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		<title>A Little Bump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Matt McGee the last person on Twitter? Seems so.

So come on, Googs, help him out.]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/social/a-little-bump</link>
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		<title>Live.com Spambot Ignores robots.txt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, MSNbot, when will you ever learn? I won't rehash the story that lead me to blocking MSN's referral-spamming bot, and that seems to have worked a bit. The problem is that the referral spam is still coming in! Yes, MSNbot is blocked but the spammy hits are still coming in.

Case in point, this hit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/web-programming/livecom-spambot-ignores-robotstxt</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Left AdSense Speechless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The screenshot below is from my AdSense account. It seems I have reached the pinnacle of optimization as no new optimization suggestions have been recommended since February.



Is this a bug or account specific? Each of the reports I see are different.]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/ive-left-adsense-speechless</link>
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		<title>The Real Strategy Behind Google App Engine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
digg_url = "http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/web-programming/the-real-strategy-behind-google-app-engine";


I just had an &#34;OMG this will change the world!&#34; kind of moment while playing for just 5 minutes with Google's App Engine. Let me explain.

A bit of background first: The Google App Engine is a newly-launched service from Google, that for a change, seems to be well thought out. The service offers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/web-programming/the-real-strategy-behind-google-app-engine</link>
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		<title>Killing Live.com Bot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/ekstremecom/killing-livecom-bot";

I've had it. The live.com spambot, aka msnbot, is officially not welcome either here or at Social Alerter. Why? The bot is still referral spamming. How much? 100% of my live.com referrals at Social Alerter are actually the bot's spam. Granted the absolute number of hits is only in the low tens, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/ekstremecom/killing-livecom-bot</link>
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		<title>Houston, We Have a Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That's right folks. Today I decided to actually do something about my Twitter account. Follow me at pierrefar.

The question is *what* will I do with the account? It may be a few days before I dive in properly  See you @twitter]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/houston-we-have-a-twitter</link>
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		<title>How to *REALLY* Deal with Hackers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Donna over at SEO Scoop asks an excellent question: more and more we're seeing website attacks for SEO purposes, not more malicious intents (like stealing credit card details). Donna asks, how should we deal with this kind of attack? I'm going to hazard some suggestions.

First things first. We're not dealing with hackers. Nosiree, we're dealing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/seosem/how-to-really-deal-with-hackers</link>
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		<title>MS Live Still Referral Spamming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That's right folks, after the initial fuss, the backtracking (with its very own official statement!), Microsoft's Live search engine is still doing these referral spamming requests.

I'm seeing this on my new service Social Alerter. The request details:

Remote: livebot-65-55-165-77.search.live.com (65.55.165.77)
UA: of Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Referring URL: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=social&#038;mrt=en-us&#038;FORM=LIVSOP

Full list of IP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/web-programming/ms-live-still-referral-spamming</link>
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		<title>Announcing Social Alerter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doesn't it suck when you discover your site is down because a page went popular on Digg? Wouldn't it be nice if you somehow knew that your site is slowly inching its way up the upcoming list? And what about delicious? That could be a serious hit of traffic too.

Well now you can get a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/social/announcing-social-alerter</link>
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		<title>Review of 2007, Predictions of 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This kind of post is something a few bloggers do. I enjoy reading them, so I thought I'd try my hand. It's a bit of the final score-card for the year and hopefully inspiration to do better (whatever that actually means) for next year. So what happened with me in 2007?

January
January is probably the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/ekstremecom/review-of-2007-predictions-of-2008</link>
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