I clicked the pink notification on my google email today. Google has tightened the gmail security. Google has made the ‘Always use https’ setting the default behavior in Gmail (the default used to be http).

Here is what Gmail text reads:

Here’s some background: If you sign in to Gmail via a non-secure Internet connection, like a public wireless or non-encrypted network, your Google account may be more vulnerable to hijacking. Non-secure networks make it easier for someone to impersonate you and gain full access to your Google account, including any sensitive data it may contain like bank statements or online log-in credentials. Accordingly, we enable the ‘Always use https’ option in Gmail by default. HTTPS, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, is a secure protocol that provides authenticated and encrypted communication.

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Sponsored Reviews sent out an email that it will pay its publishers less. The companies email reads “to increase our transaction rate by 15% from 35% to 50% (your share will now be 50% versus 65%).” Other than harping on better service/increased cost tune, they add another nugget “As it stands we currently incentize advertisers to make bulk purchases by giving them up to 20% discounts.”

The increase will take effect on January 13th, 2010. This increase will not affect previously made bids, your previous bids will continue to pay 65%.
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I would like to twist “Bee Gees : Stayin’ Alive Lyrics” a tad bit:

Well, you can tell by the way I use my blog,
I’m a looser’s man—no time to talk.
Traffic is down and no one’s around, I’ve been kicked around
Since I was born.
And now it’s all right. It’s OK.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The Blogging Times’ effect on man.
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Yesterday, when my websites went down and I tried contacting the server support, I encountered the most unhelpful guys on earth. Usually, Josh (one of the support guys) is very prompt, but, yesterday, I went through hell. No, I am not changing them yet, because the problem was not theirs. But, they could have been more understanding. So, I took time to surf around for more servers with “kind” support staff. While searching, I came across this web hosting review site. They are called web hosting geeks. I looked at their alexa stats and saw 15k odd rank. It means a lot of people use them, must be very popular.

The first impression was also good. I normally hate sites that do not display subject matter at home page. The sire had all the answers to the question like, which is the top ten and best in their categories. Next question was if they are rigged stats. So I checked sample pages like the dedicated server and the vps hosting.
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As I mentioned in the “A good blog” post, the content subject should be something that is close to your heart or you are the subject matter specialist. Unless you have some sort of content availability from other sources, unique content creation for your blog is the best way forward.

I wanted to tell you the most important point in the beginning, but, you will have to scroll down to figure what it is?

Few Important Points
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As promised in the post A good blog,this post will try to define how you could get traffic.

I am not sure what will work for you but, I will try to attempt to give you how it could be done. Before, we go into the traffic building detail, you must post atleast 6 or more post on your blog. This will help you when the search engine spiders come to visit your blog.
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