted) the server did a hard drive check to making sure that the data was all intact.

 

This took all night.  The important part is that no data was lost during this entire process.

 

After the server did a hard drive check the server needed to be rebooted again.

 

And then all was back on-line.

 

 

Upgrading to FileMaker 10

We have upgraded to FileMaker 10 and have begun upgrading our application to take advantage of some of the new features.

 

Newsletter Distribution Service

The Disseminator  is our e-mail campaign manager www.TheDisseminator.com   

 

I’m very happy with how well this service is working and have been adjusting the Templates to verify the formatting of the message to be sent.

FileMaker 10 supports sending of e-mail using built-in SMTP, currently we are using SMTPit Pro to distribute e-mail.

 

WebWizDirect is our RSS feed publishing application

WebWizDirect is a website and RSS feed publishing application www.WebWizDirect.com     

The new FileMaker 10 features that will be most useful are the SMTP, Script Timer, and Field by name script step.

This will make WebWizDirect more flexible and simplify many of the scripts.  Full implementation will take some work but I’m well under way.