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"Explosive Success Via Email!"
There is no doubt in anyone's mind that email is the most important communications development in the history of the world thanks to the Internet. The reason is simple. We can now communicate on a global scale in a matter of minutes. This is an...
Goal Centric Software Design
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The Seven Deadly Habits of a DBA... and how to cure them
Calling widespread bad habits in database administration "deadly" may seem extreme. However, when you consider the critical nature of most data, and just how damaging data loss or corruption can be to a corporation, "deadly" seems pretty dead-on. ...
Why You Must Get In The Software Industry Now?
No matter what industry you're in, it's absolute vital that you either sell software or offer free software to your customers. By the time you are done reading this article, you will understand why. 1. "It's the Product !!" No amount of marketing...
Why Your ISP Takes Bribes From Spammers
The lifeblood of the spammer is email. They need to be able to send lots of it on an ongoing basis to stay in "business". High profile spammers can send 80 million pieces of junk email every single day. Yes one single person.
ISPs all over...
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Heavy Online Usage During Crisis
The Internet played a considerable role in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, DC. The best and the worst of online usage emerged as email and instant messaging became prime sources of communication. News-based Web sites bogged down from high traffic. Many popular news sites froze from the spike in traffic. Here are a few of the more striking uses of the Web during the early hours and days of the disaster.
Instant messaging worked when phone failed
Instant messaging became one of the stars in the early hours after the attack as consumers and businesses corresponded one-to-one when phone lines quit working in part of New York City. America Online reported that 1.2 billion messages were sent via instant messaging and on AOL's proprietary client software on September 11 alone.
Amazon and Yahoo accepted Red Cross donations
Both Amazon.com and Yahoo.com allowed contributors to make donations to the Red Cross to help victims of the disaster. By Friday morning after the disaster, Amazon reported 121,579 payments had been made to the Red Cross, totaling $4,394,870.41, according to News.com. Both companies waived the fees they normally charge for facilitating payments.
Hackers waged vigilante strikes against Palestinian and Afghani sites
Online hacker groups hacked into Palestinian and Afghani Web sites after the terrorist attacks. One vigilante group, The Dispatchers, is a group of 60 hackers that includes The Rev, a hacker who defaced the New York Times financial quote service last February. The hackers released a statement claiming they had united to fight back and disable sites. According to The Rev, several Palestinian-affiliated Internet service providers have now been disabled. The group claimed it will next work to shut down Afghani sites.
Online scams exploited disaster
A particularly ugly creature of the online world rose its awful head when Internet scammers started to solicit donations for victims and
survivors of the attacks. The scams came in the form on unsolicited email and postings in community forums. The crooks claimed to be part of an "Express Relief Fund" or "Victims Survivor Fund." Another scam actually asked for donations for the Red Cross, but the link led to a Web site unconnected to the organization. The scams started within an hour of the WTC attack, according to ZDNet.
Search engines reported a surge in attack-related queries
Not surprisingly, search engines were hit hard by consumers searching for information on the disaster. The popular search engine, Google, reported that searches for news-related sites increased 60 times over normal levels on September 11. Within an hour of the second airliner hitting the WTC, Google received more than 6,200 queries for CNN in one minute. Google quickly established an "American Under Attack" section, which collected the top ten search queries, including CNN, World Trade Center, BBC, Pentagon, MSNBC, Osama bin Laden, Nostradamus, American Airlines, FBI and Barbara Olsen. Barbara Olsen is the Fox News commentator who was aboard the airplane that hit the Pentagon.
Scores of tech executives were lost in the disaster
A high number of high tech and Internet executives were lost on September 11. Many were in their offices on the high floors of the World Trade Center, while others were aboard the airliners that were hijacked. As my day job, I'm a senior editor at Electronic News, one of the many trade publications published by Cahners Business Information. Two of our executives, Jeff Mladenik and Andrew Curry Green, were on Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, the first plane to hit the WTC. Both men worked for eLogic, the Cahners company that produces Web sites for the company's publications.
About the Author
Rob Spiegel is the author of Net Strategy (Dearborn) and the upcoming Shoestring Entrepreneur's Guide to Internet Start-ups (St. Martin's Press). You can reach Rob at spiegelrob@aol.com
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IBM Software - Home Page |
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Search only in Software Search the Web ... Software Categorized by Letter: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ... |
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