Social Networking Archive

Google Wave Review: First Impressions

There doesn’t actually seem to that much of a buzz about Wave, other than the usual pleas for invites and the occasional shrug. I know Dave kind of looked at it and went ‘meh’. I’ve been using it now for a little over a week and here’s my  initial thoughts. This isn’t a game changer. [...]

Trafigura, Twitter and Google

First time I’ve seen this, but search for ‘Trafigura‘ on Google right now brings up the Twitter search result for the #trafigura tag. The reason isn’t that hard to divine – internal links on Twitter for the #keyword things are dofollowed, so the domain power of Twitter, allied to the prominence of this story and [...]

The Guardian / Trafigura Thing – Gagged by Carter Ruck Solicitors? Fail.

The game has changed. Whether public bodies, legal institutions and our lawmakers like it or not, the internet is poking holes in precedents and laws in a way that was unimaginable only a few years ago. The Guardian announced today that it had been banned – for the first time in history – on reporting [...]

Getting Your Blog Post Into The Newspapers

My my – what an exciting week it was in the Bronco office. By the time Wednesday rolled around, Fiona Bruce was trying to squeeze past the door to get an exclusive interview with James, and we were all like: enough press already! OK. I might be exaggerating a bit, but we did make the [...]

Don’t Make The Same Mistakes As Bit.ly and Tr.im

I wrote a post yesterday about the dangers of allowing (some) custom shortened URLs. Really though, I only talked about one particular name on one particular shortener, so I’ll try to make this a little more general. Incidentally, bit.ly appear to have fixed their robots.txt as of a couple of hours ago – they obviously [...]

Dangers of Custom Shortened URLs

If you’re not careful, custom shortened URLs can be dangerous – just like any other user-provided content. As an example I’m going to pick on bit.ly. They’re not the only site to have this problem, but since being chosen as the default URL shortener on Twitter they are probably the highest profile. http://bit.ly/robots.txt Where do [...]

Twitter Exploit Still Works

Yesterday I posted an article about a serious vulnerability I found in Twitter. As it was a bit on the geeky side, it may well have gone over a few people’s heads, so I thought I’d try to explain it in a bit more detail. Incidentally I don’t think Twitter really got it either, as [...]

Massive Twitter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

[NOTE: As if the attention-grabbing title ruining the surprise for you wasn't bad enough, I've got some more bad news. We let Twitter (via Kevin Rose) know about this before it went live but we think  somebody saw the Test ! . ] So as I’m sure everyone heard about the other day, Twitter recently [...]

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