A rip roaring affair

October 4, 2007 — Tim Nash

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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DIY Reputation management tools – Part1

April 27, 2007 — Tim Nash

Whether your an individual a company or a marketing/SEO company reputation management will become part of your business and business strategy, knowing what’s being said about you and your clients is not only important but in many business paramount.

Having decided that this is the case your question is how to best to keep and analyse your reputation and brand, you could

  • Hire a reputation management company (that would be us right :) )
  • Employ a full time specialist
  • Do it or get some one to do it yourself

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Google Reader the future for all web apps

November 21, 2006 — Tim Nash

Very quick post regarding Google reader if your not using it for your feeds why not?

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