Centralising your social world

Using Send To as a information centre

Most of you will be familiar with the Stumbleupon toolbar and in particular with the send to button we have discussed its uses before and when I first reviewed it considered it a fantastic tool to start a stumble however since then the “send to” has become devalued.
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A rip roaring affair

So sometimes you get asked unusual questions in my inbox this morning was a letter from a nice person called Neyma I won’t publish all of it just the bit relevant to this post.

but for now, I have a theoretical question that you may be inclined to
answer -

Is it possible to rip the entire SU database? Can it be done in
one-click or would a bot have to be set? How hard would this be? what
sort of information could we get?
what about for some of the other Social sites?

For Neyma; not all, bot, not easy, stuff, yes

Now I’m sure my emailer has a perfect reasonable reason for theorising about wanting to rip the entire Stumbleupon database but I have a feeling Ebay would not be impressed. So I thought would discuss content scraping how its done and suggest some ways to prevent it.
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Cross site scripting a pointless SEO tactic?

With recent problems with Cross site scripting (XSS) at Reddit (though massivily over hyped) I thought it was a good time to discuss its use in SEO.

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