While checking out the TrainSEM website, which runs aMember software, I got a PHP error instead of the usual page:
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 28311552) (tried to allocate 40961 bytes) in /home/trainsem/public_html/amember/library/Am/abc.php on line 343 [click to continue…]
For nearly a week I could not get anything out of the Twitter website, i.e. http://twitter.com. I tried to click the links of people who were following me, but without fail, Twitter kept responding, “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”. It didn’t matter if I tried the handles of some famous people — they all did not exist. An appeal to @twitter fell on deaf ears:
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Earlier today, Yellow (Pages) New Zealand tweeted:
Have you checked out the new http://www.yellow.co.nz website? More relevant search results, a fancy new design & improved page load speed!
I confess to not keeping up with the Yellow Pages scene since leaving Sensis some 18 months ago. I had mentioned Yellow NZ a couple of times here and used to know some people there. I check all my Twitter unfollowers and noticed @yellownz had dumped me (probably because I wasn’t following them).
Something about @yellownz’s Twitter timeline caught my eye:
It seems that the Twitter account had been silent since 20 June and wasn’t particularly active before then. [click to continue…]
Unlike the majority of LinkedIn users, I pay for my account and I advertise there (as do my clients), so I have a lower tolerance to lax quality control within LinkedIn.
Fake Accounts
I used to belong to some SEO discussion groups (inside LinkedIn) when I noticed that Halle Berry was a participant, except that this was a blonde with the most implausible profile and a strong interest in SEO and techy topics (based on her group activity). I complained to LinkedIn customer service and they replied saying that they didn’t see anything amiss. This Halle is still an active account. [click to continue…]